Sports category, Page 2016
Healthy Kessel expected to give Coyotes a boost in return
GLENDALE, Ariz. — The start of Phil Kessel’s desert tenure did not go according to plan, for him or the Arizona Coyotes. Expected to give the Coyotes a scoring jolt, Kessel instead labored, in large part due to a string of injuries. The NHL’s pandemic-caused pause has give the 32-year-old...
Penn State AD: Beaver Stadium unlikely to be full – if there is a football season at all this fall
Penn State athletic director Sandy Barbour was about as open and forthcoming as she could be during a video conference call with media that lasted almost an hour Wednesday. But, as with just about everything else in the world over the past four months, the answers she didn’t have outnumbered...
Pirates manager Derek Shelton ‘fired up’ to see baseball activity at PNC Park as players report
It’s not quite baseball in a bubble, but Derek Shelton on Wednesday got his first chance to watch players work out at PNC Park as Pittsburgh Pirates manager. As Pirates players are in the process of reporting for summer camp, the three-week preparation period for the 60-game regular season, Shelton...
Penguins notebook: Assistant coach Jacques Martin cautious but not scared of coronavirus risks
Pittsburgh Penguins assistant coach Jacques Martin has a distinguished career with 613 wins as a head coach as well as the two Stanley Cup rings he claimed with Pittsburgh in 2016 and ’17. He also has the distinction of being the NHL’s oldest coach at age 67. According to the...
No positives among 102 covid-19 tests of Penn State football, basketball playersVideo
Penn State athletic director Sandy Barbour said 102 of the school’s football and basketball players have been tested for the novel coronavirus, and none has turned up positive. Six Nittany Lions teams have been permitted to report for summer workouts, beginning with football early last month. Men’s and women’s soccer...
Mike Sullivan, Penguins prepared for training camp unlike any other
July 1 is typically a busy day on the calendar of Pittsburgh Penguins coach Mike Sullivan. He should be introducing himself to a depth left-handed defenseman or the penalty-killing right winger who general manager Jim Rutherford just signed on the first day of free agency. And, sure enough, Sullivan was...
Former Steelers great Jerome Bettis feels for Bill Cowher, Troy Polamalu after Hall of Fame postponement
Jerome Bettis was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame five years ago, memorably leading the cheers of the Steelers fans in attendance and thanking his father for helping him to great heights. “I thought The Bus’ last stop was in Detroit. But now I know The Bus will...
Woodland Hills halts sports workouts to re-evaluate covid-19 guidelines
Woodland Hills was the first WPIAL school to resume summer workouts, but the Wolverines halted those sessions this week to re-evaluate their covid-19 guidelines. The shutdown is temporary, said athletic director Ron Coursey, who expected teams to resume workouts within a week or two. He wanted to dispel rumors that...
Former Steelers coach Bill Cowher reportedly tests positive for coronavirus antibodies
Bill Cowher likely had coronavirus, according to The Athletic. The former Pittsburgh Steelers coach and Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee told the outlet that he and his wife Veronica Stigeler had experienced coronavirus-like symptoms in March. Cowher and Stigeler weren’t tested when they had symptoms, according to The Athletic,...
Double Team: Tyler Wright rarely felt wrong for Penguins, Blue Jackets
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...
Mark Madden: No need to panic about players opting out amid covid-19 concerns
Babe Ruth was baseball’s biggest gate attraction ever. The New York Yankees built a 58,000-seat stadium to accommodate that. Ruth’s slugging and larger-than-life charisma saved MLB after the Chicago White Sox threw the 1919 World Series. Ruth retired in 1935. Baseball kept playing. People kept watching. It’s a business worth...
NHL draft lottery may have been flawed, but so are the conspiracy theories
There’s one question I have after every “Breakfast with Benz” hockey podcast that I record with Brian Metzer of the Penguins Radio Network. How is it that we spend 20 minutes solving all the world’s problems, yet every week we reconvene, and the world is still an ungodly mess? It’s...
