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‘Heavy lifting:’ NHL’s West is big, tough, deep and wide openVideo
The top of the Western Conference features the defending Stanley Cup champion, a 2018 finalist with even more talent and an MVP front-runner. Good luck picking a favorite. The Vegas Golden Knights earned the top seed in the West by winning all three of their games in a round-robin tournament...
Pitt gets commitment from IMG tight end Jake Renda
Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi continued to build his class of 2021 on Monday night when tight end Jake Renda flipped from his commitment to Michigan State and announced on Twitter his plan to enroll at Pitt. The Panthers have 19 players in next year’s recruiting class, which is ranked 26th...
WVU’s Neal Brown sees ‘demeanor’ change as Mountaineers open football drills
Neil Brown was in a familiar place Monday. Surrounded by his team, beard stubble around his chin. (Who has time to shave?) Instructing groups of (socially distanced) players. It was the first day of football practice at West Virginia. For now, all was right in his world. “You see guys,...
Peters’ Nettles stays safe, leads Pennsylvania Open at OakmontVideo
One thing golfers playing Oakmont Country Club will notice is the old course can be forgiving at times. It also can be a monster. Keep the ball in play and out of the sand traps and rough, and you can score well. Get off track a little bit, that’s when...
Rangers win NHL’s draft lottery, Penguins settle for 15th pickVideo
Any hopes of the Penguins drafting another generational player were dashed on Monday. The NHL held the second phase of its draft lottery, and the Penguins ended up with the 15th overall selection in this year’s draft. The top overall selection was claimed by the New York Rangers. Alexis Lafreniere,...
Locals power Westmoreland East to 32-2 record, JCBL baseball titles
Westmoreland East pulled off a championship sweep in Johnstown — in dominating fashion. Paul Carpenter Capital Advisors has a roster loaded with county players, and many of them played key roles in a tremendous summer season in the Johnstown Collegiate Baseball League. Paul Carpenter won its first league playoff title...
Latest Penn State Behrend Hall of Fame class rich with WPIAL talent
Of the nine inductees in the 2020 Penn State Behrend Athletics Hall of Fame class, five have ties to the WPIAL. The class will be honored in the spring. The honorees who first made their mark in the WPIAL include: • Kayla Frost — The 2010 graduate out of Peters...
President Trump, coaches push for college football as cracks emerge
President Donald Trump joined a U.S. senator and a number of coaches Monday in the push to save the college football season from a pandemic-forced shutdown. There was speculation that two of the five most powerful conferences — the Big Ten and the Pac-12 — might call off their seasons....
Steelers offense seeks to bounce back after ‘pretty terrible’ season
A “tough year.” “Not fun.” “Pretty terrible.” If 2020 has been miserable for most everyone on the planet, 2019 wasn’t that much better for the Pittsburgh Steelers offense. During each of the five seasons leading up to 2019, that proud unit had ranked among the top seven in the NFL...
Collin Morikawa quickly goes from college grad to major championVideo
SAN FRANCISCO — Collin Morikawa couldn’t help but break into a smile, and not just because the shiny Wanamaker Trophy he won at Harding Park was positioned on a stand next to him. Just over 14 months ago, Morikawa went through commencement after his All-American career — on the golf...
Team Scotti from Culmerville’s Modified Softball League wins state championship
During the first weekend in August, Josh Uncapher and his Team Scotti modified softball team traveled to Sharon to compete in the Pennsylvania modified softball state championship. Behind solid team play, the squad made up of players from around Saxonburg and based out of the Culmerville Modified Softball League won...
AP study: MLB average salary under $1.3M; Max Scherzer tops list
NEW YORK — Major League Baseball’s eye-popping salaries took an astonishing dive during the coronavirus pandemic to their lowest level in nearly a quarter-century, according to a study by The Associated Press. Washington pitcher Max Scherzer topped the shortened season’s list at $17.8 million, his income partially protected by a...
Pittsburgh athletes get their fair share of food endorsements over the yearsVideo
If you drank the same soda as Mean Joe Greene, would you be able to strike fear into the hearts of 1970s NFL quarterbacks, too? It’s doubtful, but that certainly didn’t stop Pittsburgh sports stars from getting their fair share of product endorsements over the years. From Jaromir Jagr’s peanut...
