The unbeaten Bucknell women's basketball team won't play again this weekend after a Tier 1 positive COVID-19 test within the program.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a career filled with remarkable comebacks, Tiger Woods faces perhaps his toughest recovery of all.
Pitt has lost another basketball player after it was announced Wednesday starting point guard Xavier Johnson is leaving the program and will enter the transfer portal immediately.
STATE COLLEGE — When Ty Howle left Penn State upon graduation in 2012, the North Carolina transplant resolved to return to the program he credited with giving him so much.
Penn State snapped its four-game losing streak with an 86-83 road win at Nebraska on Tuesday.
MILLVILLE — Isaiah Valentine scored 20 of his game-high 32 points in the first half as Mifflinburg dominated the opening half on the way to a 70-37 win over Millville in nonconference boys basketball Tuesday night.
SUNBURY — Shikellamy raced out to double-digit lead in the first quarter, and won Tuesday night's Heartland Athletic Conference-Division I contest with Lewisburg, 68-54, at Phil Lockcuff Gymnasium.
NORTHUMBERLAND — Ten Northumberland Christian players scored — led by 11 points from Rebekah Hayner — as the Warriors rolled to a 62-24 win over Belleville Mennonite in Allegheny Christian Athletic Association-Eastern Division action on Tuesday night.
MOUNT CARMEL — Bloomsburg sophomore Madeline Evans will likely inherit the label of best post player in her division — if not the entire Heartland Athletic Conference — when Mount Carmel senior Dani Rae Renno finishes her high school career.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tiger Woods crashed his SUV on sweeping, downhill road in the Los Angels suburbs Tuesday morning, and doctors tried to stabilize “significant” injuries to his right leg with rods and a combination of screws and pins.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — All-Star center Joel Embiid didn't get his hands on the ball much in the first half Tuesday night, but his Philadelphia teammates made the Toronto Raptors pay in the 76ers' 109-102 victory.
Penn State’s (7-12, 4-11 Big Ten) losing streak extended to four games on Sunday as No. 11 Iowa (17-6, 11-5 Big Ten) earned a 74-68 home win against the Nittany Lions at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
To steal a line from Yogi Berra, it’s getting late early.
Valley wrestlers who made it into the Class 3A Northwest Regional in the past found making it to Hershey for the state tournament a daunting task.
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No. 3 Penn State returned to Rec Hall for the first time in nearly a year on Monday’s Senior Day for its regular-season finale against Maryland.
WILLIAMSPORT — While he and his Southern Columbia teammates were en route to running the table on regional qualifiers in Saturday’s District 4 Class 2A tournament, junior 172-pounder Gavin Garcia said he saw no reason to get in the faces of any of the Tigers after they lost.
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Pascal Siakam and Fred VanVleet each had 23 points and the Toronto Raptors beat the Philadelphia 76ers 110-103 for their fourth straight victory Sunday night.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The chase to become Iowa’s all-time leading scorer got to Luka Garza only once during Sunday’s game against Penn State.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Give him good cars and Christopher Bell will win races. But in his second race? With a new team? That seemed unlikely.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Maybe, just maybe, the thinking went, Novak Djokovic would be just a tad more susceptible to trouble this time around at the Australian Open.
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MILTON — Ethan Hartman scored a game-high 23 points, and Mason Sheesley hit five 3-pointers to help Warrior Run to a 49-43 Heartland Athletic Conference Division-II boys basketball win over Milton on Saturday.
As I stow away the decoys at the end of the season, it dawns on me that there is a feeling of loss when a season closes.
Thursday’s loss to Ohio State likely evaporated any chance of Penn State making its first NCAA men’s basketball tournament since the 2011 season.
WILLIAMSPORT — Emmanuel Ulrich loves long matches. He got his wish and then some in Saturday’s District 4 Class 2A championship tournament.
Conservationist Bobby Hughes, executive director for the Eastern Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation (EPCAMR) and executive vice president for Pennsylvania Trout Unlimited, doesn’t consider himself much of an angler.
CLEARFIELD — Six Selinsgrove wrestlers earned top-two finishes Saturday at the District 4/9 Class 3A tournament to qualify for next week’s regional tournament.
Midd-West senior Avery Bassett said every time he steps onto the wrestling mat he knows it’s about more than whether he wins.
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STATE COLLEGE – Thursday marked Myreon Jones’ 16th double-digit scoring game this season. The junior posted a team-high 18 points in a losing effort against No. 4 Ohio State during the late-week matchup.
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CATAWISSA — Ava Novak warmly recalled her freshman self Friday, a girl with obvious scoring chops who struggled with consistency.
STATE COLLEGE — Penn State swapped a scheduled Friday meet with No. 1 Iowa for a Sunday showdown No. 2 Michigan late last week after the Hawkeyes paused team activities following positive COVID-19 tests.
Four Selinsgrove wrestlers are seeded No. 1 for the District 4/9 Class 3A tournament, scheduled for Saturday at Clearfield High School.
MIFFLINBURG — If not for a decision made while in kindergarten, Mifflinburg’s Emmanuel Ulrich might be a part of the Wildcats basketball team.
Ashley Kolak gave her team a pass.
STATE COLLEGE – No. 4 Ohio State defeated Penn State, 92-82, on Thursday night at the Bryce Jordan Center to hand the Nittany Lions their third-consecutive loss.
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STATE COLLEGE — Sixteen Penn State student-athletes tested positive for COVID-19 during the athletic department’s testing period of Feb. 7-Feb 13.
STATE COLLEGE — Penn State tight end Zack Kuntz has entered his name into the NCAA transfer portal as a graduate transfer, according to 247Sports’ Sean Fitz.
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DANVILLE — Mount Carmel coach John Lazicki called it "death by 1,000 cuts."
WILLIAMSPORT — A four-time District 4 South Sectional champion with 147 career wins, Avery Bassett has never won a subsequent postseason tournament. Still, he has qualified for the PIAA championships in every season to date.
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