February 22, 2026 7:00 am
The WPIAL Individual Wrestling Championships wrapped up Saturday at Canon-McMillan (3A), Chartiers Valley (2A) and Mt. Lebanon (Girls). Listen Here
Class 3A notes: Top 7 advance to West Regional next weekend. Canon-McMillan has 9 regional qualifiers, Trinity six, Ringgold 2, Peters Township and Waynesburg one each. The host Big Macs won a pair of individual championships, Lee Dreshman (107) and Collier Hartman (139).
Class 2A notes: Top 8 advance to Southwest Regional next weekend. McGuffey is sending all 9 of its WPIAL qualifiers to the regional including champion Lucas Barr (133). Burgettstown has 7 qualifiers, Bentworth and Jeff-Morgan 5 each. Beth-Center has 4 including 215-pound champion Noah Layhue. Wash High also has 4 qualifiers. Chartiers-Houston and West Greene will send two wrestlers to the regionals. The Pioneers getting a championship from Colin Whyte (285). Fort Cherry has one qualifier.
Girls notes: Top 5 advance to the West Regional with Districts 8 & 10. Canon-McMillan has 8 qualifiers including 118-pound champion Marlee Solomon. Fort Cherry’s Ella Trahan won the 106-pound title, one of two regional qualifiers for the Rangers. Avella, Beth-Center, Burgettstown, Peters Township, Ringgold, Trinity and West Greene have one regional qualifier each.
February 21, 2026 7:00 am
The WPIAL Basketball Quarterfinals wrapped up Friday with the Chartiers-Houston girls winning to reach the semifinals. Sophomore Mackenzie Walsh led the Bucs with 20 points, hitting 13-of-16 free throws along the way, in the win over defending WPIAL champion Aliquippa. Fort Cherry and Burgettstown both lost in the 2A Girls bracket and drop into the consolation bracket, each needing one win to qualify for the state tournament. Ringgold boys lost a one-point game to Hampton and also fall into a consolation bracket. The Rams, though, already have a state tournament bid in hand. In consolation action, Waynesburg was eliminated from the 3A Girls bracket, losing at OLSH. The Trinity girls have already clinched a PIAA bid but lost to Baldwin and will play for 7th place on Tuesday.
The semifinals got underway Saturday. Defending state champion South Fayette, the top seed in the 5A girls bracket, sprinted past Peters Township, dropping the defending WPIAL champions into the third-place game. Juliette Leroux scored 20 points, one of four Lions in double figures. Throughout the WPIAL playoffs, our audio coverage is available free on-air and online. Video coverage for WPIAL/PIAA playoff games is accessible through the NFHS Network. We will produce the video for all of our broadcasts through at least Saturday’s semifinals. Here’s a daily schedule of games for Washington/Greene County teams. WPIAL Brackets
Friday, Feb. 20
Quarterfinals
2A Girls #5 Rochester > #4 Fort Cherry, 47-39 Watch/Listen
2A Girls #2 Winchester Thurston > #7 Burgettstown, 59-20 Watch/Listen
2A Girls #3 Chartiers-Houston > #6 Aliquippa, 52-44 Watch/Listen
5A Boys #10 Hampton > #15 Ringgold, 48-47
Consolation Round 1
5A Girls Baldwin > Trinity, 49-38 (Trinity plays for 7th place on Tuesday)
3A Girls Our Lady/Sacred Heart > Waynesburg, 68-52 (Waynesburg is eliminated)
Saturday, Feb. 21
Semifinals
Saturday, Feb. 21
5A Girls #1 South Fayette > #12 Peters Township, 66-27 Watch/Listen
Consolation Round 1
2A Boys Jeff-Morgan > Winchester Thurston, 69-54 (Jeff-Morgan will play for 5th place Wednesday)
Monday, Feb. 23
Consolation Round 1
1A Girls Sewickley Academy at West Greene, 7 pm (winner clinches PIAA berth, plays for 5th place; loser eliminated)
2A Girls Laurel at Fort Cherry, 7 pm (winner clinches PIAA berth and plays for 5th place; loser plays for 7th place–the final qualifying position)
2A Girls Burgettstown at Aliquippa 7 pm (winner clinches PIAA berth and plays for 5th place; loser plays for 7th place–the final qualifying position)
5A Boys Ringgold at Penn Hills, 7 pm (winner plays for 5th place, loser plays for 7th place)
Tuesday, Feb. 24 (site/time to be announced)
Semifinals
6A Girls #1 Canon-McMillan vs. ##5 Seneca Valley, 5:45 pm at Mt. Lebanon, WJPA-FM (95.3) Watch/Listen
2A Girls #3 Chartiers-Houston vs. #2 Winchester Thurston, 5:45 pm at Peters Township, WJPA-AM (1450) Watch/Listen
February 21, 2026 7:53 am
MILAN (AP) — Sidney Crosby is out for Canada in the men’s Olympic hockey gold medal game against the United States after an apparent right knee injury. Crosby skated in a closed practice on Saturday, but he still cannot go. The 38-year-old left Canada’s quarterfinal against Czechia hurt four days ago and missed the semifinal against Finland. Connor McDavid wears the captain’s “C” again. He leads the tournament with 13 points in five games.
