CHARLESTON — The Wheeling Central Maroon Knights opted to stay in town until the very day of the state championship. “We’ll be going down on Friday around 11 or so,” Wheeling Central head coach Mike Young said. “The new committee of championship weekend is in Charleston now. And, ...
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Evgeni Malkin scored his second goal of the game with 2:43 left and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-3 on Thursday night for their fourth victory in five games. Tristan Jarry stopped 36 shots, Ville Koivunen scored his first career goal for ...
(AP) — The changing landscape of college football means the nation’s premier recruits are no longer signing with the same handful of programs. That became particularly apparent this week when the nation’s top-ranked prospect landed in Vanderbilt of all places. Vanderbilt parlayed the ...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana coach Curt Cignetti has been here before. Twice. His second-ranked Hoosiers, just like first-ranked Ohio State, have not. For the first time in more than a decade and just the third time since conference championship games were standardized, the nation’s ...
ATLANTA (AP) — After No. 3 Georgia closed an 11-1 regular season with its eighth straight win over Georgia Tech last week, coach Kirby Smart was asked about his senior class dominating its top rivals through four seasons. Smart replied with a reminder that Georgia Tech, Florida, Auburn and ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — It’s the Atlantic Coast Conference Championship Game that was hard to imagine back in September — and one that could potentially complicate the College Football Playoff scenario. Duke, by virtue of winning a complicated five-team tiebreaker, will face No. 16 ...