The United Lions are going to play for the Heritage Conference baseball championship, and they took a wild ride to get there.
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Shohei Ohtani hit a two-out, two-run homer in the ninth inning and the Los Angeles Angels rallied past the Boston Red Sox 6-5 Sunday, ending a four-game losing streak.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jacob Stallings hit a two-out, two-run homer in the ninth inning and the Pittsburgh Pirates rallied past the San Francisco Giants 8-6 on Saturday night.
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BALTIMORE (AP) — Preakness champion Rombauer's trainer, Michael McCarthy, lobbied hard to get the bay colt entered into the Kentucky Derby.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Kris Letang has never missed the playoffs during his 15-year career. Still, the Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman knows not all postseason opportunities are equal.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Kendrick Green grew up wearing No. 53.
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BALTIMORE — Fans are back at Pimlico Race Course to witness another chance at a Triple Crown.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Thousands of retired Black professional football players, their families and supporters are demanding an end to the controversial use of “race-norming” to determine which players are eligible for payouts in the NFL’s $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims, a system …
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BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Around the time rookie linebacker Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah was being shown how to drop into pass coverage, Browns coach Kevin Stefanski got to drop something as well.
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There will be no mysteries when Tampa Bay and Florida meet in the first round of the playoffs after facing off eight times this season and twice in the past week. Same deal for Montreal and Toronto, who have played 10 times since mid-January.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Adam Frazier tripled home the tying run in the 11th inning with his fourth hit of the game and scored the winner on Gregory Polanco’s sacrifice fly as the Pittsburgh Pirates rallied for a 3-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Friday night.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Romain Grosjean survived a fiery Formula One crash, then left the series behind for a move to IndyCar where he figured he might compete for wins after nearly a decade of driving cars that never had a chance.
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Major League Baseball is full of huge numbers — 4,256 hits by Pete Rose, 511 wins for Cy Young, 2,632 consecutive games played by Cal Ripken Jr.
The Indiana rugby program is only a few years old and has played with a short-handed roster this season, but it has not deterred the Indians from reaching their goal of vying for a shot at the state title in Philadelphia this weekend.
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An additional week of regular-season games will benefit NFL fans right from the start.
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PITTSBURGH — Kendrick Green grew up wearing No. 53.
HOLLIDAYSBURG — Indiana closed the regular season and tuned up for next week’s WPIAL Track and Field Championships by sweeping Punxsutawney and Hollidaysburg in a non-conference girls’ track and field triangular meet Thursday.
The United Lions made a late bid to move up the District 6 Class 2A baseball rankings by taking a pair of games on a busy Friday.
Indiana’s boys’ and girls’ lacrosse teams will open the WPIAL Class 2A playoffs next week.
Marion Center beat West Shamokin, 5-1, in a Heritage Conference baseball game and threatened to move into the top spot in the District 6 Class 2A rankings on Thursday.
The Marion Center Stingers wrapped up the regular season with a perfect record, the top seed in District 6 Class 2A and the No. 1 ranking in the state.
The NFL is returning to London in October and Tom Brady begins his pursuit of an eighth Super Bowl title against Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys when Tampa Bay hosts the league’s annual kickoff game on Sept. 9.
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PITTSBURGH — Nearly three dozen players made their way through the Pittsburgh Penguins locker room during the regular season, a byproduct of an injury list that seemed to remain in a constant state of flux.
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PITTSBURGH — Jesse Winker and Eugenio Suárez combined to drive in four runs in the 10th inning as Cincinnati’s bullpen threw 5 1/3 hitless innings, and the Reds beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-1 on Wednesday.
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When the Washington Capitals took the ice needing to win in regulation to keep their division hopes alive, it came as a surprise when top center Nicklas Backstrom and No. 1 defenseman John Carlson were declared out 30 minutes before the puck dropped.
The Saltsburg Trojans took care of a lot of business on Wednesday.
Hampton and Indiana headed into Wednesday night’s matchup 9-0 in conference play with a WPIAL Class 2A Section 1 title on the line.
Clara Sherwood, an Indiana High School product, was selected to the all-tournament team while helping Washington & Jefferson College win the Presidents’ Athletic Conference women’s lacrosse championship and earn a berth in the NCAA Division III tournament.
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BALTIMORE — Medina Spirit is set to run in the Preakness on Saturday to go for the second leg of the Triple Crown, as long as the Kentucky Derby winner passes a series of additional drug tests.
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PITTSBURGH — Troy Stokes Jr. drove in runs with each of his first two major league hits, JT Brubaker pitched six strong innings and the Pittsburgh Pirates finally beat the Cincinnati Reds, 7-2 on Tuesday night.
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A college baseball player from South Dakota whose prosthetic arm was stolen from his vehicle got it back Tuesday after it was found at a recycling plant.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — For the first time in program history, the IUP women’s tennis team has advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament after beating Charleston, 4-2, in the Division II Atlantic Region Championships on Tuesday afternoon at the Schoenbaum Tennis Courts.
ARMAGH — In track and field, there are 18 events, including three relays that require four teammates each.
United and Blairsville scored identical 18-1 wins over Purchase Line with the high school softball regular season winding down and postseason berths on the line.
Indiana closed its WPIAL Class 2A Section 2 schedule with an 8-6 victory over North Hills in a boy’s lacrosse game Tuesday evening at Andy Kuzneski Field.
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Before the season began, we identified the key areas that could swing the Penguins’ season in one direction or the other. We called it, “Six stats that will shape the Penguins season.”
Turkey hunters with a valid tag will be able to hunt all day starting Monday.
Shawn Smith cast the 2¾-inch tube jig into the clear flow of the creek mouth. A moment later he exclaimed, “Fish on.” Soon a 15-inch smallmouth was in the boat.
Indiana wrapped up a playoff berth and finished off the clinching game in style.
NuMINE — Five West Shamokin players were named to the Mid State Volleyball League all-star team Monday morning, and the Wolves went out and won their 10th match of the season that night.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Tyler Anderson pitched eight solid innings and the Pittsburgh Pirates held on in the ninth, beating the Cubs 6-5 Sunday and ending Chicago’s five-game winning streak.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Rory McIlroy finally won when he least expected it, and it was as sweet as he could have imagined.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jeff Carter scored and Maxime Lagace stopped 29 shots for his first career shutout as the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Buffalo Sabres 1-0 on Saturday.
Wade Miley pitched baseball’s second no-hitter in three days — and fourth already this season — leading the Cincinnati Reds to a 3-0 win Friday night over the Cleveland Indians, who were no-hit for the second time in a month.
Indiana ran its winning streak to 10 games Friday night and set up a showdown for the WPIAL Class 2A Section 1 title next week.
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The National Hockey League is an embarrassment.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — In the final days of a 16th season that came in the form of a 56-game sprint and included a cross-country trade, Pittsburgh Penguins forward Jeff Carter acknowledges his legs aren't exactly in top form.
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