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West Virginia women earn No. 6 seed in the NCAA Tournament
West Virginia’s women are back in the NCAA Tournament for the 16th time and third consecutive year. The Mountaineers were chosen as a No. 6 seed in Regional 2/Birmingham and will play Saturday in Chapel Hill, N.C., against the winner of a First Four game between No. 11 seeds Columbia...
UCLA, South Carolina, USC, Texas earn top seeds for women’s NCAA TournamentVideo
UCLA is the top overall seed in the women’s NCAA Tournament. The Bruins were joined by South Carolina, Southern Cal and Texas as the No. 1 seeds that the NCAA revealed Sunday night. It’s the first time in school history that the Bruins are the top team in the tournament....
PJ Haggerty, No. 16 Memphis win AAC tourney over UAB
FORT WORTH, Texas — PJ Haggerty scored 23 points, Dain Dainja had another double-double with 22 points and 12 rebounds and 16th-ranked Memphis won the American Athletic Conference tournament with an 84-72 win over UAB on Sunday. Haggerty put the Tigers (29-5) ahead to stay with his tiebreaking bankshot with...
After 19-victory season, West Virginia fails to earn invitation to 68-team NCAA Tournament
West Virginia’s men will not be among the 68 schools in the NCAA Tournament, but the Mountaineers were the last team scratched, according to tournament committee chairman Bubba Cunningham. That will be no consolation to West Virginia players, coaches and fans, however. WVU (19-13) finished in a tie for seventh...
Rory McIlroy, J.J. Spaun tie at The Players Championship to set up Monday playoff
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Rory McIlroy built a three-shot lead on the back nine at The Players Championship, and unheralded J.J. Spaun didn’t blink. They wound up tied after a four-hour rain delay and have to return Monday for a playoff to decide who wins the richest tournament in...
Josh Berry races to 1st NASCAR Cup Series win with Las Vegas score
LAS VEGAS — Josh Berry raced to the first Cup Series victory of his career, taking NASCAR’s oldest team to victory lane Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Berry, in his first season driving the famed No. 21 for Wood Brothers Racing, had the first victory for a Ford team...
Minor league report: Sergei Murashov remains perfect with PenguinsVideo
Goaltender Sergei Murashov made 23 saves on 26 shots for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 5-3 win against the rival Lehigh Valley Phantoms at the PPL Center in Allentown on Sunday. With the victory, Murashov remained undefeated (9-0-0) in the American Hockey League this season. Forward Joona Koppanen scored two...
Will Penn State’s backup QB battle be decided by the end of April?
Drew Allar is Penn State’s starting quarterback. He is the unquestioned leader of Andy Kotelnicki’s offense, a potential early-round draft pick in 2026 who threw for 3,327 yards and 24 touchdowns in 16 games a year ago. Allar’s backup? The answer to that question is a bit unclear when it...
Auburn, Duke, Houston, Florida receive No. 1 seeds for NCAA TournamentVideo
Auburn is the top overall seed in the NCAA Tournament, with Duke, Houston and Florida joining the Tigers on the No. 1 line in the March Madness brackets released Sunday. The NCAA selection committee favored the regular-season champs of the record-setting SEC despite three losses in their last four games,...
Saint Francis draws Alabama State in First Four game of NCAA Tournament
The Saint Francis men’s basketball team won’t have to wait long to play its first NCAA Tournament game since 1991. The Red Flash will play Alabama State in a First Four game at 6:40 p.m. Tuesday at UD Arena in Dayton, Ohio. The game will be televised on truTV. No....
Robert Morris gets 15 seed, will face Alabama in NCAA Tournament at Cleveland
Robert Morris has made this trip before. Just not for the NCAA Tournament. Now, the Colonials are about to. The Horizon League men’s basketball champions received a No. 15 seed Sunday and will face No. 2 seed Alabama at 12:40 p.m. Friday on truTV in an East Region first-round game...
Tre Donaldson helps No. 22 Michigan rally to beat No. 18 Wisconsin for Big Ten titleVideo
INDIANAPOLIS — Tre Donaldson and Vladislav Goldin each scored 11 points, and No. 22 Michigan closed Saturday’s Big Ten Tournament championship game on an 11-2 run to beat No. 18 Wisconsin, 59-53, and claim its first tourney crown since 2018. Donaldson also had eight assists one day after driving the...
