Penguins forward Ben Kindel hospitalized in Utah

October 21, 2026

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Pittsburgh Penguins forward Ben Kindel was being evaluated at a Salt Lake City hospital on Tuesday after having a medical emergency on the team's flight home from a four-game trip. The club said the 19-year-old Kindel had an unspecified issue shortly after the team's plane took off from the Salt Lake City airport on Tuesday. The plane returned to the airport while Kindel was tended to on the flight by the team's medical staff. He was taken by ambulance to the University of Utah hospital. The team said Kindel was conscious, alert and stable. Kindel, in his ...

NFL says heightened security measures will be in place for the Steelers-Saints game in Paris

October 21, 2026

NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL said security will be heightened for the game in Paris between the Pittsburgh Steelers and New Orleans Saints on Sunday after civil unrest protests engulfed the French capital last weekend. Executive VP of club business, international and league events Peter ...

Cleveland comes up short again, extending title drought to 78 years

October 21, 2026

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — For yet another season, Cleveland baseball fans will have to wait. The city's proud major league franchise still hasn't won a World Series since 1948. After the Guardians fell a little short once again with a 7-3 loss to Tampa Bay in Game 6 of the American ...

Brewers-Rays will produce a first-time champion, and maybe the first all-indoor World Series

October 21, 2026

The Milwaukee Brewers and Tampa Bay Rays will play a Suds vs. Sun World Series that will produce a first-time champion and likely baseball's first all-indoor championship. The best-of-seven showdown between low-payroll pennant winners opens Friday night in Milwaukee. It'll be the first World ...

South Carolina is No. 1 in women’s preseason AP Top 25, followed by UConn and USC

October 21, 2026

Dawn Staley has South Carolina in a familiar place, sitting at No. 1 in The Associated Press preseason Top 25 women's basketball poll. The Gamecocks received 23 first-place votes from a 31-member national media panel Tuesday. UConn, Southern California, Duke and Michigan round out the top five. It is the fifth time in the past seven years that Staley's team has been ranked No. 1 in the preseason. "It's a gift and curse," Staley said. "I tend to not look at the number, but our players do. They look at it and feel like there's a sense of respect to being No. 1. They also know that ...

Red Riders roll in regional opener

October 20, 2026

WEIRTON - The third-seeded Weir girls' soccer team made quick work out of sixth-seeded Tyler Consolidated. The Red Riders recorded seven goals in the first half, and the girls from Hancock County tacked on three more in the second half to defeat the Silver Knights, 10-0, via mercy rule in a ...