DETROIT — Tucker Gleason ran for one overtime score and threw for four more as Toledo beat Pittsburgh 48-46 in a bowl-record six overtimes at the GameAbove Sports Bowl at Ford Field on Thursday. The game surpassed the previous mark set 48 hours earlier when South Florida beat San Jose State ...
PITTSBURGH — The decorations outside Acrisure Stadium suggested Christmas. The play on the field by the home team hinted at another holiday entirely. Groundhog Day. Like Bill Murray in the iconic movie — set about 90 minutes northeast of Pittsburgh in Punxsutawney — it’s not that ...
PHILADELPHIA — Bill Bergey, a five-time Pro Bowl linebacker who played in a Super Bowl for the Philadelphia Eagles, died Wednesday, the team announced. He was 79. His son, Jake, posted on social media that Bergey died of cancer. Bergey, a three-time Eagles team MVP in a vote of his ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article on Bill Bergey first appeared in the OBSERVER on April 22, 2020. With his passing on Christmas Day, it was deemed appropriate to retell his remarkable football journey that took him from South Dayton all the way to the Super Bowl and points in between. ...
OTTAWA — The United States captured its sixth World Junior Championship in Gothenburg, Sweden a year ago, marking its fifth title since 2010. Each time the Americans have won the championship they have fallen short in the following tournament, but this year is one of the best opportunities to ...
PITTSBURGH — Andy Reid donned a Santa Claus suit in a giddy Kansas City Chiefs locker room on Christmas Day, then handed his team a present it increasingly looks like it deserves: home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs. How Reid managed to slide into the costume so quickly after ...