Sports category, Page 1396

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Jalen Fowler threw two touchdown passes and Jah-Maine Martin ran for 105 yards and two scores to lead North Carolina A&T to a 41-14 victory over Robert Morris in a Big South Conference opener Saturday. Andrew Brown sandwiched two field goals around an 18-yard TD run by...

SirVocea Dennis thought for a second or two before giving a firm, “No,” to the question: Does Pitt’s offense score too quickly? Pitt scored seven touchdowns in its 52-21 victory against Georgia Tech on Saturday. Three came at the end of 33-, 15- and 39-second possessions by the offense. A...

INDIANAPOLIS (61-66) and Nashville (Brewers) were rained out. The game will not be made up. Indianapolis will play its season finale Sunday. Next: Sunday vs. Nashville, 1:35 p.m....

Miami FC staged a furious comeback in the final 10 minutes of regulation, scoring twice to record a 3-2 victory and deal a blow to the Pittsburgh Riverhounds’ chances of finishing in second place in the USL Championship’s Atlantic Division. Miami (14-7-6) and Pittsburgh (14-8-6) are tied for second place,...

As a 6-foot-7 shortstop, Oneil Cruz often is the subject of tall tales. The Pittsburgh Pirates even speak of their top prospect in mythical terms, so it’s no wonder Ke’Bryan Hayes called Cruz a “unicorn” who can hit baseballs 600 feet with a single swing. Cruz didn’t deliver any majestic...

Brady Walker threw for 219 yards and two touchdowns as St. Vincent overcame a slow start to defeat Case Western, 42-40, in a PAC slugfest Saturday afternoon. The Bearcats (3-1, 2-1) trailed 14-0 late in the first half before Walker hit Antonio Zambrano with a 7-yard scoring pass with 1:09...

Ke’Bryan Hayes blamed a cyst that developed in his left hand for causing the pain that forced a premature end to the Pittsburgh Pirates third baseman’s rookie season. Hayes said he plans to see a hand specialist when he returns home to Houston after the season ends but doesn’t expect...

They have been in the NFL a combined 35 seasons, their respective one-team tenures concurrently spanning four presidential administrations. With more than 300 combined wins and three Super Bowl rings, each has served as the face of a football-crazed town for a generation. Somehow, though, Aaron Rodgers and Ben Roethlisberger...

The Penguins’ top power-play unit looked strange during practice Friday. That’s because reserve defenseman Juuso Riikola was on it. But he was merely a placeholder. With top-six winger Kasperi Kapanen in the lineup for a road preseason game in Buffalo later that night, Riikola was filling in for his fellow...

The Penguins announced their lineup for Sunday’s preseason game against the Detroit Red Wings at PPG Paints Arena. It includes: Forwards - Teddy Blueger, Brian Boyle, Jeff Carter, Jake Guentzel, Danton Heinen, Kasperi Kapanen, Sam Lafferty, Brock McGinn, Drew O’Connor, Evan Rodrigues, Bryan Rust, Jason Zucker Defensemen - Brian Dumoulin,...

There might have been a few people thinking it. But Pat Narduzzi actually said it out loud Saturday afternoon — postgame and on the ACC Network — after quarterback Kenny Pickett and the Pitt aerial show carved up the Georgia Tech defense 52-21 at Bobby Dodd Stadium in Atlanta. “He...

The play simply was called, “Lilly.” Southmoreland put it in place Thursday at practice, running it once as a rehearsal in case junior Lilly Wasmund had the opportunity to run it in Friday night’s home game against Derry. Wasmund was up to the task when her number was called with...

The only healthy starting wide receiver the Pittsburgh Steelers had when their last game ended is not going to be available to them when their next game starts. Chase Claypool will not play in Sunday’s meeting with the Green Bay Packers because of a hamstring injury. A team spokesman announced...

Nearly 60,000 golfers participated this year in the PGA Jr. League and only 96 of them qualified for the 13-and-under national championship this month. One of them is an eighth-grader from Hampton. Rin Suyama will compete with the Westwood Golf Club team in its bid for a national title beginning...

TALLADEGA, Ala. — Denny Hamlin is already through to the third round of NASCAR’s playoffs with nothing to worry about at Talladega Superspeedway. His championship rivals? Not so much. NASCAR’s challenging second round of the playoffs — three wildly different circuits — moves Sunday to the behemoth 2.66-mile Alabama superspeedway...

Sunday night marks the Super Bowl in October. It will be disappointing, like many actual Super Bowls, but for different reasons. Tampa Bay’s visit to New England has little chance to be a good game. It’s billed as the showdown between the greatest quarterback ever and greatest coach ever. But...

The Penguins trimmed their training camp roster by 13 on Saturday. Forwards Jordy Bellerive, Jonathan Gruden, Kyle Olson, Valtteri Puustinen and Felix Robert; defensemen Niclas Almari, Taylor Fedun, Cam Lee, Will Reilly and Mitch Reinke; and goaltender Filip Lindberg were assigned to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL). Almari,...

The Pittsburgh Pirates are giving fans their first glimpse of the team’s top prospect by promoting 6-foot-7 shortstop Oneil Cruz on Saturday for the final two games of the season at PNC Park, a source confirmed to the Tribune-Review. The news was first reported by Dominican baseball insider Hector Gomez....

1. Keeping it outside Plenty has been made of Ben Roethlisberger’s tendency to throw short and check down. His 4.3-yard average air yards per completion is third lowest in the league among starting quarterbacks. But even when Roethlisberger has thrown downfield, it has been exclusively to the outside. According to...