HUBBARD — For Hubbard, Monday’s season opener featured a quick start and an immediate slowdown until a perfect flurry to finish off a 6-0 win. But for the visiting Ursuline, playing in its second game in three days, allowing five goals in the final 16 minutes lopsided defeat was ...
Ohio State and Oregon were 1-2 in The Associated Press Top 25 released Monday, giving the Big Ten Conference the top two teams in the preseason rankings for the first time in 65 years and just the second time ever. The Buckeyes received 40 first-place votes and Oregon received 14 in voting ...
CLEVELAND — Deshaun Watson made the most of his opportunity this past week to show he should be the Cleveland Browns’ starting quarterback when the season opens on Sept. 13 in Jacksonville. The upcoming week will be Shedeur Sanders’ turn. “I did feel going into last game that it ...
LATROBE, Pa. — Mike McCarthy arrived at Saint Vincent College for his first training camp as coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers with a detailed plan designed to maximize the club’s annual three-week trip to the western Pennsylvania hills. Mother Nature wreaked havoc with it, so much so that McCarthy opted to break camp a day early so the Steelers could get into a familiar routine back at the team’s headquarters ahead of a visit from the New York Jets on Friday night. While McCarthy allowed that he was a mixture of disappointed and annoyed, he dismissed the idea that making the ...
NILES — Playing on the road is a losing proposition for teams in the MLB Draft League. Entering Monday, all six of the Draft League teams owned a sub-.500 record on the road. Even Williamsport, with its dazzling 39-21 overall record, was just 12-13 away from home. The Mahoning Valley Scrappers have had an especially tough summer away from 717 Credit Union Field. They own a dismal 5-26 road record. Over the weekend they were swept at Williamsport. At home, the Scrappers have had better fortunes, including a 5-4 walk-off win on Monday over West Virginia. The Victory lifts the ...
PITTSBURGH — Kevin McGonigle hit a two-run homer, and the Detroit Tigers held off the Pittsburgh Pirates 8-5 on Monday night and moved into a three-way tie for the final AL wild-card spot. Brett Callahan and Hao-Yu Lee also drove in two runs as the Tigers built an 8-1 lead before Pittsburgh scored four times in the sixth. Zach McKinstry and both hit RBI singles in the first, and McGonigle’s two-run shot in the second, his 13th of the season, made it 4-0. McGonigle singled and advanced to second on a wild pitch in the sixth. Pirates reliever Yohan Ramirez walked the next three ...
