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An overflow crowd at Highmark Stadium on a picture-perfect Friday night came to witness the debut of the Pittsburgh Riveters pre-professional women’s soccer club. A standing-room-only crowd of 6,077 witnessed the Riveters play the Cleveland Force to a scoreless draw in a USL W League game. It was the fourth-largest...

Jose Caraballo insists Colleen Davis was on the verge of springing a big upset on May 9 at the Caribe Royale Orlando. But Davis, a Shaler Area graduate, didn’t get to see if she could hand Elise Soto her first professional loss. A clash of heads in the second round...

The Pittsburgh Riveters put the finishing touches on their first roster a day before the pre-professional women’s soccer team kicks off its inaugural season. Riveters SC continued to build with local players from the Riverhounds Development Academy, adding Aris Lamanna (Franklin Regional), Mackenzie Dupre (Upper St. Clair) and Aleena Ulke...

The Colorado Rockies’ firing of longtime manager Bud Black means a former WPIAL product will try to get the club back on track. Warren Schaeffer, a native of Vandergrift and a Greensburg Central Catholic alum, was named interim manager Sunday. He had been the third base coach since 2023. Schaeffer,...

Nico Megaludis has decided to hang up his singlet. The three-time PIAA Class 3A champion at Franklin Regional finished with a 170-1 career record in high school before becoming a NCAA champion, two-time runner-up and third-place finisher at Penn State. He recently announced on Instagram that he was going to...

Russell Fenton felt the void when his time playing high school basketball at Fox Chapel ended. When he moved on to the Georgia Institute of Technology, playing on the club basketball team didn’t fully satisfy what he was looking for. Fenton, despite never running track or cross country, chose to...

Jim Manion has been promoting bodybuilding competitions in the Pittsburgh area for more than 50 years. But in his time as the president of the National Physique Committee and the International Federation of Body Builders Professional League, he’s never put on an event quite as big as the Pittsburgh Power...

Jane Bareikis had a title defense on her mind as she took to the streets of Downtown Pittsburgh and its surrounding neighborhoods Sunday morning as part of the Pittsburgh Marathon’s series of races. The Chicago resident and American citizen who is a native of Kenya made her Dick’s Sporting Goods...

The Pittsburgh Passion women’s football team enjoyed an undefeated 2024 regular season and was victorious in its Women’s Football Alliance first-round playoff game against Tampa Bay. The victory over the Inferno propelled the Passion to the National Conference Championship game against the Boston Renegades. Unfortunately for Pittsburgh, it wasn’t able...

Pittsburgh will be off and running this weekend with the annual marathon and events. Since it was first held in 1985, the event now includes a marathon, half-marathon, marathon relay and 5K races that run through the heart of the city, across many of the city’s iconic bridges, and through...

Will Loevner returned to long-distance running two years ago after five years of success in mountain bike racing. The 2016 Winchester Thurston graduate who ran two years at Penn State won the Cleveland Marathon in 2023 and qualified for the Olympic marathon trials at the Philadelphia Marathon later that year....

When one chooses to become a professional fighter, sacrifices have to be made. Whether it’s time, the rigid diet or the ultimate toll that it takes on the body, fighters go through a lot to achieve their goals and become a top performer. Justin “The General” Patton has made those...

Frank Caliguri has a lot on his mind with the Pittsburgh Karate Championships just a day away. While there is so much to get done before Saturday’s annual event at the Quality Inn in New Kensington, he knows the preparations are in good hands. “Everything is on track,” Caliguri said...

Utah Hockey Club forward Logan Cooley, a native of West Mifflin, has been selected for the United States Men’s National Team for the upcoming International Ice Hockey Federation’s (IIHF) World Championship tournament. USA Hockey announced the first 18 members of the roster on Thursday via a release. In his second...

With the arrival of spring, folks will start making their way to Sarver, much like they have over the past 58 years, as the season kicks into high gear at Lernerville Speedway. With a schedule that runs into October, expect plenty of rubbing and racing along the way. The first...

He was not invited to the NFL Scouting Combine in February, but all that did was give him more mental leverage, more fuel to prove the doubters wrong. Jeannette’s Marcus Barnes could have a life-changing week, have his dreams come true, but he won’t hide the giant chip on his...

Pitcher Patrick Monteverde is on his way to the big leagues. The 27-year-old left-hander out of Fox Chapel received a call-up Saturday to the Miami Marlins. He had been with the Triple-A Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp of the International League. Monteverde, who played at Seton Hill and is the first Griffins...

Showboat’s got next. Jeannette is honoring a proud alum by naming the longtime basketball court at the West Jeannette playground after him. Lamont “Showboat” Robinson Court will be dedicated in August to honor a former Jayhawks player who made a name for himself on the comedy hoops circuit with the...

Five years ago, amidst the covid-19 pandemic, James Threatte of New Kensington noticed an issue impacting local children. “There were no youth sports programs in the summer for the kids around the New Ken area,” Threatte said. “I knew that needed to change.” A year later, he established the Skillz...

Boxing trainer Tom Yankello and two former Pittsburgh Steelers are among 11 individuals who’ll be honored this month by the Western Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame. Yankello, who first started training fighters at the Beaver County Boxing Club in 1991, was chosen as the “Inductee of Distinction”...

Sarah Liberatore is proof Division II college basketball can be the right fit. It can even open doors to the next level, just like Division I can. Liberatore, a Hempfield graduate who recently finished her college playing career at NCAA Division II Florida Tech, signed with an agency and is...

High school baseball in the All-Kiski Valley is in its fourth week, while college teams have been knocking it out of the park for nearly two months. The Pirates, despite their inauspicious start, are giving baseball fans something to talk about in the early season. While those games are in...

Pennsylvania’s largest youth football league got a little smaller this week, as five Westmoreland County teams opted to leave and form a league of their own in the wake of a police investigation. The Western Pennsylvania Youth Football League, in which the Westmoreland teams had been playing, is under scrutiny...

The Washington Wild Things’ baseball stadium has a new name: EQT Park. On Tuesday, Sports Facility, LLC, which owns the club, announced a three-year naming rights partnership with natural gas firm EQT Corporation. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. The former Wild Things Park, home to the ball...

At the U.S. Figure Skating Eastern Championships in Hershey on Jan. 24, the Steel City Blades Open Juvenile (Blue) synchronized skating team was chosen to go first among the 23 competing teams. As nervous as the team felt just being in the championships, the thought of having to perform their...