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Dougie Hamilton helps Carolina beat Boston, tie series
TORONTO — This is what Dougie Hamilton was hoping for while he waited out the pandemic shutdown that put the NHL season on hold, and then waited some more after injuring himself in practice when the Hurricanes returned to the ice. The Carolina defenseman scored the game-winner with 11:30 left...
Vegas stays unbeaten in bubble, goes up 2-0 on Chicago
EDMONTON, Alberta — Even though Reilly Smith called it a lucky bounce, a whole lot more than luck is working right now for the Vegas Golden Knights. Smith scored in overtime, Robin Lehner made 22 saves, and the Golden Knights beat the Chicago Blackhawks 4-3 on Thursday to take a...
Would-be Penguins defenseman Dan Hamhuis retires
Longtime NHL defenseman Dan Hamhuis announced his retirement through the Nashville Predators on Thursday. Over 16 seasons, Hamhuis appeared in 1,148 regular season games and scored 356 points (59 goals, 297 assists). A stout defensive defenseman throughout his career, Hamhuis, 37, primarily played for the Predators throughout his career but...
NCAA calls off fall sports championships; college football not affectedVideo
The NCAA called off fall championship events — a move Thursday that does not affect major college football — because not enough schools will be competing in sports such as men’s and women’s soccer and women’s volleyball during the first semester. NCAA president Mark Emmert made the announcement in a...
Pirates hit 3 early home runs, hold on to beat Reds
Cincinnati Reds right-hander Anthony DeSclafani hadn’t allowed an earned run this season before playing the Pittsburgh Pirates. That lasted only one pitch. Adam Frazier hit DeSclafani’s second pitch for a leadoff home run, Colin Moran added another solo shot and Gregory Polanco led off a seven-run second inning with a...
Pitt practice canceled, covid tests come back negative after players display possible symptoms
Pitt canceled football practice Thursday after several players displayed symptoms that are associated with covid-19. “Our medical team decided it was in everyone’s best interest to temporarily pause our Thursday training camp activities so that we could test symptomatic players per our protocol,” athletic director Heather Lyke said. “Based on...
Joonas Korpisalo helps Blue Jackets tie series with LightningVideo
TORONTO — Two days after making an NHL-record 85 saves in a five-overtime loss, Joonas Korpisalo stopped 36 more shots to help the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the Tampa Bay Lightning, 3-1, on Thursday to even the series at a game apiece. Ryan Murray and Oliver Bjorkstrand scored in the...
Decorated Highlands grad Bailey Bonnett still has goals to achieve with Kentucky swim team
After being named a Division I All-American for the third consecutive year, Highlands graduate Bailey Bonnett is looking forward to her final season on the Kentucky women’s swimming team. “My goals are to be the best captain I can be,” said Bonnett, 21, a rising senior. “I want to help...
Horizon League, the conference Robert Morris joined in June, postpones fall sports season
One day after Robert Morris University athletics announced it plans to move its football season to the spring in connection with the Big South Conference postponing its fall sports seasons, the remaining Colonials fall sports teams found out they will not play this fall. The Horizon League, of which RMU...
Pennsylvania Game Commission will reveal elk hunting license winners live online
Lacking a 2020 Pennsylvania Great Outdoors Elk Expo as a venue, the Pennsylvania Game Commission plans to reveal the names of the hunters being drawn to receive 2020-21 elk hunting licenses in a Facebook Live online event on Saturday. The elk expo has been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic,...
Riverhounds expect different dynamic in second matchup with Indy ElevenVideo
The Pittsburgh Riverhounds travel to Indianapolis this weekend for their second meeting of the season with Group E leader Indy Eleven. The last time the Riverhounds (4-2) met with Indy Eleven (5-2-1), they put together one of their best performances of the season, if not the best. Still, former Riverhound...
Josh Bell spent Pirates’ downtime working to identify why the timing is off with his swing
Josh Bell knows his numbers through the first 16 games are down compared to his hot start last season, and the Pittsburgh Pirates All-Star first baseman isn’t one to make excuses for his struggles. But Bell has spent this week working to identify why he was slashing .213/.246/.328 with two...
