Down five points with 28 seconds remaining in regulation play, and facing the loss of the NBA championship series, the Miami Heat forced overtime and posted a 103-100 overtime home win over the San Antonio Spurs, setting up a seventh and deciding game for the title to be played Thursday night in Miami. LeBron James…
The Pittsburgh Pirates managed just four hits and struck out 17 times on Tuesday night, but posted their National League-leading 12th shutout — all combined staff efforts, blanking the Reds 4-0 in Cincinnati. Although he struck out nine batters in five innings of work, Reds starter Mat Latos (6-1; 3.20 ERA) threw 32 pitches and…
The Franklin Area School Board on Monday approved the hiring of Casey McCloskey as the new boys basketball coach at Franklin High School. McCloskey is a 2003 graduate of Cathedral Prep in Erie, and starred at point guard for Allegheny College in Meadville. He is tied for 19th place on the Gators’ all-time scoring list with…
The Cincinnati Reds (43-28) used four solo home runs on Monday night to defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-1 in the first-game of a four-game series at Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati. Zack Cozart and Todd Frazier both homered off Pittsburgh starter Francisco Liriano (5-3; 2.44 ERA), and Joey Votto and Jay Bruce hit shots off…
Tuukka Rask stopped all 28 shots he faced on Monday night, leading the Boston Bruins to a 2-0 home shutout win over the Chicago Blackhawks and a 2-games-to-one lead in the NHL Stanley Cup final. Rask earned his third shutout of this year’s playoffs, the first two having come against the Pittsburgh Penguins in the…
Franklin High School athlete Abby Jones captured the championship in the girls’ high jump on Sunday at the New Balance Outdoor national track-and-field event at North Carolina A&T in Greensboro, North Carolina. Jones and Germantown Academy’s Megan McCloskey, from Lower Gwynned, both posted top jumps of 5 feet, 8-and-a-half inches. Jones won the title after…
Manu Ginobili and Danny Green both scored 24 points Sunday night, leading the San Antonio Spurs to a 114-104 home victory and a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven NBA finals. Ginobili, a last-minute starter for Spurs coach Greg Popovich, added 10 assists, while Green hit six more three-pointers, breaking Ray Allen’s record for most treys…
Gerrit Cole became just the fifth pitcher in the last fifty years to win his first two starts for Pittsburgh, receiving help from home runs by Pedro Alvarez and Alex Presley on Sunday in a 6-3 home win for the Pirates over the Los Angeles Dodgers. Cole (2-0; 3.75 ERA) joins Josh Fogg, Tim Wakefield, Jose…
Justin Rose fashioned an even-par 70 in the closing round of the U.S. Open at the Merion Golf Club’s East Course in Ardmore on Sunday, and then watched as Phil Mickelson parred the 71st hole and bogeyed the 72nd, taking his first major golf championship while Mickelson settled for his record sixth second-place finish at the…
Greg Biffle took the lead when Jimmie Johnson’s car hit the wall with three laps to go, and Biffle coasted to the victory ahead of Kevin Harvick on Sunday in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Quicken Loans 400 at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan. It was Biffle’s first Sprint Cup victory of the year. Johnson’s…
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