(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of the West Allegheny School District, Posted on Facebook on October 14th, 2026)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Belle Vernon, PA) West Allegheny High School’s boys golf team captured its first WPIAL golf championship in program history.
That team won the Class 3A title after defeating Fox Chapel by two strokes with a score of 384-386.
This match occurred yesterday at Cedarbrook Gold Golf Course in Belle Vernon.
(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – Information is displayed during a news conference to announce charges against several people including former college basketball players, in what prosecutors called a betting scheme to rig NCAA and Chinese Basketball Association games, Jan. 15, 2026 in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Tassanee Vejpongsa, File)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Philadelphia, PA) Prosecutors in Pennsylvania recently announced that a man who involved in rigging college basketball games has been sentenced to six years in jail.
Thirty-year-old Jalen Smith of Charlotte, North Carolina received this sentence and was involved in fixing games during the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 NCAA seasons.
This marks the first penalty in an investigation in which authorities said uncovered a network of players and gamblers who made a profit from fixed games.
Smith recruited players so they could underperform in exchange for payment, which allowed bettors to profit by wagering against their teams.
Players from colleges like Robert Morris University had players who were accused of participating in this scheme.
The scheme affected almost 30 games and resulted in more than $3 million in fraudulent wagers.
Smith must also pay a restitution amount of $1.1 million.
(File Photo: Source for Photo: Chicago Blackhawks right wing Roman Kantserov (80) celebrates his second goal of the night with teammates during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Pittsburgh Penguins, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Harry Figiel))
CHICAGO (AP) — Teuvo Teravainen and Roman Kantserov scored two goals apiece, and the Chicago Blackhawks topped the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-3 on Tuesday night in Connor Bedard’s first game of the season.
Spencer Knight made 24 saves as Chicago improved to 1-1 on a seven-game homestand. Patrick Kane picked up his 894th career assist, matching Phil Housley for the most by a U.S.-born player in NHL history.
Bedard also had an assist. The captain had surgery on his left shoulder on July 8.
Sidney Crosby scored his first two goals of the season for Pittsburgh in the opener of a four-game trip. Nick Robertson also scored, and Sergei Murashov made 15 stops.
Crosby tied it at 3-all when he swept in a rebound with 10:43 left. It was his 656th career goal, tying Brendan Shanahan for 14th on the NHL list.
But Teravainen scored from a tough angle with 4:18 remaining, and Tyler Bertuzzi closed it out with an empty-netter in the final seconds.
Chicago jumped in front 28 seconds into the game. Pittsburgh turned the puck over behind its net and Anton Frondell fed Teravainen in the low slot for his first goal of the season.
After Crosby tied it for the Penguins, the Blackhawks finished a pretty passing sequence with their second power-play goal of the season. Bedard played the puck into the middle to Kantserov, who beat Murashov with a one-timer with 2:10 left in the first.
Kantserov scored again 10:32 into the second, tipping home a pass from Artyom Levshunov. The 22-year-old rookie scored his first career goal during Saturday night’s 5-2 loss to Carolina.
Pittsburgh closed to 3-2 on Robertson’s fourth goal of the season. A streaking Robertson knocked in a loose puck with 2:09 left in the second.
The Blackhawks played without forward Frank Nazar, who finished his two-game suspension for an illegal check against the New York Islanders on Thursday night.
Penguins: At Colorado on Friday night.
Blackhawks: Host Winnipeg on Thursday night.
(File Photo: Source for Photo: Las Vegas Raiders linebacker Elandon Roberts celebrates a defensive stop against the Dallas Cowboys during the first half of an NFL football game, Nov. 17, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/David Becker, File))
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Pittsburgh, PA) The Pittsburgh Steelers recently signed veteran linebacker Elandon Roberts to the team’s practice squad.
Roberts returns to the Steelers after playing with the team in 2023 and 2024.
He was signed by the Steelers during the team’s 2026 preseason, but he was released on the final cutdown of the team’s roster.
Roberts spent the 2025-2026 NFL season playing for the Las Vegas Raiders.
He started 16 of the 17 games that he appeared in for the Raiders and finished the season with 90 tackles, and six of them were tackles for loss.
Roberts also has chemistry with Steelers defensive coordinator Patrick Graham, who was the Raiders’ defensive coordinator during the 2025-2026 NFL season.
(Credit and Caption for Photo: Buffalo Sabres defenseman Ryan Johnson (33) skates during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Colorado Avalanche Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, in Buffalo, N.Y. (Courtesy of Jeffrey T. Barnes/Associated Press))
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Pittsburgh, PA) Pittsburgh Penguins President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Kyle Dubas announced yesterday that the Penguins have acquired defenseman Ryan Johnson from the Buffalo Sabres in exchange for defenseman Caleb Jones and defenseman Daniel Laatsch.
Johnson’s contract carries an average annual value of $875,000 and he is signed through the end of the 2027-28 season.
The twenty-five-year-old Johnson split the first three-plus seasons of his career as a pro between the Buffalo Sabres and their American Hockey League affiliate, the Rochester Americans.
Johnson has recorded seven assists in 47 career NHL games with the Sabres, which all came in his rookie season, which is when he skated in a career-high 41 games in 2023-2024.
Johnson was drafted in the first round of the 2019 NHL Draft by the Sabres as the 31st overall pick in that draft.
(Credit and Caption for Photo: Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Roman Wilson (10) leaves the field after an NFL preseason football game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025, in Jacksonville, Fla. The Steelers defeated the Jaguars 31-25. (Courtesy of the Associated Press)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Pittsburgh, PA) A source recently told ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler that Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Roman Wilson will miss multiple weeks because of a finger injury.