Gov. Wolf stands behind fall sports shutdown but says ‘I’m just one person’Video
Gov. Tom Wolf said he’s unlikely to change his recommendation to delay youth sports, no matter what the PIAA says, but described his role as “one person that has an opinion.” Wolf, speaking Thursday at a news conference, said he hadn’t read the letter PIAA administrators sent him earlier in...
Steelers’ Mike Tomlin ready to get most out of practice time once hitting begins
If the coronavirus pandemic had not altered the NFL landscape, Monday would represent just another ordinary practice day in the training camp grind for the Pittsburgh Steelers. They likely would be holding a morning walkthrough followed by a two-hour practice in the late afternoon at Saint Vincent College. They would...
Despite covid-19 restrictions, teams in Pittsburgh’s NABA league enjoy playoff competition
The Pittsburgh chapter of the National Adult Baseball Association continues with its playoff tournaments this week, and league president Joe Graff said the postseason is an extension of a successful regular season despite the challenges of the covid-19 pandemic. “Everybody really worked together through everything from the start in June...
Three Rivers baseball facility in McKees Rocks gets donation, renovation
An upgrade is coming to the Three Rivers baseball facility in McKees Rocks thanks to a partnership between the Tull Family Foundation and local fitness studio Ramp ‘N’ Rize. The two partners announced their partnership and a $500,000 donation last week to upgrade the entire baseball facility and its three...
AP source: Kittle agrees to 5-year extension with 49ers
All-Pro tight end George Kittle has agreed to a five-year extension with the San Francisco 49ers that reportedly is the richest contract ever at the position. A person familiar with the deal says the sides agreed Thursday on the deal to keep Kittle off the market next offseason. The person...
No. 1 Novak Djokovic says he’ll play at U.S. Open, after all
The Big Three will be represented at the U.S. Open, after all: Novak Djokovic announced Thursday he will enter the Grand Slam tournament and the hard-court tuneup preceding it in New York. Djokovic initially complained about the U.S. Tennis Association’s plans to try to protect people from the coronavirus pandemic...
Senators lay out plan for college athletes bill of rights
A group of senators led by Cory Booker of New Jersey and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut on Thursday released a plan for reforming college sports with an athletes bill of rights. The legislative plan calls for college athletes to have the ability to earn money for their names, images and...
Virus-proofing NFL facilities is a tall, masked task
The captivation and celebration of the NFL have long stemmed from the speed, strategy, strength and teamwork that make the game go. Football is just as much a sport of pattern and detail, too, never more than at training camps around the league in the time of covid-19. Like the...
Steelers activate RB Jaylen Samuels from reserve/covid-19 list
Coach Mike Tomlin said Thursday that he expects to have a healthy roster of players when the first padded practice begins next week for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Running back Jaylen Samuels will be part of that group. Samuels was activated Thursday from the reserve/covid-19 group, making him eligible to practice....
‘Burgh’s Best to Wear It, No. 18: Andy Van Slyke was at center of division-winning Pirates teamsVideo
The Tribune-Review sports staff is conducting a daily countdown of the best players in Pittsburgh pro and college sports history to wear each jersey number. No. 18: Andy Van Slyke A 1987 trade that brought Andy Van Slyke to the Pittsburgh Pirates initially was highly unpopular with the franchise’s fanbase....
‘First Call’: ‘Pacman’ Jones cusses out Steelers CB Joe Haden, burns a box of his jerseys
For Thursday’s “First Call,” TMZ has video of former Cincinnati Bengals annoyance Adam “Pacman” Jones burning a box full of Steelers jerseys. There are no more words necessary. And if we did use any more words as quotes from Pacman, they’d probably all have to be censored or edited out...
Robert Morris AD: Total shutdown of college sports? Not yet. But ‘there may be that discussion’
I’m getting to that point with college sports. That point when you think, “Shut it down until there is a coronavirus vaccine. Or a treatment. Or national infection rates are next to nothing.” I’m conflicted. Because I’m also at a point where I think, “Just play through it. We aren’t...
‘U mad, bro?’: Penguins fans shred Evgeni Malkin, Matt Murray; Steelers grumbling, too
You knew that venom would be spewed toward the Penguins in “U mad, bro?” this week. The team was dreadful in its four-game, qualifying-round elimination at the hands of the 24th-seeded Montreal Canadiens last week. Fans are ticked off. They should be. My only question was, “Which Penguins were going...
