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Cal baseball earns split with No. 17 Seton Hill

The PennWest California baseball team did something that no other PSAC West team has done this year. The Vulcans beat Seton Hill. They snapped the 17th-ranked Griffins’ 22-game winning streak, with a 6-4 victory in game two of their double header Saturday. Seton Hill (19-1, 33-8) took the ...

Get outdoors with the Banff Film Festival

Back in the late 1980s, in my ski bum days, I had the opportunity to ski some of the coolest places in America: Keystone, Breckenridge, Copper Mountain, Arapahoe Basin, Vail, Winter Park, Wolf Creek, just to name a few. It was 130-plus days per season. Some of the best days included tree skiing ...

Flyers get jump on Penguins, win Game 1

PITTSBURGH — Travis Sanheim scored the go-ahead goal midway through the third period and the Philadelphia Flyers announced their return to the playoffs with a 3-2 win over Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday night. Philadelphia pulled off a stunner in the opener when ...

Mullins homers in 13th to lift Rays past Pirates in rain-soaked game

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Cedric Mullins led off the 13th inning with a two-run home run and the Tampa Bay Rays outlasted the Pittsburgh Pirates 8-7 on a rainy Saturday night. Mullins' blast to right field off Yohan Ramirez scored automatic runner Jonny DeLuca. Mullins entered the day hitting just ...

Penguins and Flyers renew a long-simmering rivalry

PITTSBURGH — Sidney Crosby would not take the bait, even though the smile on his face and the gleam in his eye hinted that maybe the Pittsburgh Penguins captain kind of wanted to. Told that Philadelphia Flyers coach Rick Tocchet — an assistant with the Penguins when Pittsburgh won ...

Good week to be a sports fan

It doesn’t get much better for sports fans than this week will be in Western Pennsylvania. The NFL Draft finally comes to Pittsburgh, which is being billed as the largest event ever held in the city. The Penguins are back in the postseason, and get their arch-rival Philadelphia Flyers in the ...