Chris Adamski stories, Page 88
In playing at Pitt, Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski recalls family ties to Western Pa.
There’s plenty to hold Mike Krzyzewski’s attention these days. The ACC regular-season title that the Duke team he coaches just won. The looming end of a 47-year Hall of Fame career. The upcoming conference and NCAA tournaments. An emotional final game at Cameron Indoor Stadium against rival North Carolina on...
Family of member of Pitt’s 1974 Elite 8 team Tom Richards donates $5 million to Pitt athletics
The grand lobby at the entrance to the Petersen Events Center has been renamed the Thomas E. Richards Family lobby in honor of the member of Pitt’s 1974 Elite Eight team who later became chair of the university’s board of trustees. Richards died in October, and his wife, Mary Beth,...
Pitt, coach Jeff Capel honor Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski with gift, video tributeVideo
In the minutes before his team began figuratively pounding Pitt into submission, Mike Krzyzewski was presented with a literal iron fist. True to form for a man whose soft-spoken and unobtrusive demeanor belies his status as a colossal basketball icon, Krzyzewski appeared choked up by the gesture. Tuesday night’s game...
Emotion of final home game can wait for Duke’s Coach K, who won’t look past Pitt
Mike Krzyzewski has spent more than 800 weeks as a college basketball head coach, logging 1,560 games on the sidelines. It was posited to him Monday that none of those prior weeks will be as emotional for him than this one. Nor that any previous game might pull at his...
Strong play down stretch makes Steelers’ decision tougher for free agent Ahkello Witherspoon
Unless he re-signs with the Pittsburgh Steelers, it’s possible Ahkello Witherspoon by the end of March will join a fourth NFL team over a 13-month span. The five-year NFL veteran cornerback was asked last month about his interest in putting down some roots with the Steelers. “I think I enjoyed...
Keep ’em? Let ’em walk? Making a case for each of the Steelers’ pending free agents
The Pittsburgh Steelers are in a much better spot with the salary cap now than they were a year ago when they lost five starters to free agency. Ben Roethlisberger’s salary is off the books, and the league-wide cap is bloated as the revenue-sapping effects of covid diminish. The Steelers...
Steelers confirm 4 more candidates interviewed for GM job
Add four names to the list of candidates interviewed by the Pittsburgh Steelers to be the organization’s next general manager. The team’s verified Twitter account revealed Friday evening that Green Bay Packers co-director of player personnel John Wojciechowski, Indianapolis Colts college scouting director Morocco Brown, Carolina Panthers assistant GM Dan...
After near-historic rookie season, Steelers TE Pat Freiermuth vows improvement in Year 2
Before taking the field of the Hall of Fame Game in August, Pat Freiermuth had been limited to four live football games over the previous 20 months. He would play in 21 over the ensuing 23 weeks. That’s almost as many as he played throughout the entirety of his career...
USFL reveals Pittsburgh Maulers uniforms
The rebooted Pittsburgh Maulers have their updated, modern-style fashion uniforms. One of eight teams in the United States Football League’s return this spring, the Maulers share a name and purple-and-orange color scheme with their forerunners who played one season as part of the original USFL in 1984. But the new...
Steelers name Pat Meyer as new offensive line coach
For the second time in a week, the Pittsburgh Steelers filled an open position on their offensive coaching staff with a former Carolina Panthers assistant. On Tuesday, the Steelers announced the hiring of Pat Meyer as offensive line coach. On Feb. 8, the Steelers named Frisman Jackson their wide receivers...
Cameron Sutton evolved into every-down leader for Steelers in ‘21
Throughout his NFL career, Cameron Sutton has been the man who could do everything for the Pittsburgh Steelers. It wasn’t until Year 5, though, when Sutton did do everything for them, and on a full-time basis. Only one Steelers player (Terrell Edmunds) was on the field more often during the...
The longshot Steelers? Only 7 teams have worse odds to win next year’s Super Bowl
The end of the Super Bowl means the NFL world is already looking forward to next year’s championship. Locally, they might not like what they see. The odds for who will win Super Bowl LVII are out — and they aren’t kind to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Only seven of the...
