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Minus NFL Combine, Steelers preparing for draft process that relies on college pro days
The only sound emanating from Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis next month will be basketballs bouncing off a hardwood surface. There will be no clicking of stopwatches as scouts time players running the 40-yard dash. No barbells clanging from 300-pound linemen trying to eke out another rep in the bench...
Plum grad Maria Lawhorne making most of shortened season at W&J
In November, the Presidents’ Athletic Conference released a return-to-competition plan for the spring 2021 semester. Plum graduate Maria Lawhorne, a senior on the women’s basketball team at Washington & Jefferson, was encouraged as she completed remote-learning classes for the fall semester. “It was challenging and definitely not something I was...
This date in sports history: Feb. 27Video
1918 — The first neutral site game in NHL history is held in Quebec City. Frank Nighbor scores twice in the first period to lead the Ottawa Senators to a 3-1 win over the Montreal Canadiens. 1955 — Boston beats Milwaukee, 62-57, at Providence, R.I., in a game which set...
MLS says Penguins co-owner Ron Burkle backs out of Sacramento expansion bid
NEW YORK — Major League Soccer says Ron Burkle has backed out of plans for an expansion team in Sacramento that was scheduled to start play in 2023. The league said in a statement Friday night that Burkle’s decision was “based on issues with the project related to covid-19.” MLS...
Tigers’ Miguel Cabrera hopes to reach 500 HRs, 3,000 hits this yearVideo
DETROIT — These last few seasons have been difficult for Miguel Cabrera. Now, the Detroit Tigers slugger has a chance to remind baseball fans just how much he has accomplished. Specifically, Cabrera has an opportunity to reach two major milestones in 2021. He is 13 home runs shy of 500...
Minor league report: Penguins beat PhantomsVideo
Forwards Jan Drozg, Robert Felix and defenseman Jon Lizotte each had a goal and an assist for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 4-2 home win against the rival Lehigh Valley Phantoms at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Friday. Defenseman Will Reilly added a goal for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (3-2-1) while forward...
Penguins assign forward Jordy Bellerive to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
The Penguins assigned forward Jordy Bellerive to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League (AHL). Bellerive, 21, had been on the Penguins’ taxi squad since Feb. 19. He has yet to play in an NHL game. In three AHL games this season, he has two goals. Bellerive is in the second...
Penn State men lose at home vs. Purdue
UNIVERSITY PARK — Sasha Stefanovic scored 16 points, Jaden Ivey added 14 points and Purdue cruised to a 73-52 win over Penn State on Friday night. Myreon Jones had 11 points, and Jamari Wheeler had nine points, six rebounds and six assists for the Nittany Lions (8-13, 5-12 Big Ten)....
LA firefighters rely on ax, luck to free Tiger Woods from crash
ROLLING HILLS ESTATES, Calif. — With short, sure strokes of a flathead ax, firefighter Cole Gomoll methodically chopped along the edge of the SUV’s broken windshield as golf icon Tiger Woods — tangled up in his seatbelt and covered in a sheet to avoid shards of glass — waited in...
Elijah Millsap expresses concerns about probe into Jazz allegation
MIAMI — Former Utah forward Elijah Millsap said Friday that he has not heard from any investigators regarding his allegation that Jazz executive Dennis Lindsey made a bigoted comment to him during an end-of-season meeting in 2015. Millsap also expressed doubt that a fair investigation could take place regarding his...
Late string of birdies gives Brooks Koepka lead at Concession
BRADENTON, Fla. — Brooks Koepka hit one his worst tee shots of the day that barely cleared the water on the 15th hole. That turned out to be the start of three straight birdies that led to a 6-under-par 66 and a one-shot lead Friday in the Workday Championship. In...
Brewers’ Christian Yelich eager for fresh start after 2020 strugglesVideo
Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich never has believed the results of one season have any carryover effect into the next year. He didn’t think that when he was coming off an MVP season in 2018 or a second straight batting title in ’19. Nor does he feel that way now...
NCAA lifts Georgia Tech hoop scholarship, recruiting sanctions
ATLANTA — The NCAA overturned scholarship and recruiting limitations placed on the Georgia Tech men’s basketball program in 2019. The decision from the NCAA Division I Infractions Appeals Committee announced Friday overturned the reduction of one scholarship per year for four years. It also restores Georgia Tech’s freedom to schedule...
