Sports category, Page 1268

FORT WORTH, Texas — Four major league players testified Tuesday they received oxycodone pills from a former Los Angeles Angels employee accused of providing Tyler Skaggs the drugs that led to the pitcher’s overdose death. Pitchers Matt Harvey, Mike Morin and Cam Bedrosian and first baseman C.J. Cron played for...

NEW YORK — An estimated 101.1 million people watched the Los Angeles Rams win the Super Bowl over the Cincinnati Bengals on NBC and Telemundo, up from 2021 and capping a stirring playoff schedule for the NFL. Last year’s game had a television audience of 95.2 million, the lowest since...

Saint Vincent made quite a splash at the Presidents’ Athletic Conference women’s swimming and diving championships. Junior Lauren Connors won four individual championships and earned the meet’s most valuable performer, the first woman in team history to earn the honor. The Bearcats’ Josh Gurekovich, meantime, was named PAC coach of...

The passage of time has blurred the truth. DeWayne Brown, who has trained Aaron Donald for the past 13 years, said his protege wasn’t wearing cleats the day he was “killing people” in one-on-one drills at a Pitt camp during summer 2008. Greg Gattuso, the defensive line coach largely responsible...

The Penguins are expected to start goaltender Casey DeSmith for Tuesday’s home game against the Philadelphia Flyers at PPG Paints Arena. In 11 games this season, DeSmith has a 4-3-2 record, a 3.03 goals-against average, a .901 save percentage and two shutouts. His most recent game came in a 2-0...

For the second time in a week, the Pittsburgh Steelers filled an open position on their offensive coaching staff with a former Carolina Panthers assistant. On Tuesday, the Steelers announced the hiring of Pat Meyer as offensive line coach. On Feb. 8, the Steelers named Frisman Jackson their wide receivers...

BEIJING — Kamila Valieva skated off the Olympic ice with the lead in the women’s short program and tears in her eyes. They were not tears of joy. The enormous pressure and scrutiny on the 15-year-old Russian dynamo, who is at the center of the latest Olympic doping scandal, appeared...

Throughout his NFL career, Cameron Sutton has been the man who could do everything for the Pittsburgh Steelers. It wasn’t until Year 5, though, when Sutton did do everything for them, and on a full-time basis. Only one Steelers player (Terrell Edmunds) was on the field more often during the...

LONDON — If forced to choose, Novak Djokovic said he would skip the French Open and Wimbledon, foregoing the chance to overtake Rafael Nadal’s record haul of 21 Grand Slams titles, rather than get vaccinated against covid-19. And the No. 1-ranked tennis player is also still smarting about being deported...

BEIJING — American assistant captain Hilary Knight calls it “a beautiful rivalry.” Canadian captain Marie-Philip Poulin sums it up as “very fun.” Don’t be fooled by the pleasantries. One of international sports’ fiercest and longest-running grudge matches will play out for the second time at the Beijing Olympics, with the...

He is the second-leading scorer in boys basketball at Greensburg Salem High School, having topped the list for a nine-year period from his graduation in 1993 until 2002, when his record was broken. His 2,160 career points in men’s basketball at Pitt-Greensburg from 1996-2000 represents the most at the Hempfield-based,...

We can only assume that Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby has done this on purpose, right? During the first game back from the All-Star break on Feb. 8, Crosby scored career goal No. 499 of his career as part of a 4-2 win over the Boston Bruins. Crosby then picked...

A Shaler high school hockey player is suspended indefinitely pending a hearing after an altercation with fans in the stands after a game Thursday against Latrobe at Alpha Ice Complex in Harmar Township. Video of the incident circulated on social media Monday evening. PIHL commissioner John Mucha said a disciplinary...

MANHATTAN, Kan. — Markquis Nowell scored 14 of his 21 points in the second half, Mark Smith notched his seventh double-double and Kansas State rallied to beat West Virginia, 78-73, on Monday night. Nowell sank 7 of 11 shots from the floor, including 4 of 6 from 3-point range, and...

Duquesne basketball coach Keith Dambrot — his team mired in a long losing streak — isn’t planning any new wrinkles just now. There’s no time, he said, with a schedule crammed with four games in eight days. “We just have to keep getting at it,” Dambrot said Monday night after...

FORT WORTH, Texas — A former Los Angeles Angels employee accused of providing the opioids that contributed to Tyler Skaggs’ overdose death told a colleague he watched the Angels pitcher do drugs the night before he was found dead in a suburban Dallas hotel room, according to testimony Monday. Eric...

Favorite: Mt. Lebanon (20-1) was undefeated and allowing just 36.7 points per game before a loss to Upper St. Clair on Thursday. The Blue Devils feature standout 5-foot-10 senior guard Ashleigh Connor, a St. Louis commit, and have plenty of coaching know-how with veteran leader Dori Oldaker. Mt. Lebanon lost...

Class 6A Favorite: North Hills went undefeated and ran away with the Section 1 title, putting the Indians in position to maybe win their first WPIAL title. They’re led by a trio of double-digit scorers, including 6-foot-7 sophomore Royce Parham (20.9 ppg) and 6-3 senior guards Alex Smith (18.6) and...

BEIJING — Red Gerard, the happy-go-lucky American snowboarder who famously overslept the morning he won gold in Pyeongchang, never thought he’d be the one slamming the scoring at an Olympic competition. “I never cared about any of this, and all of a sudden, I find myself caring,” the 21-year-old said....

Laurel Highlands or New Castle? Mt. Lebanon or North Allegheny? Most No. 1 seeds were easy choices, but the WPIAL basketball committee was divided on a couple of others, said chairman Bill Cardone, whose committee met for nearly three hours Monday. The No. 1 seeds in Class 5A boys and...

The ACC has six teams with winning records in league play. That’s fewer than half of the conference members. Four of them show up on Pitt’s schedule over the final 18 days of the regular season, starting Wednesday with the Panthers’ trip to Smith Center in Chapel Hill, N.C., against...