WILKES-BARRE — Perseverance was on full display Tuesday. Holy Redeemer not only showed it as a softball team, but Alesha Pekarovsky demonstrated it as a player. Despite using a makeshift infield due to injuries, Redeemer […]
WEST PITTSTON — Over the last 10 years, teams from the Wyoming Valley Conference have beaten up on Scranton Prep in the District 2 baseball playoffs. The WVC had defeated the Cavaliers eight times entering […]
WILKES-BARRE — Holy Redeemer is rounding into form just as it arrives at the most important stretch of the boys volleyball season, its annual trips to the championship matches and the state tournament. The Royals […]
KINGSTON — Wyoming Seminary returned to the field with its biggest lead of the day and patiently began protecting its advantage by possessing the ball for the next 2:15. The Blue Knights were just getting […]
TAMPA, Fla. — New York Yankees shortstop Didi Gregorius played five innings of defense and went 2 for 4 with a walk Monday at extended spring training in his first game action since Tommy John […]
KINGSTON – In a seven-year span, the Wyoming Seminary baseball team has piled up more than three dozen victories. But none of those wins came in the District 2 Tournament. Until now. On Monday, the […]
ST. LOUIS — Jaden Schwartz is on a scoring run that has the St. Louis Blues dreaming big. Schwartz’s hat trick in Game 5 on Sunday helped give the Blues a 3-2 series lead against […]
TORONTO — For Kawhi Leonard and the Raptors, Monday was all about rest and recovery. Coming off a season in which he sat out 22 regular-season games and never played on back-to-back nights as part […]
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Brooks Koepka should know as well as anyone that nothing in golf comes easily. His well-documented journey to the PGA Tour took him to remote outposts like Kenya and Kazakhstan. Even after […]
Like most aspiring broadcasters of his era, Mike Tirico remembers tuning into ABC every Saturday to watch Wide World of Sports, listening in rapt attention to the dulcet tones of Jim McKay. “It was Channel […]
SCRANTON – Matt Saxe thought throws represented the easiest transition into a new sport when he joined the Northwest junior high track team as an eighth-grader. Once he found one that suited him best, Saxe […]
TORONTO — Kawhi Leonard scored 36 points, including eight in the second overtime, and the Toronto Raptors beat Milwaukee 118-112 on Sunday night to cut the Bucks’ lead to 2-1 in the Eastern Conference finals. […]
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