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Norwin grad has career year for Seton Hill baseball
Owen Sabol got a taste of college baseball right away when he arrived at Seton Hill. He played in 10 games and started nine of them. But then the pandemic kicked in and the season was sawed off 13 games in. That’s when the waiting game began for 2021. It...
Tyson Alualu details emotional journey that brought him back to Steelers for 2 more years
Tyson Alualu could have spent the past week in Jacksonville, taking part in the first week of organized team activities under new football coach Urban Meyer. He could have shared a locker room with an old quarterback turned tight end in Tim Tebow and a new franchise passer in Trevor...
Penguins forward Kasperi Kapanen finds a ‘home’
Kasperi Kapanen’s first campaign as a member of the Pittsburgh Penguins didn’t go smoothly. When your individual season is delayed because you’re stuck on another continent because of a bureaucratic snafu related to a global pandemic, nothing is smooth. But when the talented winger was on the ice, he more...
Mark Madden’s Hot Take: Bringing back Mike Sullivan is not a no-brainer for Penguins
Mike Sullivan will probably coach the Pittsburgh Penguins next season. But there might be some debate in management’s mind. Sullivan won Stanley Cups in 2016 and ’17. But his Penguins have been eliminated in the first round of the playoffs for three straight seasons. Recent bias does Sullivan no favors....
This date in sports history: May 29Video
1922 — The Supreme Court rules organized baseball is primarily a sport and not a business and therefore not subject to antitrust laws and interstate commerce regulations. 1946 — Two-year-old fillies Chakoora and Uleta become the first thoroughbreds to complete a transcontinental flight. They are flown from New York to...
Pirates farm report for May 28, 2021: Jase Bowen homers twice for Bradenton
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 11-10) lost to Omaha (Royals), 3-0. Four Omaha pitchers combined to throw a two-hitter. RHP Steven Wright, the veteran knuckleballer, allowed two runs on six hits in 5.2 innings, striking out five. He’s 1-1 with a 1.84 ERA. LHP Austin Davis pitched 1.1 scoreless innings of relief. DH...
Spieth holds solo lead at Colonial; PGA champ Mickelson misses cutVideo
FORT WORTH, Texas — Jordan Spieth has started playing well again just about everywhere he goes. He always has felt comfortable close to home at Colonial, where he is in the lead. PGA champion Phil Mickelson was headed home to California after he bogeyed two of his last three holes,...
Alex Dixon powers Riverhounds to 1st win of season
Alex Dixon had a goal and a highlight-reel assist to help the Pittsburgh Riverhounds to a 3-0 victory over New York Red Bulls II Friday night in Montclair, N.J. It was the first win of the season for the Riverhounds (1-2-1). Dixon and Danny Griffin scored seven minutes apart as...
Trade-deadline acquisitions making big difference in NHL playoffsVideo
Just when the New York Islanders got finished with Jeff Carter lighting it up against them with Pittsburgh, they face another significant trade deadline pickup in Taylor Hall and the Boston Bruins. The Islanders might not even be in the second round if not for a trade to get Kyle...
Similar Islanders, Bruins face off in 2nd-round mirror matchVideo
When the Boston Bruins look in the mirror, they see the New York Islanders. “We’re playing ourselves a little bit,” Boston coach Bruce Cassidy said of the Bruins’ second-round opponent in the playoffs. “They have a lot of our attributes: They want to be structured. They want to play with...
Steelers jerseys once worn by Dwight White, L.C. Greenwood, Donnie Shell up for auction
It will be difficult to top a collection that featured a container once housing Jack Lambert’s false teeth, but the folks at Lelands auction house have put more Pittsburgh Steelers memorabilia up for bidding. Lelands’ mid-spring classic auction runs through June 4 and contains 25 pieces of Steelers memorabilia, including...
IndyCar veterans still going strong as careers wind downVideo
INDIANAPOLIS — Tony Kanaan sat in Chip Ganassi Racing’s suite one day this May, savoring a rare second IndyCar farewell tour. At age 46, running a part-time schedule with no future guarantees and a talented crop of young drivers chasing them, Kanaan and his fellow veterans can see the sunset...
