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Southmoreland’s Ron Frederick dies day after learning he would be named head football coach
When Dave Keefer resigned as Southmoreland’s football coach last month, he recommended assistant coach Ron Frederick for the job. Keefer talked to Frederick before Frederick’s interview Tuesday with school officials. Frederick, a 1999 Southmoreland graduate, left the meeting knowing the job — his dream job — was his. Frederick, 40,...
Steelers president Art Rooney II addresses progress, shortcomings with Rooney Rule
For all of the philanthropic efforts Dan Rooney was involved in over a lifetime of roles with the Pittsburgh Steelers, perhaps no part of the late Steelers patriarch’s legacy will endure more than the NFL rule that bears his name. But nowadays, despite being regarded as having the best of...
Tim Benz: 1 aspect of the Penguins’ game that must be rediscovered coming out of the All-Star Break
After a torrid stretch winning 17 of 19 games between Dec. 4 and Jan. 25, the Pittsburgh Penguins limped into the All-Star break by losing four in a row. All of the games were at home. All of the defeats were against clubs with fewer points than them in the...
U mad, bro?: Fans spit fire about Steelers’ QB situation, Heinz Field attendance, Evgeni Malkin, Antonio Brown, NFL OT
Based on what I’ve seen the past few weeks, I was getting concerned that “U mad, bro?” would essentially just boil down to a weekly rant session about the Steelers quarterback situation. And I have no doubt that it will get mentioned every week between now and when a starter...
First Call: Steelers focus on QBs at Senior Bowl; Cameron Heyward’s brother on Steelers’ radar; JuJu’s parting shot?
The Pittsburgh Steelers are spending plenty of time and attention getting to know quarterbacks at the Senior Bowl. JuJu Smith-Schuster has a parting shot for the Steelers before free agency. Cameron Heyward’s brother may be on the Steelers’ draft radar. And Terry Bradshaw discusses a regret in his new HBO...
Western Pa.’s Top 10 football prospects for the Class of 2023
Some of the nation’s top college football recruiters will visit Western Pennsylvania often in the coming months, because the WPIAL and City League have an uncommitted four-star Rivals recruit in the 2023 class. They’re now on the clock. In all, there is a trio of four-star juniors in the area,...
Minor league report: Jordy Bellerive’s overtime goal leads Penguins past ThunderbirdsVideo
An overtime goal by forward Jordy Bellerive gave the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins a 4-3 home win against the Springfield Thunderbirds at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Wednesday. Forward Michael Chaput had a goal and an assist for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (17-17-1-3), which has won three consecutive games while goaltender Alex D’Orio made...
One more Olympic ride: End means a new beginning for Shaun WhiteVideo
ZHANGJIAKOU, China — One last time, Shaun White will stand atop the Olympic halfpipe, slap his hands together, give a high-five to his coach and take his snowboard, and snowboarding, on the sort of ride that only he can dream up. The Beijing Games will be the fifth Olympics for...
China less worried about global criticism these OlympicsVideo
When Beijing was awarded the 2008 Summer Olympics, the International Olympic Committee predicted the Games could improve human rights, and Chinese politicians hinted at the same. Such talk is all but absent this time for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. The Games are a reminder of both China’s rise and...
Olympic star Mikaela Shiffrin: Loss of father ‘still pretty painful’Video
Mikaela Shiffrin glances over her right shoulder at the photo of her late father, Jeff, hanging on a wall in her Edwards, Colo., home. She smiles. Then she bows her head, sighs and begins speaking, occasionally pausing between words, perhaps because it simply still just doesn’t seem real, nearly two...
The age-old question in figure skating: How old is too old?Video
Tara Lipinski was a sprightly 15-year-old ballerina-on-ice when she won figure skating gold at the 1998 Nagano Olympics. Sarah Hughes but a year older when she did the same thing four years later in Salt Lake City. In fact, six of the past seven Olympic champions in women’s figure skating...
No NHL players boosts Russian hopes for Olympic gold in men’s hockeyVideo
Seven weeks before puck drop at what was supposed to be the first Olympics with NHL players since 2014, the league pulled the plug amid a rash of postponements for coronavirus-related reasons. Instead of getting the world’s best on Olympic ice for the sixth time since 1998, the tournament will...
