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Center/guard J.C. Hassenauer signs 1-year contract tender with Steelers
J.C. Hassenauer, who finished the 2021 season as the starting center for the Pittsburgh Steelers, signed his one-year exclusive rights tender for next season. Hassenauer, 26, is heading into his third NFL season and will compete for a backup spot along the interior of the offensive line in 2022. He...
Congress tells FTC that Commanders may have broken financial laws 
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House Oversight Committee sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday saying it found evidence the NFL’s Washington Commanders engaged in potentially unlawful financial conduct for more than a decade by withholding ticket revenue from visiting teams and refundable deposits from fans. In the...
Pirates Opening Day sights and sounds 
Warm temperatures. A touch of sun. Tailgates. Baseball. Opening Day has arrived in Pittsburgh. Fans made their way down to the North Shore Tuesday afternoon hours before the 4:12 p.m. scheduled first pitch against the Chicago Cubs. Some were hopeful. Some were realistic. Others hoped for a .500 record. Pitcher’s...
Many Pirates – finally – enjoying 1st ‘normal’ Opening Day
Imagine if during the Pittsburgh Pirates’ home opener in 2019, someone would have told the gathered 37,336 fans that it would be three years before there would be another full-capacity, unrestricted Opening Day at PNC Park. It probably would have sounded like a bad April Fool’s joke. Imagine if on...
Penguins activate forward Brock McGinn from injured reserve
The Penguins activated forward Brock McGinn from injured reserve on Tuesday afternoon in advance of their road game against the New York Islanders at UBS Arena in Elmont, N.Y. McGinn has been sidelined the past 15 games due to a suspected right hand or arm injury. Appearing in 56 games...
Penn State lands commitment from former top 75 recruit
Penn State football picked up a commitment from the transfer portal Tuesday morning at a major position of need. Former four-star defensive end Demeioun Robinson announced his commitment to the Nittany Lions and head coach James Franklin via his personal Twitter account. Robinson was a highly touted pass rusher in...
A-K Valley campus clippings: Kiski Area grad Jalen Cloud among nation's best in triple jump
Jalen Cloud produced a highly successful indoor season with the Cal (Pa.) men’s track and field team, and those positive outcomes have carried over to the outdoors. The Vulcans senior and Kiski Area graduate improved on his NCAA provisional mark in the triple jump Saturday at IUP’s Ed Fry Invitational....
Bob Nutting: Front-loading Ke'Bryan Hayes' contract 'intentional' to give Pirates future financial flexibility 
Bob Nutting was talking about making a commitment to a player considered the cornerstone of the future to a club-record contract when Ke’Bryan Hayes politely interrupted and extended his right hand. The Pittsburgh Pirates chairman shook hands with the 25-year-old third baseman at PNC Park on Tuesday morning after Hayes...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Belle Vernon's Aaron Krepps returns to Ohio Northern
Ohio Northern will have Aaron Krepps back on its football coaching staff next season. The Division III program hired Krepps, a Belle Vernon graduate who served as an assistant there in 2015 and ‘16 before he left to coach at Bluffton, another D-III program that plays in the Heartland Conference....
Support for Brittney Griner at WNBA draft as Rhyne Howard goes to Atlanta
NEW YORK — Moments before Rhyne Howard went to Atlanta with the No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft, Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said the league is working very hard to help bring Brittney Griner back to the United States. Griner, one of the league’s biggest stars, has been detained in...
Robert Morris volleyball player Emily Devlin becomes 2nd local athlete to get extended look from WWE
Another local college athlete is getting a shot to make it big in pro wrestling. Robert Morris volleyball player and Seneca Valley High School graduate Emily Devlin is heading to Orlando in June for a 60-day extended tryout at the WWE performance training center. Devlin is set to graduate from...
Tim Benz: Evgeni Malkin's suspension gives Penguins time to experiment with Rickard Rakell on Sidney Crosby's wing
During Sunday’s 3-2 win over the Nashville Predators, Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby and recently acquired Rickard Rakell were only on the ice together for two minutes, seven seconds. But they sure made the most of that time together. All three of the Penguins goals were scored with those two...
