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Pirates 3B Ke’Bryan Hayes, team’s top position prospect, tested positive for covid-19
Pittsburgh Pirates third baseman Ke’Bryan Hayes, the team’s top position prospect, has tested positive for covid-19, manager Derek Shelton announced on Sunday. Hayes has not practiced with the Pirates at all during training camp at PNC Park and remains in quarantine. “He’s not back with us yet,” Shelton said of...
Jack Nicklaus says he tested positive for coronavirus, antibodiesVideo
DUBLIN, Ohio — Jack Nicklaus revealed Sunday during the CBS telecast of the Memorial that he and his wife tested positive for the coronavirus at the onset of the pandemic. Nicklaus and his wife, Barbara, turned 80 a month apart at the start of the year. He said his wife...
John Ryan Murphy ‘excited’ to step into backup catcher role for Pirates
Until a few days ago, John Ryan Murphy didn’t know whether he would start the season on the Pittsburgh Pirates’ 30-man roster, their taxi squad or be sent to their alternate training site in Altoona. That was nothing new to a 29-year-old catcher on his fifth team in eight seasons,...
Holland, Walker, Volquez make opening-day MLB rosters
NEW YORK — Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Derek Holland, Philadelphia second baseman Neil Walker and Texas pitcher Edinson Vólquez have made opening-day rosters. So have Milwaukee first baseman Logan Morrison, Cincinnati pitcher Nate Jones, Tampa Bay pitcher Aaron Loup and New York Yankees pitcher Luis Avilán. The seven were among the...
Players plead with NFL to address health, safety concernsVideo
NFL players are pleading publicly with the league to address several health and safety concerns on the eve of training camp. The league informed teams Saturday training camps will open on time even though discussions with the players’ union regarding testing for coronavirus and other health and safety protocols are...
With minor leagues in peril, Knoch grad, former La Roche coach leaves dream job in pro baseball
When the coronavirus pandemic shut down all MLB operations in March, Chase Rowe began to think about his future in professional baseball. A month earlier, the Knoch graduate and former Slippery Rock standout began work as a minor league hitting instructor with the Detroit Tigers, a dream position for the...
Pair of Westmoreland County standouts get grad assistant jobs at Mercyhurst
A pair of former WPIAL standouts from Westmoreland County are joining the coaching ranks as graduate assistants at Mercyhurst. Chris Ralph, a former top-tier goalkeeper for Penn State Behrend, will help with the men’s soccer team. Ralph is a Franklin Regional graduate. Devin Austin, meantime, who starred as a wrestler...
Double Team: Markus Naslund’s unfulfilled promise with Penguins was realized with Canucks
While the NHL is on hold because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Tribune-Review will offer the Double Team project, an examination of the five best players who have contributed substantially to the Penguins and another franchise. For consideration, a player must have played at least the equivalent of a...
John Steigerwald: Celebrating the 50th anniversary of a 59,000-seat mistake
Thursday was the 50th anniversary of a really bad idea. Three Rivers Stadium opened July 16, 1970, and I was there. It was a spectacular debut, even though the Pirates lost to the Cincinnati Reds, 3-2. After having watched baseball in dingy old Forbes Field, with its view-destroying pillars and...
2016 World Cup of Hockey provides lessons for NHL restart
Sidney Crosby was two months removed from lifting the Stanley Cup when he turned his attention to winning another championship. It was early September 2016, and the Pittsburgh Penguins captain stepped on the ice in Ottawa for Canada’s training camp ahead of the World Cup of Hockey. Players had gone...
Penguins forward Sidney Crosby remains absent from practice
Penguins forward Sidney Crosby did not participate in Sunday’s practice at the team’s facility in Cranberry. During the second period of a scrimmage Saturday, Crosby left the ice and retreated to the team’s dressing room. Coach Mike Sullivan declined to comment on Crosby’s status after the scrimmage, citing the NHL’s...
Kevin Gorman’s Take 5: Pirates’ first exhibition game at PNC Park was weird, wonderful
Perhaps the best way to describe the first baseball game of 2020 at PNC Park is to say it was an exhibition game that looked like a Major League Baseball regular-season game, was played like a spring training game and pretended to play to a packed house instead of an...
‘Burgh’s Best to Wear It, No. 43: Troy Polamalu plays waiting game for Canton enshrinementVideo
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. 43: Troy Polamalu If everything went according to plan, Troy Polamalu would be preparing an induction speech for his enshrinement next month into the...
