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Spring gobbler season opens as scheduled

The Spring Gobbler season for wild turkeys opens Saturday across Pennsylvania. The forecast for the turkey population in Butler County and all of WMU 2D is very promisin...

May 02, 2020 Sports

Coronavirus testing constants of sport, life

Imagine, if you will, you’ve been off the grid for the past 12 months. Maybe you were in a coma, or in Biosphere 2 or a contestant on Big Brother. Perhaps you left it al...

May 01, 2020 Sports

Rescued By Track

Sport saved Johnson from bleak future Tayinna Johnson was angry, rudderless and lost. She acted out. Got in trouble. Was almost kicked out of school. Then as a sophomore ...

May 01, 2020 Sports

Secretariat early 7-2 favorite in virtual Kentucky Derby

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Secretariat is the early 7-2 favorite for this weekend’s virtual Kentucky Derby, an animated race between all 13 Triple Crown winners on the day the De...

April 30, 2020 Professional

MLB explores various options

NEW YORK — Major League Baseball is exploring various options that could allow the season to start if the medical situation allows, including a plan in which the 30 team...

April 30, 2020 Professional

SRU's tennis duo earn All-America

SLIPPERY ROCK — Slippery Rock University women’s tennis standouts Lois Page and Viola Lugmayr have been named to the 2019-20 Intercollegiate Tennis Association All-Ameri...

April 30, 2020 Sports

Cementing Their Legacy

SRU graduates Fusco, Martin earn spots on Division II football all-decade team One finished his college football career at the beginning of a decade. The other concluded ...

April 30, 2020 Sports

Orioles' Mancini battling cancer

BALTIMORE — Orioles outfielder Trey Mancini feels fortunate to have undergone colon cancer surgery before doctors became absorbed in treating COVID-19, and now he’s dili...

April 30, 2020 Professional

Ollio's pitching career on hold for now

Butler grad, North Carolina sophomore working out at home during pandemic BUTLER TWP — Location is everything. It's become that way this spring for Butler graduate and Un...

April 30, 2020 Sports

NHL could resume in July

Get used to the concept of pods and pucks if the NHL is going to have any chance of completing its season, with the most likely scenarios calling for games in empty, air...

April 30, 2020 Professional

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