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Minor league report: Penguins tie franchise record with 9-2 rout of Islanders 
Forwards Drew O’Connor and Sam Poulin each scored two goals for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 9-2 home win against the Bridgeport Islanders at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Saturday. Defenseman Juuso Riikola recorded three assists for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (30-27-4-4) while forward Alex Nylander contributed a goal and an assist....
Villanova could have used Justin Moore in Final Four loss
NEW ORLEANS — Villanova needed Justin Moore on offense — to add another scoring threat and spread the floor against Kansas’ swarming interior defense. The Wildcats could have used him on defense — to rotate out on the Jayhawks’ shooters and help dig down into the post. For all the...
Kansas starts fast, cruises to win over Villanova in Final Four 
NEW ORLEANS — Kansas and Villanova waged a 3-point shooting contest at the Final Four with one of them racing out to a big lead in the opening minutes and the other spending the rest of the night trying in vain to catch up. It all may sound familiar to...
Snedeker, Hossler, Spaun, Frittelli lead Valero Texas Open
SAN ANTONIO — Brandt Snedeker and Beau Hossler shot rounds of 5-under-par 67 to join J.J. Spaun and Dylan Frittelli atop the leaderboard after the third round of the Valero Texas Open on Saturday. Both Spaun, who shot 69, and Frittelli (70) finished with a share of the lead at...
Denny Hamlin seeks NASCAR Next Gen breakthrough at Richmond
RICHMOND, Va. — Denny Hamlin would love to think a visit to his home track will produce a finish that finally gets his season heading in the right direction. The problem for Hamlin, his Joe Gibbs Racing teammates and seemingly all the drivers in Toyotas is they are having a...
Penguins confident after losing to NHL-leading Avalanche
Tangibly, the Penguins gained nothing from their 3-2 regulation road loss to the Colorado Avalanche in Ball Arena in Denver on Saturday. Intangibly, the Penguins professed they gained a boost of confidence with the result. Coupled with their 4-3 overtime road win against Minnesota Wild two days earlier, the Penguins...
Michael Chavis snaps out of slump with homer as Pirates beat Red Sox
Michael Chavis doesn’t know which position he will play for the Pittsburgh Pirates, given that he has played games at first, second and third base and even right field since being acquired from Boston last July. So long as he is in the lineup, Chavis is happy. “My preference is...
Bob Huggins, George Karl, Swin Cash named to Basketball Hall of Fame’s 2022 class
This year’s class for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame has quite a regional flavor. Among the 13 inductees announced Friday were West Virginia University alum and coach Bob Huggins, Penn Hills native George Karl and former McKeesport star Swin Cash. The trio with local ties will join former...
Julius Pegues, first Black basketball player at Pitt, dies of cancer
Julius Pegues, the first Black varsity basketball player at Pitt who went to serve the U.S. Air Force as a weather forecaster and later was an advisor to the Federal Aviation Administration, died Tuesday at the age of 85 after a long battle with cancer, the university announced. Pegues died...
Mark Madden's Hot Take: Mario Lemieux's fantasy camp the best of its genre
Mario Lemieux made a pass, then broke free to take an easy return feed. But the puck never got there. The rec-league player who took Lemieux’s dish tried to instead beat a defender one-on-one. That’s the beauty of the Mario Lemieux Fantasy Hockey Camp: Everybody is equal. (The puck hog...
UConn-South Carolina title tilt packs plenty of star power
MINNEAPOLIS — The South Carolina Gamecocks held the top spot in the Associated Press Top 25 women’s poll all season about as tightly as they play defense every night. The last test for the No. 1 overall seed in this year’s NCAA Tournament will be the Connecticut Huskies, who produced...
U.S. Open champ Daniil Medvedev says he needs hernia surgery
U.S. Open champion Daniil Medvedev expects to be sidelined for one to two months after having hernia surgery. The No. 2-ranked man in tennis wrote on Twitter on Saturday that he has been dealing with “a small hernia” in recent months. “Together with my team I have decided to have...
