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Cameron Champ aims to defend 3M title in another challenging seasonVideo
BLAINE, Minn. — Cameron Champ fought off dehydration and dizziness down the stretch to win the 3M Open last year with a bogey-free final round, a confidence-boosting win for a young player trying to establish himself on the PGA Tour. The challenges for Champ have persisted this season, and he...
MLB All-Star Game wins night but draws record low ratings
LOS ANGELES — Major League Baseball’s Midsummer Classic remains the most-watched all-star game in the major professional sports, even though it drew record lows in viewership for the fifth time since 2015. Tuesday night’s game from Los Angeles — which the American League won 3-2 — averaged 7.51 million viewers...
Hornets’ Miles Bridges pleads not guilty to domestic violence
LOS ANGELES — Charlotte Hornets forward Miles Bridges pleaded not guilty Wednesday to felony domestic violence charges filed by Los Angeles County prosecutors after he was accused of assaulting his girlfriend in front of their two children. District Attorney George Gascón announced Tuesday that his office filed one felony count...
NHL takes big strides on women in hockey ops executive rolesVideo
Kate Madigan blushed, and she could not keep herself from smiling. When it was time for her to introduce herself with her title at the New Jersey Devils’ development camp, Madigan got the chance to say she was assistant general manager. She is just the sixth woman in the history...
From academics to NIL, ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips tackles college athletics issues of the dayVideo
Jim Phillips’ voice was full of pride and joy Wednesday morning when he spoke of the first games of the 2022 ACC football season, when all 14 schools will be in action in a span of 10 days. “I’m going to try to make every one of those games,” he...
Aaron Judge, Yankees on top as baseball returns from All-Star break
CHICAGO — Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees, Mookie Betts and the Los Angeles Dodgers, Jose Altuve and the Houston Astros. They’re all just looking for more of the same. The Atlanta Braves’ title defense is rolling along, and Julio Rodriguez and the Seattle Mariners are looking to crash...
Henrik Stenson joins Saudi tour, removed as Ryder Cup captain
The Ryder Cup captaincy of Henrik Stenson lasted all of four months. Ryder Cup Europe removed Stenson as captain for the 2023 matches — still 14 months away from being played in Italy — when the Swede decided to choose the guaranteed money of the Saudi-funded rival league over the...
Pittsburgh native and former Riverhounds midfielder Robbie Mertz returns to team
Robbie Mertz once again will suit up and play for the Pittsburgh Riverhounds. The Hounds announced Wednesday that the midfielder, Pittsburgh native, and Upper St. Clair graduate is returning through a transfer agreement with Atlanta United II. The transfer must meet USL and U.S. Soccer Federation approval before it is...
One more throw for Big Ben: Pirates to have Steelers great throw out ceremonial 1st pitch
Ben Roethlisberger might have retired from the Pittsburgh Steelers, but the two-time Super Bowl champion has at least one more throw in him. The Pirates are having Big Ben throw out a ceremonial first pitch before their game against the Philadelphia Phillies on July 29 at PNC Park, as part...
Squirrel Hill’s Jennifer Bigham, one of nation’s top masters runners, ready for Liberty Mile
Former Ohio State runner and Winchester Thurston assistant coach Jennifer Bigham of Squirrel Hill has trained diligently for her next big race, Friday’s Fleet Feet Liberty Mile in Pittsburgh. Bigham turned 40, becoming a masters runner, and she recently won the USA Masters Half Marathon and the USA Masters One...
Mark Madden: Outrage over insignificant Madden NFL video game ratings is ridiculous
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...
Tadej Pogacar wins Stage 17, Jonas Vingegaard moves closer to Tour title
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...
Penguins forward prospect Raivis Ansons offers assets that ‘are essential to winning’Video
Tom Kostopoulos knows a thing or two about grit. After all, he carved out a 20-year playing career as a hard-scrabble checking forward, including 12 seasons in the NHL. That’s a lot of forechecking, plenty of bruises from blocking pucks or absorbing hits on the boards and more than a...
Nick Saban: Alabama players topped $3 million in NIL money
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...
Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred defends treatment of minor leaguers, presses Oakland
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...
All-Stars showcase modern MLB: HRs, strikeouts, shifts
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...
Steelers 2-a-days: Mitch Trubisky enters camp as QB1, Donovan Stiner an option at safety
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...
Never mind the numbers, Pirates find developing draft picks into pitchers ‘exciting’
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...
Report: Former Steelers wide receiver Charles Johnson dies at age 50
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...
Pirates’ David Bednar pitches scoreless 9th, but AL claims 9th straight All-Star Game win
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...
Latrobe alum Jared Kollar signs with San Diego Padres
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...
Rachel Robinson honored on 100th birthday at All-Star GameVideo
LOS ANGELES — Baseball’s All-Stars gathered on the field before Tuesday night’s game at Dodger Stadium to honor Rachel Robinson on her 100th birthday. Los Angeles Dodgers star Mookie Betts led the tribute to the widow of Jackie Robinson, speaking to the crowd from the infield grass after the Canadian...
Latrobe grad Brady Pevarnik back in business with West Penn Amateur victory
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....
Bushy Run comes up short in Region 7 final
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...
Orioles draft 7-foot pitcher, would be tallest ever in MLB
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...