Bill Mazeroski goes to bat for New Stanton’s Poulich Pit BBQ sauceVideo
Sitting on his neighbor’s porch having a drink, Angelo Poulich talked about marketing his barbecue sauce. His neighbor asked if there was anything he could do, such as use his photo or name to help promote the product. “I almost spit out my whiskey when he said that,” said Poulich,...
Pitt has work to do on 2 fronts: Safety, moving the footballVideo
Jimmy Morrissey lives on the South Side. Temptations that most 22-year-old Pitt seniors can’t resist are on every corner. Morrissey barely notices, however, as he moves between his apartment and Pitt’s Duratz training facility only a mile or two away. Every day it’s a straight line back and forth, with...
With MLB’s worst record, Pirates off to historically bad start in shortened season
The postponement of their three-game series at St. Louis because of the Cardinals’ covid-19 outbreak couldn’t have come at a better time for the Pittsburgh Pirates, who own MLB’s worst record (3-13) and are the only team with a winning percentage below .300 (.188). To say this shortened season has...
Steelers Pro Bowler David DeCastro never considered opting out, ‘not afraid’ of health risksVideo
The Pittsburgh Steelers were one of only three teams that did not have a single player opt out of playing this season, as is permitted in 2020 by the NFL out of concerns related to the coronavirus pandemic. One of the Steelers’ highest-paid and longest-tenured players said he didn’t give...
Unfiltered: Tim Benz and Mark Madden discuss Penguins’ humiliating loss to Canadiens in the playoffsVideo
Tim Benz and Mark Madden return for this week’s edition of “Unfiltered” on TribLive’s Facebook page to the discuss the Penguins humiliating loss to the Montreal Canadiens to be bounced from the Stanley Cup playoffs. The guys have had a few days to contemplate the game, but they still feel...
WPIAL calls Gov. Wolf’s recommendation ‘uncalculated, inconsistent and unfair’Video
The WPIAL strongly supports playing high school sports this fall despite Gov. Tom Wolf’s recommendation they be postponed until January. “The WPIAL’s response to the governor’s comments … is one of frustration,” WPIAL executive director Amy Scheuneman said Monday, “due to uncalculated, inconsistent and unfair approach to this guidance.” Scheuneman...
North Allegheny grad Max Gonzalez earns All-American honors
For the second consecutive season, North Allegheny graduate Max Gonzalez earned a top honor as a member of the Carnegie Mellon men’s swimming and diving team. Gonzalez, a junior, was recently named a first-team College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America Division III Scholar All-American. The award recognizes students...
‘Burgh’s Best to Wear It, No. 21: Roberto Clemente stands alone, but has tragic connections
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. 21: Roberto Clemente The greatest player to wear No. 21 in Pittsburgh sports history needs no introduction. That honor is reserved for Roberto Clemente,...
Pitt players join national plea to play football this fall
Monday was a regularly scheduled day off for Pitt football, but while the practice fields on the South Side were silent, players’ voices were not. Several of them went on Twitter — using the hashtag #WeWantToPlay — to join players from around the nation in pleading with Power 5 officials...
Mark Madden: Penguins offered blueprint on how to beat them
That playoff series between the Penguins and Montreal didn’t go quite as expected. For example, I picked the Penguins in two. But nobody picked Montreal. Not one single person. No one thought the Canadiens would win, not even those in their dressing room. (Not until after Game 1, anyway.) It’s...
Players unite in push to save college season, create union
Michigan defensive back Hunter Reynolds saw the tweets from Trevor Lawrence and other college football players, pushing for the opportunity to play this season, despite the pandemic. Reynolds, one of the organizers behind a players’ rights movement in the Big Ten, didn’t like the way some on social media seemed...
Penguins prospect Radim Zohorna to remain in Czech Republic to open 2020-21 season
Penguins forward prospect Radim Zohorna will remain his native Czech Republic and train with his previous team, BK Mlada Boleslav of the ELH, to open the 2020-21 season according to a release from the team. The release did not specify if Zohorna will play with BK Mlada Boleslav. That team’s...
