Chris Adamski stories, Page 135
Penguins’ 2016 Stanley Cup Final wins, 2009 Game 7 to air on TV, radio
The Stanley Cup playoffs would have begun Wednesday, and as such potentially could have been one of the most-watched and listened-to nights of the year on AT&T SportsNet and 105.9 FM radio. In lieu of what could have been Game 1 of a Pittsburgh Penguins-Philadelphia Flyers first-round series, the stations...
Patrick Marleau remains hopeful he’ll still get shot at Stanley Cup with PenguinsVideo
Patrick Marleau is stuck some 2,500 miles from Pittsburgh, and the 3 ½ weeks he has been separated from the Pittsburgh Penguins now dwarfs the brief time he has played for them. Asked Monday about his tenure with the Penguins, Marleau began by using the past tense — twice. Marleau...
In covid-19 era, will 2020 see sports join 1994 MLB, 2005 NHL as champion-less seasons?
A year without awarding the Stanley Cup? No 2020 NBA champion? Even, perhaps, no World Series or Super Bowl winner? All are seemingly in play as the nation — and world — deals with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The major sports leagues in North America have been shut down in...
Steelers on to Plan D or E in long quest to find tight end to succeed Heath Miller
The familiar calls of “HEEEEEEEATH” from the Heinz Field crowd have faded in the four years since Heath Miller announced his retirement. There probably still are some fans, even with Miller at 37, who are still making those elongated cries in an effort to bring him back to Pittsburgh. Since...
Penguins’ Bryan Rust, Zach Aston-Reese, Marcus Pettersson buy 500 pizzas for needy
In another example of goodwill by athletes from local pro sports teams during the coronavirus pandemic, Pittsburgh Penguins players Bryan Rust, Zach Aston-Reese and Marcus Pettersson purchased 500 personal pizzas for local community distribution centers. The Fox’s Pizza Den personal-sized pizzas were delivered early Friday to the locales in the...
One day at a time, NFL to re-air every Sunday of 2019 season
Questions persist about whether the 2020 NFL season will be played. And in lieu of a “virtual” season, how about re-living the most recent regular season, in real time? The NFL, through its popular RedZone channel, is giving sports-starved fans that opportunity, over a 17-day span beginning Monday. Starting then,...
Mike Sullivan appreciates time at home, balances keeping Penguins engagedVideo
Mike Sullivan has spent more time working on his pickleball game than Sidney Crosby has on the ice. There’s a much better chance Sullivan is lost in a hardcover novel these days than he’s finding himself immersed in an opponent’s detailed scouting report. As in most of the rest of...
Betting site: Steelers more likely to place 3rd in AFC North than to win it
There are myriad futures betting options available for those who follow the NFL, from wagering on the Super Bowl winner to each division’s champion to over/under individual team wins. Another is betting on what place a team will finish in its division. At least one site believes it is more...
Penguins’ Mike Sullivan: doctors, nurses, law enforcement ‘are our true heroes’
Mike Sullivan cracked a joke to open up his video conference call with media Tuesday. “I never thought I’d say this,” the Pittsburgh Penguins coach said, his sly smirk visible even through the choppy nature of the call, “but I’m happy to be doing this today.” A Boston-area native and...
If NHL resumes play, 2 weeks needed for minicamp, Penguins’ Mike Sullivan saysVideo
Mike Sullivan knows the answer isn’t an easy one, but the Pittsburgh Penguins coach insisted the NHL has “great leadership” that he’s willing to entrust to make the correct decision. But in Sullivan’s opinion, the league’s players would need “somewhere in the timeframe of two weeks” to ramp back up...
Mike Sullivan: Win at N.J. showed Penguins were emerging from funk, have momentumVideo
There is no good timing, of course, for a pandemic or for the paralyzation of the economy facing the nation. But to coach Mike Sullivan, the pause of the NHL season came at a particularly bad time for his Pittsburgh Penguins. Twenty-four hours before the league’s final games before the...
NHL player vote: Penguins’ Sidney Crosby ‘most complete player,’ but not best forward
The NHL’s players apparently do not consider Sidney Crosby to be the league’s best forward — but they do view him as the game’s most complete player. And if the stakes are highest, they’re still sticking with Sid. The NHL Players Association on Tuesday released the results of their annual...