Ben Roethlisberger’s career highlights span more than 2 decades
1997-2000 Benjamin Todd Roethlisberger stars in three sports at Findlay High School in his native northwest Ohio hometown. He did not start at quarterback until his senior season, after the head coach’s son had graduated. 2000-03 In part because of his limited high school game exposure, big-time college programs bypass...
The ‘other’ veteran leader who might’ve played his last game for the Steelers: Joe Haden
Last month, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ oldest, most veteran NFL player got plenty of attention while playing his final games. But what about the team’s second-oldest and second-most tenured NFL player who was still active at the end of the 2021 season? His Steelers career also very well could have come...
Was Trai Turner’s first season with the Steelers also his last?
Trai Turner joined the Pittsburgh Steelers in June. Was he done with them by January? Turner during the 2021 season dutifully filled his designated role as starting right guard and steadying veteran presence for a young offensive line. But he played under a one-year contract which, by its nature, suggests...
Steelers president Art Rooney II addresses progress, shortcomings with Rooney Rule
For all of the philanthropic efforts Dan Rooney was involved in over a lifetime of roles with the Pittsburgh Steelers, perhaps no part of the late Steelers patriarch’s legacy will endure more than the NFL rule that bears his name. But nowadays, despite being regarded as having the best of...
With Mike Munchak on the market, interim Steelers OL coach Chris Morgan leaves for Bears
The Pittsburgh Steelers soon will have their fifth offensive line coach since January 2019. Or maybe could it, perhaps, be an old name to fill the newest incarnation of the job’s opening? Chris Morgan, the Steelers’ assistant O-line coach in 2021 who filled in as the top position coach late...
Diontae Johnson is their No. 1 WR, but will Steelers give him an extension like one?
Through Christmas Day, the Pittsburgh Steelers had to be feeling merry about the future of the top of their wide receivers corps. Diontae Johnson had established himself as a legitimate NFL No. 1 WR, and at the perfect time, too, seeing as how he was due for a contract extension...
Tre Norwood builds off one of best rookie seasons ever for a Steelers’ 7th-round pick
Time will tell if Tre Norwood has a decadelong career like Carlos Emmons, or if he ends up winning a pair or Super Bowls like Brett Keisel. But, based on a solid first season of his NFL career, Norwood is on the way to something special. A versatile defensive back,...
Alex Highsmith vows continued improvement for Steelers in ‘22
Over the course of four years in college, Alex Highsmith went from walk-on to among the best at his position in the country. What can he do over a similar timeframe in the NFL? “I just don’t want to get complacent,” the Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker said. “That’s the last...
Acquired off scrap heap, Montravius Adams showed he might deserve to remain a Steeler
The day after the final game on his current contract with the Pittsburgh Steelers, defensive end Montravius Adams wore an Auburn t-shirt to the Steelers’ facility. To hear Adams tell it, it could have been a shirt of Mom’s favorite home-cooked meal, or of his grandma’s house instead of his...
10 great moments in Steelers career of Ben Roethlisberger
There were Super Bowl wins, big plays en route to getting to those Super Bowls, big passing-yardage games and last-second victories. Oh, and lots and lots of prized memories made against the Baltimore Ravens. With Thursday’s official announcement from Ben Roethlisberger on his retirement from the Pittsburgh Steelers, fans were...
Steelers’ T.J. Watt named Pro Football Writers of America’s NFL defensive player of year
Though it remains to be seen if he will end up with the most recognized annual NFL-wide defensive honor, T.J. Watt has been named an NFL defensive player of the year for the first time in his career. Watt was voted as the league’s best defensive player for the 2021...
Steelers have a long history with OT rules, including 1st OT playoff game under current format
With the NFL’s overtime rules at the top of many fans’ minds in the wake of Sunday night’s thrilling playoff game between Buffalo and Kansas City, it has been largely forgotten that the first overtime played under the current format involved the Pittsburgh Steelers. In this town, it’s not remembered...
T.J. Watt, Cameron Heyward named to Pro Football Writers of America All-NFL team
Pittsburgh Steelers defensive standouts T.J. Watt and Cameron Heyward were named to the Pro Football Writers of America All-NFL team for the 2021 season, the organization announced Monday. Watt, who was honored for the third consecutive season, shared the outside linebacker position with former Penn State star Micah Parsons. Parsons,...
