Category Archives: Local Sports

After an off day and a flight to California, the Pirates open a six-game West Coast road trip tonight. Joe Block previews tonight's action.   After the three games in Anaheim, the Pirates will ma...

Former Pitt basketball star Nelly Cummings has signed to play professionally in Cyprus. He'll play for AEL Limassol in the top-tier division of the eleven-team Cypriot League. Cummings is currently pr...

Little League state tournament action continues in a number of categories. Yesterday at Lewistown, in Mifflin County, the Section Four champion Indiana/Clymer 10U softball team downed Towamensing, 14-...

Things were looking grim again for the Pirates as they skidded toward their sixth straight loss coming out of the All-Star break, but they managed to turn the game around and rally for a win over Clev...

There was a new left-hander on the mound for the Pirates yesterday but he only threw one pitch. It was the ceremonial first pitch tossed by Steelers linebacker Alex Highsmith, who also used that left ...

Pitt senior associate athletic director Penny Semaia is leaving the university to become the vice president of stadium relations for the Buffalo Bills, who are building a brand new football stadium. S...

The Pirates this week have been all about the future, and the biggest part of that future yesterday signed a record contract. Paul Skenes, the 6-7 right-hander flamethrower who was the top overall pic...

The Penguins held another introductory video news conference yesterday, this time with newly signed free agent defenseman Ryan Graves, who played the last two seasons with New Jersey after spending th...

Congratulations to Trevor Todd, who is getting set for his senior season at Indiana High. Todd yesterday won the Western Pennsylvania Golf Association's 49th C.R. Miller Match Play tournament at the I...

The Pirates' Quinn Priester mowed down the Cleveland Guardians with a perfect first three innings, but the Bucs fell apart after that. Joe Block has the story.   In tonight's second game of the s...