February 22, 2026 8:15 am
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Women are powering Team USA’s medal surge at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, and they are setting records along the way. Through Saturday, the next to last day of these Games, they stand at six gold medals and 17 medals in women’s events. That tops past U.S. Winter Games marks. When mixed events are included, the total climbs to 21 medals. More than 40 American women are leaving Italy with at least one medal. Gold moments include women’s hockey over Canada, wins in Alpine skiing, monobob, figure skating, and freestyle moguls. Athletes say the success keeps feeding the next wave.
February 22, 2026 8:17 am
(AP) – Michigan is the No. 1 overall seed in the preliminary rankings by the committee that will select the 68-team men’s field for the NCAA Tournament. The Wolverines were joined by Duke, Arizona and Iowa State as the 1-seeds in Saturday’s reveal show on CBS. The Cyclones got the last No. 1 seed ahead of UConn and Houston. Saturday’s reveal is a snapshot of where things stand with less than a month left until Selection Sunday. Generally the teams listed above the cutline for a top-four regional seed stay there. Selection Sunday is March 15. The Final Four is in Indianapolis.
February 22, 2026 8:18 am
NEW ALBANY, Ind. (AP) — Rondale Moore, the NFL receiver who had season-ending training camp knee injuries in each of the last two years after a standout college career at Purdue and a promising start with the Arizona Cardinals, was found dead Saturday, authorities said. He was 25. Police said Moore died of a suspected self-inflicted gunshot wound. Moore was found dead in the garage of a property in his hometown of New Albany, police chief Todd Bailey said. The death remains under investigation. Floyd County Coroner Matthew Tomlin also confirmed Moore’s death. He said an autopsy would be conducted Sunday. Moore signed with the Minnesota Vikings in 2025, but he blew out his left knee while returning a punt in their first exhibition game.
February 21, 2026 10:33 am
MILAN (AP) — Canada has not decided whether injured captain Sidney Crosby will play in the gold medal game at the Olympics against the U.S., coach Jon Cooper said. Crosby skated in practice Saturday, and teammate Nick Suzuki said the 38-year-old center looked good on the ice. Hockey Canada closed practice to reporters to maintain a shroud of secrecy around Crosby, who left the quarterfinal game Wednesday night against Czechia with an apparent right knee injury and did not play against Finland on Friday night in the semifinals. Cooper said Crosby will only play if he can have an impact on the game.
February 21, 2026 4:36 am
LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — American freeskier Alex Ferreira won the men’s halfpipe final at the Milan Cortina Winter Games to complete his collection of Olympic medals. The 31-year-old Ferreira won with a third and final run worth 93.75 points, adding the gold medal to his silver in 2018 and bronze in 2022. Estonia’s 19-year-old Henry Sildaru took the silver in his first Olympics. His third run was just 0.75 points off Ferreira’s mark. Brendan Mackay of Canada took the bronze.
February 21, 2026 4:38 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Floyd Mayweather says he is ending his nine-year retirement and returning to competitive boxing this summer. He turns 49 on Tuesday. Mayweather hasn’t fought in a real boxing match since 2017, when he beat Conor McGregor and retired for the third time. The former five-division world champion has still been in the ring regularly throughout his 40s with a series of lucrative exhibition bouts. Mayweather already has announced yet another exhibition coming up this spring against 59-year-old Mike Tyson, although no location or television partner has been confirmed.
February 20, 2026 6:07 pm
MILAN (AP) — The much-anticipated but never guaranteed U.S.-Canada showdown for gold in men’s hockey at the Olympics is on. Jack Hughes scored two goals, including one with a highlight-reel individual effort, and the Americans rolled into the final by routing Slovakia 6-2 in the semifinals on Friday night. They’ll meet tournament favorite and top-seeded Canada on Sunday for the title, a year since the North American rivals played two memorable games against each other at the 4 Nations Face-Off.
