June 6, 2025 4:25 am
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — NiJaree Canady scattered six hits and pitched her way out of a seventh-inning jam, and Texas Tech forced a decisive third game in the Women’s College World Series with a 4-3 victory over Texas in Game 2 on Thursday night. The Game 3 showdown on Friday matches teams looking for their first national title. Canady, who allowed a go-ahead, two-run single for Texas while trying to walk a member of the Longhorns in the sixth inning of an eventual 2-1 loss in the series opener on Wednesday, again went the distance for the Red Raiders. She has pitched every inning in the super regionals and World Series and carried a 4-1 lead to the seventh.
June 5, 2025 4:13 pm
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Aaron Rodgers is back for a 21st season. A person with knowledge of the decision tells The Associated Press that the four-time NFL MVP plans to sign with the Pittsburgh Steelers. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity Thursday because Rodgers has yet to sign a contract. The decision ends months of ‘will he or won’t he’ for Rodgers, who even visited the team’s facility in March but took his time before deciding to join Mike Tomlin in Pittsburgh. Rodgers is coming off a season in which he threw 28 touchdowns against 11 interceptions for the Jets, who limped to a 5-12 finish.
June 5, 2025 4:35 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh’s Mike Burrows held Houston in check into the sixth inning to pick up the first victory of his career as a starter as the Pirates topped the Astros 3-0. Burrows, whose rise through the Pirates system was slowed by Tommy John surgery in 2023, allowed five hits and struck out six in 5 1/3 innings. The 25-year-old right-hander took a significant step forward after giving up eight runs in 8 1/3 innings across his first two starts. David Bednar worked the ninth for his seventh save. Starter Ryan Gusto took the loss for Houston.
June 5, 2025 1:16 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Dan Muse is the new head coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins. The Penguins have hired the former New York Rangers assistant and tasked him with helping the franchise navigate a rebuild during the twilight of longtime captain Sidney Crosby’s career. Muse replaces Mike Sullivan. Sullivan and the Penguins split in April after a near decade-long tenure that included a pair of Stanley Cup titles. The Rangers quickly scooped up Sullivan, naming him head coach in early May. The 42-year-old Muse was hired after a month-long search by Penguins general manager and director of hockey operations Kyle Dubas. Muse’s hiring leaves the Boston Bruins as the last of eight offseason head coaching vacancies.
June 5, 2025 4:33 am
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Reese Atwood hit a go-ahead, two-run single for Texas in the sixth inning, when Texas Tech ace NiJaree Canady was trying to walk her intentionally and the Longhorns beat the Red Raiders 2-1 in Game 1 of the Women’s College World Series finals on Wednesday night. Teagan Kavan pitched a three-hitter for Texas (54-11), which can secure its first national title with a victory in Game 2 on Thursday night. Texas Tech (53-12) would have to win two straight to claim its first championship in its first WCWS appearance. Canady allowed four hits and struck out seven, but she has lost four of five career starts against Texas, with two of those defeats for the Red Raiders this season and two for her previous school, Stanford. You can hear game two tonight on WJPA 1450AM beginning at 7:45 p.m.
June 4, 2025 4:26 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Lance McCullers Jr. pitched six sparkling innings for his first win since 2022, and Christian Walker and Isaac Paredes hit late home runs as the Houston Astros beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-0. McCullers won a tight duel with Pirates ace Paul Skenes, allowing just two hits and one walk while striking out seven. It was his first win since Sept. 21, 2022, at Tampa Bay. The right-hander missed the past two seasons because of injuries, then was winless in his first five starts this year after being activated from the injured list on May 4. Skenes was nearly as dazzling in defeat, giving up one run and three hits in eight innings. He struck out eight and walked one.
June 4, 2025 4:23 am
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Nick Gonzales was back in the Pittsburgh Pirates starting lineup on Tuesday night for the first time since breaking his left ankle while hitting a home run on opening day in Miami on March 27. The second baseman was activated from the 60-day injured list before Tuesday’s series opener of a three-game series with the visiting Houston Astros. Gonzales had been sidelined with a non-displaced fracture. The 26-year-old Gonzales played nine rehab games with Triple-A Indianapolis and hit .194. In other roster moves, right-handed reliever Kyle Nicolas was recalled from Triple-A, and infielder/outfielder Nick Solak was designated for assignment.
June 4, 2025 4:28 am
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — The Florida Panthers and Edmonton Oilers seemed to have been on a collision course to meet again in the Stanley Cup Final. A year since Florida won in seven games to capture the first title in franchise history, there’s an aura of inevitability around the rematch. The question is whether the conclusion of this one will be the Panthers becoming back-to-back NHL champions or Oilers captain Connor McDavid finally hoisting the Cup. Game 1 is Wednesday night at Edmonton.
June 2, 2025 1:00 am
The PIAA softball & baseball championship tournaments opened Monday across the Commonwealth, including six Washington & Greene County teams. Chartiers-Houston softball was the ony winner, and needed a seventh-inning grand slam from Ella Richey to advance. The Bucs trailed host Cranberry, 2-0, into the final inning before Richey’s blast saved the day for the WPIAL runner-up. The Bucs return to the state quarterfinals Thursday against District 10 champion Seneca.
Bentworth errors opened the door repeatedly for District 6 champion West Shamokin, the Wolves claiming their first-ever PIAA tournament win with 7 unearned runs. Carmichaels and West Greene softball teams were shutout. The Mikes’ baseball team was eliminated by run-rule at Homer-Center while Peters Township baseball fell in a one-run loss at Lampeter-Strasburg. SItes/times for Thursday’s action are expected to be released Tuesday morning. PIAA Softball Brackets PIAA Baseball Brackets
WJPA Sports Network will have coverage of the Bentworth/West Shamokin game Monday afternoon, starting at 3:45 pm. Our broadcast will be audio only on WJPA-AM (1450) and online Listen Here
Monday, June 2
PIAA First Round
Softball
2A West Shamokin > Bentworth, 11-5
2A Chartiers-Houston > Cranberry, 5-2
1A Berlin-Brothersvalley > Carmichaels, 3-0
1A Cambridge Springs > West Greene, 9-0
Baseball
5A Lampeter-Strasburg > Peters Township, 2-1
1A Homer Center > Carmichaels, 10-0 (5 inn.)
Thursday, June 5
PIAA Quarterfinals
Softball
2A Chartiers-Houston vs. District 10 champion Seneca, site/time to be announced, WJPA-AM (1450) Watch/Listen Here
June 3, 2025 4:25 am
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Cameron Young is among 47 players who earned a spot in the U.S. Open on a long day of qualifiers from coast to coast. Young birdied three of his last four holes to get into a five-man playoff for one spot in Ohio. He birdied the first hole to bump out Rickie Fowler and Max Homa. Homa split with his caddie and wound up going 38 holes carrying his own bag. The qualifier from Atlanta include 17-year-old high school junior Mason Howell, who went 36 holes without a bogey. Matt Vogt, who is a dentist, led the two qualifiers in Washington state.
