Gilbert Brown

Vera Brown, a skin care specialist with a star-studded clientele who sponsored beauty clinics for thousands of blind teens, delinquent girls, homeless women and cancer patients in Los Angeles, died Sept. 24 at her Westwood home. She was 90 and had been in...

Yes, basketball fans it happened...Again. Butler is headed back to the Sweet 16. The Bulldogs clinched a trip to the Southeast Regional after a couple of NCAA Tournament fantastic finishes that, if combined together, would likely have been rejected by...

It all looked familiar. There was Butler scrapping against a No. 1 seed and bulling -- make that bulldogging -- its way into America's consciousness. Little more than a year after ending their season a half-court prayer away from a national title against...

UConn erased a 12-point deficit and took a one-point lead on two Kemba Walker free throws with 6.1 seconds remaining in the first half, but Travon Woodall beat the buzzer to give top-seeded Pittsburgh and 41-40 halftime lead over the ninth-seeded...

Another tremendous regular season, another failed postseason for Pitt coach Jamie Dixon and the Panthers. A No. 1 seed for the second time in three seasons, Pitt lost two of its last three games, with only a victory over a No. 16 seed to show for its...

The expanded NCAA tournament field — now at 68 teams — has thrown a wrinkle into the art of scouting an opponent for Pittsburgh coach Jamie Dixon. His Panthers, who earned a No. 1 seed Sunday for the second time in three years, will open with...

Doing well late in games is not something new for Butler. Brad Stevens wants as many people to know that as possible. "We've got 32 games to build that," said the Butler coach of his team's late game moxie. "Just because the magnitude of the game...

This is certainly not the way Harrisburg's Gilbert Brown envisioned his career ending at Pitt. Instead of a run to the Final Four, Brown and the Panthers bow out of the tournament in the round of 32. Brown had a chance to win the game for the #1 seed Pitt...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pittsburgh was bigger, stronger and more physical. Matt Dickey made a few more shots that might look good on the Internet. The result was a well-established norm: The No. 1 beat the No. 16. Ashton Gibbs scored 20 of his 26 points...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Matt Howard made one free throw with 0.8 seconds left to cap a wild final sequence, and Butler added another amazing victory to its list of NCAA tournament upsets, eliminating top-seeded Pittsburgh 71-70 Saturday. Each team had a...

PITTSBURGH -- When one of the craziest crowds in one of the most intimidating arenas anywhere had been quieted, Notre Dame senior captain Ben Hansbrough had plenty of pep left. Hansbrough, who again was a one-man wrecking crew at the most opportune time...

PITTSBURGH — Campus can be as quiet as the Oakland Zoo is crazy on winter nights when Pittsburgh guard Ashton Gibbs answers the call of the ball. It could be just hours after another game or drastically late at night, but if Gibbs finds himself...