‘Backdoor’ betting sites embrace Steelers coaching search
Willing to risk 46 cents on Chris Shula? Less than a week into the Pittsburgh Steelers’ search, online prediction markets have taken in more than $340,000 from those speculating about who will or won’t be the next coach. The innovative websites operate more like stock markets than the sportsbooks of...
Market begins to declutter for Steelers as they aim to zero in on top coaching candidates
In-person interviews with teams have yet to even begin for the vast majority of the leading NFL coaching candidates, but that didn’t mean Saturday didn’t bring news — most of it good — for the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Steelers were scheduled to continue virtual interviews over the weekend, but what...
Jimmie Williams leads Duquesne men past Fordham
After a three-game slide, Duquesne is back in the win column. For now. Jimmie Williams scored 19 points, and Cam Crawford added 16 to lead the up-and-down Dukes to a 74-63 road victory Saturday over Fordham at Rose Hill Gym in New York. Tarence Guinyard narrowly missed a double-double for...
A champion will be crowned but college football chaos will linger beyond Indiana-Miami title game
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Once the legal wrangling over paying players finally got settled last summer, there was hope that college football might finally stumble into something resembling stability. Or at least find its footing for a couple of months. It was too much to ask, at least right away....
Mark Madden’s hot take: Steelers also need a roster reset
The Pittsburgh Steelers will have a new head coach. The Steelers are replacing their entire coaching staff. They will probably hire somebody else’s defensive coordinator to be their head coach, thus maintaining their misguided organizational commitment to prioritizing defense in an era of score more, faster. But this is as...
Penn State announces signing of 39 players in 2026 transfer class
With the official closing of the 2026 transfer portal window closing Friday, Penn State made all of its portal movement — at least to this point — official. The Nittany Lions announced the signings of 39 transfer additions, according to a university release. A whopping 24 of those players followed...
Penguins goaltender Arturs Silovs scheduled to start against Blue Jackets
The Pittsburgh Penguins are scheduled to start goaltender Arturs Silovs in Saturday’s game against the Columbus Blue Jackets at PPG Paints Arena. Coach Dan Muse announced Silovs’ status following a morning skate in Cranberry. In 21 games this season, Silovs has an 8-6-7 record, a 3.06 goals-against average, an .890...
Joe Starkey: What the national media won’t talk about regarding Mike Tomlin’s Steelers tenure
A few years ago, the great Peter King joined my radio show for his usual spot, and we talked about Mike Tomlin. At that point, Tomlin’s playoff-win drought had reached six years or so. We agreed it was a major concern, but King opined that Tomlin always seemed to overachieve...
Riley, defending champ Taylor part of 5-way tie for lead at windy Sony Open
HONOLULU — The wind arrived early and stayed late Friday in the second round of the PGA Tour’s season-opening Sony Open. Davis Riley thrived in the difficult conditions in the morning, birdieing the par-5 18th for a 64 and a share of the lead. Riley matched defending champion Nick Taylor,...
Minor league report: Penguins fall to Wolf PackVideo
Forward Gabe Klassen had two goals for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 4-3 loss to the Hartford Wolf Pack at Mohegan Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Friday. Linemate Atley Calvert recorded two assists for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (24-11-1-2) while forward Aidan McDonough contributed a goal. Goaltender Sergei Murashov made 28 saves on 32...
Seahawks know what to expect in 49ers as teams played 2 weeks agoVideo
RENTON, Wash. — For the Seattle Seahawks to host another playoff game and move closer to the fourth Super Bowl appearance in franchise history, they will have to dispose of a familiar foe. Very familiar. The top-seeded Seahawks (14-3) host the San Francisco 49ers (13-5) in the NFC’s Divisional round...
Broncos host 1st playoff game in a decade, face banged-up BillsVideo
DENVER — After the Buffalo Bills ended the Denver Broncos’ season with a 31-7 thrashing in the playoffs last year, Sean Payton resolved to return the postseason party to Denver with its mile-high air and thunderous, stadium-rattling crowd. “We talk about earning seeds and trying to get all edges. It...
ACC more than survived, it thrived. Miami in the College Football Playoff final is proof
MIAMI — The Power 4 conference that didn’t get its champion into the College Football Playoff has a team that tied for second playing in the CFP’s national title game. So much for the demise of the ACC. The league that looked most vulnerable a few years ago when the...
