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Capel family no stranger to North Carolina’s Smith Center

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...
Penguins prospect P.O Joseph’s steady journey to the NHL continues

There are a lot of similarities between the journey Brian Dumoulin took to the Penguins’ blue line and the trek P.O Joseph is undertaking. Each defenseman was a fairly high draft pick with another organization. Dumoulin was a second-rounder (No. 51 overall) with the Carolina Hurricanes, and Joseph was selected...
Paul Guggenheimer: Olympic hockey is better without NHL players

There were a lot of hockey fans who lamented the National Hockey League’s last minute decision to keep its players home instead of allowing them to participate in the 2022 Winter Olympics. The league had given its blessing to a plan to have NHL stars return to the Olympics after...
Gonzaga back at No. 1 in AP Top 25; Wyoming enters poll

Gonzaga keeps finding its way back to the top of the The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll. The Zags reclaimed the No. 1 ranking Monday for a third stint this season atop the AP Top 25, moving up one spot to swap places with Auburn after the Tigers fell...
Iowa State hits women’s AP Top 25 milestone; South Carolina No. 1

Iowa State has reached its best ranking in 20 years in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll while South Carolina remained the unanimous choice at No. 1. Iowa State (21-3) moved up three spots to sixth on Monday — its highest mark since the 2002 season — and has a...
Oh baby! Rams’ Jefferson wins Super Bowl, welcomes a son

LOS ANGELES — Van Jefferson won the Super Bowl on Sunday, and it wasn’t even the best part of his weekend. The Rams receiver welcomed a newborn son hours after Los Angeles beat the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20. Jefferson’s wife, Samaria, attended the Super Bowl, but left on a stretcher during...
Pitt partners with brand management agency to help athletes maximize NIL opportunities

Pitt is taking a step forward in helping its student-athletes manage and profit from name, image and likeness opportunities. University officials announced Monday a partnership with The Brandr Group, a brand management, marketing and licensing agency that counts more than 35 college programs among its clients. “We support our student-athletes...
The longshot Steelers? Only 7 teams have worse odds to win next year’s Super Bowl

The end of the Super Bowl means the NFL world is already looking forward to next year’s championship. Locally, they might not like what they see. The odds for who will win Super Bowl LVII are out — and they aren’t kind to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Only seven of the...
Greensburg’s Asa Klimchock flourishes in new position for Bethany basketball

After four schools in six seasons, Greensburg native Asa Klimchock has found a home with the Bethany (W.Va.) basketball program. And that new home includes a new position this winter. Klimchock moved from point guard — where he played his “whole life” — to shooting guard, and he is thriving...
Chatham swimmer Glasspool bringing down her butterfly times as PAC finals approachVideo

Chatham sophomore swimmer Abigail Glasspool doesn’t hide her dislike for the 200-yard butterfly. Not even when talking in front of fourth-year coach Rebecca Yost. But the Plum grad can’t escape the idea that the “2-fly” might be her best event. “It isn’t my favorite event,” Glasspool said. “But coach believes...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Belle Vernon grad Bailey Parshall reaches strikeout milestone

Penn State senior softball pitcher Bailey Parshall (Belle Vernon) returned from a injury rehab to make a start in the Nittany Lions’ season opener. She struck out 10 in seven innings and reached 400 career strikeouts as Penn State fell, 2-1, against No. 11 Missouri in eight innings. She gave...
Jerome Bettis, Terry Bradshaw, Troy Polamalu, JuJu Smith-Schuster represent Steelers in Super Bowl adsVideo

While their team wasn’t in the big game, several past and one present Pittsburgh Steelers players starred in Super Bowl LVI commercials on Sunday. • Road to Super Bowl LVI In a Pepsi and Frito-Lay commercial, former Steelers running back and Super Bowl XL champion Jerome Bettis brings the bus...
Aaron Donald’s trainer not surprised by retirement rumors: ‘He might as well go out on top’

When NBC announcer Rodney Harrison discussed the “strong possibility” that Aaron Donald could retire if the Los Angeles Rams won Super Bowl LVI, DeWayne Brown wasn’t the least bit surprised. Through his 2/10ths Speed and Agility program, Brown has trained Donald since he played at Penn Hills and watched his...
Mark Madden: It’s unrealistic to think the Steelers can reload right away

The notion that the Pittsburgh Steelers can reload a mediocre team immediately after their Hall of Fame quarterback retires seems insane, but par for the course locally. (Ben Roethlisberger might not have always looked the part in his final campaign, but his guile and guts engineered six fourth-quarter comebacks on...
Cooper Kupp caps triple crown season with Super Bowl MVP

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — When Cooper Kupp walked off the Super Bowl field three years ago with an injured knee that didn’t allow him to play, he said he had a vision of coming back and winning the MVP. “It was as clear as day,” Kupp said. “I turned around before...
Explainer: Competing for ‘another’ country is nothing new

BEIJING — U.S.-born athletes have taken center stage at the Winter Olympics in Beijing — for the host country, that is, generating scrutiny of nationality-switching. Eileen Gu, the prodigious — and, depending on who you ask, prodigal — freestyle skier who chose to compete for her mother’s native China over...

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