Abington Heights graduate John McNulty was promoted to quarterback coach of the National Football League’s Arizona Cardinals earlier this month.
McNulty spent the last three seasons as wide receivers coach of the Cardinals.
The former Penn State walk-on spent five seasons with Rutgers prior to joining Arizona. He also has NFL experience with the Jacksonville Jaguars and Dallas Cowboys.
The Seattle Seahawks made the official announcement Tuesday that Lackawanna Trail graduate John Glenn has been added to the NFL team’s coaching staff, as first reported in last week’s Go Lackawanna.
Glenn spent the last two seasons working as a quality control assistant for the University of Washington. The Seahawks added him as a coaching assistant, working with special teams.
The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins will return from three straight American Hockey League road games to play three home games in four days beginning Thursday.
The East Division-leading Penguins are home Thursday against Manchester and Saturday against Syracuse in 7:05 p.m. games. They are home again Sunday at 3:05 against Norfolk.
The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Steamers are home this afternoon, beginning one of their two busiest stretches of the Premier Basketball League season.
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre hosts the Dayton Air Strikers today at 3:05 at the Lackawanna College Student Union to start a stretch of four games in seven days.
The Steamers play at Dayton Wednesday at 7:05, are home Friday at 7:05 against the Lake Michigan Admirals and travel to Rochester to face the RazorSharks Saturday at 1:05 p.m.
In their most recent outing, the Steamers (4-4) suffered the worst loss of their inaugural season Feb. 11 in Rochester. The defending champion RazorSharks (8-1) handled the Steamers, 110-88.
Lionel Armstead, a former West Virginia University guard, had a team-high 14 points in his second game with the Steamers.
Lackawanna Trail graduate Keith Gavin went 2-2 Feb. 11 to finish seventh at 185 pounds in the Yasar Dogu International freestyle wrestling tournament in Ankara, Turkey.
Gavin, an NCAA Division I champion at the University of Pittsburgh, wrestles for the Lehigh Valley Athletic Club. He went 2-1 in matches against wrestlers from Turkey, then was eliminated with a loss to Poland’s Maciej Balawender.
Becky Burke tied one University of Louisville school record while leading the Cardinals to setting another during an 89-62 women’s basketball victory over Syracuse University Feb. 11.
Burke, a senior from Abington Heights, matched a school record with eight 3-pointers on her way to a career-high 28 points.
Louisville hit a record 18 3-pointers in the game.
Burke followed up that effort by scoring 15 points and hitting a pair of free throws with 15 seconds left in overtime to clinch a 71-66 victory over Pittsburgh for 19th-ranked Louisville Tuesday.



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