A crumbling college football season took a massive hit Tuesday when the Big Ten and Pac-12, two historic and powerful conferences, succumbed to the pandemic and canceled their fall football seasons.
Thiel Tomcat wrestler and 2018 Maplewood High School graduate Dylan Proper took third place at the Baldwin Wallace Invitational on Saturday to highlight this week of alumni action.
The transition has begun in collegiate sports from the fall to winter seasons. But for some, the fight still continues in the postseason.
Endurance is a large factor in college basketball, especially when a relatively smaller roster is running up and down the floor for 40 minutes.
Playing with a lead can sometimes be a challenge for relatively younger teams. The Pitt-Titusville Panthers experienced what most would classify as a growing pain on Thursday in their season-opener against the visiting Jamestown Community College Jayhawks.
BEAVER FALLS — Geneva College sophomore football player Brady Corklin, a 2017 Titusville High School graduate, was named the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Special Teams Player of the Week on Monday.
COLUMBIA, South Carolina — There’s a new home run king in the history of the Vanderbilt baseball program, and his name is Jeffrey Joseph Bleday.
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Former Titusville High School outfielder J.J. Bleday belted his 22nd home run of the 2019 season on Friday for the Vanderbilt Commodores, tying the program record for home runs in a single season set by Pedro Alvarez in 2006.
Titusville native J.J. Bleday and the No. 2 Vanderbilt Commodores baseball team opened up the 2019 regular season this weekend at the MLB4 Collegiate Baseball Tournament held at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick, in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Brady Corklin and the Point Park University men’s track and field team took second place at the River States Conference (RSC) Championships, Friday, hosted by the Pioneers.
DAVENPORT, Iowa — Adam Bleday opened up his 2018 minor league baseball season with a scoreless inning of work on the mound in his first appearance with the Quad Cities River Bandits, on Thursday.
NASHVILLE — J.J. Bleday, a sophomore at Vanderbilt University, hit his third and fourth career collegiate home runs in the opening weeks of the college baseball season.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The storyline played out like pretty much every game had played out down the stretch for Penn State, and as it happened to be, for Wisconsin, too.
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Titusville grad Matt McCord and four other golfers from Campbell University all shot 80 or under in the opening round of the 15th annual PGA Jones Cup, taking place at the PGA Golf Club Wanamaker Course.
As a golfer on the Rockets’ golf team, Matt McCord was a two-time All-District 10 team member, three-time Region Player of the Year, and the 2013 District 10 AA Golf Champion.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Bruce Baumgartner, the athletic director at Edinboro University, was named president of USA Wrestling, Saturday.
Not even a week after officially hiring Kevin Stallings, the University of Pittsburgh has cut ties with the former Vanderbilt head coach.
YORK — Titusville native and 2012 Titusville High School graduate Emily Nottingham, made her mark in the pool during the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) swimming Championships, in York’s Graham Aquatic Center.
Recently, I bought a subscription to DK Pittsburgh Sports. It’s a small staffed (seven staffers) online website, and app, that covers everything Pittsburgh sports, if the name didn’t make that obvious.
(AP) WASHINGTON — At Pitt’s practice Tuesday, the day before the Panthers traveled to Washington for the Military Bowl, coach Pat Narduzzi called to James Conner on the sideline.
(AP) — Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi has heard the talk. He even has been hit with some of the Twitter shrapnel.
The UPT Panthers started making big plays — just a little too late.
EDINBORO — Edinboro University of Pennsylvania has fired football coach Scott Browning after a winless season.
Former Maplewood lady Tiger Laura Kirk (7), now a junior at Gwynedd Mercy University, was recently honored as being selected to the CSAC (Colonial States Athletic Conference) All-Sportsmanship team. Kirk played volleyball for the lady Tigers and now plays for the Gwynedd Mercy lady Griffins.…
STATE COLLEGE — Penn State left guard Angelo Mangiro saw the potential of his young offensive in training camp.
HAPPY VALLEY (AP) – Former Penn State lettermen Troy Drayton and Reggie Givens were in the middle of a football camp in Florida when someone shouted out to Givens: “Hey! Check your phone.”
PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh star wide receiver Tyler Boyd has waived his right to a preliminary hearing on drunken driving charges and several related citations and hopes to enter a probation program for first-time offenders, his defense attorney said Wednesday.
SEATTLE (AP) — It was a game of inches. Not surprisingly, Rick Pitino and a couple of his scrappy guards got it done for Louisville.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Duke’s youngsters saw plenty in their first NCAA Tournament game: the buzz of a fast start to a big lead, the challenge of putting away an overmatched opponent that keeps playing hard, even an irate Hall of Fame coach.
