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The NCAA's House settlement era opened Tuesday, with athletic programs across the country free to start paying millions to their athletes in the biggest change in the his...
July 04, 2025 College
WASHINGTON — The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to ban transgender women from its women’s sports teams to resolve a federal civil rights case that found the school...
July 01, 2025 College
The PSAC announced last week it has extended an invitational for Lackawanna College to join the conference as its 18th member. The announcement means Lackawanna would tra...
June 30, 2025 Sports
The upcoming year for college sports has at least a modest sense of stability: The $2.8 billion House settlement has been approved, clearing the way for schools to share ...
June 30, 2025 College
A pair of former Butler County track and field standouts closed out the NCAA season with Division I All-American honors after nearly making the podium at the national cha...
June 26, 2025 Sports
Clay Wiesen was named the best defensive second baseman in the NCAA Division II Atlantic Region last week. The Slippery Rock junior was voted to the American Baseball Coa...
June 26, 2025 Sports
Will Wade's work building N.C. State into an immediate winner included the pursuit of an entrant in the NBA draft, just in case he returned to college. It wasn't a huge ...
June 24, 2025 College
Two recent preseason rankings by national media outlets have Slippery Rock football, fresh off an NCAA Division II semifinal appearance, ranked inside their Top 10. Lindy...
June 19, 2025 Sports
Hailey Van Lith was one year away from tying a bow on a traditional college career at Louisville and being cemented as one of the most decorated four-year starters in Car...
June 19, 2025 College
Ben Mourer, who has coached track and field and cross country teams at Allegheny College for a decade after running for the Gators and competing at Karns City High Sc...
June 18, 2025 Sports
OMAHA, Neb. — Arkansas’ Gage Wood pitched the third no-hitter in College World Series history and first in 65 years Monday, striking out a record 19 and never letting Mur...
June 16, 2025 College
Braylon Littlejohn heard the whispers. He understood how they started and why people were curious. The Butler standout football and basketball player, who graduated high ...
June 13, 2025 Sports
The path to success sometimes requires a pivot, one that David Leslie executed with striking results. In the fall of 2020, Leslie, then a senior at Butler High School, at...
June 12, 2025 Sports
CHATAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Butler County Community College freshman golfer Jacob Marquardt is in third place and 3 strokes off the lead after Tuesday’s opening round of the Nat...
June 04, 2025
At age 8, Taylor Voloch’s world went dark in a third-grade classroom at Dassa McKinney Elementary in West Sunbury — her brain and life threatened by a tumor the size of a...
June 03, 2025 Sports
Cranberry Township native and Indiana University of Pennsylvania graduate Dennis Popovec is continuing his decades worth of contributions to his alma mater with the creat...
May 29, 2025 Business
Alabama's Ryan Williams and Ohio State's Jeremiah Smith are the cover athletes for EA Sports College Football 26, the video-game developer announced Tuesday. The electric...
May 27, 2025
The longest postseason run in Slippery Rock women’s lacrosse history came to an end Thursday night. In the NCAA Division II Tournament semifinals for the first time, the ...
May 22, 2025 Sports
The College Football Playoff will go to a more straightforward way of filling the bracket next season, announcing Thursday that it will place teams strictly on where they...
May 22, 2025 College
Grove City women’s lacrosse’s season came to an end Saturday in the first round of the NCAA Division III Tournament. Butler grad Tori Stevenson had two assists in a 15-5 ...
May 11, 2025 Sports
The Atlantic Coast Conference is reducing its 20-game men’s basketball schedule to 18, giving teams two more spots for marquee nonconference games in a bid to boost a lea...
May 07, 2025 College
Butler County schools are holding ceremonies for seniors committing to college athletic programs next year, this time during the spring signing period. Here are the Butle...
May 06, 2025 Sports
Grove City women’s lacrosse rallied in the second half of the Presidents’ Athletic Conference championship game to beat Chatham 11-7. The Wolverines trailed 7-6, then sco...
May 06, 2025 Sports
Butler graduate and Grove City College junior Isaac Busler was part of the school-record-setting 1600-meter relay (3:19.56) as the Wolverines earned their third consecuti...
May 04, 2025 Sports
Slippery Rock softball extended its surprise PSAC Tournament run with another upset win, this time over No. 18 Kutztown on Thursday. The Rock beat the Golden Bears 5-4 to...
May 01, 2025 Sports
A look at football players in the Atlantic Coast Conference this spring who are poised to have breakout seasons this fall: Boston College OL Dwayne Allick should see a b...
May 01, 2025 College
Sophomore third baseman Brandon Butler hit for the cycle in Slippery Rock baseball’s 13-9 win Tuesday against Point Park University. Butler got the hardest part of the c...
April 30, 2025 Sports
Grove City College announced plans Wednesday to name its future baseball stadium William C. Stewart Baseball Field. The stadium will cost $3 million and is part of a camp...
April 30, 2025 Sports
Butler County Community College will induct three new members into its sports hall of fame Saturday. The Pioneers will welcome Mackenzie Craig, Matthew Lobaugh and Mi...
April 29, 2025 Sports
Lacrosse Butler graduate and Grove City College sophomore midfielder Tori Stevenson scored a pair of goals as the Wolverines defeated Thiel 13-2 in Presidents’ Athletic C...
April 28, 2025 Sports
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