Alissa Pili often had two or three opponents draped on her when she got the ball. No one was strong enough to stop Utah’s All-American. Pili had 28 points and 10 rebounds to lead the second-seeded Utes to a 63-56 win over 10th-seeded Princeton 63-56 on Sunday night in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. “Coming into the game, the coaches told me they were going to key on me and so I just had to let the game come to me,” Pili said. But the Tigers didn’t ever let up. Near the end of the game after a hard foul, Pili squared up and stared down a defender. “Oh, it was expected. So I think just ..read more

Fairleigh Dickinson came up just a little short this time. Johnell Davis scored 29 points, Alijah Martin added 14 and Florida Atlantic ended underdog FDU’s magical March by outlasting the No. 16 seed 78-70 on Sunday night in the East Region of the NCAA Tournament. The ninth-seeded Owls (33-3) needed everything they had to put away the Knights (21-16), the nation’s smallest team and a surprising winner Friday night against 7-foot-4 center Zach Edey and top-seeded Purdue in just the second 16-over-1 upset i n men’s tournament history. It will be FAU, not FDU, which will play Tennessee in the Swe ..read more

Eagles reportedly losing Gardner-Johnson to Lions in free agency originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia The Eagles will now have to replace both starting safeties from their Super Bowl roster after free agent C.J. Gardner-Johnson has agreed to a one-year deal with the Detroit Lions, according to multiple reports. Gardner-Johnson’s one-year deal with the Lions is worth $8 million with $6.5 million guaranteed, NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero reported. So Gardner-Johnson didn’t get the big pay day he had hoped for and the Eagles curiously don’t match what seems like a relatively affordable de ..read more

Banking giant UBS is buying its smaller rival Credit Suisse in an effort to avoid further market-shaking turmoil in global banking, Swiss President Alain Berset announced on Sunday night. Berset, who did not specify a value of the deal, called the announcement “one of great breadth for the stability of international finance. An uncontrolled collapse of Credit Suisse would lead to incalculable consequences for the country and the international financial system.” Credit Suisse is designated by the Financial Stability Board, an international body that monitors the global financial system, as one ..read more

A 29-year-old Philadelphia man — who was celebrating a memorial birthday at the grave of a friend who died ten years ago — was killed in a Montgomery County cemetery on Saturday afternoon. On Sunday, Montgomery County District Attorney, Kevin R. Steele and Horsham Police Chief, Scott Fida, announced an investigation into a shooting that left Daniel Elijah Hawkins of Philadelphia dead and another man seriously injured. According to police, the incident happened at about 3 p.m. on Saturday, when police in Horsham responded to Whitemarsh Memorial Park in Ambler after a report of shots being fired ..read more

Police in Delaware are investigating after officers found a man who has been shot to death driving a vehicle that had been involved in a crash on Sunday morning in Newark. According to police, the incident occurred just before 6 a.m., when officers in New Castle County responded to a report of a traffic incident along Old County Road. Responding officers, police said, discovered a vehicle with a driver who was suffering from a gunshot wound. The driver, police said, was pronounced dead on the scene and an investigation has found that the shooting occurred on the 2400 block of Old County Road ..read more

An eastern Pennsylvania man accused of having used a homemade high-pressure air gun to kill a neighbor with whom he had had an affair has been convicted of first-degree murder. Jurors in Lehigh County deliberated for less than three hours last week before convicting 41-year-old Josef Raszler in the September 2016 murder of 46-year-old Stephanie Roof in Lower Macungie Township. He faces a mandatory term of life in prison with possibility of parole when he is sentenced May 11. Defense attorney Phil Lauer said he respected the jury’s verdict but vowed an appeal. The defendant’s father, Paul Raszl ..read more

Snow falls thick as skiers shed their gear and duck into the Sundeck Restaurant, one of the first certified energy efficient buildings in the U.S. – this one at 11,200 feet above sea level atop Aspen Mountain in Colorado. Skiers in brightly colored helmets jockey for a spot at the bar, their bodies warmed by thick, insulated walls and highly efficient condensing boilers. Overhead, WeatherNation plays on the television, looping footage of last year’s mega storms and flashing a headline: “2022 billion dollar disasters.” Aspen Skiing Company’s vice-president of sustainability, who sits nearby eat ..read more

First responders in Hamilton Township, New Jersey responded to a deadly crash along I-295 on Sunday morning. According to officials, a crash happened at about 7:25 a.m., when a vehicle exited the roadway along I-295 at exit 63, and entered the water. On Sunday morning, the Hamilton Township Professional Firefighters shared images of the scene at the incident on social media. Officials said that, after the car exited the roadway, it turned onto its side in the water. Crews worked for about three hours to remove the driver from the vehicle. Law enforcement officials have not released any inform ..read more

Report: Isaac Seumalo leaving Eagles to sign with Steelers originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia It took a while, but Isaac Seumalo finally has a new home. Seumalo, one of only a handful of players remaining from the 2016 Eagles, signed a three-year contract with the Steelers, according to NFL reporter Jordan Schultz. The Eagles were never involved in talks with Seumalo, who started 60 games for the Eagles and is one of only seven players to play in both the 2017 and 2022 Super Bowls.   When healthy, Seumalo is a very good player, but injuries derailed his 2020 and 2021 seasons ..read more