The Altoona Curve played Tuesday’s game against Richmond, a 3-2 Flying Squirrels win, at Peoples Natural Gas Field with catcher Omar Alfonzo on their minds. Alfonzo was placed on the temporarily inactive list on June 25 a day after devastating earthquakes in Venezuela after he learned his ...
NEW YORK — Jalen Brunson has undergone left wrist surgery and is expected to be back on the court when the New York Knicks begin defense of their NBA title, a person with knowledge of the details said Tuesday. The NBA Finals MVP is expected to resume basketball activities later this summer, ...
TIPTON — The annual Old-Timers’ Baseball Club Picnic is scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 13 at DelGrosso’s Amusement Park. Former and current local baseball players, who may each bring a guest, are invited to the event, which costs $14 per person. The picnic will be held at DelGrosso’s Pavilion No. 3 beginning at 3:30 p.m. with beverages (soda and water), followed by appetizers at 4 p.m., dinner (chicken barbecue, Murf’s Famous Potato Salad and more) at 5 p.m. and a raffle (tickets sold at picnic) at 6 p.m. Attendees may bring their own canned beer/alcohol. The deadline to RSVP ...
LILLY — Lilly Conrad Chiropractic strengthened its lead in the Altoona Greater City Baseball League by downing Sheetz, 4-1, on Tuesday. Lilly improved to 13-2, while Sheetz fell to 11-5. Derek Younker pitched a complete-game four-hitter for Lilly, and Landon Sinclair had two hits. SHEETZ ...
LONDON — Side to side. Corner to corner. Novak Djokovic kept pushing Felix Auger-Aliassime back and forth along the Centre Court baseline at Wimbledon to retrieve one shot after another. Finally, on the 22nd shot of a grueling rally deep in a fifth-set super tiebreaker, Auger-Aliassime had ...
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. –– Former college basketball player Kerr Kriisa has been accused of fraudulently obtaining nearly $2.2 million from two victims. A federal grand jury in West Virginia indicted him last month. The case was unsealed Monday after his arrest in Kentucky on Friday. Kriisa is a 6-foot-3 guard from Estonia. He began his college career in 2020 at Arizona and later transferred to West Virginia. He is expected to appear in federal court in West Virginia this week on five counts of wire fraud. The indictment alleges he posed as other people, including his mother, to ...
