Pitt men’s basketball will play West Virginia in the Backyard Basketball Classic on Dec. 9 at PPG Paints Arena, the school announced Thursday.

Peters Township’s Alex Knox has loved volleyball ever since she started playing at 10 years old, putting countless hours into the sport. That hard work has already paid off.

A summer football prospect camp doesn’t always prove fruitful.

In 2023, NorthWood Commons was a vacant lot with a single apartment building, the remainder of a development project that was abandoned in the early 1980s.

Dominant pitching still plays in the modern day high school game where teams are built with an emphasis on offense and defense.

In a day and age of specialization in high school sports, the players sitting in the front row of the 2026 WPIAL baseball head of the class showed off their versatility.

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — One of the 72 shots Scottie Scheffler hit Thursday at the U.S. Open was a lash with a fairway wood on the 16th hole. He followed up by placing his hands on his knees and squinting into the emerging sunshine while asking caddie Ted Scott if he saw where the ball ended up.

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — Jason Day, the 2015 PGA champion and a two-time runner-up at the U.S. Open, withdrew Thursday from this year’s Open at Shinnecock due to a bad back.

The Protect College Sports Act took a step forward Thursday with a Senate committee approval. Plenty of potential pitfalls remain ahead, including opposition from the Big Ten and Southeastern conferences.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Jonathan David scored three goals and Canada won its first World Cup match while all but securing a spot in the knockout round with a 6-0 victory over Qatar on Thursday.

UNITED NATIONS — Nearly 25,000 children caught in conflict were victims of a record number of violations last year, including killings, rape and recruitment to fight, and for the first time, government forces — not armed groups — were the main perpetrators, a new United Nations report says.

DAKAR, Senegal — The Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda has claimed more than 200 lives in its first month and is the worst known outbreak at this stage, with up to 35,000 suspected potential contacts, Africa’s Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court sided Thursday with a Texas marijuana user who wants to legally own a gun, the latest in a line of firearm cases from a court that has expanded gun rights.

Ukraine struck a major Moscow oil refinery Thursday for a second time in a week, sending huge plumes of black smoke over the capital and disrupting hundreds of flights at its airports in one of its biggest drone attacks since Russia’s full-scale invasion over four years ago, officials said.

I am not a huge fan of Elon Musk as a political activist or commentator. I think he’s made Twitter — sorry, X — worse. His support for the nationalist right in Europe has been ugly. His tenure leading the Department of Government Efficiency mostly amounted to a missed opportunity and often descended into little more than performative vandalism. His ...

Rapper Wiz Khalifa won’t be the debut concert at Citizens Live at the Wylie, after all. But the first show at the new music venue in Pittsburgh’s Lower Hill District will still have a Pittsburgh connection.

Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting the most fabulous kids in all of Sewickley. As I was driving down Beaver Street, I saw their lemonade stand, so I just had to stop. They told me they offered three drinks. Lemonade was $2, a raspberry lemon drink was $3 and the blue shark attack was $4 — but my drink was free.

Penn State officials are developing pathways to graduation for the nearly 400 students who intended on completing their degrees at a Commonwealth Campus but cannot, due to the closure of seven campuses at the end of Spring 2027.

The Atlantic 10 Conference released the schedule pairings for the 2026-27 women’s basketball season Thursday.

Editor’s note: From now until reporting day to training camp at Saint Vincent College, TribLive is running through the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 90-man roster, looking at each player and assessing his outlook for the 2026 season. The breakdown will run in alphabetical order with two players each day between June 13 and July 28. Contract data courtesy ...

The word is out. A bear is on the loose in North Park.

Brentwood property owners will not pay more in school taxes next year.

Pittsburgh Public Schools officials are considering policy changes that would require a competitive bidding process when the district contracts for professional services, materials and supplies.

Pitt will get a chance to showcase its newest venue as the host of the 2027 ACC wrestling championships set for March 6-7, 2027 at Victory Heights Arena.

Early ratings for coverage of the FIFA World Cup games on Fox, Fox One and Tubi are strong, likely due to the event taking place in America.