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Thirty minutes before throwing out the ceremonial first pitch before the Pittsburgh Pirates played the New York Yankees at PNC Park, Bill Mazeroski started windmilling his arm, reminding that he’s now 86. The Hall of Fame second baseman reminisced about the greatest play in Pirates history, his historic Game 7...

Gerrit Cole worked 7821⁄3 innings for the Pirates in five seasons, more than the combined total he has accumulated pitching for the Houston Astros and New York Yankees since leaving Pittsburgh. That’s a lot of pitches, significant stress on his right arm and legs — his mind, too — and...

Because of where he grew up, Kevin Rader knows his way around Pittsburgh better than most of his Steelers teammates. Because of how long he has stuck in the organization, few on the team know their way around UPMC Rooney Sports Complex better than Rader, either. A Pine-Richland alumnus, the...

After dealing with a back problem since the season opener, Yoshi Tsutsugo started to swing pain-free while on his rehab assignment at Triple-A Indianapolis. When Tsutsugo hit a grand slam Saturday in a 10-8 loss to Nashville, the first baseman believe he was ready to return to the Pittsburgh Pirates...

Ten members of the Pittsburgh Passion women’s football team have been picked to play in the 2022 Xenith All-American Game on Sunday at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, Ohio. First-team All-Americans are strong safety Devon Peace, defensive back Rebecca Ehrgood, defensive ends Kim Zubovic and Kaitlyn Niedermeyer,...

One of the biggest questions entering the Penguins’ offseason was answered Tuesday when backup goaltender Casey DeSmith was re-signed. The team’s backup goaltender for three of the past four seasons, DeSmith agreed to a two-year contract extension worth $1.8 per season. He is in the final weeks of a three-year...

WIMBLEDON, England — It says a lot about Novak Djokovic that a two-sets-to-none hole at Wimbledon on a day he was hardly at his best never seemed insurmountable. Djokovic spotted 10th-seeded Jannik Sinner of Italy the huge lead Tuesday, then worked his way back to win 5-7, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2,...

CALAIS, France — Belgian rider Wout van Aert won the hilly fourth stage of the Tour de France and extended his overall lead after attacking strongly on the day’s final climb on Tuesday. The Belgian rider kept the leader’s yellow jersey for the Jumbo-Visma team after taking it for the...

A Southern California native and veteran of several Big Ten winters, Myles Johnson knows the first words likely uttered by former Pac-12 athletes once their new conference smacks them like a midwinter Lake Michigan breeze. “Help! Help!” Johnson, the onetime Rutgers center who spent his final college basketball season at...

ZURICH — Appeals by Russia and its ally Belarus against bans from the world ice hockey championship following the invasion of Ukraine were rejected by the international governing body. The decision “was not a sanction but was a safety policy” and also “the safety policy was not discriminatory and was...

Young Township entered this week’s games third out of nine teams in District 31 in the Westmoreland American Legion Baseball League. Team manager and coach Ryan Staats helped put the team together, along with Jason Sowers from Apollo-Ridge, Mike Coleman, who pulled most of the players from Armstrong County, and...

Jalen Cloud helped the Cal (Pa.) 400-meter relay team post the second-best time in the Atlantic Region this spring while at the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Championships. For their performance, the group earned U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association all-region status. Cloud, a Kiski Area graduate, joined...

WIMBLEDON, England — Before being interviewed on Centre Court about his return to the Wimbledon quarterfinals, Nick Kyrgios traded in his all-white grass-court shoes for a red-and-white pair of basketball sneakers, and swapped out his white hat for a red one. Big deal? Not to Kyrgios. Not to many, probably....

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...

INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 38-39) beat Iowa (Cubs), 5-4, in a walk-off in the 10th inning. SS/2B Kevin Newman (.409) singled home 1B Mason Martin and C Carter Bins with the winning runs in the 10th. Newman was 3 for 5. Martin (.201) was 2 for 5. DH Cal Mitchell (.331) was...

NEW YORK — Frankfurter-munching phenom Joey “Jaws” Chestnut gobbled his way to a 15th win Monday at the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July hot dog eating contest, powering down 63 hot dogs and buns at the annual exhibition of excess. In a decisive chowdown comeback, women’s record-holder Miki Sudo downed...