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Scott Piercy shoots 64, takes 3-shot lead in 3M OpenVideo
BLAINE, Minn. — Scott Piercy shot a 7-under-par 64 on Friday at TPC Twin Cities to take a three-stroke lead in the 3M Open. Piercy had a 13-under 129 total. The four-time PGA Tour winner opened with a 65 on Thursday in windy conditions. Emiliano Grillo was second after a...
Sean McVay: Rams are starting over in quest for repeat crown
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — The Los Angeles Rams threw the last of their lavish offseason parties Thursday night so they could hand out their massive Super Bowl championship rings to their current and former players. Sean McVay sees the Friday morning after that soiree as the dividing line between the...
Trainer Bob Baffert seeks 10th win in Haskell Stakes with Taiba
OCEANPORT, N.J. — While trainer Bob Baffert isn’t welcome at every thoroughbred track around the country, Monmouth Park has no problem letting the Hall of Famer bring his horses to New Jersey. After all, the $1 million Haskell Stakes is being run Saturday at the Jersey Shore track, and no...
Hy-Vee pumps millions into Iowa for IndyCar extravaganza
NEWTON, Iowa — The longtime premise in Iowa of “If you build it, he will come” originates with the 1989 “Field of Dreams” movie. A twist on the slogan could be used this weekend at Iowa Speedway, where sponsor Hy-Vee has taken an “if you promote it, they will come”...
Pirates trade Daniel Vogelbach to Mets for righty reliever Colin Holderman
Ben Cherington wanted to make it clear that the Pittsburgh Pirates didn’t sign Daniel Vogelbach just to trade the slugger but rather because at-bats were available once the designated hitter became universal. That didn’t stop the Pirates general manager from dealing Vogelbach to a contender Friday when the NL East-leading...
Latrobe grad Pevarnik looks to keep momentum going at Pa. Amateur
Brady Pevarnik is coming off the biggest victory of his career after winning the 122nd Western Pennsylvania Golf Association’s Amateur Championship on Tuesday at Butler Country Club. Pevarnik, a senior at Bowling Green and a 2019 Latrobe graduate, shot a 3-under-par, 217. Now he hopes to keep that momentum going...
Larson reflects on 2nd chance offered by Philly race schoolVideo
PHILADELPHIA — Kyle Larson tried to explain the feeling of his role as the public face of the Urban Youth Racing School when a fan — one of many — wanted a second of the 2021 NASCAR’s champion’s time. “Yo, Kyle, can I steal a selfie,” he asked. Larson obliged...
Murray embraces franchise QB label, ready to lead CardinalsVideo
TEMPE, Ariz. — Kyler Murray is a short quarterback by football standards who now has stacks of cash about as tall as anyone’s in the NFL. A low-key personality by nature, Murray is happy that a high-stress offseason contract squabble with the Arizona Cardinals is over. “There were a lot...
Pirates closer David Bednar: Push for him to pitch made All-Star Game ‘even more special’
David Bednar couldn’t stop smiling about the Hollywood treatment he got at the All-Star Game, from walking the red carpet to watching the Home Run Derby on the field at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. But the Pittsburgh Pirates closer was most impressed by a move made out of the...
WWE’s Vince McMahon says he is retiringVideo
NEW YORK — World Wrestling Entertainment impresario Vince McMahon announced Friday he is retiring amid an investigation into alleged misconduct involving the flamboyant showman who turned a small wrestling company into a worldwide entertainment business. In a brief statement issued by WWE, McMahon said he is retiring as the company’s...
Pittsburgh youths set to compete at 2022 JCC Maccabi Games
Twin brothers Eli and Zachary Coffey are set to travel across the country, heading to San Diego to compete in the 2022 Jewish Community Center Maccabi Games. The 40th annual Maccabi Games, returning after a two-year hiatus because of the pandemic, will take place July 31 to Aug. 5. Both...
Henderson shoots 2nd straight 64, leads LPGA’s Evian Championship by 3 strokesVideo
EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — Brooke Henderson is setting the pace in record-breaking style at the Evian Championship. The Canadian shot a second straight 7-under-par 64 to take a three-stroke lead after the second round of the LPGA’s fourth major of the year Friday. She is the first player in the history...
