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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...
WPIAL administrator: High school NIL deals could lead to manipulation
Name, Image and Likeness deals could improve the lives of some high school athletes, but there’s also real concern about manipulation by misguided adults, says the WPIAL’s top administrator. The discussion about NIL money and its impact on high school athletics increased in recent days after the PIAA board revealed...
Pirates continue to load up on pitching, taking 8 on final day of MLB Draft
Ben Cherington was adamant the Pittsburgh Pirates didn’t set out to stockpile pitchers in the MLB Draft but it certainly worked out that way when their three-day total amounted to 16 arms out of 21 picks. The Pirates used eight of their final 10 picks Tuesday on pitchers. In total,...
Blackhawk grad Michael Turconi selected by Toronto Blue Jays in 15th round
Michael Turconi is among the latest Western Pennsylvania products to be selected in the 2022 MLB Draft. The Blackhawk graduate and redshirt junior on the Wake Forest baseball team was drafted Tuesday afternoon by the Toronto Blue Jays with the No. 458 pick in the 15th round. Turconi follows a...
NASCAR to hit the streets of Chicago with downtown raceVideo
CHICAGO — NASCAR will celebrate its 75th season with an unprecedented street race through downtown Chicago in yet another radical change to the once staid schedule. The Cup Series will race against the backdrop of Lake Michigan and Grant Park next July 2 in the debut race of a three-year...
On The Fringe: Major disappointments belong to more than McIlroyVideo
The trouble with winning so much so early is that the losing can feel worse than it really is. The British Open stung Rory McIlroy, even if he said it wasn’t life or death. It might have hurt even more than his 80 in the final round of the 2011...
Hugo Houle takes emotional Tour stage win, Jonas Vingegaard keeps lead
FOIX, France — Canadian cyclist Hugo Houle claimed an emotional first-ever grand tour stage victory Tuesday, while Jonas Vingegaard stayed in the overall lead of the Tour de France after a tough 16th stage as the race hit the Pyrenees. Houle attacked on the approach to the final climb, the...
Steelers sign DT Doug Costin to 1-year contract
The retooling of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ defensive line continued Tuesday with the signing of veteran tackle Doug Costin to a one-year contract. Costin (6-foot-2, 295 pounds) spent the past two seasons with the Jacksonville Jaguars and Cincinnati Bengals. He played in 13 games, starting nine, recording 33 tackles (13 solos),...
New 3ICE hockey league rolls into Pittsburgh on SaturdayVideo
At 42, Ryan Malone is still a hockey player. He’s just not an NHL player anymore. The power forward’s final games in the NHL came early in the 2014 season with the New York Rangers. But he never fully got the game out of his system. That’s what led the...
Steelers’ Cam Heyward is not letting Acrisure name bring him down
As Pittsburghers come to terms with the renaming of their football stadium, there’s at least one Steelers player who is accepting the new branding of his workplace. Black and Gold fans appear to have nearly universal disdain for a Michigan-based insurance company’s purchase of the naming rights to what has...
A-K Valley baseball standouts get taste of college game with Butler Blue Sox
The Butler Blue Sox field one of the youngest teams in the Tri-State Summer Collegiate League at Pullman Park. Despite their youth, the Blue Sox are picking up steam and swinging hot sticks as the season progresses. Valley News Dispatch Baseball Player of the Year Justin Brannagan, who graduated from...