Ravens, QB Cooper Rush agree to 2-year deal to be Lamar Jackson’s backup
BALTIMORE — Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson has a new backup. Cooper Rush has agreed to a two-year, $6.2 million deal worth up to $12.2 million with Baltimore, a source with direct knowledge of the deal confirmed to The Baltimore Sun. Rush spent his first seven seasons in the NFL with...
Pirates taking chance that sidewinder Justin Lawrence can become a bullpen success story
Justin Lawrence has an unorthodox delivery, unique metrics on his primary pitches and the back of a baseball card that even he admits isn’t pretty. What the right-handed reliever does have is a pair of perfect innings for the Pittsburgh Pirates since they claimed him off waivers from the Colorado...
Max Shulga scores 18, VCU holds off George Mason to claim Atlantic 10 title, NCAA berth
WASHINGTON — Max Shulga scored 18 points and Joe Bamisile sealed the win with two free throws with a half-second left as Virginia Commonwealth held off George Mason 66-63 to win the Atlantic 10 Conference Tournament championship Sunday. VCU led by eight at the break, 36-28, but George Mason got...
No. 4 Florida beats No. 8 Tennessee for 1st SEC Tournament title since 2014Video
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Walter Clayton Jr. scored 22 points, and fourth-ranked Florida won its fifth SEC Tournament title and first since 2014 Sunday, beating the No. 8 Tennessee Volunteers, 86-77. The Gators (30-4) lost in this game a year ago. This time, they made sure to finish their 12th appearance...
After battling injuries, Joshua Palacios singles, scores in return as Pirates top Yankees
A season of battling injuries tested the perpetually positive personality of Joshua Palacios, so the Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder took it as a lesson that put things into perspective. And caused him to develop an alter ego. After meeting with Pirates mental performance coordinator Andy Bass, Palacios worked with Todd Herman...
John Poulakidas’ 5 3s help carry Yale to Ivy League title
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — John Poulakidas knocked down five 3-pointers in the second half as regular-season champion Yale added the Ivy League Tournament championship with a 90-84 win over Cornell on Sunday to earn a berth in the NCAA Tournament for the fourth time in the last five seasons. The senior...
Dodgers’ Mookie Betts struggling with illness; status for Opening Day in doubt
TOKYO — Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts is still struggling to recover from an illness, with manager Dave Roberts pessimistic the eight-time All-Star will be ready for Opening Day against the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday in Japan. Betts was able to go through a light workout Sunday but became...
Pine-Richland students bring home gold with Steel City Blades synchronized skating
One shot. The Steel City Blades Open Juvenile (Blue) synchronized skating team had one opportunity to impress the judges with their 2 minute, 40 second routine at the U.S. Figure Skating Eastern Championships at Hershey on Jan. 24. Like a classroom filled with students nervous to see who would be...
Wightman family continues to make impact for Thiel women’s lacrosse
Thiel junior Hayden Wightman wasn’t sure she was even going to attend college. If Wightman did go, she wasn’t sure she wanted to follow the family tradition of playing lacrosse. While Wightman was in high school at Shaler Area, she didn’t play any varsity sports. But once her dad took...
For Penguins defense prospects, it’s ‘ATO season’
On Tuesday, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins traded defenseman Nikolai Knyzhov to the Grand Rapids Griffins for future considerations. In his first season with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Knyzhov was hardly spectacular, but he offered a steading presence to a blue line that was constantly in flux because of injuries or call-ups. So, why was...
3 Periods: Have the Penguins taken strides in any areas this season?
If the Pittsburgh Penguins miss the playoffs for the third consecutive season in roughly a month, an unfortunate sense of irony will persist, seeing as the club has taken significant strides in a number of departments that directly contributed to the postseason skid starting in the first place. Defensive deficiencies...
New-look 3rd line finding early success for PenguinsVideo
Connor Dewar did not arrive in Pittsburgh with the strongest reputation for scoring goals. In fairness, the 25-year-old showed some modest scoring touch during parts of two campaigns with the Minnesota Wild at the start of his career, but when the Toronto Maple Leafs traded him to the Penguins on...
Riverhounds shut down in road loss to San Antonio
The second game of the season was a dud for the Pittsburgh Riverhounds. Jorge Hernandez and Luke Haakenson scored and the Riverhounds mustered six shots, just one of which was on goal, during a 2-0 road loss at San Antonio FC on Saturday night. In the 54th minute, Riverhounds goalkeeper...
