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The Penguins have assigned defensive prospect Niclas Almari to Lukko of Finland’s Liiga. A native of Finland, Almari has been limited to 17 games this season between the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League (AHL) and the Wheeling Nailers of the ECHL. In 11 AHL games, he has two...

Pittsburgh Penguins center Sidney Crosby now needs just one more goal to reach 500 for his career. That’s after getting No. 499 during a 4-2 victory over the Boston Bruins on Tuesday night. For Crosby, that would make him the leading goal-scorer for 17 of the NHL’s 32 franchises. Fun...

STATE COLLEGE — The 2022 NFL Draft is still more than two months away, but with the conclusion of the postseason collegiate all-star games last week, the pre-draft process is in full swing. Penn State has a number of players who should hear their names called at some point during...

ZHANGJIAKOU, China — Shaun White let up just the tiniest bit as he jerked his body around for a trick — his signature trick, and a trick he’s landed without a hitch hundreds of times before. The next thing he knew, he said, “I’m … thinking, ‘Wow, I only have...

LEESBURG, Va. — Washington Commanders safety Deshazor Everett turned himself in to a Virginia jail on an involuntary manslaughter charge after an investigation found he was speeding before his sports car slammed into trees and rolled over, killing his passenger. Everett, 29, was treated for serious injuries after the Dec....

“You’ve always got a chance to win the Stanley Cup if you have Sid and Geno.” For Penguins fans, that’s long been a catchphrase of encouragement and sometimes desperation. It rings true: The Penguins won Cups with Crosby and Malkin in 2009, ’16 and ’17 and were a legit championship...

MILTON KEYNES, England — The Red Bull Formula One team has secured a new title sponsorship worth around $500 million with technology firm Oracle, placing it among the most lucrative commercial deals in sports. The five-year deal is a lift to the team ahead of the season beginning next month...

Ron Frederick couldn’t wait to begin his dream job as the head football coach at Southmoreland. The school district will make sure the late coach’s job becomes official. Southmoreland will follow through with Frederick’s posthumous hiring at Thursday’s meeting, which comes one week after the 40-year-old died unexpectedly. Frederick was...

As former Pittsburgh Steelers assistant coach Kirby Wilson began the interview, the first words out of his mouth were “It’s great to be alive to do this.” For Wilson, those words go beyond hyperbole or daily affirmation. They go beyond what is obvious excitement for landing his first head coaching...

Wednesday’s “First Call” has some alarming news for Pittsburgh Steelers fans regarding what Rob Gronkowski is thinking. T.J. Watt should have smooth sailing toward NFL Defensive Player of the Year. An ex-Steeler gets an NFL head coaching contract extension. And the Penguins got a little help from their upcoming opponent....

STATE COLLEGE — The Penn State men’s basketball team couldn’t miss against Michigan early Tuesday night, and after spending most of the season running a plodding offense content on holding the ball and slowing down the pace, it appeared the Nittany Lions were ready to put their foot on the...

The Penguins’ six-day break in the schedule for the All-Star Game event was badly needed. After all, they were fatigued mentally and physically from playing a tightly compacted sequence of games in a finite portion of their schedule. “The break came at a good time for us,” Penguins’ defenseman Marcus...

For the first time in PIAA team championship history, seven teams from the WPIAL will be at Hershey for the tournament, which begins Thursday at Giant Center. Class 2A Burgettstown and Latrobe and Canon-McMillan in Class 3A earned trips to the state tournament with victories Monday in the preliminary round....

FOXBOROUGH, Mas. — The Patriots are bringing back Joe Judge as an offensive assistant less than a month after he was fired as head coach of the Giants. Judge, who served as an assistant in New England for eight seasons, rejoins coach Bill Belichick’s coaching staff after going 10-23 over...

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Pacers will look completely different when they return home later this week while Sacramento Kings are getting a All-Star. The two teams agreed to a six-player trade Tuesday that will send star forward Domantas Sabonis to Sacramento and emerging point guard Tyrese Haliburton to the Pacers,...

Penguins forward Danton Heinen returned to the lineup for Tuesday’s road game against the Boston Bruins. He had missed his team’s previous two games — each of which came before the team’s recent five-day break for the All-Star Game event — because of a suspected back injury. “It was just...

Jeff Capel and his Pitt basketball team have not been home since Sunday, and they won’t return to campus until Thursday. So, Pitt’s coach probably hasn’t had time to look at the ACC standings. If he did, he’d see Pitt (8-16, 3-10) has fallen into the basement, tied with N.C....