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Matt Jones wins Honda Classic by 5 shots, earns spot in Masters
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — When Matt Jones won his first PGA Tour title seven years ago, he needed a 45-foot birdie putt just to get into a playoff and a 40-yard chip-in to take the victory. This win was far less dramatic, yet just as meaningful. It got him...
Belle Vernon’s Zach Hartman, Kiski Area’s Darren Miller represent Bucknell well at NCAA Tournament
Belle Vernon’s Zach Hartman and Kiski Area’s Darren Miller put together special high school careers during their time in the WPIAL, but this past weekend, the pair represented Bucknell at the NCAA Division I wrestling championships. Hartman (13-3), who was making his third NCAA appearance after last year’s tournament was...
Serena Williams latest star to withdraw from Miami Open
MIAMI — Serena Williams is the latest Grand Slam champion to withdraw from the Miami Open. Williams pulled out Sunday, citing recent oral surgery. Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer announced earlier they would skip the tournament, which begins Tuesday. Williams, who lives in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., has...
Mischler, Holder combine to help Duquesne beat Long IslandVideo
Joe Mischler threw for 385 yards and three touchdowns and Duquesne beat Long Island, 35-17, on Sunday. Mischler’s first touchdown came on a 75-yard pass to Cyrus Holder, who beat one-on-one coverage to tie the score 7-7 at the end of the first quarter. It was the longest scoring play...
Royals give Salvador Perez $82M deal, richest in team history
The Kansas City Royals gave six-time All-Star catcher Salvador Perez the richest contract in club history, a four-year, $82 million deal that begins in 2022. The contract includes a club option worth an additional $13.5 million and has a $2 million buyout for 2026. Kansas City announced Sunday it had...
Wil Crowe focused on winning job on Pirates’ pitching staff
Wil Crowe didn’t mind talking baseball Sunday afternoon, but he preferred to keep the conversation focused on his outing against the Boston Red Sox. He was the starting pitcher in the Pittsburgh Pirates’ 9-4 victory at JetBlue Park in Fort Myers, Fla., working 3 2/3 innings and allowing one run,...
Penguins fall to Devils in overtime at home
The Pittsburgh Penguins are in dire need of two things. Rest and goals. They’ll get the former as they enjoy a rare two-day respite Monday and Tuesday after they forged through an industrial metal shredder of a week in which they played five games in seven days. As for the...
Nun-and-done: Loyola Chicago stuns top-seeded Illinois
INDIANAPOLIS — Loyola Chicago carried out 101-year-old superfan Sister Jean’s plans to a T on Sunday, moving to the Sweet 16 with a 71-58 win over Illinois, the first No. 1 seed bounced from this year’s NCAA Tournament. Cameron Krutwig delivered a 19-point, 12-rebound masterpiece, and the quick-handed, eighth-seeded Ramblers...
Infant son of former Steelers WR Ryan Switzer back in hospital
CLEVELAND — Cleveland Browns wide receiver Ryan Switzer said his infant son underwent a blood transfusion on Sunday and has more tests ahead to try to determine why he has been bleeding. Switzer’s 9-month-old son, Christian, is back in the hospital for the second time after undergoing surgery last week....
Pirates sign 36-year-old ex-Red Sox knuckleballer Steven Wright
The Pittsburgh Pirates took a low-risk chance on knuckleball pitcher Steven Wright on Sunday, signing him to a minor-league contract, with an invitation to big-league camp. It sounds like just another spring training transaction until you hear the rest of the story. Five years ago, Wright was considered a promising...
Penguins forward Brandon Tanev remains out against Devils
Penguins forward Brandon Tanev will miss his second consecutive game due to an undisclosed injury when his team hosts the New Jersey Devils at PPG Paints Arena on Sunday. In a statement issued Sunday morning, the team labeled him as a “game-time decision. Tanev participated in warmups prior to Saturday’s...
Texas stunner: No. 14 Abilene Christian ousts Texas
INDIANAPOLIS — Joe Pleasant slowed his breath and calmed himself. In the most pressure-packed moment of his college career for Abilene Christian, Pleasant’s two free throws were perfect from a spot where he’d struggled in the past. When he intercepted a final desperation pass from Texas, then Pleasant and the...
