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The 1950s and 1960s were the “Golden Age” of Uniontown Area High School athletics in football and basketball, and one of their key cogs in the 1960s was William “Trip” Radcliffe.
California, Belle Vernon and Elizabeth Forward all had postseason spots secured before Friday night’s football games.
Freshman Colin Brady ran for 273 yards and four touchdowns, Corey Wise had a hand in three scores, and West Greene's offense rolled in a 54-28 victory over Jefferson-Morgan in a Class A Tri-County South Conference game played at Waynesburg University's John F. Wiley Stadium.
FREDERICKTOWN — Jared Johnson scored three touchdowns and McGuffey wrapped up the outright Class AA Century Conference championship Friday night with a 48-20 win over Beth-Center.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Brian Kelly understands human nature. And the longtime Notre Dame coach is fine if his players are looking forward to a showdown with top-ranked Clemson in two weeks, provided they play like a team capable of hanging with the Tigers in the interim.
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Cornerback Zech McPhearson returned a fumble 56 yards for a touchdown with 8:44 left to lift Texas Tech to a 34-27 victory over West Virginia on Saturday night.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Indiana coach Tom Allen had grown weary of close calls in big games.
Washington showed off its running game Friday at Wash High Stadium.
CONNELLSVILLE -- Mitchell Minda missed out on his junior cross country season at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus when it was postponed thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Year Two of Albert Gallatin's switch to being an independent football team was even more successful than the first.
WWE presents Hell in a Cell tonight on the WWE Network, although only four matches had been announced by Friday afternoon.
Jeff Puskar realizes what his Connellsville girls soccer team accomplished during the regular season.
The 1950s and 1960s were the “Golden Age” of Uniontown Area High School athletics in football and basketball, and one of their key cogs in the 1960s was William “Trip” Radcliffe.
Reagan Schreiber's goal with 15 minutes left in the first-round match of the WPIAL Class A soccer playoffs Saturday afternoon cut Bentworth's deficit to 2-1, but Springdale netted a pair of goals in the waning minutes for a 4-1 victory.
Jimmy Sadler did it all Friday night to lead Chartiers-Houston to a 27-14 Century Conference victory over visiting Waynesburg Central.
Landan Stevenson rushed for 214 yards and scored five touchdowns as Mapletown out-scored visiting Bentworth, 40-29, in a Tri-County South Conference clash Friday night.
Mount Pleasant raced out to a 13-0 lead in the first quarter Friday night, but the Vikings were unable to hold the lead in a 30-19 Interstate Conference loss at South Park.
Ringgold made it a one score game in the fourth quarter, but West Mifflin responded with Ojuan Owens' 1-yard touchdown plunge as the Titans held on for a 20-8 Big Eight Conference road victory over the Rams.
Laurel Highlands scored three touchdowns of over 70 yards but it was its defense that came up big twice in the final seconds in the Mustangs’ thrilling 34-33 victory over Trinity on Friday night.
Zion White threw two long touchdown passes and ran for another Friday night as Elizabeth Forward capped an undefeated regular season with a 35-19 victory over visiting Southmoreland in Interstate Conference action.
The Waynesburg Central volleyball team tied the match at 2-2, but Beth-Center came through with a 15-7 win in the fifth set Friday afternoon for a 3-2 Section 3-AA home victory.
Avella scored two touchdowns in the second quarter and the Eagles defense made the scores stand for a 14-7 victory over visiting Carmichaels in Tri-County South Conference play.
C.J. Waldier scored three touchdowns and Gamal Marballie had a pair to lead Yough to a 48-0 road victory at Brownsville in Interstate Conference action.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — James Conner’s Pittsburgh Steelers teammates insist he’s having a good time, that the fourth-year running back has never been happier or more engaged.
Derrick Davis scored five touchdowns and ran for 113 yards to lead visiting Gateway to a 43-12 Big East Conference victory at Connellsville.
WAYNESBURG – If these two teams played 100 times, the split would be 50-50. That’s how close they are in talent.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Titans have been through so much dealing with the NFL’s first COVID-19 outbreak during the season resulting in one game postponed and rescheduled to a second game pushed to a rare Tuesday night kickoff.
Defenses are making a stand early in this Big 12 season.
When Frazier began the 2019 football season with six straight losses it was hard to envision that a year later the Commodores would be making a push for the WPIAL playoffs.
Texas Tech might be able to pick up a few pointers from West Virginia’s game films on slowing down offenses in the Big 12.
Beth-Center won in three sets Thursday night, but visiting Brownsville put up a fight in each loss in the Section 3-AA volleyball match.
Beth-Center won the second set, but Southmoreland rallied to take the next two Wednesday night for a 3-1 Section 3-AA victory.
Pat Chambers resigned as Penn State’s basketball coach Wednesday following an internal investigation by the school into allegations of inappropriate conduct.
PITTSBURGH — Robert Spillane doesn’t have Devin Bush’s pedigree. He doesn’t have Bush’s speed or game experience either.
Ringgold's Ryan Pajak and Belle Vernon's Grace Henderson set the pace Wednesday afternoon with both runners crossing the finish line first in the AA race at White Oak Park to take home TSTCA Invitational individual honors.
The WPIAL released its soccer pairings Wednesday with nine local boys teams and nine local girls teams finding out where and when they will start the postseason.
HERMINIE -- Laurel Highlands had already clinched its second Section 3-AAA girls volleyball title in three years when it entered Yough Senior High School for its regular-season finale Tuesday night.
Carmichaels kept the door open for at least a share of the Section 3-AA volleyball section title Tuesday night with a hard-fought 3-2 victory over visiting Frazier.
Penn State says running back Journey Brown could miss the season due to a “medical condition.”
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pat Narduzzi calls it “the 24-hour rule.” Win or lose, the Pittsburgh coach expects the Panthers to move on quickly regardless of the outcome during a given week.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The collective body language of Devin Bush’s teammates said it all.
Runners and walkers will once again toe the line to continue a tradition, though three months late, with the running of the 38th annual John Woodruff 5K on Saturday morning.
Geibel Catholic's Claire Konieczny flirted with a top-10 finish for most of the PIAA Girls Class AA Individual Golf Championship Monday at Heritage Hills Golf Resort, but the sophomore settled into a two-way tie for 11th place.
The Connellsville girls soccer team capped an undefeated Section 2-AAA season Monday night with a 6-0 victory over visiting Trinity.
Pittsburgh second-year inside linebacker Devin Bush sustained what coach Mike Tomlin called a “significant knee injury” — reportedly a torn ACL — in Pittsburgh’s 38-7 rout of the Browns on Sunday.
California running back has hand in 6 touchdowns as Trojans win the Tri-County South title.
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Miami avoided the post-Clemson letdown and now can set its sight on remaining in the conference championship picture.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Leddie Brown broke open a close game with a long touchdown run in the third quarter and caught one of Jarret Doege’s three touchdown passes to lead West Virginia to a 38-17 victory Saturday over a winless Kansas team that was without coach Les Miles.
AEW celebrated the first anniversary of Dynamite on TNT last Wednesday.
If you follow Mount Pleasant High School athletics the last name of "Miscik" will be a familiar one.
In what was a slugfest early, Washington scored 25 second-half points to pull away for a 39-0 victory over Charleroi in a Century Conference game Friday night.
