Mar 3, 2013 3 min read

The McGuffey girls basketball team will travel to Gannon University Friday for a 6:30 p.m. game against Northeast in the PIAA Girls Class AA playoffs. The Highlanders, the seventh-place finisher in District 7 (WPIAL) have a 20-3 record. Northeast, the District 10 champion, is 22-3.

The South Fayette boys team will travel to North Allegheny High School Friday for a 7:30 p.m. game against Montour in the PIAA Boys Class AAA playoffs. The Lions, the sixth-place finisher in District 7, have a 14-10 record. Montour, the District 7 champion, is 21-4.

Oscar Pistorius is settling a three-year-old case against a former neighbor over reputation damages in a dispute that has now been overshadowed by the murder charges the Olympic star faces in the Valentine’s Day shooting of his girlfriend.

Pistorius’ reputation management firm confirmed the plans after the Sunday Tribune first reported the story. Lunice Johnston of Vuma said that the merits in the separate case ‘are no longer relevant.”

The Sunday Tribune said the dispute centered on accusations that Pistorius slammed a door on the former neighbor during a party while the athlete said that the woman was aggressive and injured herself.

Pistorius is free on bail facing murder charges in the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius says he shot her, mistaking her for an intruder.

Maggie Lucas scored 34 points to lead seventh-ranked Penn State to an 82-67 victory over No. 20 Nebraska on Sunday, clinching the Lady Lions’ second straight outright Big Ten championship and ending the Cornhuskers’ 10-game win streak.

Lucas made a career-high eight 3-pointers, with four of them coming in a bunch to help the Lady Lions stretch their lead in the first half and three more keeping the Huskers at bay early in the second.

Dogs aching to run bolted out of the chute Sunday to launch the 41st running of Alaska’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Now 65 teams will be making their way through punishing wilderness toward the finish line in Nome on Alaska’s western coast 1,000 miles away.

The Iditarod kicked off Saturday with an 11-mile jaunt through Anchorage, 50 miles south of the real starting line in the town of Willow. Sunday’s event marked the competitive portion of the race. Saturday’s ceremonial start took place amid a party-like atmosphere.

But Sunday’s mood was charged with tension as mushers switched to the business of racing at least among top mushers like defending champion Dallas Seavey and four-time winners Lance Mackey, Jeff King and Martin Buser.

Lauren Silberman’s NFL tryout lasted all of two kicks, neither of which traveled 20 yards.

Silberman became the first woman to compete at an NFL regional scouting combine Sunday, but left the New York Jets’ practice field after reinjuring her quadriceps. She tried two kickoffs, the first going 19 yards and the second about 13 yards, and then asked to see a trainer.

As more than two dozen media, including E! Entertainment network, watched her every move, the 28-year-old Silberman was examined off to the side of the practice field. About 30 minutes later, while 36 other kickers continued their workouts, she called the scene “surreal” and thanked the NFL for “this tremendous opportunity.”