Pirates rookie first baseman Will Craig on his epic error in rundown: ‘I messed up’Video
A day after the biggest blunder of his baseball career went from a rundown choke into a running joke, Pittsburgh Pirates rookie first baseman Will Craig took full responsibility for his epic error against the Chicago Cubs. Craig’s chaotic chase of Javier Baez toward home plate in the third inning...
Plum native Bjorn Fratangelo qualifies for French OpenVideo
Plum native Bjorn Fratangelo will play in this year’s French Open after winning a qualifier Thursday in Paris. The nine-year pro secured his spot with a 6-2, 7-6 (3) win over Australia’s Alexsandar Vukic. Fratangelo, 27, will enter his 11th Grand Slam tournament. He is 2-10 in 12 Grand Slam...
Penguins players brace for changes after latest playoff flameout
Bryan Rust’s future came into focus this week. He became a father. With his wife, Kelsey, welcoming son Hunter to the world, the Pittsburgh Penguins winger was succinct on what Sunday was like. “It’s the best day of my life.” As for life at the rink? That’s another matter for...
Pirates-Rockies game postponed, rescheduled as a split 7-inning doubleheader Saturday
Friday night’s game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Colorado Rockies has been postponed due to inclement weather and rescheduled as a split seven-inning doubleheader Saturday at PNC Park. The first game of the doubleheader will begin at 12:05 p.m., with the second game expected to start at 4:05 p.m. or...
Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin ‘was not 100%’ during playoffsVideo
Penguins coach Mike Sullivan shed some light on the injuries his team was dealing with during its first-round playoff series with the New York Islanders. Forward Evgeni Malkin missed the first two games of the series with a right knee injury. It was the first time the team publicly identified...
Pirates 1B Will Craig has company when it comes to losing — or using — your head in a baseball gameVideo
You think Will Craig feels bad? Will Craig, meet Fred Merkle, Al Martin, Milton Bradley and Jose Canseco. Baseball players have been having brain hiccups for more than 100 years. Here are a few: Merkle’s Boner At least Craig’s gaffe Thursday at PNC Park won’t cost the Pittsburgh Pirates a...
Penguins’ Tristan Jarry: confidence unshaken, vows ‘I will be better next year’
Neither Tristan Jarry nor Pittsburgh Penguins coach Mike Sullivan would say if Jarry has been assured he will be the team’s No. 1 goalie when next season begins. But Jarry did vow his much-criticized showing during the playoffs has been put behind him. “I think that will make me a...
Japan extends virus emergency with safe Olympics at stake
TOKYO — Japan extended a coronavirus state of emergency in Tokyo and other areas for 20 more days on Friday, with infections still not slowing as it prepares to host the Olympics in just over 50 days. Cases remain high and medical systems in Osaka, the hardest-hit area in western...
New York Knicks tickets to go only to fully vaccinated
The New York Knicks will sell tickets only to fully vaccinated fans if they reach the second round of the playoffs. The Knicks announced Friday that Game 5 of their first-round series against Atlanta has already sold out, with more than 16,000 fans expected on Wednesday. More than 90% of...
‘He’s a No. 1 goalie’: Penguins teammates stand behind Tristan Jarry
It remains to be seen if Tristan Jarry will still be the Pittsburgh Penguins’ No. 1 goalie when next season begins. Or if upper management has maintained confidence in him after a playoff showing that rated somewhere on the spectrum between slightly-below-average and downright poor. But judging by what some...
Family cries foul after White Sox change name of food area
CHICAGO — A food area at the home of the Chicago White Sox now is called La Russa’s Lounge after being named years ago in honor of a woman who sold beer and hot dogs for more than six decades. Loretta Micele’s family is crying foul after the title of...
Tour, players react to Naomi Osaka: Talking to media part of job
Naomi Osaka’s declaration that she won’t participate in news conferences during the French Open was a natural, if slightly awkward, topic for discussion on a tournament media day already awkward by nature because it was conducted via video conference. “I understand why she does it. I respect her opinion,” Daniil...
IndyCar courts Black fans, drivers in its push to diversify
INDIANAPOLIS — Rod Reid ran a program full of young, Black kart racers locked out of a venue because of the pandemic and needed a track to race. Indianapolis Motor Speedway had spent millions on upgrades on the historic property at the same time last year when the coronavirus had...