First Call: ESPN's Adam Schefter apologizes for Dwayne Haskins tweet; Brett Michaels lobbying Steelers for specific QB in draft
Adam Schefter is apologizing for his reporting on the death of Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins. Odds are out on T.J. Watt’s perceived chances of repeating as NFL Defensive Player of the Year. A celebrity Pittsburgher is lobbying for a specific quarterback to land with the Steelers. And a busy...
Here's what you need to know if you're attending the Bucs home opener
Getting things started in true ’Burgh fashion for the Pittsburgh Pirates’ opening day will be two of the city’s own celebrities named Joe. Recording artist Joe Grushecky will sing the national anthem and actor Joe Manganiello, a Mt. Lebanon native who attended Carnegie Mellon University, will throw out the ceremonial...
Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin suspended 4 games for cross check 
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin was suspended four games by the NHL on Monday night for cross checking Nashville Predators defenseman Mark Borowiecki in the mouth Sunday. After the second period of a 3-2 home win by the Penguins, Malkin and Borowiecki became engaged in a physical confrontation near the...
Penguins assign forwards Anthony Angello, Radim Zohorna to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
The Penguins have assigned reserve forwards Anthony Angello and Radim Zohorna to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League. Each transaction was made on Monday. Both players have been healthy scratches in recent games. Angello has appeared in four NHL games this season with no points and two penalty minutes. In...
Column: IndyCar rich in drama as Indianapolis 500 looms
LONG BEACH, Calif. — Through just three races, the IndyCar Series already is building enough dynamic storylines to be worthy of its own Netflix program. Speculation has been mounting that IndyCar, just like NASCAR and any motorsports series with a finger on the pulse of pop culture, is trying to...
A year after being traded to the Penguins, Jeff Carter still embraces his challenge
Kasperi Kapanen was despondent. On March 15, in a 4-1 road loss for the Penguins, Kapanen had a wonderful opportunity to pull his team back into the contest in the third period. Trailing by two goals, Kapanen was sprung on a breakaway but was stoned by goaltender Juuse Saros. A...
Formerly a prized Yankees prospect, Miguel Yajure looks for new life with Pirates
The eventual winners in the two trades the Pittsburgh Pirates made with the New York Yankees in 2021 won’t be determined for several years. Will Hoy Park or Diego Castillo — acquired in July for relief pitcher Clay Holmes — one day turn into valuable infielders who could help the...
Alexander Bublik cuts short Stan Wawrinka's return to tour after injury 
MONACO — Alexander Bublik cut short Stan Wawrinka’s return to the tour, defeating the Swiss 3-6, 7-5, 6-2 in the first round of the Monte Carlo Masters on Monday in his first singles in 13 months. Wawrinka started off confidently against the Kazakh, winning the first set with ease. He...
Scottie Scheffler a Masters champion and never saw it coming
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Scottie Scheffler wanted to be a professional golfer for so long he wore trousers to lessons at Royal Oaks in Dallas and even at junior tournaments, no matter how stifling the Texas heat. He just never imagined how he would look in a green jacket. Winning the...
Lakers fire title-winning coach Frank Vogel after 3 seasons 
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Lakers fired Frank Vogel on Monday, choosing their championship-winning head coach to take the first fall for one of the most disappointing seasons in NBA history. Los Angeles wildly underachieved this season, finishing 33-49 and missing the 10-team Western Conference playoffs in a humiliating...
Forecast for Pirates' home opener calls for near-perfect weather
Opening day weather for the Pirates has largely been hit-and-miss over the last decade or so. More often than not, the high temperature hasn’t reached 60 degrees. But Tuesday’s forecast calls for mostly sunny skies and temperatures near 70 for the game between the Pirates and the Chicago Cubs at...
Pirates-Cardinals series finale rained out
The four-game series finale between the Pittsburgh Pirates and St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium was called off Monday due to rain. It will be made up as part of a split doubleheader June 14 in St. Louis. The game would have been the Pirates’ first regular-season look at starting...
Former Ohio State teammates 'hurting' after death of Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins
Dwayne Haskins was still on the mind of Ryan Day when the Ohio State football coach conducted a news conference Monday morning. Day opened his media session by paying tribute to Haskins, the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback who was killed Saturday morning when he was struck by a dump truck on...


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