February 20, 2022 1:42 am
Parker Sentipal, his brother Joey and Joseph Baronick won WPIAL AA individual wrestling championships Saturday afternoon. Bentworth’s Chris Vargo picked up his second title. Eight other Washington/Greene County wrestlers, including a trio from Beth-Center, were forced to settle for silver medals. All told, 33 wrestlers from the two-county area qualified for the PIAA Southwest AA Regional Mar. 4-5 at Peters Township, the final step on the road to Hershey. Burgettstown, the WPIAL AA third-place team, claimed nearly a third of those spots, sending 10 to the regional. Beth-Center qualified eight, Fort Cherry and McGuffey three each. Bentworth, Wash High, Jeff-Morgan and West Greene have two regional qualifiers and Chartiers-Houston has one.
February 20, 2022 7:45 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Brian Flores is back in the NFL. The Pittsburgh Steelers hired the former Miami Dolphins coach on Saturday to serve as a senior defensive assistant. Flores will specialize in working with Pittsburgh’s linebackers, a group that includes NFL Defensive Player of the Year T.J. Watt. The hiring comes less than three weeks after Flores, who is Black, sued the NFL and three teams over alleged racist hiring practices following his dismissal by Miami. Flores led the Dolphins to consecutive winning seasons before he was fired in January. Though he has returned to coaching in the league, Flores will not abandon the lawsuit. Flores joins a restructured defensive staff in Pittsburgh after longtime coordinator Keith Butler retired. Teryl Austin was promoted to take Butler’s place earlier this month.
February 20, 2022 7:47 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Michael Devoe scored 22 points, Rodney Howard scored 14 and Georgia Tech beat Pittsburgh 68-62 on Saturday night to end its three-game losing streak. Devoe made a pair of foul shots for a 28-26 lead with 3:47 left before halftime and the Yellow Jackets led the rest of the way. Later, Devoe hit a jumper with 5:43 remaining for a 63-45 lead. The Panthers applied a full-court press which helped them turn over the Yellow Jackets and a 14-0 run brought them within 63-59 in a 3:30 stretch. But Devoe buried a 3-pointer with 2:06 remaining, Kyle Sturdivant added another and the Yellow Jackets sealed it making 4 of 5 foul shots in the final 24 seconds to end Pitt’s three-game win streak. Jordan Usher added 10 points for Georgia Tech, which also ended its three-game road losing streak. Mouhamadou Gueye scored 27 points on 10-for-15 shooting and grabbed 12 rebounds for the Panthers, John Hugley scored 18 points — shooting 7 for 10 — and grabbed 11 rebounds and Ithiel Horton scored 10.
February 18, 2022 10:00 pm
The four-week individual wrestling championship series began Friday for WPIAL AA wrestlers. The League scrapped 2A Section tournaments, returning to a full, all-eligible WPIAL AA championship gathering at Canon-McMillan. We’ll have start to finish coverage all weekend on WJPA-AM (1450) or Listen Here
Saturday
9:50 am Semifinals, 2nd-3rd-4th Consolations
3:50 pm Championship & Consolation Finals (3rd, 5th, 7th place)
The WPIAL Basketball playoffs got underway Friday night including two of the 12 Washington County teams in the tournaments. Click for WPIAL brackets.
Peters Township girls got 18 points from Journey Thompson on the way to a 57-42 win over Butler, moving the Indians to Wednesday’s quarterfinals at #1 Mt. Lebanon. Charleroi’s girls were eliminated with a 61-38 loss at Laurel.
February 19, 2022 4:04 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Carolina Panthers assistant general manager Dan Morgan is among a handful of candidates who have interviewed with the Pittsburgh Steelers to replace outgoing general manager Kevin Colbert. The Steelers announced Morgan, Green Bay co-director of player personnel John Wojciechowski, Indianapolis Colts director of college scouting Morocco Brown and Tampa Bay vice president of player personnel John Spytek all sat down with the team at some point over the last two weeks. Colbert will step down following the NFL draft after more than two decades with the club.
February 19, 2022 4:05 am
(AP) – The College Football Playoff is set to stick with a four-team format through the 2025 season. The administrators who manage the postseason failed to agree on a plan to expand before the current contracts run out. The CFP management committee met by video conference earlier this week. Executive Director Bill Hancock says the committee decided to abandon efforts to implement a new 12-team format for the 2024 season. They instead recommended staying with the current model to the presidents who oversee the playoff. The Board of Managers accepted the recommendation and directed the commissioners to continue discussions on a new format to go into effect for the 2026 season.
February 19, 2022 4:07 am
NEW YORK (AP) – The NFL has hired former Securities and Exchange Commission chair Mary Jo White to investigate Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder. The basis for the inquiry is an allegation that Snyder sexually harassed a team employee more than a decade ago. The NFL says White will release her findings to the public, unlike the league’s decision to keep results of a previous investigation into the team under wraps. A league spokesman says Commissioner Roger Goodell will determine after the probe “any appropriate action” against Snyder, who last year was fined $10 million after a previous investigation into widespread sexual harassment and mistreatment of women by high-ranking team employees. Snyder also temporarily ceded day-to-day operations of the franchise to his wife, Tanya.
February 18, 2022 3:52 am
TORONTO (AP) – Morgan Rielly and Auston Matthews each had a goal and an assist, and Jack Campbell made 45 saves to lead the Toronto Maple Leafs to a 4-1 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday night. David Kampf and Michael Bunting also scored for Toronto, which was outshot 46-29 but won its second straight. Evgeni Malkin scored for Pittsburgh. Tristan Jarry had 25 saves.
February 18, 2022 3:54 am
UNDATED (AP) – NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and a few team owners and executives met with civil rights leaders who urged the league to make drastic changes to its hiring practices to improve diversity in leadership positions. Goodell was joined on the video call by Pittsburgh Steelers president Art Rooney II, Atlanta Falcons owner and chairman Arthur Blank, Arizona Cardinals owner Michael Bidwell, Baltimore Ravens executive vice president Ozzie Newsome, Houston Texans limited partner Javier Loya and other top NFL executives. National Urban League president and CEO Marc H. Morial told the group the NFL’s focus on racial equity and social justice recently hasn’t yet resulted in improved hiring procedures for the league’s head coaches.
February 17, 2022 3:47 am
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) – Ithiel Horton scored 19 points, making all five of his 3-point tries, and Pittsburgh rode a huge first half to beat North Carolina 76-67. John Hugley scored 18 points, Jamarius Burton added 14 points and seven rebounds, Mouhamadou Gueye had 11 points and Femi Odukale 10 for the Panthers, who won their third straight conference game for the first time since 2014. Caleb Love scored 15 of his 19 points in the final 5:11 for the Tar Heels. Brady Manek added 12 points and 10 rebounds and Kerwin Walton and Leaky Black had 11 points each. Leading scorer and rebounder Armando Bacot picked his fourth foul with eight minutes to go and remained on the bench finishing with seven points and eight rebounds.
