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Hilary Knight scores 3 in USA hockey gold-medal 6-3 win over CanadaVideo
BRAMPTON, Ontario — Hilary Knight scored three times, including the go-ahead goal with 3 minutes, 10 seconds left in regulation, and the Americans won their 10th women’s world hockey championships gold medal and first in four years with a 6-3 win over cross-border rival Canada on Sunday night. Caroline Harvey...
Defense, special teams shine but Pittsburgh Maulers fall to Breakers in opener
Reuben Foster walked the sideline with a black and gold sledgehammer late in the first half of the Pittsburgh Maulers’ season-opening game Sunday night. A first-round pick by the San Francisco 49ers in 2017, the linebacker forced a fumble near the goal line that fellow linebacker Kyahva Tezino recovered for...
Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo exits game with lower back bruise
MILWAUKEE — Giannis Antetokounmpo drove to the basket and took a hard fall. And just like that, the championship aspirations of the top-seeded Milwaukee Bucks got quite a bit more precarious. Antetokounmpo landed hard on his backside after getting fouled in the first quarter and left the Bucks’ Eastern Conference...
Matt Fitzpatrick wins RBC Heritage on 3rd extra holeVideo
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Matt Fitzpatrick defeated defending champion Jordan Spieth on the third playoff hole at the RBC Heritage on Sunday, stuffing his approach in close on the par-4 18th at Harbour Town to secure his first victory since the U.S. Open last June. Fitzpatrick hit a 9-iron...
Kyle Larson pulls away from Joey Logano to win at Martinsville
MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Kyle Larson passed Joey Logano with 29 laps to go and went on to win his second Cup Series race of the season Sunday at Martinsville Speedway on a day when NASCAR welcomed back Chase Elliott. Logano, who was forced to begin the race in the back...
Oklahoma women win 2nd straight NCAA gymnastics title
FORT WORTH, Texas — Trinity Thomas of Florida tied the NCAA record with her 28th career perfect 10 and Oklahoma won its second consecutive team title Saturday at the NCAA women’s gymnastics championships. It’s the top-ranked Sooners’ sixth title in nine years. They finished with 198.3875 points, 0.15 ahead of...
Tommy Edman hits bases-loaded single in 10th to lift Cardinals to walk-off win over Pirates
Andrew McCutchen came through in the 10th inning again for the Pittsburgh Pirates. This time, the St. Louis Cardinals had an answer. Tommy Edman hit a bases-loaded single to score Tyler O’Neill and lift the Cardinals to a 5-4 walk-off win over the Pirates on Sunday afternoon at Busch Stadium...
Pirates farm report for April 16, 2023: Malcom Nunez’s grand slam helps Indy blank St. Paul
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 7-8) won its second straight game with a 7-0 victory over St. Paul (Twins). C Tyler Heineman (.400) smacked a three-run homer in the fourth innings, and 1B Malcom Nunez (.217) hit a grand slam in the seventh inning. LF Cal Mitchell (.195) was 2 for 3. 2B...
NFL Draft primer: Texas running back trying to bring first-round value back to position
The latest barometer for how much — or how little — teams covet top running back prospects will be presented in the first round of the NFL Draft. Texas junior Bijan Robinson tallied the highest production score and the second-best athleticism rating at the NFL Combine. Draft analysts have Robinson...
With experienced hands, Phil Jurkovec holds the keys to Pitt’s offense
Phil Jurkovec turns 24 on Nov. 3, the day before Pitt plays Florida State, which (if all goes as well as some of the spring forecasts are insisting) could be a monumental game between two of the ACC’s best teams. You are reminded of Jurkovec’s birthday not to flood him...
Pirates place LHP Rob Zastryzny on 15-day IL with left elbow discomfort, recall Yohan Ramirez
A day after Rob Zastryzny allowed one run on one hit and two walks at St. Louis, the Pittsburgh Pirates placed the left-handed reliever on the 15-day injured list with left elbow discomfort. Pirates senior vice president of baseball operations Bryan Stroh, filling in for the general manager on the...
Brian Dumoulin among several Penguins players whose future is uncertain
In the annals of rock and roll, a select few individuals have been presented with the honorary title of “fifth Beatle,” recognizing their contributions to the highest-selling musical act of all-time. For the Pittsburgh Penguins, their hockey equivalent of the “Fab Four” undoubtedly is the trio of Sidney Crosby, Evgeni...
