Sports category, Page 2003
NHL sets times for Penguins’ qualifying round games, exhibition vs. Flyers
The NHL released times for the qualifying round of its postseason tournament slated to start in August. The Penguins will face the Montreal Canadiens in a best-of-five qualifying round at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto. Their schedule of games: Aug. 1 - Canadiens at Penguins, 8 p.m. Aug. 3 - Canadiens...
Double Team: Rick Tocchet was a keystone for the Penguins and Flyers
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...
Pirates counting on speedy Jarrod Dyson to solidify center field, provide veteran leadership
When Jarrod Dyson homered in Monday night’s intrasquad game, Pittsburgh Pirates manager Derek Shelton joked it was fun to watch the “fastest guy running around the bases in the big leagues.” After striking out in his first three at-bats, Dyson cracked that he was just trying to “get off the...
‘Burgh’s Best to Wear It, No. 48: Tyler Kennedy was key to Penguins’ 2009 Stanley Cup
The Tribune-Review sports staff is conducting a daily countdown of the best 100 players in Pittsburgh pro and college sports history to wear each jersey number. No. 48: Tyler Kennedy Hockey has jersey numbers that can be iconic. The single digits tend to be identified with some of the game’s...
NJCAA moving fall sports, winter postseasons to spring
The National Junior College Athletic Association is moving some of its fall sports to the spring due to health and safety concerns over covid-19. The adjusted plan for 2020-21 includes changing football, soccer and volleyball from fall to spring sports. Cross country and Division III women’s tennis will remain in...
Pirates’ Colin Moran ‘locked in’ on bid to keep third base job
Colin Moran has plenty of important subjects on his mind, but pierogi races wouldn’t seem to be one of them. While chatting with reporters Monday night, the Pittsburgh Pirates third baseman was asked if he watches the races at PNC Park (after previously referring to them as “that race they...
Penn State’s Sean Clifford named to Davey O’Brien Award watch list
Sean Clifford, Penn State’s junior quarterback, is one of 30 quarterbacks in Division I football named to The Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award watch list released Tuesday. The award is presented annually by the Davey O’Brien Foundation to the nation’s best college quarterback. It is the oldest national quarterback award,...
Riverhounds’ Jordan Dover, Robbie Mertz named to USL Championship Team of the Week
Robbie Mertz and Jordan Dover paced the Riverhounds to their first victory of the 2020 season Sunday when they defeated Louisville City, 3-1, in their inaugural game at Lynn Family Stadium. Now, the two Riverhounds veterans have reaped the rewards as they were named to the USL Championship Team of...
Lehigh’s Josh Luchini, other WPIAL grads react to Patriot League canceling fall sports
Josh Luchini was looking forward to his junior soccer season at Lehigh this fall and was dead set on building on what he accomplished during his sophomore season. The former North Allegheny Tiger was named the 2019 Patriot League Offensive Player of the Year after he scored 11 goals and...
Draisaitl, MacKinnon, Panarin named Ted Lindsay Award finalists
NEW YORK — NHL leading scorer Leon Draisaitl of the Oilers, Avalanche center Nathan MacKinnon and Rangers winger Artemi Panarin were named finalists for the Ted Lindsay Award on Tuesday. The trophy goes to the league’s most outstanding player as voted by fellow players. None of them has won the...
Clock is ticking for Steelers to sign OLB Bud Dupree to long-term contract
Nearly five months after saying he wanted Bud Dupree to finish his career with the Pittsburgh Steelers, general manager Kevin Colbert is running out of time to make that happen. For this season, at least. The Steelers and Dupree face a 4 p.m. deadline Wednesday to come to terms on...
Kevin Gorman’s Take 5: Joe Musgrove states his case to be Pirates’ Opening Day starter
Another day of training camp saw another intrasquad scrimmage on Monday, but the Pittsburgh Pirates showed off some potential storylines for the start of the season. Josh Bell crushed a homer. Joe Musgrove was humming. The pitching piggyback made its debut. Jarrod Dyson rounded the bases, too. The best news...