Wilson suffered this injury in the second quarter of the Steelers’ game yesterday against the Indianapolis Colts at Acrisure Stadium in Pittsburgh.
Wilson was seen grabbing his left hand after an incomplete pass attempt from Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers and was eventually ruled out for the rest of the game.
Wilson is now in his third year in the NFL after being drafted by the Steelers in the third round of the 2024 NFL Draft out of the University of Michigan.
(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – Pittsburgh Penguins’ Mathew Dumba looks on during an NHL hockey game, Oct. 28, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Mathew Dumba is retiring after 13 NHL seasons with five different teams.
Dumba last played for the Pittsburgh Penguins, with stints in Minnesota, Dallas, Arizona and Tampa Bay. The 32-year-old defenseman won the 2020 King Clancy Memorial Trophy, awarded to the player who best exemplified leadership qualities on and off the ice and made a noteworthy humanitarian contribution in his community.
“Matt Dumba is officially hanging up his skates after 748 NHL career games,” the NHL Players Association posted on social media Friday. “Wishing the former blue liner and 2019-20 King Clancy Memorial Trophy winner the best of luck in his retirement!”
Dumba spent his first 10 NHL seasons in Minnesota after the Wild drafted him with the No. 7 overall pick of the 2012 NHL draft. He signed with the Arizona Coyotes in 2023, but was sent to Tampa Bay just before the deadline.
Dumba played one season with the Lightning, another with the Dallas Stars and had a goal and two assists with the Penguins in 2025-26. He spent most of the season at Wilkes-Barr/Scranton, the Penguins’ AHL affiliate.
Dumba had 85 goals and 176 in 748 NHL games. He also had give goals and 10 assists in 54 playoff games.
(Credit and Caption for Photo: Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Michael Pittman Jr. (11) runs after a catch during the first half of an NFL football game against the Atlanta Falcons in Pittsburgh Sunday, Sept. 13, 2026. (Gene J. Puskar/Associated Press)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Pittsburgh, PA) The Pittsburgh Steelers announced on Saturday that the team placed wide receiver Michael Pittman, Jr. on the injured reserve.
According to Steelers head coach Mike McCarthy on Thursday, Pittman had aggravated a foot injury in practice Wednesday and was expected to miss multiple weeks.
Pittman had been dealing with plantar fasciitis in his left foot, which caused him to miss the Steelers’ Week 2 game against the New England Patriots in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
NFL players that are on the injured reserve miss at least four weeks.
(File Photo: Source for Photo: Pittsburgh Penguins’ Sidney Crosby (87) cannot shoot past Dallas Stars goaltender Jake Oettinger (29) with Stars’ Thomas Harley (55) defending during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Pittsburgh, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Rickard Rakell scored the deciding goal in the shootout and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Dallas Stars 2-1 on Saturday.
Arturs Silovs stopped Mikko Rantanen in the shootout to help Pittsburgh snap a three-game losing streak. Sidney Crosby and Ben Kindel also scored in the shootout for the Penguins, who lost in a shootout at Columbus on Friday.
Connor Dewar scored in regulation for Pittsburgh and Silovs stopped 24 shots.
Jake Oettinger stopped 20 shots for the Stars.
Oettinger, coming off back-to-back shutouts against San Jose and Buffalo, set the longest shutout streak of his career at 188:52. It’s the third-longest shutout streak in franchise history.
During Oettinger’s run, in which he stopped 54 straight shots, the Stars set the longest shutout streak in team history at 2:06:08.
Tyler Seguin forced overtime for Dallas when he scored with 29.1 seconds left in regulation. He tipped Jason Robertson’s shot behind Silovs from the top of the crease.
Dewar scored the first goal of the game at 1:57 of the third period when he flipped a harmless looking backhand shot over Oettinger’s shoulder.
Kris Letang nearly ended Oettinger’s shutout streak early, but he had a goal waived off in the final minute of the first period. After review, it was determined that Hendrix Lapierre touched the puck with a high stick prior to Letang’s goal.
Stars: Host Colorado on Tuesday in the first game of a back-to-back against the Avalanche.
Penguins: Open a four-game road trip Tuesday at Chicago.
(File Photo: Source for Photo: Columbus Blue Jackets center Kent Johnson (91) scores on Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Sergei Murashov (1) in a shootout in an NHL hockey game in Columbus, Ohio, Friday, Oct. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Kent Johnson scored the only goal in a shootout to lift the Columbus Blue Jackets over the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 on Friday night.
Damon Severson had a goal and an assist for Columbus. Mathieu Olivier also scored, and Cole Sillinger added two assists.
Cam Talbot made 20 saves and denied all three Pittsburgh attempts in the shootout. He became the first NHL goalie to win a game with nine teams.
Evgeni Malkin and Bryan Rust scored for the Penguins, who have dropped three straight games since winning their first two this season. Malkin tied it 2-all at 3:19 of the third period.
Johnson beat Sergei Murashov with a snap shot to begin the shootout.
Murashov stopped 43 shots in regulation.
The Blue Jackets outshot the Penguins 45-22 and won 66.7% of the faceoffs. Columbus outhit Pittsburgh 21-9.
The Penguins blocked 20 shots.
Talbot, in his 13th NHL season, has also won games with the New York Rangers, Edmonton, Philadelphia, Calgary, Minnesota, Ottawa, Detroit and the Los Angeles Kings.
In his first season with Columbus, he broke the previous record held by Curtis McElhinney, Sean Burke and Ron Tugnutt.
Penguins: Host the Dallas Stars on Saturday.
Blue Jackets: At the St. Louis Blues on Saturday.