Sports category, Page 1314

For a basketball team trying to find sure footing in a season of rough roads, the bright lights of Madison Square Garden can be daunting. But Pitt (4-7, 0-1 ACC) found a way to win a close game there Saturday, pushing past St. John’s, 59-57, after leading for only 4...

Jake Biss is back in the Shippensburg basketball lineup and it didn’t take him long to make an impact. He was named the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference East Division Athlete of the Week after a couple of 20-point games. In just his third game since returning from an injury, the...

UConn’s record 16-year run in the top 10 is over. The Huskies fell four spots to No. 11 in The Associated Press women’s college basketball poll Monday after losing to Louisville a day earlier. UConn had been ranked among the first 10 teams in the poll for 313 straight weeks...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs took care of their business with a thrilling come-from-behind overtime victory over the Los Angeles Chargers last Thursday, avenging an earlier loss to their AFC West rival and taking a two-game lead in the division. Then the Chiefs sat back and watched...

Penn State football signed most of its 2022 recruiting class Wednesday and now attention is turning to its 2023 class. The Nittany Lions and head coach James Franklin picked up a commitment from 2023 three-star offensive lineman Joshua Miller Monday morning. Miller announced the commitment via his personal Twitter account....

The Penguins’ home game against the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday has been postponed by the NHL for what the league described as covid-related issues impacting the Devils. A make-up date has yet to be determined. The Penguins’ next scheduled game is a home contest against the Philadelphia Flyers on...

Five things we learned from Steelers 19, Titans 13: 1. Going low On a day when Ben Roethlisberger moved into fifth place on the all-time passing yardage list and engineered his 40th career fourth-quarter comeback, he made history of another sort. The offense had its least productive winning performance with...

Penguins forwards Brian Boyle, Jake Guentzel and Bryan Rust rejoined their teammates for practice on Monday in Cranberry. All three – as well as forward Evgeni Malkin - wore white non-contact jerseys for the session. Boyle has missed the past two games due to an undisclosed injury. Guentzel (right hand)...

Defending national champion Baylor maintained its top spot in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll, though not without ceding a No. 1 vote to Arizona, while the six remaining unbeatens continued their rise on Monday. The Bears ended a four-week streak of turnover atop the poll by taking care...

Slippery Rock’s Chad Kuhn fit the mold. The 6-foot-3, 240-pound high-energy defensive end was one of eight national finalists for the 2021 Gene Upshaw Division II Lineman of the Year Award, presented annually by the Manheim Touchdown Club. Kuhn’s strength, speed, mobility and ruggedness on the gridiron, along with a...

CLEVELAND — Baker Mayfield ran out of time. The Browns quarterback didn’t test negative for covid-19 on Monday and will watch Cleveland’s game against the Las Vegas Raiders from home as his teammates try to keep their postseason hopes strong. With both Mayfield and his backup, Case Keenum, out, third-stringer...

CHICAGO — The noise on the ground floor of the Horween Leather Co. is a deep, constant rumble pierced by the shrieks of blades inside machines that have split leather to within fractions of an inch for more than 120 years. The smell is so pungent that first-time visitors to...

If there’s such a concept as a “discouraging win,” the Steelers might perfect it. That mess against Tennessee on Sunday was more about the Titans being determined to lose, not the Steelers deserving to win. The Steelers got four takeaways, turned them into just four field goals and could have...

TAMPA, Fla. — Nobody hounds Tom Brady like the New Orleans Saints. Cameron Jordan and the New Orleans defense gave Brady fits again, shutting down Tampa Bay’s high-powered offense Sunday night as the Saints put the Buccaneers’ division-title celebration plans on hold with a 9-0 victory over the reigning Super...

More than a quarter of NHL teams have been shut down through at least the weekend, after the Columbus Blue Jackets and Montreal Canadiens became the eighth and ninth to have activities paused because of several positive covid-19 test results among players. The Blue Jackets had games scheduled for Monday...

They can’t be happy in Nashville Monday morning. The Tennessee Titans controlled the time of possession against the Steelers, rushed for 201 yards and had 22 first downs. And they lost, 19-13. Four turnovers played a major role. Here’s what the sports writers are saying in Tennessee. “The Titans somehow...

In Monday’s “First Call,” James Harrison congratulates T.J. Watt on breaking his Pittsburgh Steelers single-season sacks record. Tennessee Titans coach Mike Vrabel had some interesting comments on the Steelers’ rushing game. Antonio Brown will be back with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Le’Veon Bell wants to try celebrity boxing. And Baltimore...

The Pittsburgh Steelers were able to grind out a 19-13 victory against the Tennessee Titans on Sunday at Heinz Field. But it did little to impress Mark Madden from a big-picture point of view. In this week’s “Madden Monday” podcast, Mark said don’t let the victory fool you into thinking...

BALTIMORE — In the past three weeks, the Baltimore Ravens have gone for three big 2-point conversions. If they’d converted any of them, they might be in a much safer spot right now in the playoff chase. Instead, coach John Harbaugh and his team were left to lament another missed...

On the surface, a road game against the New Jersey Devils in mid-December is usually a pretty ho-hum affair. For Mike Sullivan, Sunday’s contest was important. Because all of them are important to the Pittsburgh Penguins’ coach. “I always love that question that you guys (media) ask me,” Sullivan said...

DENVER — Khalid Kareem snatched the ball from backup quarterback Drew Lock on second-and-goal early in the fourth quarter, and the Cincinnati Bengals stayed in the thick of the logjammed AFC playoff race with a 15-10 win over the Denver Broncos on Sunday. The Bengals (8-6) won despite star rookie...