Beijing Olympics will showcase hockey’s next generationVideo
The disappointment of the NHL not participating in the 2022 Winter Olympics quickly turned to excitement for a handful of U.S. players at the world junior championship. Matty Beniers, Jake Sanderson and Brock Faber were together in Red Deer, Alberta, when USA Hockey’s John Vanbiesbrouck asked them to go to...
U.S. women’s hockey once again led by a shining KnightVideo
Cammi Granato never had forgotten the young girl she lent her stick and gloves to during one of the former U.S. Olympian’s first hockey camps in Chicago in the late 1990s. It was years later when Granato discovered that girl just happened to be Hilary Knight. “Her stick broke, and...
Nathan Chen vs. Yuzuru Hanyu the latest in Olympic figure skating rivalriesVideo
In the pantheon of figure skating rivalries, Nancy and Tonya soars like a triple lutz above the rest. Two athletes in their prime, each trying to be America’s golden girl, on the biggest stage in winter sports. And it came draped in the most bizarre of controversies: An attack on...
China richer, stronger, more confrontational compared to 2008 OlympicsVideo
BEIJING — China has undergone history-making change since the last time it was an Olympic host in 2008: It is richer, more heavily armed and openly confrontational. As President Xi Jinping’s government prepares for the Winter Olympics, it has greater leverage to exert influence abroad and resist complaints from the...
Roger Goodell pressured by Congress to release Washington report
Former Washington Commanders employees and members of Congress pressured the NFL and commissioner Roger Goodell on Thursday to release a report about the team’s history of sexual harassment and its sexist, hostile workplace culture. They said the team and owner Dan Snyder have not been held accountable for their misdeeds....
U.S. men’s national team inches closer to World Cup berth with win over HondurasVideo
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Until the must-win 3-0 victory over Honduras on Wednesday, the U.S. men’s national team had gotten little out of the first half, out of set pieces and out of star forward Christian Pulisic in its recent World Cup qualifiers. All that changed in the night’s bitter...
Blackhawks owner on Kyle Beach: ‘Not going to talk about anything’
CHICAGO — Speaking Wednesday night at a town hall organized by the team, Chicago Blackhawks owner Rocky Wirtz angrily rejected any conversation connected to the franchise’s response when a player said he was sexually assaulted by an assistant coach. It was the first time the franchise’s top leaders had faced...
NBC announcers ready to call Olympics action from U.S.Video
Dan Hicks had a short drive from his home to NBC Sports headquarters in Stamford, Conn., the past two years to call the French Open and some World Cup skiing events. He didn’t imagine he would be doing it for an Olympics, though. With China’s strict policy about those who...
Wake Forest rolls over Pitt; road losing streak in ACC reaches 11 games
Pitt coach Jeff Capel is well aware playing good defense is his team’s only hope this season. When he saw Wake Forest ball handlers enjoying open spaces and shooters getting time to gauge their shots, he knew his team was in trouble. So, it was no wonder Wake Forest rolled...
Olympic champ Chloe Kim eyes 2nd gold on her termsVideo
Chloe Kim, prodigy, is no more. The same goes for Chloe Kim, political symbol. And that’s a good thing for snowboarding in general and the sport’s current standard-bearer more specifically. Eight years ago, she was the halfpipe’s Next Big Thing. Four years ago, the California-born daughter of South Korean immigrants...
Jim Harbaugh says he’ll stay at Michigan after Vikings interview
Jim Harbaugh will stay at Michigan after all, ending his dalliance with a return to the NFL after interviewing with the Minnesota Vikings for their head coach vacancy Wednesday. Harbaugh withdrew from consideration and will be back at his alma mater for an eighth season. “With an enthusiasm unknown to...
Pat Narduzzi: Notre Dame ‘back channels’ asked Kenny Pickett about transferring before ’21 season
Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi said Wednesday that tampering with other schools’ players — in this age of uncontested transfers — has become a serious problem in college sports. How serious? During an interview on Sirius XM ACC Radio, he said people with connections to Notre Dame tried to get former...
Former Browns coach Hue Jackson implies he was paid to loseVideo
CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Browns say suggestions by former coach Hue Jackson and an associate that he was paid by the team to lose games are “completely fabricated.” Jackson, who is now coaching at Grambling, made several posts on Twitter implying he received bonus payments from Browns owner Jimmy Haslam...