Shaler grad Brianna Schwartz has lasting impact with A-10 champion Duquesne runners
Duquesne assistant coach Jeff Gibson went scooting toward the finish line of the Atlantic 10 Championship course March 5 at Pole Green Park in Mechanicsville, Va., to deliver good news. Brianna Schwartz and her fellow Dukes were surprised at what he had to say. Duquesne coach Jim Lear told the...
This date in sports history: March 21Video
1893 — The first women’s collegiate basketball game is played at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. In this game, each basket is worth 1 point and the freshman class beats the sophomore class, 5-4. The game takes place behind locked doors, and men are prohibited from watching. 1941 — Joe...
Empty Thoughts: Penguins 3, Devils 1Video
Observations from the Penguins’ 3-1 win against the Devils: First things first, there was no substantive update on Penguins forward Brandon Tanev. He participated in warmups but was scratched due to an undisclosed injury. Coach Mike Sullivan simply said he was being evaluated after the game. As for the game...
Minor league report: Alex D’Orio, Nailers defeat ThunderVideo
Goaltender Alex D’Orio made 29 saves on 30 shots for the Wheeling Nailers in a 7-1 home win against the Wichita Thunder at WesBanco Arena in Wheeling, W.Va. on Saturday. Forward Michael Joly had two goals and an assist for Wheeling (9-20-5-0) while forward Brady Tomlak added a goal and...
Spencer Lee becomes 3-time NCAA wrestling champion
Iowa senior Spencer Lee is used to beginning a wrestling match. He’d rather set the tone for his Iowa teammates. But the NCAA wrestling championships had other ideas. They decided to put the 125-pound final at the end Saturday at Enterprise Center in St. Louis. The ESPN broadcast team called...
St. Vincent women’s basketball tops W&J in PAC championship game
In a strange, compact college basketball season like no other, the Saint Vincent women aren’t complaining. Why would they? The Bearcats completed a short, five-week schedule with a perfect ending Saturday night, rallying for a 65-61 victory over visiting Washington & Jefferson to win their second Presidents’ Athletic Conference Tournament...
District 31 American Legion baseball to field 11 teams
While practice for the start of the high school baseball season is underway, Westmoreland County District 31 teams are holding sign-ups for the start of their season May 20. There will be 11 teams participating in the league this summer, after the league held an unofficial season in 2020 because...
Bob Huggins, West Virginia prep for Buddy Boeheim, SyracuseVideo
Listen to Jackson Thomas “Buddy” Boeheim speak, and he sounds much like a coach, or a coach’s son, using phrases such as “evolution and growth” or bromides about how if you “think about that past game, then it’s going to bottle over into this game.” Watch the kid known as...
NASCAR returns to its roots with 1st of 2 visits to AtlantaVideo
HAMPTON, Ga. — NASCAR is returning to its roots. Even as the good ol’ boys attempt to break with the uglier parts of their history — most notably, the Confederate flag — the sport has embraced a more traditional footprint with its 2021 schedule. That includes Atlanta Motor Speedway, which...
Matt Jones overcomes challenges, takes lead Honda Classic leadVideo
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Aaron Wise had a six-shot lead during the third round of The Honda Classic, looking poised to turn the tournament into a rout. Everything went wrong from there, and Matt Jones took full advantage. The 40-year-old Australian handled the wind at PGA National to shoot...
Juwan Howard back in NCAAs, takes top-seeded Michigan to 2nd round
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Juwan Howard won his first NCAA Tournament game since taking over at Michigan, guiding Mike Smith and the top-seeded Wolverines to an 82-66 victory over Texas Southern on Saturday. Smith scored 18 points, and Hunter Dickinson added 16 as Michigan rolled into the second round without...
Oregon advances in NCAA Tournament after VCU exits for covid protocolsVideo
INDIANAPOLIS — VCU has been pulled from the NCAA Tournament because of covid-19 protocols. The NCAA says the 10th-seeded Rams’ first-round game Saturday against Oregon was declared a no-contest. The seventh-seeded Ducks will advance to the second round without playing. The announcement came a little more than three hours before...
With most sports in full swing, Westmoreland colleges experience different March Madness
As the NCAA Tournament tipped off Friday afternoon, Aaron Smetanka was preparing for kickoff. Yes, kickoff. In March. The Saint Vincent football coach was finalizing gameday plans for the Bearcats’ season opener at Grove City. Elsewhere on campus, the women’s basketball team was practicing for the Presidents’ Athletic Conference championship...
