Sports category, Page 73

BOSTON — The first matchup between the United States and Canada in the 4 Nations Face-Off left both sides — and most hockey fans, too — wanting more. And that’s just what they’ll get. The North Americans played their way into a rematch in the championship game, even with the...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who threw out the first pitch at the Pittsburgh Pirates’ home opener in 2023, will be back in town Tuesday night, taking another swing in the sports world. Shapiro will sit courtside with longtime Pitt broadcasters Bill Hillgrove and Curtis Aiken at Petersen Events Center and...

Three fights in nine seconds. I hated it. I went crazy on X in the wake of the brawl-filled spectacle that opened Saturday’s game between Canada and the U.S. in the 4 Nations Face-Off. That’s not what I believe hockey should be, let alone in a summit meeting of two...

BRADENTON, Fla. — The message manager Derek Shelton delivered to the Pittsburgh Pirates before the first full-squad workout of spring training was about the expectation of winning, a new mantra for a team that hasn’t had a winning season since 2018. After following back-to-back 100-loss seasons with successive 76-win seasons,...

Two days after the fact, Jeff Capel was pleased Monday to point out many of the positive aspects of Pitt’s 74-65 victory against Miami. “We guarded the ball. We didn’t get blown by (on defense). I thought we had good close-outs, and we understood who the shooters were,” he said....

Notre Dame is the new No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll, ascending to the top spot Monday for the first time since 2019. The Fighting Irish replaced UCLA, which lost its first game of the season last week, falling to rival USC, 71-60. Notre Dame...

Auburn’s win at Alabama assured the Tigers would keep the No. 1 ranking in The Associated Press Top 25 men’s college basketball poll for a sixth consecutive week. The Tigers (23-2) received 59 of 60 first-place votes in Monday’s poll, reclaiming nearly all the support lost when they fell at...

TAMPA, Fla. — New York Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton hasn’t swung a bat in three or four weeks and isn’t sure whether he will be ready for opening day because of painful tendinitis in both elbows. Speaking Monday before the team’s first full-squad workout, the five-time All-Star revealed he played...

After a down year, the Washington & Jefferson men’s basketball team entered the current season hoping to get back on track. In 2022-23, the Presidents of coach Ethan Stewart-Smith went 20-7 overall, 16-4 in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference and reached the conference tournament semifinals. But W&J took its lumps last...

Glenn Fowkes had no intention of swimming at Penn State Behrend. In fact, until he reached high school, he had no intention of swimming competitively anywhere. Fowkes had been a baseball player throughout his youth, and when he reached his freshman year at Kiski Area, he, naturally, tried out for...

Junior Jaden Gales came back to Saint Vincent to rejoin his former teammates and make more memories with the men’s basketball team. While he was at it, he pocketed a milestone. Gales, a 6-foot-7 forward, scored his 1,000th career point in the Bearcats’ 78-62 victory over Waynesburg, his team’s sixth...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Denny Hamlin surged into the lead on the final lap of the Daytona 500 and thought he had a fourth victory in “The Great American Race” within his reach Sunday night. Especially when Riley Herbst, who drives for the Hamlin and Michael Jordan-owned 23XI Racing, went...

SAN FRANCISCO — The winning total last year: 211 points. The winning total this year: 41 points. An All-Star Game like none other — since it was three games, not one — still had plenty of flash and not a lot of fire. And in the end, Boston’s Jayson Tatum...

Amid all of the hoopla for this weekend’s 50th anniversary of “Saturday Night Live,” I watched the four-part docuseries on Peacock called “SNL 50: Beyond Saturday Night.” I really enjoyed it. I thought it was better than any individual SNL episode I’ve seen in recent years. All four parts were...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — William Byron raced to his second straight Daytona 500 victory, surviving a string of late-race wrecks that knocked out a chunk of contenders and sent the Hendrick Motorsports driver into victory lane Sunday night at Daytona International Speedway. Ninth in the No. 24 Chevrolet with one...