Sports category, Page 1294

One Pittsburgh rookie offensive lineman — at least for the time being — lost his starting job late in the season after an injury. Another, apparently, did not. Dan Moore Jr. was back at left tackle when Sunday’s AFC wild-card playoff game against the Kansas City Chiefs began. A fourth-round...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — JuJu Smith-Schuster’s return to the active roster for the Pittsburgh Steelers has resulted in wide receiver Cody White being designated as one of the team’s five inactive players Sunday night. Other players who won’t suit up for the wild-card game against the Kansas City Chiefs are...

There’s a silly way to describe Louis Domingue. Literally. To use the parlance of his vocation, he’s known as a “silly sider.” By no means is it a derisive term. Nor is it a sentiment of respect. It merely is a way of pointing out that he catches the puck...

In an era of athletes quitting teams and forcing trades, it would not have been unexpected to hear Ahkello Witherspoon was irked about what happened over his first 12 weeks with the Pittsburgh Steelers. But leave it to the veteran cornerback to apply some much-needed, heartening perspective. “Man, I had...

Rare does a punters’ debate stoke the fires of a team’s football fans, but in Pittsburgh some were irked by a recent choice. The Pittsburgh Steelers elected to go back to Pressley Havin III to handle the punting duties during Sunday’s AFC wild-card playoff game against the Kansas City Chiefs....

Jamarius Burton’s mom, Kimberly, and two aunts played college basketball. Sisters Kimera and Destani went to college on full athletic scholarships. Uncle Todd Peat had a six-year career in the NFL. Cousin Austin Peat played on Stanford’s offensive line and was drafted 13th overall by the New Orleans Saints in...

Penn-Trafford graduate Mackenzie Powell didn’t want to choose between basketball and soccer when she was looking at colleges. So she found a school where she could play both, and Powell is making an impact as a two-sport athlete during her freshman year at Division III Westminster. “I love it,” she...

At this stage in her life as a bowler, Shannon Small isn’t likely to make a quantum leap in her game. For someone who averaged 223 during her senior year at Plum, the ceiling isn’t far away. Now, it’s more about fine-tuning and adapting to the rigors of competing at...

Glenn Sherlock is leaving the Pittsburgh Pirates to become the New York Mets bench coach under manager Buck Showalter, rejoining the club where he spent three seasons. MLB Network first reported that Sherlock was joining the Mets. Sherlock was the most veteran member of Pirates manager Derek Shelton’s staff, with...

The Pittsburgh Steelers enter tonight’s AFC wild-card game against the Kansas City Chiefs facing the longest odds, not only of any team in the NFL playoffs this season, but of any team ever at this point of the postseason. They are 13½-point underdogs against the two-time defending AFC champion Chiefs...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Novak Djokovic was deported from Australia on Sunday after losing a bid to stay in the country to defend his Australian Open title despite not being vaccinated against covid-19. A masked Djokovic was photographed in a Melbourne airport lounge with two government officials in black uniforms before...

The Penguins wanted to see staunch improvements in their defensive play on Saturday. And sure enough, they did. Battling the San Jose Sharks at the SAP Center in San Jose, Calif., they saw a drop in the total amount of shots allowed from their previous game. Two nights after yielding...

Defenseman Taylor Fedun and forward Felix Robert each had a goal and an assist for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 5-2 road win against the rival Lehigh Valley Phantoms at the PPL Center in Allentown on Saturday. Defenseman Matt Bartkowski recorded two assists for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (10-15-1-3), which snapped an eight-game...

The range of John Hugley’s confidence is as broad as his shoulders. At a listed weight of 280 pounds (he could have dropped a few since the beginning of the season), that’s a lot of shoulders. And — the way he’s been playing — that’s a lot of confidence. Hugley...

Kason Harrell felt like his play had been slumping lately and he wasn’t living up to his own expectations. So much for that. The former Hempfield standout and second-year professional put on a show Saturday for the Killestar Basketball Club’s Team Pyrobel, scoring 56 points in an Irish Super League...