Editor’s note: This is part of the Mirror’s ongoing series “Picking favorites,” allowing sports fans to explain how they picked their favorite teams. We could have seen another NC State miracle on Monday night. Or Villanova. Maybe a Danny Manning or Glen Rice or Kemba Walker type of ...
From Mirror reports LORETTO — Saint Francis junior guard Karson Swogger was named Northeast Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year for women’s basketball on Monday. The nursing major holds a 3.79 GPA while also serving as a team captain for the Red Flash. Swogger was named third-team ...
The Associated Press Shorts and skates don’t usually mix. Maintaining NHL-quality ice in August or holding a Stanley Cup Final in September? Those are far from the norm, too. With the NHL playoffs, which were to begin Wednesday, on indefinite hold because of the coronavirus pandemic, ...
The Associated Press The Masters goes from that annual rite of spring to two weeks before Thanksgiving. The U.S. Open now is scheduled in September for the first time since amateur Francis Ouimet took down Britain’s best at Brookline in 1913 to put golf on the map in America. And the ...
TYRONE — Keep your eyes on Bellwood-Antis High in the Class A division of the Western Conference this year. The Blue Devils got off on the right foot last night as they scored their second straight triumph over neighboring Tyrone by a 13-12 score in the 1950 opener for both schools. An ...
The Associated Press DETROIT — Fresh off the train and only 18 years old, Al Kaline ran into an immediate roadblock trying to join the Detroit Tigers. Called up to the majors, he couldn’t get past the security guards at Briggs Stadium. “I finally convinced them I was the guy who just ...
NFL draft going virtual The NFL draft will be conducted in a virtual format, with team personnel working from their homes. In a memo sent to the 32 teams Monday and obtained by The Associated Press, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell outlined procedures for the April 23-25 draft. The ...
Phil Swartz is just one of thousands of collegiate athletes that saw his season cut short due to the coronavirus. But what makes Swartz’s situation even tougher to deal with is that he had just worked his way back to the Lindenwood Division I volleyball team after a wrist injury cost him ...
Don Donaldson was a standout football player at Tussey Mountain High School who earned a full athletic scholarship to North Carolina State University in the 1960s and caught seven passes for the Wolfpack in their 1967 Liberty Bowl victory over Georgia. Donaldson also later fashioned an ...
The unthinkable, at least for sports fans, already has happened. The games, as we know them, are shut down. We’ll never know if San Diego State was a Final Four contender or if Tiger Woods would have defended his green jacket at the Masters. There was no opening day in baseball. The odds ...
NEW ORLEANS — Former NFL kicker Tom Dempsey, who played in the NFL despite being born without toes on his kicking foot and made a record 63-yard field goal, died late Saturday while struggling with complications from the new coronavirus, his daughter said. He was 73. The Times-Picayune/The ...
The Curve were supposed to open their season in four days, but that won’t be happening with the nationwide sports shutdown because of the coronavirus. Now, it appears the entire Curve season could be in jeopardy, based on comments Saturday by President Donald Trump. Speaking to ...
The Associated Press President Donald Trump met by phone with many U.S. pro sports leaders Saturday to discuss how that industry has been affected by the global coronavirus pandemic, saying he was looking forward to the resumption of competitions “as soon as we can.” “I want fans back ...
From Mirror reports The Blair County Sports Hall of Fame’s 19th banquet and induction ceremony, scheduled for May 2, has been postponed until Jan. 23, 2021 due to the coronavirus. The Hall’s board of directors made the decision. “We felt we had no choice,” Hall of Fame president ...
By Tim Reynolds The Associated Press Kobe Bryant’s resume has yet another entry to validate his greatness: He’s now, officially, a Hall of Famer. And he’s got plenty of elite company in the 2020 class, one that may be as glitzy as any. Bryant, who died in a helicopter crash on ...
This past Valentine’s Day, the NFL felt obligated to ruin the mood for one of their own, announcing that Baltimore Ravens’ tackle James Hurst will be suspended without pay for the first four games of the 2020 regular season for violating league policy on performance-enhancing substances. ...
Penn State’s 2020 team deserves an NCAA banner This is in response to the March 29 question of the week of whether Penn State should hang an NCAA banner for this year’s men’s basketball team. Can anybody think why the banner should not be hung? My answer is a thundering yes that ...
Editor’s note: The fate of the spring scholastic sports season is very much in doubt due to the coronavirus. The Mirror is publishing the preview capsules to at least recognize the athletes who are part of the various teams throughout the region: Altoona Coach: Mike Adams, 16th ...
Editor’s note: The fate of the spring scholastic sports season is very much in doubt due to the coronavirus. The Mirror is publishing the preview capsules to at least recognize the athletes who are part of the various teams throughout the region: Altoona Coach: Paula Foreman, second ...
By John Wawrow The Associated Press The attorney representing retired NFL players alleges the players’ union stonewalled his clients when confronted with questions whether their Social Security disability payments would be affected before the labor agreement with the league was narrowly ...