Penguins’ Kris Letang on why he decided to play, David Morehouse on NHL schedule for 2020-21
On Monday, the Penguins opened training camp to prepare for 2020’s rebooted “NHL in a bubble” format. The quest for the Stanley Cup officially resumed in Cranberry at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex. But first there is the quest to escape practices without the whole team contracting coronavirus. Easier said...
5 big 2020 Pirates questions: What should be done with Cole Tucker?
The Pirates are ramping up to their 60-game sprint of a season at PNC Park’s “Spring Training 2.0.” The Major League Baseball schedule starts for the Pirates on Friday, July 24 in St. Louis. So each day this week at “Breakfast With Benz,” we will be examining the five most...
Steelers 2-a-days: Can Tuzar Skipper make an impact? JuJu Smith-Schuster in a contract yearVideo
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...
First Call: Praise for Steelers T.J. Watt, criticism of James Conner, odds on Washington’s nickname, NFL face shields
Tuesday’s “First Call” finds praise for Steelers linebacker T.J. Watt, but criticism for running back James Conner. Also a peek at the new design for NFL faceguards in the covid-19 era. And betting odds for Washington’s new NFL nickname. My idea won’t win. But it is the best of the...
Pitt’s Pat Narduzzi eager to begin ride on college football’s wave of uncertainty
With the Atlantic Ocean at his back, Pat Narduzzi looked happy and relaxed Monday morning while sitting on the porch of his Rhode Island vacation home. “I feel good about everything this time of year,” Pitt’s coach told ACC Network hosts Mark Packer and Wes Durham during a live interview....
Fox Chapel grad Gregor Meyer is having a winning summer on the golf course
Not too many Western Pennsylvania golfers have had a summer quite like Gregor Meyer’s. The Fox Chapel grad has won four tournaments — two this past week, including a course-record 62 at Edgewood Country Club on Thursday to win the Pennsylvania Open qualifier. Meyer capped his successful week with back-to-back...
Robert Morris football schedules September road game at Hawaii
If a college football season is actually played this fall, Robert Morris will take a Hawaiian vacation in the middle of it. The University of Hawaii announced Monday that it will play host to the Colonials on Sept. 26. Hawaii is looking for opponents after Fordham canceled a scheduled Sept....
West Liberty senior leads Pittsburgh Open
For most of the first round of the Pittsburgh Open on Monday, Darin Kowalski’s name appeared on top of the leaderboard. But late in the afternoon, amateur Alex Easthom of Ravenswood, W.Va., emerged as the leader in the Tri-State PGA event at South Hills Country Club. That’s because the scoring...
Pucks, masks prevalent as 24 NHL teams open training campVideo
St. Louis Blues goalie Jordan Binnington is so accustomed to wearing a mask, he didn’t mind doing so for the past four months during the coronavirus pandemic. “Sometimes, I forgot I’m wearing it while driving,” Binnington said Monday, when the Blues were among the NHL’s 24 teams to open training...
Major league teams try to ramp up the competition in campVideo
Well-traveled Milwaukee Brewers first baseman-outfielder Logan Morrison figures it will be easy for him to adjust to games without spectators this season. “I played for the Rays and the Marlins, so I’m used to it,” Morrison said. The Brewers and other major league teams worked out again Monday in mostly...
Stimmel, Goetz lead 7 Western Pa. golfers into state match play final 16
Rick Stimmel had it going during the qualifying round of the R. Jay Sigel State Amateur on Monday. The Pittsburgh native bogeyed his third hole of the day, No. 12, and then he got hot. Change that to sizzling. He birdied seven of 12 holes and then eagled No. 9,...
Penguins resume practicing … with a new normal
None of this is normal. Just look at the calendar. It’s July. The Penguins should not be practicing. They should be doing single-leg box hops in a home gym during the morning then catching rainbow trout off a pontoon boat in an Ontario lake with a five-syllable name by the...
Jake Guentzel returns to Sidney Crosby’s line on 1st day of Penguins camp
One of the few questions of intrigue regarding the Penguins’ lineup entering training camp involved the left wing spots on the top two lines. Where would a recuperating Jake Guentzel and Jason Zucker be lined up? It took all of five minutes to find out. During the early stages of...