A spread and triple-double play in the NBA on Sunday: Best bets for April 16
BY GABE HENDERSON | Home Field Sports Each day, one of our experts will offer up a best bet (or two or three) that mobile sportsbooks are offering. It might be a traditional spread bet, a player prop or one of the various odds boosts that books offer. Here are...
Penn State Blue-White takeaways: Nittany Lions’ offense far from the finished product
STATE COLLEGE — The next time Penn State fans will be back in Beaver Stadium will be the Sept. 2 season opener against West Virginia. By then, the Nittany Lions will have gone through an offseason filled with internal hope and external expectations. We’ll find out in due time if...
Minor league report: Penguins, Nailers each lose season finalesVideo
Defenseman Ty Smith and forward Valtteri Puustinen each had a goal and two assists for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins who lost their season finale, 5-4, in overtime to the Charlotte Checkers at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Saturday. Forward Drake Caggiula recorded two assists for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (26-32-8-6) while forwards Ty...
Pirates farm report for April 15, 2023: Endy Rodriguez homers as Indy finally wins at home
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 6-8) ended a seven-game home losing streak with a 9-2 victory over St. Paul (Twins). C Endy Rodriguez (.267) went 3 for 5 with a home run, his second. SS Nick Gonzales (.275) went 4 for 5 with two doubles and a triple. 1B Miguel Andujar (.250) went...
Riverhounds get something off their chest in win over Rio Grande Valley
Albert Dikwa has scored plenty of goals with his right foot in his two-plus years with the Pittsburgh Riverhounds, but Saturday he used a different area of his body. In the 49th minute, Dikwa finished off a nice cross from Luke Biasi by using his chest to direct the ball...
Pitt notebook: Pat Narduzzi likes the ‘juice’ safety P.J. O’Brien brings to the defense
Pitt free safety P.J. O’Brien stood behind the podium, talking in staccato bursts, repeatedly clapping his hands for emphasis. If he plays football with the same enthusiasm, Pitt’s tradition of strong safety play — from Jordan Whitehead to Damar Hamlin to Erick Hallett to Brandon Hill — will continue. Pitt’s...
Defense dominates Blue-White, but QB Allar shows his potential for Penn StateVideo
STATE COLLEGE — Drew Allar’s path to the starting quarterback job at Penn State seems clear, even though Saturday afternoon’s Blue-White game was largely a defensive struggle. The Blue team edged the White, 10-0, at Beaver Stadium. The Nittany Lions’ top two quarterbacks, Allar and Beau Pribula, handled most of...
Everybody wins when brother competes against brother in Pitt’s spring game
Maybe Pat Narduzzi was kidding when he said the spring game winners eat steak and lobster whereas the losers will be served tofu for dinner. Actually, there were only winners Saturday during Pitt’s Blue-Gold game at Acrisure Stadium where the defense defeated the offense, 33-32, according to Narduzzi’s three-layered scoring...
Andrew McCutchen’s homer in 10th lifts Pirates past Cardinals
On Jackie Robinson Day, Andrew McCutchen paid tribute to the man who broke baseball’s color barrier with a home run and a hat tip. McCutchen, one of four Black American players on the Pittsburgh Pirates, hit a towering two-run leadoff homer in the top of the 10th inning to boost...
Lower Burrell author Girardi takes up cause of girls sports in her works
Tamara Girardi writes fictional sports stories that are based on her observations of the sometimes polarizing, always changing landscape of female sports. Things she has seen, heard about and even experienced are woven into the fabric of seven books the Lower Burrell author has published in the last year. The...
Elliott makes return at Martinsville after breaking legVideo
MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Chase Elliott makes his return to racing this weekend at Martinsville Speedway with one thing on his mind: winning. And that approach won’t change the rest of the season. Elliott has missed the last six Cup Series races after breaking his leg during a freak snowboarding accident...
Tristan Jarry headlines Penguins’ most prominent free agents
The vagueness of how injuries are released by NHL clubs, with designations rarely offering any specification beyond “upper-body” or “lower-body,” often creates more questions than answers when players get banged up. Naturally, speculation then ensues, as media and fans try to discern more precise details. No Pittsburgh Penguins player personified...
The Pirates remain longshots to win the NL Central
BY COREY LONG | Home Field Sports Contributor The Pittsburgh Pirates experienced somewhat of a roller coaster in its first week without shortstop Oneil Cruz, alternating wins and losses. Cruz, who fractured his ankle last Sunday against the White Sox, is expected to miss at least four months. The Pirates...
