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Goalie Henrik Lundqvist to miss season with heart condition
WASHINGTON — Star goalie Henrik Lundqvist will sit out the upcoming NHL season because of a heart condition, he said Thursday, about two months after he joined the Washington Capitals following 15 years with the New York Rangers. Calling it “a pretty tough and emotional day” in a video posted...
Ex-Browns coach Freddie Kitchens to call plays for Giants against Cleveland
CLEVELAND — Freddie Kitchens was fired after one stormy, discouraging season as Browns coach. This weekend he’ll get a shot at some personal payback. Kitchens will call plays for New York on Sunday night against Cleveland after Giants offensive coordinator Jason Garrett tested positive for covid-19 on Thursday. Kitchens is...
Former Baltimore Ravens running back Lorenzo Taliaferro dies at 28
Lorenzo Taliaferro, who played three season as a Baltimore Ravens running back from 2014-16 after starring at Coastal Carolina, died Wednesday. He was 28. Authorities have not released a cause of death, but a family member told Fox45 that Taliaferro died of a heart attack in his hometown of Williamsburg,...
Penn State linebacker Jesse Luketa eager to keep playing
With this season’s football schedule pockmarked by the coronavirus pandemic, the Big Ten conference added an extra game to every team’s schedule for what has been dubbed “Champions Week.” A matchup between a 3-5 Penn State team and an Illinois squad at 2-5 doesn’t exactly resemble a conference title game,...
This date in sports history: Dec. 17Video
1933 — The Chicago Bears win the first NFL championship with a 23-21 victory over the New York Giants. The Bears score the winning touchdown on a 36-yard play that starts with a short pass from Bronko Nagurski to Bill Hewitt, who then laterals to Bill Kerr for the score....
Robert Morris men’s basketball cancels 2 games, adds another
The Robert Morris men’s basketball team canceled two games and added another as coronavirus protocols continued to scramble the Colonials’ schedule in their first season in the Horizon League. Robert Morris was scheduled to play its first conference games against Cleveland State on Saturday and Sunday at home. Those games...
Alabama, Ohio State add 5-stars while preparing for championship gamesVideo
As Alabama, Ohio State, Clemson, Oregon, Notre Dame, Oklahoma and Florida prepared to play for conference championships, they signed top-10 recruiting classes for 2021 they hope to fuel their next title contenders. The most unusual college football season in memory brought the convergence Wednesday of the start of the early...
Ithiel Horton scores 18, leads Pitt to win at Miami in ACC opener
Ithiel Horton knew there were eyes on him at the start of the season. He came in as a transfer from Delaware with the reputation as a scorer. Of course, it was frustrating when he missed 23 of his 33 shots in Pitt’s first five games. But he spent some...
Pitt nets 21 prospects in Class of 2021 at the end of unique year for recruiting
The process that brought 21 letters of intent onto Pat Narduzzi’s computer via DocuSign on Wednesday morning — “I think the fax machine is officially dead,” he said — gained intensity in the spring while Pitt’s coaches were quarantined by covid-19. “We were obsessed with recruiting,” Narduzzi said, noting his...
‘Christmas came early’ for Sean Gibson, who celebrates MLB’s recognition of Negro Leagues
When Sean Gibson got word MLB officially was recognizing the Negro Leagues, he spent Wednesday taking celebratory phone calls from the descendants of Satchel Paige and Buck Leonard. The great-grandson of Josh Gibson is the executive director of a foundation in the heralded slugger’s name and spearheading a campaign to...
Penn State’s James Franklin laments lack of campus visits, in-state talent on signing day
In one sense, Penn State’s recruiting class was typical for coach James Franklin. “One of the things that I’ve been proud of since we’ve been here, really throughout my career, we’ve have very little drama on signing day, how we go about the process,” Franklin said during a video conference...
Pat Narduzzi: Kenny Pickett thought ‘long and hard’ about coming back
Pat Narduzzi said the Duratz Athletic Complex where the Pitt football team lives and works was rocking Tuesday night. And he wasn’t talking about the trains that rumble through the South Side. On the eve of national letter of intent day, the biggest news came from a player who signed...
For Northwestern, Big Ten title game vs. Ohio State comes after big turnaroundVideo
Pat Fitzgerald figures he will gain a few more gray hairs by the time No. 15 Northwestern steps on the field to face third-ranked Ohio State in the Big Ten championship game Saturday. As the Wildcats coach, it’s his job to figure out a way to contain the Buckeyes. And...
