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Blood pressure skyrocketed in Pittsburgh when Acrisure Stadium was christened and the ketchup bottles were removed. They were presumably stored right next to the Joe Paterno statue. But locals already have found a different insignificance to babble about. (It never takes long.) The EA Sports Madden NFL video game player...

PEYRAGUDES, France — Tadej Pogacar claimed a third stage win as he sprinted away from Jonas Vingegaard in the punishing last climb of a grueling trek in the Pyrenees on Wednesday but failed to take significant time out of the Tour de France leader. As it has been so often...

ATLANTA — Nick Saban has been vocal about his issues with the status quo in name, image and likeness deals and their use in recruiting. But it’s not like Alabama’s coach and his players haven’t benefited, too. Saban said Crimson Tide players have made more than $3 million in NIL...

LOS ANGELES — Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred defended the sport’s treatment of minor leaguers, prompting immediate criticism from a players’ advocacy group. “I kind of reject the premise of the question that minor league players are not paid a living wage,” Manfred told the Baseball Writers’ Association of America before...

LOS ANGELES — The All-Star Game showcased what baseball has become — home runs, strikeouts and offense-killing shifts. The National League didn’t have a hit between the first and eighth innings of Tuesday night’s 3-2 loss, its ninth in a row. In a sport where R&D has become as important...

Editor’s note: From now until the first practice of training camp at Saint Vincent College, the Trib will be running through the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 90-man roster, assessing each player’s outlook for the 2022 season. The breakdown will go through the roster in mostly-alphabetical order, two per day, between June 11...

When it comes to some of the pitchers the Pittsburgh Pirates picked in the MLB Draft, never mind the numbers. That was the warning from Pirates senior director of amateur scouting Joe DelliCarri, who shared his excitement about draft picks whose resumes might give some pause as to why they...

Former Steelers wide receiver Charles Johnson has died at the age of 50, a North Carolina television station reported Tuesday night. Johnson was the Steelers’ first-round pick in the 1994 draft. A cause of death was not reported. Johnson played five seasons with the team, catching 247 passes for 3,400...

LOS ANGELES — Giancarlo Stanton homered in his Dodger Stadium homecoming, Byron Buxton followed with another drive, and the American League won its ninth straight All-Star Game, beating the National League, 3-2, on Tuesday night. Fans rooting for a tie score after nine innings so they could see a first-time...

Feeling he had more to prove as a college pitcher, Jared Kollar took advantage of a fifth year of eligibility and played last season at Rutgers. What did he prove? That he might have major-league talent. The crafty right-hander out of Latrobe and Seton Hill was signed Tuesday night to...

Brady Pevarnik was sort of in a slump the past few seasons. Once an up-and-coming player alongside the likes of Palmer Jackson and Mark Goetz, Pevarnik’s game had slipped a little. A broken right wrist suffered while playing pick-up basketball sidelined him for more than a year and a half....

The Bushy Run American Legion baseball team needed to win two games Tuesday if it hoped to qualify for the state tournament at Boyertown on Saturday. The day started well as Bushy Run used two big innings — a three-run first inning and a four-run eighth inning — to defeat...

LOS ANGELES — The Baltimore Orioles aimed high with their 13th-round draft pick. A full seven feet — and that’s before their new pitching prospect gets on the mound. The O’s selected 7-foot left-hander Jared Beck from Saint Leo University with the first pick in Round 13 of baseball’s amateur...

Name, Image and Likeness deals could improve the lives of some high school athletes, but there’s also real concern about manipulation by misguided adults, says the WPIAL’s top administrator. The discussion about NIL money and its impact on high school athletics increased in recent days after the PIAA board revealed...

Ben Cherington was adamant the Pittsburgh Pirates didn’t set out to stockpile pitchers in the MLB Draft but it certainly worked out that way when their three-day total amounted to 16 arms out of 21 picks. The Pirates used eight of their final 10 picks Tuesday on pitchers. In total,...

Michael Turconi is among the latest Western Pennsylvania products to be selected in the 2022 MLB Draft. The Blackhawk graduate and redshirt junior on the Wake Forest baseball team was drafted Tuesday afternoon by the Toronto Blue Jays with the No. 458 pick in the 15th round. Turconi follows a...

FOIX, France — Canadian cyclist Hugo Houle claimed an emotional first-ever grand tour stage victory Tuesday, while Jonas Vingegaard stayed in the overall lead of the Tour de France after a tough 16th stage as the race hit the Pyrenees. Houle attacked on the approach to the final climb, the...

The retooling of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ defensive line continued Tuesday with the signing of veteran tackle Doug Costin to a one-year contract. Costin (6-foot-2, 295 pounds) spent the past two seasons with the Jacksonville Jaguars and Cincinnati Bengals. He played in 13 games, starting nine, recording 33 tackles (13 solos),...

As Pittsburghers come to terms with the renaming of their football stadium, there’s at least one Steelers player who is accepting the new branding of his workplace. Black and Gold fans appear to have nearly universal disdain for a Michigan-based insurance company’s purchase of the naming rights to what has...

The Butler Blue Sox field one of the youngest teams in the Tri-State Summer Collegiate League at Pullman Park. Despite their youth, the Blue Sox are picking up steam and swinging hot sticks as the season progresses. Valley News Dispatch Baseball Player of the Year Justin Brannagan, who graduated from...