Pirates preventing Jameson Taillon from pitching in 2020
A pitcher who has already had all too much of his baseball career affected by injury and health, Jameson Taillon acknowledges that he’s allowed the fierce competitor inside of him to lobby to return to a major-league mound in 2020. “Yeah, I’d be lying if I said that I hadn’t...
Pirates’ Jameson Taillon against neutral-site World SeriesVideo
During a conference call with Pittsburgh media Monday afternoon, Jameson Taillon repeatedly asserted players were open to a myriad of possibilities aimed at salvaging as much of the 2020 MLB season as possible. “Players,” the Pittsburgh Pirates union representative said, “will visit just about anything.” There is one thing, though,...
Steelers lag well behind Ravens in odds to win AFC North
The Baltimore Ravens remain a heavy favorite to win the AFC North this season — assuming it is played at all — but the Pittsburgh Steelers are by far the No. 2 choice. According to odds released on FoxBet.com, the reigning division champions are a 3-to-5 pick to win the...
Penguins moments part of fan-voted tournament as best of NHL seasonVideo
The combination of a new sort of March Madness and the current trend of re-living past sporting events has resulted in an online “tournament” of the best games of the NHL season. The league’s social media platforms are encouraging fans to vote on 64 “moments” from its 2019-20 games —...
Jim Rutherford thinks long layoff would help Penguins. Would it?
When Sidney Crosby was asked during an NHL-run video call which teammate he would want to be stuck in quarantine with, he was quick with an answer. “Kris Letang,” Crosby said during the Zoom call open to media. “He’s in the know. He’d get all the info. I’d have a...
Training staff seeks creative ways to keep Pirates players engaged, in shape
Though the number of Pittsburgh Pirates players who have remained in the team’s spring-training home city of Bradenton, Fla., has dwindled, the ones who remain still are getting in work in an effort to maintain some semblance of baseball conditioning. The players remaining in Bradenton — some are in Pittsburgh,...
How Penguins captain Sidney Crosby is passing the timeVideo
At a time of year when he typically would be laser-focused on the Pittsburgh Penguins’ push to the playoffs and quest to win the Stanley Cup for a fourth time with him as captain, the hockey-obsessed Sidney Crosby instead has found himself immersed in … Formula 1 racing? To pass...
Penguins’ Sidney Crosby would be OK with NHL jumping right into playoffsVideo
Easy for him to say, with his team holding a coveted Eastern Conference playoff spot. But Sidney Crosby would be OK if, when the NHL season resumes, the league goes directly into the postseason. “You try to get in as many games you can,” the Pittsburgh Penguins captain said during...
Injured Pirates pitchers Steven Brault, Clay Holmes ‘progressing, improving’
If Opening Day had gone on as scheduled Thursday, Steven Brault and Clay Holmes would have began the season on the Pittsburgh Pirates injured list. But the pitchers are progressing in their rehabs from injuries suffered during spring training, according to director of sports medicine Todd Tomczyk. Brault was shut...
NHL postpones its draft and related events
The NHL announced Wednesday the postponement of its upcoming draft and related events, adding another sports event casualty to the worldwide coronavirus pandemic. The 2020 draft was scheduled for June 26-27 in Montreal. But with league play suspended indefinitely, at this point it is near-certain the playoffs still will be...
Even if season extends late, Pirates won’t change Jameson Taillon’s timeline
As rumors swirl about the Major League Baseball season perhaps extending as late as Christmas, some of the unintended benefits of the awful coronavirus situation could be injured players whose rehabs are progressing while no one else is playing. Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Jameson Taillon is not one of the players...
Penguins’ Jake Guentzel’s ‘rehab going well’; could return after play resumes
When the time frame associated with Jake Guentzel’s recovery first was announced after he underwent shoulder surgery Dec. 31, it didn’t leave much margin for him to return this season. With the season pushed back indefinitely, Guentzel’s potential for an impact on the Pittsburgh Penguins’ chase of the 2020 Stanley...
Newcomer Derek Watt expected to centerpiece Steelers’ new-look special teams
Among the departures from the Pittsburgh Steelers roster over the past 13 months have been L.J. Fort, Darrius Heyward-Bey, Tyler Matakevich, Anthony Chickillo and Roosevelt Nix. Insignificant? In the context that the five combined to play an average of only 8.65% of the Steelers offensive or defensive snaps over their...