First Call: Antonio Brown, Tom Brady rumors in Tampa bubble up. Happy Bobby Bonilla Day!
In Wednesday’s “First Call,” we look at some rebooted rumors about Antonio Brown going to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Former Steelers legend Rod Woodson has an interesting take on how the coaching world works. And Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman is ready for the Cam Newton era in New England....
Steelers 2-a-days: a star turn for Diontae Johnson? Anthony Johnson out to crack teamVideo
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...
Tim Benz: How Cam Newton going to the Patriots will impact … the Steelers?
It used to be that this time of year Steelers fans would be focusing on two things. 1. How can we talk ourselves into believing the Steelers are going to be better than the year before? And 2. How can we talk ourselves into thinking the Patriots are going to...
Pirates’ 2019 first-round pick Quinn Priester promises to make most of his summer in limbo
On the eve of the Pittsburgh Pirates reporting to PNC Park for Summer Camp to train for the 2020 season, Quinn Priester was driving to Wisconsin for a Fourth of July weekend getaway. When the Pirates didn’t include their 2019 first-round pick and top-five prospect on the 60-man roster Sunday...
’Burgh’s best to wear it, No. 61: Steelers’ Stefen Wisniewski kept coaches thinking on ‘high level’
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. 61: Stefen Wisniewski John Vaughan never had a problem with Central Catholic offensive lineman Stefen Wisniewski, just an interesting dilemma high school coaches seldom...
Teams not able to disclose who goes on IL due to coronavirusVideo
Trying to find out the status of a baseball player coming back from an ankle injury definitely will be easier than learning whether someone tested positive for the coronavirus. Major League Baseball said Tuesday a team will not specifically announce a covid-19 injured list placement for a player who is...
Pitt adds tight end Trey Andersen to 2021 recruiting class
Pat Narduzzi and his staff have been busy over the past year trying to recruit tight ends, and their efforts paid off Tuesday when Trey Andersen verbally committed to the class of 2021. Pitt’s coach has high hopes for tight end Lucas Krull this season, but the transfer from Florida...
Irwin’s Dan Obremski shoots 64, leads Fuhrer by 3 strokesVideo
Dan Obremski wasn’t perfect during the third round of the Frank B. Fuhrer Jr. Invitational on Tuesday. But the Penn-Trafford graduate didn’t flinch when things went awry. Obremski, 33, used strong iron play and sensational putting to fire a 6-under par 64 at the Pittsburgh Field Club and takes a...
Double Team: As with the Penguins, Ian Cole has been sturdy on Avalanche blue line
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...
What rust? PGA Tour players going low in return to competitionVideo
Three tournaments is hardly a reasonable sample size. Even so, the numbers have been jarring since the PGA Tour returned to competition. Mackenzie Hughes opened with a 60 at the Travelers Championship. Rory McIlory twice has posted rounds of 63, and he still hasn’t cracked the top 10 in the...
Minor League Baseball season canceled for 2020
Hopes for Minor League Baseball in 2020 officially ended Tuesday as Major League Baseball announced that it will not provide its affiliated teams with players amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The move affects more than 150 such clubs, including Pittsburgh Pirates affiliates in Indianapolis (Class AAA) and Altoona (Class AA)....
Penn State’s Jesse Luketa stays ready by working out with Flyers’ Claude Giroux
The biggest question on Jesse Luketa’s mind during the covid-19 quarantine wasn’t whether he could stay in shape while apart from his coaches and teammates. Back home in Ottawa (when he wasn’t connecting with his six older siblings and nieces and nephews), Penn State’s junior linebacker worked out with former...
Former Freeport lineman Doug Goodman going into Edinboro hall of fame
Doug Goodman is more than 40 years removed from his time at Edinboro University. But the Freeport graduate and Fighting Scots football and track and field standout recently has spent a lot of time reminiscing about his collegiate accomplishments. Goodman, a 1977 Edinboro graduate, is the elder statesman of the...
