PITTSBURGH (AP) — It is the next-to-last day of September on the eve of Sidney Crosby's 22nd season. His team's opener across the state in Philadelphia less than 36 hours away looms. And there the longtime Pittsburgh Penguins captain is on a random early fall Tuesday, doing what he has ...
SALEM, BRANCH DROP IN POLL Salem's and West Branch's football teams dropped in the latest Associated Press state high school poll. The unbeaten Quakers (6-0) dropped two spots to 10th in Div. III after a 38-14 win over Minerva on Friday. The Quakers host Marlington on Friday. West Branch (5-1) suffered its first loss of the season in a 24-14 loss at the hands of Canfield. The Warriors are 14th after being eighth a week ago. West Branch will try to get back on track on Friday at Carrollton. In Div. VI, South Range (6-0) remains third. In Div. VII, Toronto (6-0) moved up to 10th. ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Fastball velocity in Major League Baseball hit a record high for the sixth straight season and batting averages remained near all-time lows in this era of pitching dominance. Four-seam fastballs averaged 94.8 mph this year, according to MLB Statcast, up from 94.5 mph last season and 91.9 mph when tracking started in 2008. In a sign the upward trend is likely to continue, pitchers 25 or younger as of June 30 averaged 95.9 mph. Right-handers averaged 95.3 mph, lefties 93.5 mph and relievers 95 mph. "I don't think it takes a rocket scientist to know that getting 97 ...
Mamdani releases plan to combat antisemitism amid concerns over his criticism of Israel NEW YORK (AP) — Mayor Zohran Mamdani debuted a sweeping plan Tuesday to combat antisemitism and hate crimes against Jewish people in New York City, moving to assuage concerns from critics who see his ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has lauded its revamped website America.gov as a way to simplify Americans’ access to information and services scattered across a plethora of agency sites, but President Donald Trump probably won’t like some of the answers his new site says are sourced from government information. Asking the site — which says it’s sourced via artificial intelligence from “official government sources” — questions about who won the 2020 election or about the name of the federal department that operates out of the Pentagon yields answers contrary ...