For Pirates' Ke'Bryan Hayes, staying healthy is key to winning Gold Glove
BRADENTON, Fla. — Ke’Bryan Hayes started spring training with the goal of being available to play every game this season, knowing a left hand/wrist injury was one of two things that stood in the way of the Pittsburgh Pirates third baseman winning a Gold Glove as a rookie. The other,...
UConn tops Stanford to return to NCAA title game after 5-year absence
MINNEAPOLIS — Geno Auriemma and the UConn Huskies are back in the NCAA title game for the first time in six years after getting through one of the most difficult seasons of the Hall of Fame coach’s career. Paige Bueckers scored 14 points and UConn advanced to the national championship...
Palmer holds 2-shot lead after 2 rounds of Valero Texas Open 
SAN ANTONIO — Ryan Palmer shot a bogey-free round of 6-under-par 66 at the Valero Texas Open to lead by two shots over Kevin Chappell, Dylan Frittelli and Matt Kuchar after Friday’s second round. Palmer, at 10-under, surged into the lead with consecutive birdies midway through the back nine. Chappell,...
Minor league report: Penguins fall to Phantoms 
Forwards Michael Chaput and Kyle Olson each scored goals for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 4-2 road loss to the rival Lehigh Valley Phantoms at the PPL Center in Allentown on Friday. Goaltender Tommy Nappier made 26 saves on 29 shots for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (29-27-4-4). Highlights: The Penguins’ next game is...
Hope Solo arrested on DWI, child abuse charges
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Former U.S. women’s national team star goalkeeper Hope Solo was arrested after she was found passed out behind the wheel of a vehicle in North Carolina with her 2-year-old twins inside, police said. A police report said Solo was arrested Thursday in a shopping center parking lot...
South Carolina women top Louisville in Final Four, advance to title game 
MINNEAPOLIS — Aliyah Boston had 23 points and 18 rebounds to back up her AP National Player of the Year award and carry South Carolina to the NCAA championship game with a 72-59 victory over Louisville in the semifinals Friday night. Brea Beal matched her season high with 12 points...
Kentucky appeals court denies Bob Baffert's motion for stay
FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Kentucky Court of Appeals on Friday rejected trainer Bob Baffert’s motion for emergency relief from a 90-day suspension. As a result of the order signed by Acting Chief Judge Allison Jones, the Hall of Fame trainer’s suspension is scheduled to begin Monday. “The Court emphasizes that...
Villanova-Kansas renew high-stakes history at Final Four 
NEW ORLEANS — Bill Self was wading through old video of Villanova this week, trying to scout a specific action that the Wildcats use on the offensive end of the floor, when the Hall of Fame Kansas coach did something he has avoided the past four years. Self watched film...
Coach K on an NCAA revamp: 'Time to look at the whole thing' 
NEW ORLEANS — The sport Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski is leaving is run by an organization he doesn’t much recognize anymore. Or like at all. The 75-year-old coach, whose career ends after Duke is done at the Final Four, used the opportunity of what could be his last big news...
Martin Truex Jr. not ready to consider NASCAR future 
Martin Truex Jr. left Richmond Raceway a winner in his last visit to the Virginia short track, a playoff victory last September that helped him get into NASCAR’s championship round and showed the veteran has plenty left in his tank. He returns to Richmond six months later with his NASCAR...
'Tea Olive' hole can be smelly start to Masters 
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Alister MacKenzie offered some advice for his design of what has served as the opening hole at Augusta National since the second playing of the Masters. No telling what he might have said to Charl Schwartzel. The par-4 first, known as “Tea Olive” for the fragrant shrubs...
Duquesne's Tyson Acuff enters transfer portal
Tyson Acuff, a second-year guard who was one of only four holdovers from the 2020-2021 Duquesne men’s basketball team, put his name in the NCAA transfer portal Friday. Acuff joins Toby Okani and freshman guard Jackie Johnson III as players who have announced plans to transfer from Duquesne. After scoring...
Rivals Duke, North Carolina in titanic clash at Final Four 
NEW ORLEANS — The name “Tobacco Road” misses the point. The most important industry in the 11-mile stretch of real estate between North Carolina’s two cathedrals of hoops, the Smith Center in Chapel Hill and Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, is basketball. For decades, a win or loss in any...


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