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Yoshi Tsutsugo, who has been the Pittsburgh Pirates’ starting first baseman for 27 of the 43 games this season, was placed on the 10-day injured list Friday with a lumbar muscle strain. The move is officially retroactive to Wednesday. Infielder/outfielder Tucupita Marcano, who was acquired last year from the San...

Barely done with her playing days, Darien Lantz is ready to take on her first head-coaching job at the collegiate level. Lantz was announced Friday as the new women’s basketball coach at Pitt-Greensburg. She replaces Kelsey Oddis, who resigned and accepted another on-campus position. Lantz was an assistant at Thiel...

Jason Zucker wasn’t being anti-social. He wasn’t suggesting he was special, nor did he think his teammates smelled badly. But during the home games of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ first-round playoff series earlier this month, Zucker sat apart from the rest of the team, near the tunnel to the locker room...

Wet weather forced track officials to cancel racing Friday night at Lernerville Speedway. Morning rain and a forecast of more rain led to the decision. Next up at Lernerville will be a Test & Tune event Tuesday. Grandstand admission is free. Also, the Fab4 Revved Up with sprint cars, late...

After finishing the 2021 season with 11 victories and ranked 13th in the final Associated Press poll, Pitt football will get additional opportunities to prove its national relevancy in the first three games of 2022. Pitt will appear in prime time twice, sandwiched around a cross-sectional game against Tennessee that...

Think you can lift enough weights or run enough miles to transform yourself into an NFL Defensive Player of the Year? The brothers who have combined to win four of the past nine such awards use a much different training method. “I always tell people,” T.J. Watt said after the...

Growing up in New Orleans, it didn’t take long for Omar Khan to realize his path to the NFL wouldn’t come as a player. “When I was running around that football field and I realized I wasn’t as good of an athlete as everyone else on that field, I’d better...

I have long been steadfast when listing my top five hockey players ever. Mario Lemieux, Bobby Orr and Wayne Gretzky are my top three. List them in any order you like, and I won’t argue. Sidney Crosby and Gordie Howe are my next two. (Howe is included based on tradition,...

CALGARY, Alberta — Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl dominated the first playoff Battle of Alberta in 31 years. It was fitting Edmonton’s dynamic duo combined to end it. McDavid scored at 5:03 of overtime and the Oilers defeated the Calgary Flames 5-4 on Thursday night in Game 5 of the...

Cal Mitchell had his first pinch-me moment in the third inning of his MLB debut with the Pittsburgh Pirates, when he caught Charlie Blackmon’s fly ball to right field and threw it back into the infield. “It was like, ‘OK, I got to have my first touch,’ ” Mitchell said....

A complaint you often hear from linemen who play in pass-heavy offenses like the Pittsburgh Steelers is that they don’t get to be aggressive enough. If a team doesn’t run the ball very much, the offensive linemen aren’t firing off the line of scrimmage and attacking the defensive lineman on...

Friday’s “First Call” debates the Steelers most “underappreciated player.” We also look ahead to the Pirates game against Joe Musgrove. And some Pittsburgh connections played a role in the Carolina Hurricanes win over the New York Rangers on Thursday night. Plus, a happy anniversary for the Penguins, but a sad...

INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 22-21) was lit up by St. Paul (Twins), 8-1. RHP Osvaldo Bido (0-3, 4.72) started and was touched up for six runs on six hits, including two homers, in 4.2 innings. Indianapolis had eight hits but only produced one run. SS Oneil Cruz (.206) went 2 for 4...

Seton Hill will have to rally in the loser’s bracket to make a run at its first NCAA softball title. The Griffins were blanked, 4-0, by Auburn-Montgomery in the first game of the Division II World Series on Thursday night in Denver. Freshman pitcher Avery Dickerson held Seton Hill (41-11)...

Like most NFL players, Chuks Okorafor waited four years before he could become an unrestricted free agent. He waited less than six hours to go under contract once again. “Obviously,” Okorafor said, “I wanted to be back, because I came back. And obviously, they wanted me back, too.” Two-and-a-half months...

INDIANAPOLIS — Helio Castroneves lost his first battle for position in the parking lot of Global Preparatory Academy, a dual-language school located less than 10 minutes from Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He’d been to the school before, knew he was supposed to park in an alley around back and knew he’d...