Despite troubles, Keith Dambrot says Dukes aren’t ready to ‘cash it in’
Keith Dambrot’s immediate concern is recovering from what he called an embarrassing performance in Duquesne’s 20-point loss to La Salle on Wednesday night. A loss in the next game — Saturday night against Rhode Island at UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse — might shove the Dukes (7-8, 6-7) among the Atlantic 10’s...
Column: Names of Black athletes need to adorn stadiums
As Black History Month comes to a close, there have been myriad tributes to the accomplishments of African Americans in sports arenas across the land. That’s not nearly enough. Not after the racial awakening this country went through last summer. Not when major college athletic facilities still are named almost...
Football schools? Ohio State, Alabama thriving in hoops, tooVideo
Ohio State and Alabama competing for a national championship is hardly an unusual occurrence for either school. It just tends to happen in football. Six weeks after the Crimson Tide’s national championship game win over the Buckeyes, both schools are among the nation’s best basketball teams. No. 4 Ohio State...
JGR youngsters shine, validate Toyota’s development programVideo
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Two races into his return to Joe Gibbs Racing, Christopher Bell already has a Cup Series victory and, more importantly, some of his confidence back. Bell plodded through a rocky rookie season last year while on loan to another team. JGR didn’t have an open Cup car...
Pitt’s Jeff Capel, Duquesne’s Keith Dambrot learn to ‘move on’ after confronting reality of transfers
Jeff Capel admits the past week has not been easy. He spent the better part of his first three years as Pitt’s coach recruiting, mentoring, counseling, prodding and developing Xavier Johnson and Au’Diese Toney, helping to turn them into good men and better players than they were the day he...
Penguins staying in playoff race by way of success in 1-goal games
When games with empty-net goals are accounted for, more than 70% of NHL games last season were decided by one goal. It makes sense, then, that success in one-goal games is imperative for teams that aspire to finish with a strong win-loss record. The Pittsburgh Penguins are the league’s best...
RMU women’s basketball eliminated from Horizon League Tournament
The Robert Morris women’s basketball team saw its season come to a close Thursday night with a 68-54 loss to Northern Kentucky in the first round of the Horizon League Tournament. The ninth-seeded Colonials held an 11-10 lead after the first quarter, but No. 8 NKU used a 13-2 run...
Steelers’ Art Rooney II: Roethlisberger still capable, contract delay not about performance
Two days after releasing a statement that he and his team’s longtime quarterback are in agreement about Ben Roethlisberger playing in 2021, Pittsburgh Steelers president Art Rooney II reiterated that the organization believes Roethlisberger, even at age 39, remains a high-level NFL starter. “We think Ben played at a high...
New season, almost a new team: Pitt’s Jeff Capel attempts to recover from ‘interesting week’
You don’t often see a basketball season get started in late February, but it appears that way at Pitt after what Jeff Capel called “an interesting week, to say the least.” With Xavier Johnson and Au’Diese Toney leaving on consecutive days to enter the NCAA transfer portal, Pitt’s program was...
Mark Madden: Penguins could use a player like Tom Wilson
The Penguins have a Tom Wilson problem. Specifically, they don’t have him. They had a reasonably facsimile, Ryan Reaves, for part of the 2017-18 season. Not as good, not as tough, but good enough and tough enough. It remains one of Mike Sullivan’s biggest mistakes as Penguins coach that he...
Pirates, Entercom announce contract extension that will keep 93.7 FM home of radio broadcasts
The Pittsburgh Pirates and Entercom announced a multiyear contract extension that will keep 93.7 FM as the team’s flagship radio station and broadcast all spring training and regular-season games. The Pirates’ radio broadcast partner since 2012 on KDKA-FM, Entercom will now air all weekday and afternoon games on sister stations...
‘Chace’ing a comeback: From near amputation to NCAA hockey. The remarkable return of RMU’s Chace Sperling.
She doesn’t remember much about the 11-day stint at the hospital. It’s all a blur between the four surgeries, 38 stitches, pain medication, monotony and limited visits thanks to the pandemic. Robert Morris University hockey player Chace Sperling does remember one thing, though. That 20 minutes of agony flat on...
