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Luke DeCock: Things going south in a hurry for Hurricanes vs. Bruins
BOSTON — People talk about pushing the panic button like it’s always a bad thing. When things are desperate but not quite dire, there’s a lot to be said for staying the course, pushing a little harder, renovating instead of demolishing. Then there are those moments when there aren’t any...
High school scores, schedules for May 12, 2019
High Schools Baseball WPIAL Playoffs Class 6A First round Thursday’s schedule Upper St. Clair (12-6) vs. Hempfield (11-9) at West Mifflin, 4 p.m.; Peters Township (13-6) vs. Butler (6-13) at Boyce Mayview Park in Upper St. Clair, 7 p.m.; Norwin (13-6) vs. Mt. Lebanon (10-10) at West Mifflin, 2 p.m.;...
Kawhi Leonard’s last-second shot vaults Raptors to Eastern Conference FinalsVideo
It was four bounces one country will never forget. Kawhi Leonard’s buzzer-beater jumper will send the Toronto Raptors to the Eastern Conference Finals with a 92-90 win over the Philadelphia 76ers. KAWHI CALLED SERIES! pic.twitter.com/V4AIuMULNO— Toronto Raptors (@Raptors) May 13, 2019 At first, Leonard’s shot did not look as if...
Pirates farm report for games of May 12, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 18-16): Game at Lehigh Valley (Phillies) was postponed by rain. Next: Tuesday vs. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (Yankees), 7:05 p.m. ALTOONA (Double-A, 18-17): Lost to Erie (Tigers), 14-4. LF Logan Hill (.252) was 2 for 2 with two runs and an RBI. 3B Hunter Owen (.306) was 2 for 4 with...
Back from ‘dark place,’ WVU product Will Grier lives out dream
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Will Grier’s first practice Friday morning as a Carolina Panther was rainy and unremarkable. What was remarkable, however, is that Grier was there at all. It wasn’t that many years ago that Grier was sitting alongside his dad and his other relatives in Section 229 at Bank...
John Steigerwald: Future of fandom is almost unrecognizable
Are you a fluid fan? Probably not, considering this has nothing to do with being in favor of drinking a lot of fluids while attending a game. And probably not if you’re older than 17. Fluid Fan is a term created by Sports Innovation Lab to describe fans of the...
Trib HSSN Baseball Player of the Week: Jimmy Sadler, Chartiers-Houston
Jimmy Sadler School: Chartiers-Houston Class: Sophomore The Trib HSSN Baseball Player of the Week is Chartiers-Houston sophomore Jimmy Sadler, who was a combined 6 for 8 with five runs, four RBIs, four walks, a double and a home run in wins over Burgettstown, Fort Cherry and Vincentian Academy. “Jimmy’s pitch...
TribHSSN Baseball Team of the Week for the week of May 6, 2019
The Trib HSSN Baseball Team of the Week is North Allegheny, a squad that is on a roll heading into the playoffs after winning all three of its games last week. The week began with a showdown against section champion Pine-Richland in the Section 1-6A finale. The Tigers blanked the...
TribLive High School Sports Network broadcasts for the week of May 13, 2019
The regular season is history, now the spring high school sports postseason begins this week on the TribLive High School Sports Network. Trib HSSN begins its exclusive coverage of the WPIAL baseball and softball playoffs with 21 first-round and quarterfinals softball games and 30 WPIAL preliminary- and first-round baseball contests...
Trib HSSN volleyball power rankings: For games ending May 12, 2019
A couple of flip-flops are the only changes in the Trib HSSN weekly WPIAL boys volleyball power rankings as the regular season concludes. For the second straight week, Hempfield and Seneca Valley traded spots, with the Spartans falling to No. 8 and the Raiders moving to No. 7. The other...
Trib HSSN lacrosse power rankings: For games ending the week of May 11, 2019
As the regular season concludes, the same 10 teams — with some slight alterations — remain in this week’s Trib HSSN weekly Power Rankings for boys and girls lacrosse. There is a new top team on the boys side and a couple of teams making double jumps on the girls...
Hugh Hewitt: Senate has important work to do. Why waste time subpoenaing Donald Trump Jr.?
