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It was another brutal night for the Penguins at PPG Paints Arena, as they were blown out for the second straight game on home ice, and with the loss, they fell out of second place in the Metro Divisio...

Opening Day is tomorrow in New York for the Pirates, and it will be a premier pitching matchup, with Paul Skenes, who was 10-10 last season and won the National League Cy Young Award, facing Freddy Pe...

The IUP women's basketball team started the season outside the Top 25. Today they are in the NCAA Division II Elite Eight, seeded number two and tipping off this afternoon at 2:30 against number seven...

SOFTBALL West Shamokin plated 10 runs in the first inning and five in the second, and Leah Mondi threw a three-inning one-hitter, striking out six as the Wolves clobbered Apollo-Ridge, 15-0. Freshman ...

You can blame the Olympics as much as anything for the challenges the Penguins have faced since the start of February, both for forcing them to play eleven games without Sidney Crosby and for the pack...

The Pirates have made the final moves to set the roster for Opening Day on Thursday against the Mets in New York. Veteran right-hander Mike Clevinger was optioned to Indianapolis yesterday as the team...

The Steelers have signed former Dallas Cowboy Brock Hoffman to compete for the starting offensive guard spot left open by the loss of Isaac Seumalo, who signed with Arizona. The 26-year-old Hoffman ha...

Playing an exhausting schedule, the Penguins lost to Carolina for the third time in thirteen days, wrapping up their second straight weekend of back-to-back games. Paul Steigerwald recaps Sunday's los...

The Pirates lost to the Red Sox yesterday, 6-3, in spring training baseball. Mitch Keller gave up one run in three-and-two-thirds innings as he worked on using all of his pitches in key at-bats. Henry...

High school baseball and softball begins today in the Heritage Conference. In baseball, Homer-Center visits Conemaugh Township, West Shamokin plays host to Cambria Heights, and River Valley visits Nor...