STATE COLLEGE – Penn State athletic director Sandy Barbour said Wednesday that season ticket holders could be the only fans in Beaver Stadium for Penn State football games this fall.
For Penn State linebacker Jesse Luketa, returning to State College this month for voluntary workouts during a worldwide pandemic wasn’t a simple as just getting into his vehicle and driving.
With some extra time on his hands due to the coronavirus pandemic, Bucknell women’s basketball coach Trevor Woodruff decided to delve into the program’s history.
Nick Dunn spent the last four months training as though he was on call, prepared to hop a plane and play baseball at the word "go."
MANDATA — The Line Mountain School District released its guidelines to reopen sports and extra-curricular activities for the 2020-21 school year during the COVID-19 pandemic.
After 26 years of teaching and coaching in the Lewisburg School District, Joe Faust said he thought becoming athletic director following the retirement of Mark Temple was a “good fit.”
Over the last few days, members of Penn State’s football staff have taken to Twitter to encourage fans to wear a mask in the hopes of ensuring a somewhat normal football season.
When the coronavirus pandemic ended the high school basketball season in March, neither Gary Grozier nor Justin Beiter expected to be head coaches in the Danville School District.
SELINSGROVE — Danny Dietrich won the Jan Opperman/Dick Bogar Memorial at Selinsgrove Speedway on Sunday night, which was part of Pennsylvania Speedweek.
PHOENIX (AP) — A small group of players, including Nationals slugger Ryan Zimmerman and Rockies outfielder Ian Desmond, have announced they plan to sit out this season. The Minnesota Twins have shuffled their on-field staff to protect the health of some of their older coaches.
BOSTON (AP) — The New England Patriots have reached an agreement with free-agent quarterback Cam Newton, bringing in the 2015 NFL Most Valuable Player to help the team move on from three-time MVP Tom Brady, a person with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press.
LONG POND, Pa. (AP) — Round 2 at Pocono went to Denny Hamlin. Hamlin seized the spotlight, specifically in victory lane when Pocono had to set up lights after the race ended in the dark.
LONG POND, Pa. (AP) — Chase Briscoe held off Ross Chastain in overtime to win the crash-filled Xfinity Series at Pocono Raceway, the second of three NASCAR races at the track on Sunday.
CROMWELL, Conn. (AP) — Dustin Johnson won the Travelers Championship on Sunday to end a long drought and extend his career-long season victory streak to 13.
Former Washington Redskins assistant coach Joe Bugel, regarded as one of the top offensive line coaches in NFL history, has died. He was 80.
PINE HALL, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina racetrack has lost some partnerships after its owner advertised “Bubba Rope” for sale online days after NASCAR said a noose had been found in the garage stall of Bubba Wallace, the top series’ only Black driver.
Virginia Tech’s loss turned into Penn State’s special teams’ gain last season when kicker Jordan Stout announced his transfer to Happy Valley last June.
The Indian Golf Club celebrates its 50th anniversary today, as it opened on June 27, 1970, as a nine-hole course. Riden and his father began building the nine holes in 1966 when he was just 14, and the par-35, 2,500-yard course opened four years later.
The battle to control chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Pennsylvania is expanding into new areas, including most of Snyder County.
Madison VanKirk wasn't sure what to expect when she showed up for preseason women's soccer practice last year at Cedar Crest College.
A basketball player with Greater Johnstown School District may be one of two new Cambria County COVID-19 cases in Thursday’s report from the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
The NFL on Thursday canceled the Hall of Fame game that traditionally opens the preseason and is delaying the 2020 induction ceremonies for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Declaring “the noose was real,” NASCAR officials on Thursday released a photo of the rope found in the speedway garage stall of Black driver Bubba Wallace that prompted a federal investigation into whether he had been the target of a hate crime.
Phillie Phanatic, phenomenal. Mr. Met and Mariner Moose, marvelous. Wally the Green Monster, welcome back.
STATE COLLEGE — Although Penn State coach James Franklin will be surrounded by his Nittany Lions football family this fall, he’ll be apart from the three family members who are closest to him.
STATE COLLEGE — When Penn State announced it would allow 75 football student-athletes to return to Happy Valley earlier this month for voluntary workouts, junior kicker Jake Pinegar seized the opportunity.
Danville didn’t waste any time Wednesday night in hiring its new basketball coaches.
NEW YORK (AP) — So, where were we?
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City Marathon was canceled Wednesday because of the coronavirus pandemic, with organizers and city officials deciding that holding the race on Nov. 1 would be too risky.
Brooks Koepka and Webb Simpson were among five players who withdrew from the Travelers Championship, four of them out of a chain-reaction abundance of caution over the coronavirus that put the PGA Tour on notice.
NASCAR went to Talladega Superspeedway on heightened alert after Bubba Wallace, its only Black driver, took on an active role in a push for racial equality.
Football was the driving force in discussions to begin voluntary workouts for high school fall sports during the COVID-19 pandemic.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia Phillies say two more players and two additional staff numbers have tested positive for COVID-19, spiking the number of total members in the organization who have the virus to 12.
Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin says two unidentified players have tested positive for COVID-19 and recovered.
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Top-ranked tennis player Novak Djokovic announced Tuesday he and his wife have COVID-19 after he played in a series of exhibition matches he organized in Serbia and Croatia with zero social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Former Oklahoma Heisman Trophy winner Baker Mayfield added his name to the list of letters demanding justice for Julius Jones.
Patriot League teams will face restrictions during the fall sports season, including limited travel and a condensed season, according to guidelines released by the league Monday.
DANVILLE — While it has taken nearly three months for the professionals to figure out how to get back to baseball, at least one group of Valley players got that chance on Monday night.
NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball plans to unilaterally issue a 60-game schedule for its shortest season since 1878 after the players' association rejected a negotiated deal of the same length, putting the sport on track for a combative return to the field amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Bubba Wallace steered the No. 43 to the front of pit road, NASCAR champion Kyle Busch pushing the famous car on one side and close friend Ryan Blaney pushing on the other.
Two Rutgers football players have tested positive for the coronavirus.
Susquehanna men’s lacrosse coach Stewart Moan knew he needed another player to take faceoffs when preseason practice started three years ago.
There was high school swimming in District 4 prior to 1995, of course, but it didn’t command near the statewide respect it currently enjoys until Stef Williams arrived.
As I gathered my notepad and cell phone from the car outside of a rustic home along East Valley Road east of Loganton, it felt as though I was about to walk into a scene from a John Grisham book.
HERMITAGE — Mike Kavulla’s bike shop is filled with bicycles.
HOMESTEAD — The Greater Allegheny Passage-C&O Towpath bicycle trail is among the more ambitious regional rides, running from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C.
NEW YORK (AP) — Tiz the Law has won an unprecedented Belmont Stakes, claiming victory Saturday at the first race of a rejiggered Triple Crown schedule and crossing the finish line in front of eerily empty grandstands.
Susquehanna University cheerleading coach Collette Bender wasn’t sure what to expect.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The nation’s largest movie theater chain changed its position on mask-wearing less than a day after the company became a target on social media for saying it would defer to local governments on the issue.
Emboldened by the athletes it serves, the NCAA is taking another stand on a social issue.