Pitt transfer portal rundown: Who did the Panthers bring in?Video
As the dust settles around the transfer portal window (Jan. 2-16), a stock can be taken of the players who departed Pitt’s program and those the Panthers acquired. In total, TribLive counted 22 departures. As for additions, the tally stands at 15. Thirteen players announced commitments to Pitt on social...
Analysis: John Harbaugh, set to take over Giants, will look to have better 2nd actVideo
John Harbaugh is heading to Broadway, aiming to make his second act even better than his first. Harbaugh didn’t have to wait long after the Baltimore Ravens fired him last week following 18 seasons. He had plenty of options and chose the New York Giants. His contract was still being...
Bears’ Caleb Williams presents an elusive challenge for Jared Verse, Rams defenseVideo
LOS ANGELES — When Jared Verse begins to elaborate on the methodology of sacking Caleb Williams, it’s quickly obvious the Los Angeles Rams star edge rusher has been thinking about this monumental task quite a bit. “You just have to keep rushing,” Verse said. “You have to keep running. Honestly,...
Texans’ fearsome foursome fuels pass rush as Houston prepares for Patriots
HOUSTON — Asked how he’d describe Houston’s pass rush to someone who hasn’t seen the Texans play before, coach DeMeco Ryans took a few seconds before landing on an answer. “It’s like four Tasmanian devils just wrecking everything that’s in front of them. That’s how I look at our guys,”...
Madison Keys pictures herself as champion again at Australian Open
MELBOURNE, Australia — Madison Keys planned to walk into the player tunnel at Rod Laver Arena in a quiet moment when nobody was watching and take a photo of her name listed with the other champions at the Australian Open. After beating top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka in last year’s final at...
Penn-Trafford graduate, former Wisconsin RB Cade Yacamelli transfers to Miami (Ohio)
Not long after he locked his name into the NCAA transfer portal, Cade Yacamelli made a commitment to a new college football program, with little fanfare or attention. Just the way he liked it. The running back didn’t even post anything on social media when he verbally pledged to Miami...
Pitt defensive lineman Joey Zelinsky declares for NFL Draft
Following one year with Pitt, defensive end Joey Zelinksy announced he’d be declaring for the 2026 NFL Draft on Friday. Zelinsky transferred to Pitt in January of 2025 following three seasons (2022-24) at Eastern Michigan and one (2021) at Hudson Valley Community College. In his lone year in a Panthers...
Penguins’ ‘LAD’ line of Blake Lizotte, Noel Acciari, Connor Dewar continues to offer club boostVideo
Throughout the recent history of the Pittsburgh Penguins, some intangible combination of individual charisma, on-ice results and overall team performance has preceded a line of forwards being nicknamed. That badge of honor requires a bit of magic or mystique surrounding the players themselves, which the “HBK” (Carl Hagelin, Nick Bonino...
Pitt transfer portal rundown: Who left the Panthers?
Friday marks the final day that Division I football players may enter their names into the transfer portal. With the portal window closing (there no longer is a spring period), rosters are being finalized as teams across the country welcome early enrollees, conduct winter workouts and look ahead to spring...
‘World-class communicator’: Rams gush over Steelers coach target Nate Scheelhaase
Friday’s Zoom discussion with the Pittsburgh Steelers wasn’t the only virtual interview Nate Scheelhaase had lined up with an NFL team in search of a head coach. And listening to what some of those with whom Scheelhaase works in the Los Angeles Rams organization, it’s easy to see why he’s...
Football Footnotes: Steelers complaining about coordinators; an immediate challenge for the new coach; playoff predictions
Former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin still hasn’t spoken about his resignation from the team, but the players sure are saying a lot. Even if they aren’t putting their names on their own quotes. We talk about those topics and provide some playoff predictions in this Friday’s “Football Footnotes.”...
Top prospect Konnor Griffin among 7 non-roster invitees to Pirates’ big-league camp
The Pittsburgh Pirates announced Friday that Konnor Griffin, the consensus top prospect in baseball, is one of seven non-roster invitees who have been invited to major-league camp for spring training. The 19-year-old Griffin, a 6-foot-4, 225-pound shortstop/center fielder who was the No. 9 overall pick in the 2024 MLB Draft,...
