PennLive via Trib Total Media When you put up 518 yards of total offense against the No. 1 team in the country, defenses tend to notice. SMU (11-2), which visits Penn State (11-2) on Dec. 21 in a firs...

By ROB MAADDI AND AARON BEARD AP Sports Writers Bill Belichick had seemingly been waiting for the right opportunity to return to an NFL sideline. Instead, the six-time Super Bowl-winning head coach is...

A potential Super Bowl preview and the battle for Pennsylvania bragging rights highlight the NFL’s Week 15 schedule. The NFC-leading Detroit Lions (12-1) put their 11game winning streak on the line wh...

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Don’t take this as me taking Bob Nutting’s side when it comes to spending money. But it’s becoming increasingly obvious each year that until baseball gets serious about a salary cap, the Pittsburgh Pi...

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN) 8 p.m. - FOX — Indiana at Nebraska COLLEGE FOOTBALL 9 p.m. - ESPN — FCS Tournament: Idaho at Montana St., Quarterfinal COLLEGE HOCKEY (MEN) 6 p.m. - BTN — Wisconsin at Michiga...

2013 • The Belle Vernon Area girls basketball team has proved one thing in their first three wins of the season: the Leps have a strong offense. In their Section 4-AAA opener at Ringgold, the Leps sho...

Monessen-Brownsville canceled next week The Monessen boys basketball game against Brownsville scheduled for Monday has been canceled, but the Greyhounds will still take the floor. Westinghouse will re...

With a handful of losses to start the season, the Connellsville girls basketball team was in desperate need of a confidence boost and some positive vibes. On Wednesday, the Falcons got exactly what th...

(Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part story featuring Monessen’s Reggie Allen). There’s something magical about the first name Reggie in the world of football. It brings back memories of Hal...

Brandin Cummings is the fourth Panthers’ freshman to score 30 points in a game. On a team with veteran guards Jaland Lowe and Ishmael Leggett, freshman Brandin Cummings found himself in the brightest ...

Bentworth dug deep to secure a hard-fought 42-26 victory over Frazier Wednesday night, using timely wins, clutch performances and key forfeits to pull away late in a tense wrestling dual in Section 3-...

IRVING, Texas (AP) — The NFL will consider expanding replay assist to include facemask penalties and other plays. Officials have missed several obvious facemask penalties this season, including two in...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mike Tomlin started going down the checklist of the myriad ways Saquon Barkley can beat you. It took the Pittsburgh Steelers coach a while — by his usually measured standards anyway ...

At most of his football coaching stops, Tim Bukowski stayed seven years. That was the case at Monessen, Charleroi, Clairton and, now, Southmoreland. “I am not making it to eight,” said Bukowski, who r...

PennLive.com via Trib Total Media The transfer portal officially opened Monday, starting a stretch of 20 days between Monday and Dec. 28 where players can enter the portal and find a new college progr...

Former New York Jets star Mark Gastineau confronted Brett Favre last year at a memorabilia show and angrily accused the Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback of deliberately going down on a record-bre...

In a season on pace for a record number of close games, no team has been better at pulling them out late than the two-time defending champion Kansas City Chiefs. Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs tied an...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The least productive four-game stretch of Deebo Samuel’s career sent the frustrated wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers to social media. In a now-deleted post on X, fo...