High court agrees to hear NCAA athlete compensation case
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to review a court decision that the NCAA has said blurred “the line between student-athletes and professionals” by removing caps on education-related money certain football and basketball players can receive. The case will be argued in 2021 with a decision expected before...
Ben Roethlisberger on Steelers’ back-to-back losses: ‘It’s not the end of the world’
For someone who just shaved his beard, Ben Roethlisberger did his best Santa Claus impersonation Wednesday morning. With gloom and doom surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers amid back-to-back losses that followed an 11-0 start, the freshly shorn quarterback spread some Christmas cheer ahead of his team’s last game before the holidays....
West Virginia inks 16 on early signing day, including No. 1 tackle in the state
West Virginia coach Neal Brown secured a promising 2021 recruiting class during early signing day Wednesday with several talented players from all over the country. Offensive lineman Wyatt Milum (Kenova, W.Va.), wide receiver Kaden Prather (Germantown, Md.) and running backs Justin Johnson Jr. (Edwardsville, Ill.) and Jaylen Anderson (Perry, Ohio)...
ACC showdown: Notre Dame’s Book, Clemson’s Lawrence on center stageVideo
CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence, wearing a mask and standing on the sideline, watched his Notre Dame counterpart, Ian Book, rally the Fighting Irish to a dramatic victory last month. Lawrence is expected to play a major role in what happens in the rematch when the second-ranked Fighting...
Steelers’ JuJu Smith-Schuster vows to keep ‘being myself,’ doing pregame logo dancesVideo
Several Buffalo Bills players said it upset and inspired them en route to a victory Sunday. But Pittsburgh Steelers receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster has no plans to stop his new routine of a pregame dance on the midfield logo. “Yes, we lost, (and) they had a few words to say and...
Penn State’s Jayson Oweh, Shaka Toney named to Big Ten first team
Penn State defensive linemen Jayson Oweh and Shaka Toney were named to the Big Ten’s first team as selected by the conference coaches Wednesday. In eight games this season, Oweh had 38 tackles (20 solo, 18 assisted). Toney appeared in eight games and had 25 tackles (19 solo, six assisted)...
Pitt, West Virginia announce changes to wrestling schedule
Pitt announced its updated wrestling schedule Wednesday with the season opener set for Jan. 3 at the U.S. Naval Academy. The Panthers’ first home match is Jan. 9 against Lehigh. The Atlantic Coast Conference opener is Jan. 16 at home against Duke. The Panthers will wrestle four other ACC opponents...
MLB reclassifies Negro Leagues as major league
NEW YORK (AP) — Willie Mays will add some hits to his record, Monte Irvin’s big league batting average should climb over .300 and Satchel Paige may add nearly 150 victories to his total. Josh Gibson, the greatest of all Negro League sluggers, might just wind up with a major...
Penguins A to Z: Frederick Gaudreau restores depth at center for Wilkes-Barre/ScrantonVideo
As the NHL prepares for a new season expected to start in mid-January, the Tribune-Review will offer Penguins A to Z, a player-by-player look at all 48 individuals under NHL contract with the organization, from mid-level prospect Niclas Almari to high-profile trade acquisition Jason Zucker. Frederick Gaudreau Position: Center Shoots:...
Westmoreland County football players named to Westminster All-Decade team
Three former Westmoreland County football players were named to the Westminster All-Decade team which was released Tuesday. Running back Dominique McKinley and defensive end Bobby Noble were named to the first team, and offensive lineman Cameron Mika to the second team. McKinley, a Greensburg Salem graduate, rushed for 3,367 yards...
Ben Roethlisberger: Arm ‘feels really good,’ knee ‘pretty good’ for Steelers’ stretch drive
His team has lost two consecutive games, and his personal statistical performance thus far during December has been the worst of any month this season. But Ben Roethlisberger insists any regression he is having is not related to a physical ailment. The Pittsburgh Steelers franchise quarterback refuted a national report...
Mark Madden: Steelers should rest Ben Roethlisberger after locking up AFC North title
If Ben Roethlisberger is washed up, there’s nothing the Steelers can do to fix that short of inventing a time machine. But assuming Roethlisberger is at road’s end seems abrupt given a mere fistful of bad games — although Roethlisberger’s long throws have been ineffective all season on the sporadic...
