PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bryce Harper turned 33 on Thursday, and the celebration for the new father of four just might not stretch very far inside the Philadelphia Phillies' front office. After a season in which Harper's .844 OPS was his lowest since 2016 and his .261 average was his worst since ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers paid outside linebacker Alex Highsmith in 2023 to be one of the best players at his position in the league. They did the same on the eve of the following season when they signed tight end Pat Freiermuth t o a lucrative contract extension. Yet here ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Sean Couturier's second goal of the game with 4:10 remaining snapped a tie and sent the Philadelphia Flyers to a 5-2 win over the Florida Panthers on Monday night in Rick Tocchet's home coaching debut. Bobby Brink and Christian Dvorak added late empty-netters for the ...
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Caleb Komolafe ran for 72 yards and a touchdown and Northwestern held on to beat Penn State 22-21 on Saturday. Preston Stone threw for 163 yards with a touchdown pass to Griffin Wilde, and Jack Olsen kicked three field goals for the Wildcats (4-2, 2-1 Big Ten), who ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Adam Fox scored twice and added an assist as the New York Rangers beat the Penguins 6-1 on Saturday night to give new coach Mike Sullivan a victory in his return to Pittsburgh. Sullivan, who coached the Penguins to consecutive Stanley Cup titles in 2016 and 2017, was back ...
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Seth Jarvis scored with 16.7 seconds left in overtime to lift the Carolina Hurricanes to a 4-3 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday night. Jarvis also scored the go-ahead goal in Carolina's season-opening win over New Jersey. Jarvis, who has three goals this ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jaron Ennis barely needed 2 minutes to leave a path of destruction in the ring as the Philadelphia fighter successfully moved up to 154 pounds for the first time in his undefeated career. Ennis needed much less time to spout off who he wanted next: Bring on Vergil Ortiz ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Aaron Rodgers knows the Pittsburgh Steelers are hardly a finished product five games into the season. Yet the parts are starting to come together, and they were on full display over four bruising quarters in a 23-9 victory over Cleveland that made up for in thoroughness ...
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — From the day he was hired more than a decade ago, James Franklin stressed the importance of creating a family atmosphere at Penn State. Over the course of 11-plus seasons in Happy Valley, that approach helped the Nittany Lions churn out pros and double-digit victory ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Making his second start, Cleveland Browns rookie quarterback Dillon Gabriel got harassed by the Pittsburgh Steelers. Gabriel passed for 221 yards but couldn't lead the league's second-lowest scoring offense to the end zone during a 23-9 loss at Pittsburgh on Sunday. "He's ...
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Brad Marchand broke a tie at 2:19 of the third period and the two-time defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers beat Philadelphia 2-1 on Thursday night to spoil Rick Tocchet's Flyers coaching debut. Marchand fired a wrist shot from the left boards past goalie Dan ...
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Cam Skattebo and Jaxson Dart sat next to each other on the flight home from New Orleans and lamented the turnovers they committed that caused the New York Giants to lose a game they felt they should have won. The conversations continued this week, while Dart was ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Justin Brazeau beat Ilya Sorokin on a breakaway with 5:39 left to lift the Pittsburgh Penguins past the New York Islanders 4-3 on Thursday night. Brazeau collected a lead pass from Evgeni Malkin, then deked his way by a sprawled Sorokin as the Penguins won for the second ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers didn't blink as the pressure built, inning after scoreless inning. Both teams pushed a single run across, forcing extra innings. Then came one of postseason baseball's craziest endings. Orion Kerkering made a wild throw ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Orion Kerkering airmailed a throw into the Los Angeles night that not only unimaginably ended the Phillies' season — it all but ended the run of the core of a roster that suffered through four straight postseasons without a World Series title. NL home run and RBI ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Blake Snell had yielded to the Los Angeles Dodgers' bullpen after a masterful start and was just a bystander when the Philadelphia Phillies — without any help from their All-Star trio at the top of the batting order — finally mustered a rally in the ninth inning. A ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers didn't play a down last weekend. Their early hold on the AFC North strengthened anyway. While the Steelers rested up following the first regular-season game in Dublin, Ireland — a milestone win over the Minnesota Vikings that boosted them to 3-1 ...
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Winless in four games in which they never led, their head coach fired, two coordinators gone and No. 7 Penn State in town. UCLA couldn't get much lower. "Nobody in the world expected us to win," Bruins safety Key Lawrence said. Indeed, the Bruins were 25 1/2-point ...
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Gavin McKenna scored his first goal for Penn State on a power play with 1:53 left to give the Nittany Lions the lead in a 4-2 victory over Arizona State on Saturday night Expected to be the No. 1 pick next year in the NHL draft, the 17-year-old McKenna beat goalie Connor ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Teoscar Hernández tries to stuff any mistakes — like an earlier defensive lapse that led to a two-run triple — "in the trash" before the Dodgers right fielder faces any clutch playoff moment at the plate. He felt euphoric once he put one in the seats. Hernández ...