PITTSBURGH — A brief hospital visit won’t keep Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver DK Metcalf from playing next week against Miami. Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said Metcalf was hit in the abdomen at some point during Pittsburgh’s 27-22 victory in Baltimore on Sunday and remained behind ...

COLUMBUS — Keaton Wagler scored 23 points and No. 13 Illinois opened its Big Ten schedule with an 88-80 victory over Ohio State on Tuesday night. David Mirkovic had 22 points, including 11 in the first eight minutes, and eight rebounds. Andrej Stojakovic scored 17 for the Fighting Illini ...

PITTSBURGH — Beckett Sennecke scored a short-handed goal with 1 second remaining to force overtime, Leo Carlsson scored in the shootout and the Anaheim Ducks beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-3 on Tuesday night for their fifth win in seven games. The 19-year-old Sennecke eluded three defenders ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — Eric Robinson ended a 10-game stretch without a goal by breaking a third-period tie and the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Buffalo Sabres 4-1 on Tuesday night. Seth Jarvis, Jordan Staal and Jordan Martinook had Carolina’s other goals and Andrei Svechnikov supplied two ...

YOUNGSTOWN — More than a week has passed since Youngstown State’s improbable second-half meltdown against Yale in the first round of the FCS playoffs. While the eight remaining teams in the playoffs are preparing for the quarterfinals this upcoming weekend, the Penguins have entered the ...

BERLIN CENTER — Both sets of Blue Devils seemed content to play at a blistering pace in the first quarter of Monday’s Western Reserve-McDonald league game. But come the second quarter, it became clear that only Reserve could finish what it started. After an opening period in which the ...