There are six vacancies on the U.S. Court of Appeals, with two more vacancies certain to occur and many more likely to happen before January 2021 as older members of the courts eager to be replaced by center-right judges take “senior status.” Each is nearly as important to preserving liberty,...
Penn-Trafford grad Lydia DeFazio smashing success for Mt. Aloysius softball
Lydia DeFazio began her college search during her junior year at Penn-Trafford. It lasted all of one visit. The first campus DeFazio toured was Mount Aloysius, located just off Route 22 in Cresson. The Cambria County institution offered everything the softball standout needed. “I always wanted to go to a...
Giants’ Derek Holland calls injury ‘fake,’ rips front office
SAN FRANCISCO — The Giants weren’t pleased with Derek Holland’s results in the starting rotation, so they asked the struggling left-hander to pitch in relief. If Holland wanted to express frustration with the decision, manager Bruce Bochy and president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi have said their doors are always...
Editorial: Route 30 study needs to be realistic
Good transportation moves the economy. That’s why Route 30 needs to be addressed. It’s a big road. It’s an important road. For more than 100 years, it has been there, connecting a string of communities in a dotted line east to west across Pennsylvania. And that makes it a draw...
Waynesburg HS grad Rachel Rohanna preps for 3rd U.S. Women’s Open
In her most recent trip to the U.S. Women’s Open, Rachel Rohanna had her week come to an abrupt and disappointing end. One shot inside the cut line heading into the penultimate hole of her second round, the Waynesburg High School grad took a six on the par-3 17th at...
Letter to the editor: Help for those who stutter
I’d like to ask your readers: Do you stutter? Do you know someone who does? Most people do. More than 3 million Americans and 70 million people across the globe stutter, but sadly, stuttering is still quite misunderstood. Help us change that. May 13-19 is National Stuttering Awareness Week. To...
Letter to the editor: Robert Mueller should say something
We have now witnessed both the Trumpwash and the Hirono megaslander approaches. But I can’t help but place the blame for all this sturm und drang on … Robert Mueller. The guy had unlimited resources. And after all that (and setting aside that he probably knew no collusion well before...
Letter to the editor: Presidential candidates sound incompetent
After listening to presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders and others talk, here are my thoughts on: • Letting prisoners vote: These people gave up their rights when they committed crimes. They lost this freedom as a part of their punishment. • College loan forgiveness: What about all the people who did...
Shaler Bike Rodeo to teach children bicycle safety
Children may wrangle their bikes through an obstacle course at the 12th annual Bike Rodeo at Glenshaw’s Kiwanis Park. “Our skills course is based off a challenge course from the Cub Scouts,” said Shaler police Officer Dennis Gapsky III. “It contains eight different stations, which are designed to help the...
Ohio roundhouse displays a century of locomotive history
Jerry Jacobson was a young boy in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, living near the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, when he first fell in love with steam trains. Fast forward more than 50 years, and dozens of objects of Jacobson’s affection are on display in a new tourist attraction, the Age of...
Local caterer shares mom’s recipe
John Marshall, owner of John Marshall Catering, has been a resident of Gibsonia for 53 years. If you have ever been to an event that he has catered, you will never forget the creativity that goes into his menus and the expertise displayed by his creations. Recently, John won the...
‘Run, Hide, Fight’ mindset making way into U.S. schools
BALTIMORE — The actions of students who died tackling gunmen at two U.S. campuses a week apart have been hailed as heroic. At a growing number of schools across the country, they also reflect guidance to students, at least in some situations, to do what they can to disrupt shootings....
One by one, D-Day memories fade as war’s witnesses die
PARIS — One more funeral, one less witness to the world’s worst war. Bernard Dargols lived almost long enough to join the celebrations next month marking 75 years since D-Day, 75 years since he waded onto Omaha Beach as an American soldier to help liberate France from the Nazis who...
China names its trade-deal price as Trump sets month deadline
WASHINGTON — China for the first time made clear what it wants to see from the U.S. in talks to end their trade war, laying bare the deep differences that still exist between the two sides. In a wide-ranging interview with Chinese media after talks in Washington ended Friday, Vice...
