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Penguins captain Sidney Crosby placed on IR

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PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Penguins will have to start their playoff push without Sidney Crosby. The club placed its longtime captain on injured reserve on Wednesday. The move comes after Crosby sustained a lower-body injury during the Olympic hockey tournament at the Milan Cortina Games. The 38-year-old three-time Stanley Cup winner went down in the second period of Canada’s quarterfinal win over Czechia. The Canadians held out hope Crosby would be able to return, but he sat out a semifinal win over Finland and a loss to the United States in the gold medal game. Crosby, ...

Late scoring burst lifts WVU women by UCF

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MORGANTOWN — The scoring burst came later than expected, but it eventually happened. The end result was the 17th-ranked WVU women’s basketball team walked out of Addition Financial Arena in Orlando, Fla. on Wednesday with one collective “whew.” Behind a dominating third-quarter performance that saw the Mountaineers shoot nearly 77% from the field, WVU avoided what would have been a major upset with a 74-62 victory against struggling UCF. Gia Cooke scored 19 points and Jordan Harrison added 16 points and seven assists, as WVU (23-6, 13-4 Big 12) won its eighth true road ...

Skenes loses 4 strikes to challenges in Cy Young winner’s spring debut

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NORTH PORT, Fla. (AP) — National League Cy Young Award winner Paul Skenes lost four strikes to challenges in his first spring training start. Skenes struck out four and walked four over 2 1/3 innings for Pittsburgh on Wednesday against the Atlanta Braves, who were 4 for 4 against the right-hander on challenges to get called strikes overturned to balls — one of them by the slimmest of margins. The 53-pitch outing is expected to be the only one Skenes has for Pittsburgh before he joins the U.S. for the World Baseball Classic. He allowed one hit and one run while facing 12 batters. He ...

Injuries continue to mount across the Big 12

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MORGANTOWN — He should have been jumping up and down with joy. After all, Parsa Fallah had just slam dunked the final two points down that had given Oklahoma State a 91-84 overtime victory over West Virginia to end the Cowboys five-game losing streak. But instead of celebratory shouts ...

WVU rolls to victory in home debut

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MORGANTOWN — It might not have seemed like baseball weather in Morgantown, especially if you looked out your window in the morning and saw snow falling. But West Virginia baseball had its first home game of the season Wednesday afternoon against Ohio. The Mountaineers had two homers in a ...

WVU expected to hire former SEC D-line coach as new pass rushers coach

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MORGANTOWN— West Virginia football might’ve found its new pass rushers coach, who will be its third in the span of under two months. Rich Rodriguez is expected to hire former Arkansas defensive line coach Deke Adams as his new defensive ends coach, according to CBS Sports. The hiring of Adams comes just a little over a week after Georgia hired WVU’s pass rusher specialist, Larry Knight, to be its new outside linebackers coach. Knight was hired in place of long-time Mountaineers bandit coach Jeff Casteel, who recently retired. Adams spent the past four seasons coaching the ...