February 11, 2022 1:52 am
The WPIAL Basketball regular season ends Saturday for section games. Here’s a rundown of the Washington/Greene area and their standings.
GIRLS
IN: Avella, Burgettstown, California, Charleroi, Chartiers-Houston, Fort Cherry, Peters Township, Trinity, Carmichaels, Mapletown, Waynesburg, West Greene
OUT: Bentworth, Beth-Center, Canon-McMillan, McGuffey, Ringgold, Wash High, Jeff-Morgan
BOYS
IN: California, Chartiers-Houston, Fort Cherry, Wash High, Carmichaels, Jeff-Morgan, Mapletown, Waynesburg, West Greene
OUT: Avella, Bentworth, Beth-Center, Burgettstown, Canon-McMillan, Charleroi, McGuffey, Peters Township, Ringgold, Trinity
February 12, 2022 4:06 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Cam Heyward was helping one group of children plant in the garden Friday at the Los Angeles Boys & Girls Club, while Harrison Phillips was lobbing passes to another set of kids. The two defensive linemen were among a group of NFL players who turned out for the annual Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year event, a chance for the league to honor and promote volunteerism. Over a slightly chaotic 90 minutes, players and local children planted, played and stuffed grocery bags with food for the needy, among other things.
February 12, 2022 4:05 am
UNDATED (AP) – The Atlantic Coast Conference has long heralded itself as the premier basketball conference in the country. This year, that hasn’t been the case. Besides No. 7 Duke, only one other ACC team has been ranked in the Top 25 this season. North Carolina was No. 18 in the second poll of the season, then lost two in a row. In the preseason poll, Florida State was No. 20 and Virginia No. 25; both lost in the opening week and fell out of the rankings. Wake Forest and Notre Dame were the only teams besides Duke to get votes in the latest Top 25.
February 11, 2022 3:57 am
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) – Casey DeSmith made 26 saves in outdueling former Penguins’ star Matt Murray and Pittsburgh won its fifth straight road game with a 2-0 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Thursday night. Jeff Carter had the game-winning goal in the second period and Sidney Crosby blocked a late shot in close before assisting on Bryan Rust’s empty-net goal. The Penguins are 8-1-3 in their last 12. Murray, who helped the Penguins win consecutive Stanley Cups in 2016 and ’17 before being trade to Ottawa in 2020, made 42 saves in his first start against his former team.
February 11, 2022 4:00 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) – If Aaron Rodgers elects to retire before training, he’s going out as the NFL’s reigning Most Valuable Player. The Green Bay Packers quarterback is the MVP for the fourth time in his career, becoming just the fifth player to earn the honor in consecutive seasons. Rodgers earned 39 votes from a nationwide panel of 50 media members who regularly cover the NFL. Rodgers said at the NFL Honors that he hasn’t made up his mind about retirement.
In other AP awards: Steelers edge rusher TJ Watt is the Defensive Player of the Year. Watt tied the NFL sacks record with 22 1/2 and joined older brother J.J. in taking the award.
– Rams wide receiver Cooper Kupp got one vote for MVP, but he easily took top offensive player honors. Kupp led the NFL with 138 receptions, 1,829 yards receiving and 15 touchdown catches while leading Los Angeles to the NFC West title.
– Bengals wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase has won the Offensive Rookie of the Year award. Chase had 81 receptions for 1,455 yards and 13 touchdowns during the regular season before helping Cincinnati earn its first Super Bowl berth in 33 years.
February 10, 2022 3:48 am
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – Ithiel Horton scored 24 points, shooting 7 for 13 from 3-point range, and Pittsburgh beat a diminished Florida State squad 56-51 to end its four-game skid. It was the Panthers’ first road win in the ACC since a 63-60 victory over Syracuse on Jan. 6, 2021. Horton made eight of Pitt’s 18 field goals and seven of the team’s eight 3s. The Panthers never trailed in the second half. On the defensive end, Mouhamadou Gueye tied a career-high with eight blocked shots. Caleb Mills scored 19 points for Florida State which shot 16 for 56.
February 10, 2022 3:55 am
NEW YORK (AP) — Boston Bruins star Brad Marchand was suspended six games by the NHL on Wednesday night for roughing and high-sticking Pittsburgh goalie Tristan Jarry the previous day.It is Marchand’s eighth career suspension and second this season. Marchand received a match penalty with 25 seconds to play in the Penguins’ 4-2 win Tuesday night after throwing a punch at Jarry’s head and poking the goaltender’s mask with his stick as a linesman was escorting him away from the fray. Marchand sat for three games for slew-footing a Vancouver player in late November.
February 10, 2022 3:56 am
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – Major League Baseball and its locked-out players agreed to resume negotiations Saturday after an 11-day break. The session in New York will follow three days of owners’ meetings in Orlando that end Thursday and three days of players’ association sessions in Arizona and Florida. It will be just the fifth negotiating session on core economics since the lockout started in early December. There is virtually no chance spring training workouts can start as scheduled on Feb. 16, a casualty of baseball’s ninth work stoppage, its first since 1995.
February 9, 2022 3:48 am
BOSTON (AP) – Sidney Crosby scored his 499th career regular-season goal as the Pittsburgh Penguins rallied from a two-goal deficit and beat the Boston Bruins 4-2. Danton Heinen scored twice in a 28-second span in the second period, and Crosby added another with 7:07 left in the frame, moving him one goal shy of joining Washington’s Alex Ovechkin as the only active players to score 500 goals in the regular season. Tristan Jarry stopped 43 shots for the Penguins, and Bryan Rust scored into an empty net with 1:29 left in the third as Pittsburgh snapped a four-game winless streak.
February 9, 2022 2:58 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Former Carolina Panthers assistant Frisman Jackson is the new wide receivers coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Jackson replaces Ike Hilliard, whose contract was not renewed following an underwhelming season by a wide receiver group that received solid production from Pro Bowler Diontae Johnson but not much else. Frisman spent the last two years with Carolina, coming to the Panthers after a two-year stint at Baylor. He followed then-Baylor head coach Matt Rhule when Rhule made the jump from college to the NFL before the 2020 season.
