Sports category, Page 170

CLEVELAND — Justin Herbert passed for 250 yards and two touchdowns — all in the first half — to lead the Los Angeles Chargers to a 27-10 victory Sunday over the Cleveland Browns, who couldn’t get anything going with Jameis Winston. Herbert connected on a 66-yard TD pass to Quentin...

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Tyler Bass kicked a career-best 61-yard field goal with 5 seconds left, Josh Allen threw three second-half touchdown passes in a back-and-forth duel with Miami’s Tua Tagovailoa, and the Buffalo Bills continued their domination of the Dolphins with a 30-27 victory on Sunday. The teams traded...

On a majority of college basketball teams nowadays, the adage fits: “You can’t tell the players without a program.” It’s particularly true at Duquesne, where six of seven transfers are eligible for Monday night’s season-opening game against Atlantic Sun Conference preseason favorite Lipscomb at 8 p.m. as part of a...

CINCINNATI — Joe Burrow tied a career high with five touchdown passes, Chase Brown rushed for a career-high 120 yards and the Cincinnati Bengals got their first home win, routing the Las Vegas Raiders 41-17 on Sunday. Burrow was 27 for 39 for 251 yards. He threw touchdown passes to...

Oregon was the unanimous choice for No. 1 in the Associated Press college football poll Sunday, strengthening its bid for the top spot in the College Football Playoff selection committee’s first rankings of the season. The Ducks are No. 1 in the AP Top 25 for the third straight week,...

BALTIMORE — Lamar Jackson threw for 280 yards and three touchdowns to finish with a perfect passer rating, Derrick Henry surpassed a few more rushing milestones and the Baltimore Ravens had little difficulty with the Denver Broncos defense in a 41-10 victory Sunday. Baltimore’s beleaguered defense didn’t force a punt...

Jason Kelce threw a Penn State fan’s phone to the ground after the fan taunted him and directed a homophobic slur at him on Saturday before the Nittany Lions’ matchup against Ohio State at Beaver Stadium. Viral clips of the encounter outside of the stadium played out throughout the evening...

When Chandler McCabe flew to Pittsburgh in March to be introduced as Robert Morris’ women’s basketball coach, it snowed. Welcome to Western Pennsylvania, Florida girl. But the frosty weather couldn’t cool the Orlando native’s enthusiasm to step into her first head coaching job. Hired March 18, McCabe will try to...

Like his more senior position mate, Pittsburgh Steelers defensive lineman Keeanu Benton was smarting despite entering the bye week at 6-2 after last week’s victory against the New York Giants. “They got over 100 yards rushing,” Benton said, referring in large part to Tyrone Tracy’s 145 yards on 20 carries....

Goaltender Tristan Jarry made 30 saves on 31 shots for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins who defeated the Hartford Wolf Pack, 2-1, at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Saturday. Assigned to the American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate for conditioning purposes, Jarry improved his record in that league to 3-0-0. Forward Ville...

Perhaps too easily, collegiate athletes are called kids by those who observe them and analyze the games they play. No doubt, some of them are, especially in this time of prospects skipping half of their senior year in high school to enroll six months before graduation. But Brandon George is...

If you paid attention to Pat Narduzzi’s news conference after Pitt’s miserable performance Saturday night against SMU, you should have spotted a trend. Narduzzi willingly exposed himself to his critics while discussing SMU’s 48-25 victory, taking blame for everything that led to Pitt’s first loss of the season. In a...

The Pittsburgh Riverhounds went 9-1-6 down the stretch in the regular season to rally for a USL Championship playoff spot. Once the playoffs started, the rally ended. Nick Markanich scored the game’s lone goal in the eighth minute to lead the Charleston Battery to a 1-0 victory over the Riverhounds...

With daylight savings time in its final full day of 2024, the Pittsburgh Penguins are determined to not fall back into the sloppy brand of defense that led to the six-game losing streak they endured in late October. “We’re trying to build on things and trying to clean our game...

The last time South Allegheny won a WPIAL playoff game, fans might have skipped a Friday night episode of the “A-Team” or “Dallas” to instead watch the Gladiators. That was 1986. The football program endured some tough times since, but second-year coach Brian Hanson said some die-hard fans in Glassport,...

Ryan Blaney had the checkered flag in sight and a spot in NASCAR’s title-deciding race within his grasp last week on the last lap of a contentious battle. Then out of nowhere, Tyler Reddick slid past Blaney in the final turn and snatched the victory away. Reddick now will race...

The WPIAL on Saturday announced sites for the next round of football playoff games. Teams that earned a bye in the previous round will host a game this week. All other matchups are played on a neutral field. The WPIAL chose Chartiers Valley to host a Class 4A semifinal between...

UNIVERSITY PARK — James Franklin and No. 3 Penn State had to be feeling good early against Ohio State, as a first-quarter field goal and pick-6 of the Buckeyes’ Will Howard produced a quick 10-point lead. However, that was the lone touchdown of the day for Penn State, with its...

The Pittsburgh Penguins raised some eyebrows when they opened the season with two defensemen — Erik Karlsson and Kris Letang — on their top power-play unit. For the better part of a decade, if not more, they primarily utilized only one defenseman along with four forwards. But not even a...

Ben Cherington declared there was no part of the Pittsburgh Pirates’ roster he won’t examine and aim to improve upon a last-place team that has won 76 games in successive seasons. Following his team’s last-place finish in the NL Central, the Pirates general manager knows the days of asking for...

The Pittsburgh Penguins are scheduled to start goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic in Saturday’s home game against the Montreal Canadiens at PPG Paints Arena. Coach Mike Sullivan announced Nedeljkovic’s status following an optional morning skate at the team’s practice facility in Cranberry. In four games this season, Nedeljkovic has a 1-2-1 record,...