Big Papi still awestruck as Hall of Fame induction looms
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Six months after he got one of the most amazing phone calls in sports, David Ortiz is still awestruck at his good fortune. The former Boston Red Sox slugger known affectionately as Big Papi will be inducted into the Hall of Fame on Sunday. Maybe then baseball’s...
Inspired by his brother, Penguins prospect Luke Devlin’s hockey journey is just beginningVideo
Things were a bit chaotic during the second day of the NHL Draft on July 8 at Montreal’s Bell Centre. Rogers Communications, a giant conglomerate that handles a major portion of any and all electronic communications in Canada, had a major outage that morning. The disruption was so significant that...
QB Deshaun Watson reports to Browns camp not knowing future
CLEVELAND — Deshaun Watson reported to his first training camp with the Browns on Friday still not knowing how long he’ll be their starting quarterback. Like one of his passes, Watson’s future remains up in the air. As he awaits word on whether he’ll be suspended by the NFL for...
Media predict Alabama will beat Georgia in SEC championship
ATLANTA — Two-time defending champion Alabama was predicted to win a third consecutive Southeastern Conference title in voting by media attending this week’s SEC Media Days. Alabama beat Georgia in last year’s SEC championship game in Atlanta before losing to the Bulldogs in the national title game. Media picked a...
Christophe Laporte wins Tour Stage 19 and ends drought for France
CAHORS, France — Christophe Laporte ended the host’s drought of stage winners when he surged out of the peloton in the finale of the 19th stage and claimed his maiden win on the Tour de France on Friday. Just two days before the race ends in Paris, Laporte spared the...
Pat Narduzzi seeks more balance in Pitt’s offense, but it wasn’t unbalanced a year ago
With camp starting on the first day of August, it’s a good time for Pat Narduzzi to clarify how he wants Pitt’s offensive identity to evolve this season. “I want to score touchdowns. I like touchdowns,” he said Thursday during his appearance on the ACC Network. “I don’t care how...
Mark Madden: We will see if Pat Narduzzi is as smart as he thinks he is
In 2021, Pat Narduzzi had his best season since taking over as Pitt football coach in 2015: His Panthers went 11-3, won the ACC and went to a New Year’s Six bowl. The offense was the driving force of the two platoons, averaging 41.4 points (third best in the nation)...
Former Penguins defenseman Simon Despres signs in Austria
Former Penguins defenseman Simon Despres has signed with Villacher SV, an Austrian team that plays in that country’s ICE Hockey League. A first-round pick (No. 30 overall) in 2009, Despres spent parts of four seasons at the NHL level with the Penguins. In 140 games with the Penguins, Despres scored...
Capitals overhaul roster most of any contender in the East
Several hours into NHL free agency, the Washington Capitals had two new goaltenders and a replacement for the defenseman they lost to Seattle. They were far from done. They traded for winger Connor Brown, signed forwards Dylan Strome and Henrik Borgstrom and defenseman Gabriel Carlsson, and brought back versatile homegrown...
Steelers 2-a-days: Free-agent signee CB Levi Wallace, depth WR Tyler Vaughns
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...
Penn Township ready to defend Junior Legion regional, state titles
Penn Township is the returning Pennsylvania Youth American Legion Western Regional and state champion. It opens defense of the Western Regional at 5 p.m. Friday at the White Township Complex in Indiana against Indiana County champion Brookville. Pool play format will be played Friday, Saturday and Sunday with the top...
Speedy delivery: Medals at worlds given out almost instantly
EUGENE, Ore. — It takes speed to win some of these medals at world championships. Speed to hand all of them out, too. A little bit of jumping ability doesn’t hurt, either. In a new twist at track and field’s biggest event this side of the Olympics, athletes no longer...
From cuffs on his shirt to willingness to voice an opinion, Pitt’s Pat Narduzzi steals show
The most discussed coach Thursday at the ACC Football Kickoff in Charlotte, N.C., was, of course, Pitt’s Pat Narduzzi. After all, he might have been the only man wearing signature-embroidered cuffs on his dress shirt at the Westin Charlotte. But the real reason for Narduzzi’s celebrity was that his Panthers...