Steelers 2-a-days: Corliss Waitman to compete at punter, time for James Washington’s emergence?Video
Editor’s note: Leading up to a unique Pittsburgh Steelers training camp staged at Heinz Field this year, the Tribune-Review will be running through the team’s 90-man roster, assessing each player’s outlook for the 2020 season. The breakdown will go through the roster, in mostly alphabetical order, two per day, between...
Eight percent of 518 covid tests come back positive at WVU
The West Virginia University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics administered 518 covid-19 tests since June, with 41 (almost 8%) coming back positive, school officials said Saturday in a news release. The breakdown per sport shows 28 positive tests in football, five in men’s basketball, six in women’s basketball, one in women’s...
Authentic wins Haskell Stakes for Baffert at Monmouth ParkVideo
OCEANPORT, N.J. — Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert got yet another win in the Haskell Stakes with a talented, developing colt who is now very much in the picture for the coronavirus-delayed Kentucky Derby. Authentic gave Baffert his record-extending ninth victory in the $1 million Grade I Haskell on...
Riverhounds make statement with dominating performance against Philadelphia Union II
The Pittsburgh Riverhounds made a statement Saturday night against Philadelphia Union II when they defeated their cross-state rival, 6-0, to remain undefeated in 2020. Pittsburgh (2-0), controlled 63% of the possession, scored two first-half goals, added four more in the second half, including two from Steevan Dos Santos six minutes...
Joe Musgrove has strong showing, but Pirates blow three-run lead in exhibition loss to Cleveland
Joe Musgrove struck out five while allowing one hit and one walk in three scoreless innings, a strong performance for the Pittsburgh Pirates right-hander a day after he was named the Opening Day starter. Guillermo Heredia drove in two runs with a fifth-inning single to center, a solid debut for...
Tri-State PGA brings back Amateur tournament
The Tri-State PGA announced Friday the Amateur will return Aug. 14 at Chartiers Country Club. The last time the Amateur was held was in 2012. After coronavirus restrictions forced the WPGA to cancel a few early season tournaments, leaving its annual schedule lighter than usual, the organization decided to bring...
Braves All-Star Freedie Freeman prayed ‘Please don’t take me’ during covid-19 fightVideo
ATLANTA — Freddie Freeman doesn’t know if he has time to be ready for the Atlanta Braves’ opener. Following a scary journey in his battle with covid-19, Freeman is grateful to even have a chance. On Saturday, the four-time All-Star revealed he had a high temperature of 104.5 degrees early...
Kyle Busch disqualified after Xfinity win, Cindric 3rd win in rowVideo
FORT WORTH, Texas — Kyle Busch celebrated a 10th NASCAR Xfinity Series victory at Texas, and then had it taken away. Busch’s No. 54 Joe Gibbs Toyota failed postrace inspection Saturday after finishing ahead of Austin Cindric, who was declared the winner for the third victory in a row after...
Rahm builds 4-shot lead at Memorial in his quest to be No. 1Video
DUBLIN, Ohio — Jon Rahm showed Saturday why he’s such an explosive player, with his clubs. It just might be what takes him to No. 1 in the world. Rahm was four shots behind as he played the 12th hole at Muirfield Village. Then, he ran off four straight birdies...
Conor Sheary recaptures his chemistry on the Penguins’ top line
The Penguins wore jerseys. Actual jerseys. No, not practice jerseys with a corporate sponsor’s chintzy logo on the right shoulder. Their real jerseys and uniforms. And there were referees. Granted, they were assistant coaches Mark Recchi and Ty Hennes donning the Zebra stripes, but officials were on the ice. Oh,...
Pirates lose backup catcher Luke Maile for the season after surgery on right index finger
The Pittsburgh Pirates lost catcher Luke Maile for the season when he underwent surgery Friday for a fractured right index finger, a day after being hit by a pitch in an intrasquad game. Maile’s surgery was performed by Dr. Edward Birdsong at Allegheny Health Network in Wexford. Maile is expected...
Kyle Crick has ‘driving force’ when he takes mound, with possibility as Pirates closer
Through a tumultuous season followed by a difficult offseason, Kyle Crick has found “a driving force” as a relief pitcher whose role could become even more important for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Crick’s rollercoaster 2019 season, which ended with a fractured index finger from a fistfight, was only a prelude to...
