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It’s becoming a holiday tradition, Lamont “Showboat” Robinson landing on the pro basketball hall of fame ballot. The question is, is this the year? Robinson, a Jeannette graduate and well-known personality on the comedy basketball circuit, is a Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame nominee for the fourth straight year....

They lined roads and highways to welcome their championship teams home, the night sky glowing red with the flashing lights of fire trucks. Championship teams in football, wrestling, baseball, softball and other sports brought titles home to Westmoreland County. They lined fairways at Oakmont to watch their local boy chase...

Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC and coach Bob Lilley agreed to a three-year contract extension, the team announced Thursday. Lilley, 55, just completed his fourth season with the Riverhounds and is the club’s all-time leader in wins and games coached with a 66-25-34 record. “Since Bob came to Pittsburgh, he has turned...

A hole-in-one can do wonders for a round of golf. Palmer Jackson would know. The Notre Dame junior and former Franklin Regional standout made an ace on the 153-yard third hole at Miami Beach Golf Club Tuesday in the third round of the South Beach International Amateur. The highlight helped...

If someone told Kris Wright in November of 2019 that he’d be racing full time in NASCAR in three years, he would’ve told them they were crazy. That’s because he had just signed a deal to race in Formula 3 in Europe. Little did Wright or anyone else know in...

Ahmad Matour was surrounded by a bevy of savory food selections on Thanksgiving Day. But the Monroeville resident and one of the region’s top bodybuilders was disciplined and focused. Matour has let nothing stand in the way of his goals in the lightweight division at Saturday’s National Physique Committee National...

Kenardo Forbes, an All-USL second-team selection, will continue his role as the Riverhounds’ longest-tenured player next season after the Hounds announced they have picked up his contract option, and that of eight of his teammates, for the 2022 season. It will the fifth season in the black and yellow for...

The Washington Wild Things announced Wednesday that manager Tom Vaeth has agreed to a four-year extension through the 2025 campaign. In his first season this past summer, Vaeth led the Wild things to their seventh division championship and fourth trip to the Frontier League Championship Series. “I’m very pleased to...

It was quite a turnaround for the Penn-Trafford 11-12 youth football team. After stumbling early in the regular season and falling to Woodland Hills and McKeesport, the team righted the ship and did something unexpected: It won the Big East Youth Football League championship. Penn-Trafford (10-3) defeated McKeesport, 34-6, in...

Go dust off that purple pennant buried in the attic, and ask your dad if you can borrow his old Mike Rozier jersey. The Pittsburgh Maulers are back. The Maulers were one of eight teams announced for the United States Football League’s re-boot scheduled for this coming April. They’ll play...

NASCAR driver Garrett Smithley has been racing since his sophomore year in high school. On Saturday, the Ligonier native and the only NASCAR Cup Series driver from Pennsylvania will be attending the Greater Latrobe Speedway Reunion at St. James Lutheran church in Youngstown. The annual event honors the drivers who...

Saturday’s 48th annual Pennsylvania Karate Championships are going back to where it all began. The Quality Inn in New Kensington, formerly the Clarion Inn, will provide the setting for the event, and co-organizer Master Frank Caliguri from Caliguri’s Academy of Martial Arts in Lower Burrell said this year’s event will...

For two years, the Pittsburgh Riverhounds were able to avoid a covid-19 outbreak within the team, but that changed last week and it forced them to forfeit their first-round playoff game Sunday at Birmingham Legion FC. It was a bitter ending to the season for the Riverhounds, who qualified for...

Former Fox Chapel High School soccer standout Dixon Veltri is taking her game overseas. Veltri signed last week with Maccabi Emek Hefer of Israel and plans to join the professional team in December after she is done with postgraduate studies at Pitt, where she played for the last three seasons....

The Pittsburgh Riverhounds’ season came to end Saturday on the eve of their USL Championship playoff game at Birmingham Legion FC. A cluster of positive covid-19 cases within the team forced the Riverhounds to cancel their trip to Alabama for Sunday’s Eastern Conference quarterfinal game. Birmingham Legion FC is awarded...

UPDATE: This game was canceled because of covid-cases within the Riverhounds organization. When the Pittsburgh Riverhounds step onto PNC Field they’ll see some familiar faces. The Riverhounds open the USL Playoffs at 5 p.m. Sunday against Birmingham, which features three former Hounds players: Neco Brett, Ryan James and Thomas Vancaeyezeele....

The Allegheny Valley Youth Football League has scheduled its annual Super Bowl Saturday for Lernerville Field, located adjacent to Lernerville Speedway in Buffalo Township. The first game of the championship tripleheader will take place at 11 a.m. between the Lower Burrell Recruits (10-0) and Plum (9-1) in the 8-and-under division....

Western Pennsylvania Youth Football League’s Super Bowl Weekend will have a Westmoreland County feel for the Class AA championships Saturday. Three Southmoreland teams, along with squads from Mt. Pleasant and Derry, will compete for titles this weekend at Trinity’s Hiller Field. Southmoreland (8-1) will take on Mt. Pleasant (9-0) for...

The Pittsburgh Riverhounds’ chances of hosting a first-round playoff game were dashed Saturday night in one of the sloppiest matches of the season. A total of 39 fouls and 12 yellow cards were handed out between the Riverhounds and Hartford Athletic in a match that featured little rhythm and ended...

The Pittsburgh Riverhounds took care of business during a restarted match Wednesday night in Miami, holding on for a 1-0 victory to stay alive in the race for second place in the USL Championship’s Atlantic Division. The game began Oct. 16 and originally went to a scoreless draw. The USL...

As word got out that Luke Diel had recorded a hole-in-one on a par 4, his phone started getting flooded with messages, and some advised him to play the lottery. Considering Diel accomplished a feat that has six million-to-one odds, maybe a scratch-off ticket or two might have been worth...

The Western Pennsylvania Youth Football League held its quarterfinal games this past weekend, and 36 teams in the three classifications punched their tickets to the final four. The semifinals will be this Saturday and Sunday with the Super Bowl games Nov. 6-7, at Trinity High School. Western Pennsylvania Youth Football...

The Pittsburgh Riverhounds received the news they hoped for Friday when the USL announced there will be a restart of the game at Miami FC in the 67th minute due to an officiating error that cost them a goal. For that match to matter in the race for a home...

Hampton graduate Elaina Balouris Tabb competed in the 2021 U.S. Olympic Team Trials and represented her country on five continents as a professional distance runner. But nothing compared to a Monday morning in Boston earlier this month. Balouris Tabb, running in her first marathon, finished second among all U.S. females...