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After the Steelers plodded to a 25-10 loss against the Los Angeles Chargers Sunday night, coach Mike Tomlin was asked to assess the performance of his quarterback, Aaron Rodgers. “How would you?” Tomlin replied. “Next.” OK. Not exactly Tommy Lasorda talking about Dave Kingman. But we get the point. Anyone...

ESPN’s “College GameDay” choosing Pittsburgh as its broadcast location this weekend reflects brightly on the position Pitt occupies as it pertains to chasing an ACC title game berth and a College Football Playoff appearance. Both are in play for the No. 23 Panthers (7-2, 5-1 ACC), whereas No. 9 Notre...

It’s official: ESPN’s “College GameDay” has arrived in the Steel City. Crew members from one of the sports network’s marquee shows flew into Pittsburgh Monday to lay the groundwork for this weekend’s televised football matchup between Pitt and Notre Dame, ESPN spokeswoman Amanda Brooks told TribLive. The crew quickly started...

The Pittsburgh Steelers added a veteran piece to the secondary by signing cornerback Asante Samuel Jr. to their practice squad, a league source confirmed Tuesday. Samuel, 26, is a five-year NFL veteran who has not played since September 2024 because of a shoulder injury that required what was referred to...

The Countdown to Cumberland Valley begins this weekend with the official start of the 2025 football playoffs. The first round and the quarterfinals are the merge points in the state playoffs as many of the matchups are still considered district postseason matches. So far, the teams making up the Trib...

Tuesday’s “First Call” has a connection between Mike Tomlin and the New York Giants coaching vacancy. We have injury news from the Cincinnati Bengals and Baltimore Ravens. There are some gambling trends to track in the Steelers-Bengals game on Sunday. And we look at a busy start to the week...

Five things we learned from Sunday night’s Pittsburgh Steelers’ 25-10 defeat at the Los Angeles Chargers: 1. Time of (no) possession I The Steelers’ time of possession of 22 minutes, 25 seconds was a season low for a team that’s among the NFL’s worst at time of possession. It lowered...

Duquesne faced its first serious test Tuesday night against an unlikely opponent. It took overtime for the Dukes to pass Queens’ spirited challenge. John Hugley IV scored 27 points and grabbed 11 rebounds and the Dukes overcame a furious comeback by Queens to beat the Royals, 87-81, at UPMC Cooper...

Former Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Simon Despres has signed with the Fife Flyers, a Scottish team based in the United Kingdom’s Elite Ice Hockey League. That team announced the transaction with a release on Tuesday. Despres, 34, was a first-round draft pick (No. 30 overall) of the Penguins in 2009. In...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Freddie Dilione V scored 19 points off the bench, freshman Kayden Mingo added 16 and Penn State held off Navy, 80-71, on Tuesday night. Penn State has started 3-0 for the fourth straight season and fifth time in the last seven years. Navy got within 63-60 with...

Cleveland’s Stephen Vogt won his second straight AL Manager of the Year award, and Milwaukee’s Pat Murphy repeated for the NL honor. Vogt received 17 of 30 first-place votes in balloting by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, beating Toronto’s John Schneider and Seattle’s Dan Wilson. Voting was conducted before...

The top five teams remained unchanged, and Texas Tech leapt two spots to No. 6 in the second version of this year’s College Football Playoff rankings, which were announced Tuesday night. The three remaining FBS unbeaten teams are at the top of the rankings, with defending champion Ohio State No....

Grove City advanced to the NCAA men’s soccer tournament for the first time since 1980. Now, “Murrysville North” wants more. Grove City (15-2-2) features several players and coaches with Franklin Regional ties: basically the entire collection of Kimmichs and a coach who helped power Franklin Regional to back-to-back WPIAL championships...

Now that Marquez Valdes-Scantling has been part of the Pittsburgh Steelers for a week, would coach Mike Tomlin become more open to praising the veteran receiver or speculating how or when he might be deployed on the active roster? Not during Tomlin’s weekly news conference Tuesday, no. Tomlin again dismissed...

The Pittsburgh Steelers are a bad team. The host Los Angeles Chargers were badly banged up for Sunday’s prime-time clash, but the Steelers were flat, Aaron Rodgers performed at a New York Jets level of bumbling, big-money bozos T.J. Watt and DK Metcalf were invisible and the Steelers committed hara-kiri by...

It’s easy for 105.9 The X’s Mark Madden to explain how the Pittsburgh Steelers regressed so dramatically Sunday night in Los Angeles, following their big win over Indianapolis last week. “I could drive a truck down Main Street, U.S.A., and come back with 11 guys who could stop that Steelers...

Through the first two games of the season, a fast start had eluded Pitt, which still managed to beat Youngstown State and Longwood despite uneven efforts. But by the end of Monday’s contest at Petersen Events Center, a 78-66 triumph over Eastern Michigan, coach Jeff Capel could preach to his...

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — For all the extra work being applied by the Acrisure Stadium grounds crew this season, it pales in comparison to the time spent on the field by the Pittsburgh Steelers defense. Another case of the Steelers defense working overtime with little tangible result was on display Sunday...

The Pittsburgh Steelers swapped out safeties on their active roster Monday, claiming intriguing undrafted rookie Sebastian Castro and releasing season-opening starter Juan Thornhill. A former Super Bowl winner with the Kansas City Chiefs, Thornhill played 92% of the Steelers defensive snaps over the first two games of the season but...

As two dozen members of his family smiled with pride, the sign for Pete Hill Way was unveiled Monday afternoon amid fanfare at the corner of Hamilton and N. Lang Avenues in Homewood. They wore blue-and-gold jackets and hooded sweatshirts — the colors of Westinghouse High School — and celebrated...

Given the pedigree of Notre Dame football and Pitt’s own history of playing the Fighting Irish dating to 1930, Saturday’s showdown between the teams was not one requiring any manufactured hype. By nature of Pitt and Notre Dame being in the hunt for College Football Playoff berths, with the Panthers...

Andy Toole was watching. Apparently, his players sensed it, too. All Robert Morris’ veteran basketball coach wanted to see Monday night was a hint of maturity from his reconstructed team. “It’s all part of the process of becoming a good team,” Toole said following the new-look Colonials’ 93-47 dismantling of...

Navigating through a three-game stretch against Iowa (road), No. 1 Ohio State (road) and No. 2 Indiana (home) would be difficult for an established quarterback. Attempting to do it in your first three career starts? Three words sum up that task: baptism by fire. Penn State redshirt freshman quarterback Ethan...

Swin Cash read a love letter — to her mother. She recited the words after receiving an Africana Icon Award at the third annual Africanism Gala on Saturday at Heinz Hall in Downtown Pittsburgh. The evening, which highlighted Black beauty, was held in collaboration with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. It...