Providence College

ERIE, Pa. — Mackenzie Frazier of Keedysville was named to the dean's list for the fall semester at Gannon University. Mackenzie had a 3.8 grade-point average for the semester. She graduated from Boonsboro High School in 2010. She is the daughter...

Today is the day local high school student-athletes can make their college choices official. National Signing Day allows local stars to accept scholarship offers from college programs. It is just as rewarding for the college coaches because they now...

Jimmy Patsos was in his first season at Loyola when Pat Kennedy, then entering his second year at Towson and coming off a 5-24 season, proclaimed the Tigers to be Baltimore's college basketball team. Other local coaches might have chuckled at Kennedy's...

The NCAA Women's Final Four is set, with all No. 1 seeds reaching the national semifinals at the Pepsi Center in Denver. On Sunday, April 1, Connecticut will take on Notre Dame at 6:30pm ET, followed by Stanford vs. Baylor at 8:30pm ET, both games on ESPN...

Dave Gavitt Coach led organization of Big East Conference Dave Gavitt, 73, one of basketball's most influential leaders in the last three decades, died Friday in a hospital near his hometown of Rumford, R.I., after a long illness, his family said....

Tom Yantz I am a 1975 graduate of Providence College, married with a son, daughter and one granddaughter. I've lived in Connecticut my entire life. In my view, sports is stocked with smiles and sadness, spirit and surprises. I've written about them...

First of two parts Long before Rayna DuBose became a basketball star - and half a lifetime before the day she got sick, went to the hospital and almost never came home - she was a dancer. Ballet, to be specific. The soft, poetic music and her long...

Second of two parts Each day, each hour, Willie and Andrea DuBose think things can't get any worse. And then they do. Their daughter, Rayna, a graceful athlete, a college basketball player with a radiant smile, an 18-year-old who a week ago had so...