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Mark Madden: PR plays major role in NFL’s decision on Deshaun Watson’s punishment
With each day that passes before the NFL’s punishment of Deshaun Watson is determined, the bigger the likelihood that the suspension will be lenient, even minimal. The case has festered for more than a year. A three-day hearing was just held. The two sides will submit paperwork to the disciplinary...
Penguins A to Z: Rickard Rakell’s skill, speed fit in well in short time hereVideo
With the Penguins’ 2021-22 season coming to a quick ending in the first round of the playoffs, the Tribune-Review will offer Penguins A to Z, a player-by-player look at all 54 individuals signed to an NHL contract — including those whose deals do not begin until the 2022-23 season —...
Steelers 2-a-days: Faith shown in Dan Moore Jr., T.D. Moultry a rookie to keep an eye on
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...
Derek Shelton acknowledges where Pirates failed to get the most out of Clay Holmes
The Pittsburgh Pirates did a lot right in their 5-2 win against the New York Yankees on Tuesday night. • They got out to an early lead against former Pirate Jameson Taillon with a second-inning home run by Daniel Vogelbach. Then they added on with three more in the fourth...
Tim Benz: College football conferences may have to die for the sport to rediscover why they were important
I’ve long had a theory about how the shifting landscape of college sports conferences would end. Pretty close to how it started. I consider the constant conference expansion and contraction to be college football nihilism. The existence of conferences as we know them today is unfounded, senseless and useless. Objective...
First Call: Penguins’ level of interest in Marc-Andre Fleury; Matt Murray trade talk, T.J. Watt rated tops at his position
Wednesday’s “First Call” returns from an extended holiday weekend by looking at a pair of rumors surrounding some former Pittsburgh Penguins goalies. T.J. Watt is deemed to be the best in the business at his position. And Kordell Stewart wants in on a debate regarding his place in Steelers history....
‘Watch and learn’: Pirates perform under pressure against best team in baseball
Before the Pittsburgh Pirates played the best team in baseball, Derek Shelton talked about how much his rookie-laden club could learn from watching the New York Yankees. The Pirates manager played in the Yankees’ minor league system, so he knows something about their tradition and pursuit of excellence and hoped...
Longtime Penguins equipment manager Dana Heinze steps away
Dana Heinze, an equipment manager with the Penguins since 2006, has stepped away from his position. The team announced the move on Tuesday afternoon. A native of Johnstown, the 54-year-old Heinze has worked as a equipment staffer with various franchises for 33 years, including the past 16 with the Penguins....
Homers by Daniel Vogelbach, Jack Suwinski boost Pirates past Yankees
Jameson Taillon was pitching in Pittsburgh for the first time since April 2019, when the former No. 2 overall pick still played for the Pirates and before he was sidelined by his second Tommy John surgery. Taillon didn’t allow a walk against his former team. Maybe he should have. Facing...
Carns’ catch saves day for Unity in District 31 Legion playoff opener
A team doesn’t always need a winning hit to pull out a victory. Sometimes a defensive gem is all it needs. Unity’s American Legion baseball team got a clutch catch in the top of seventh inning Tuesday during Game 1 of its best-of-three District 31 series against Yough to pull...
Big 12 reportedly looking to add Pac-12 schools, could become largest FBS conference
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Just 12 months ago, the Big 12 Conference was rocked by news that Texas and Oklahoma planned to depart the league for the Southeastern Conference in 2025. That left the the prospect of the Big 12 having just eight active members, but the conference moved quickly...
White House: President Biden read letter from Brittney GrinerVideo
Brittney Griner’s appeal to President Joe Biden in a handwritten letter continued to garner reaction Tuesday after the WNBA All-Star acknowledged she feared never returning home and asked Biden not “forget about me and the other American Detainees.” Griner’s letter was delivered through her representatives to the White House on...
‘It gives me a thrill’: 1960 World Series hero Bill Mazeroski returns for Pirates-Yankees opener
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...
Yankees’ Gerrit Cole gets ‘pretty special feeling’ upon his return to Pittsburgh, PNC Park
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...
In 4th season with Steelers, Pine-Richland alum Kevin Rader works way into role
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...
Reigning NL MVP Bryce Harper vows to return to Phillies this seasonVideo
PHILADELPHIA — Bryce Harper has three pins in his left thumb, a cast on his left hand and an unyielding belief that he will return from injury this season to try and lead the Phillies to their first playoff appearance in 11 years. “I’ll be back,” Harper said. With those...
Tiger Woods looking at British Open as ‘historic’ occasionVideo
The British Open is scheduled for Royal Liverpool, Royal Troon and Royal Portrush over the next three years. The Old Course at St. Andrews typically is used every five years. That adds to the perspective of Tiger Woods playing this year. When he said Tuesday that “this is a pretty...
Pirates reinstate Yoshi Tsutsugo, Ben Gamel from IL in time for Yankees series
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...
Passion players picked for All-American Game in Canton
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,...
Sharks hire Mike Grier as NHL’s first Black GMVideo
SAN JOSE, Calif. — The San Jose Sharks hired longtime NHL forward Mike Grier to become the first Black general manager in NHL history. Grier fills the spot that opened when Doug Wilson stepped away for health reasons earlier this year. Grier spent three of his 14 seasons in the...
Penguins re-sign backup goaltender Casey DeSmith
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...
Down 2 sets, Novak Djokovic tops Jannik Sinner for 26th Wimbledon win in row
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,...
Wout van Aert wins Tour stage 4 in style and extends overall lead
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...
Everything you need to know about UCLA and USC joining the Big Ten
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...
Ice hockey ban on Russia, Belarus upheld on safety grounds
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...
