Sports category, Page 2022
Seton Hill women’s basketball brings in 7 new players
Seton Hill women’s basketball coach Mark Katarski found away to build a solid recruiting class for the 2020-21 season, mainly online. The incoming class includes junior transfer Sonia Sarda of Granollers, Spain. Sarda played the past two seasons at Southern Nazarene University in Oklahoma, where she averaged 11.2 points as...
Pirates let go more than 2 dozen employees in restructuring of business operations
In a move made to restructure the business operations of the organization under new leadership, the Pittsburgh Pirates on Thursday laid off more than two dozen employees, including select department heads, a source told the Tribune-Review. The decision to make staff changes came just two days after MLB and its...
Vince Carter, 43, retires after record 22 NBA seasonsVideo
Vince Carter made his retirement official Thursday, announcing on his podcast his 22-year NBA career has ended. The announcement was largely a formality because the 43-year-old Carter had said many times over the course of this season this would be his last in the NBA. His 22 seasons are the...
NASCAR releases photo of Talladega noose
Declaring “the noose was real,” NASCAR officials on Thursday released a photo of the rope found in the garage stall of Black driver Bubba Wallace that prompted a federal investigation that determined it had been there since last October. The incident has put racism front and center for the stock...
Pirate Parrot, other MLB mascots now permitted in parks
Pirate Parrot, phenomenal. Mr. Met and Mariner Moose, marvelous. Wally the Green Monster, welcome back. Mascots are getting a reprieve from Major League Baseball. A month after being tossed out of stadiums because of health concerns over the coronavirus outbreak, the fuzzy and funny creatures will return as inside-the-parkers. “The...
Double Team: Before winning with Penguins, Tom Barrasso starred for Sabres
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 to use Altoona Curve stadium as alternate training facility
The Pittsburgh Pirates announced Thursday that Peoples Natural Gas Field, home of their Double-A affiliate, the Altoona Curve, will be used an alternate training facility this season. “The Pirates organization is appreciative of the longstanding relationship we have had for over two decades with the Altoona Curve,” Pirates general manager...
Pitt secures verbal commitment from Florida linebacker, 17th prospect in class of 2021
Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi added a third Florida prospect to his class of 2021 when inside linebacker Derrveron Maxwell-Black of St. Petersburg pledged to enroll next year. Maxwell-Black made the announcement Thursday on Twitter. I will like to thank God,my mother,grandfather, and the rest of my family and also my...
Commissioner John Swofford, who ushered Pitt into the ACC, plans to retire in 2021
John Swofford, who watched over the ACC while it expanded from nine to 15 schools, said Thursday he plans to retire after the 2020-21 athletic year. Swofford, 71, is the longest-tenured of the ACC’s four commissioners, serving 24 of the conference’s 67 years. He will continue as commissioner until a...
How will MLB reboot rules impact fantasy baseball interest, Pirates DH, roster strategy
Major League Baseball is coming back! In real life. We think. So that means it’s coming back for fantasy sports players as well. Jeff Erickson of RotoWire joins us to discuss if he’s seeing many leagues canceling because there is only going to be a 60-game season. For those that...
James Franklin will leave family in Florida while he coaches Penn State
Penn State coach James Franklin made his most difficult decision of the season when he decided to leave his family in Florida while he coaches the team. He’ll coach the Nittany Lions apart from his family to protect his youngest daughter, Addison, from the coronavirus. Franklin revealed the news on...
Duquesne’s Baylee Steele signs pro contract with Polish team
Baylee Steele’s basketball career that has taken him to four states and four schools, including Duquesne, will journey overseas next season after signing a professional contract with PGE Spojnia Stargard of the Polish Basketball League. In his lone season at Duquesne in 2019-20, the 6-foot-11 Steele averaged 8.9 points, 4.7...
Taking the mound takes Pirates pitcher Jameson Taillon’s mind off MLB negotiationsVideo
For someone sidelined this season, Jameson Taillon had a baseball-filled Tuesday — a day that will go down for its monumental moments. Taillon threw off the mound for the first time in his recovery from a second Tommy John surgery, firing 15 fastballs after making mechanical changes to shorten his...
NFL to push Hall of Fame Game involving Steelers, Cowboys to 2021Video
The Hall of Fame Game is the first casualty on the NFL schedule because of the coronavirus pandemic, with the announcement Thursday that the preseason opener between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Dallas Cowboys has been pushed back to 2021. The enshrinement ceremony also was postponed until 2021. The Steelers-Cowboys game,...
U mad, bro? Readers fed up with sports and politics, MLB finances, Antonio Brown
It’s a Killer B’s edition of “U mad, bro?” Who is on the dart board for our irate readers this week? Baseball, Benz, Baltimore and “Big Chest.” The #SticktoSports crowd is feeling particularly mouthy this week as well. John from New Cumberland LOVED my column about the second round of...
First Call: Two huge developments on topic of NFL seating in the fall
For Thursday’s “First Call,” we take a look at two major developments when it comes to the prospect of having fans at NFL games in the fall. I know what you’ve been thinking during this pandemic. How … how, dear Lord above … will we be able to emerge from...
Steelers 2-a-days: Zach Gentry, Ulysees Gilbert look to build on modest rookie seasonsVideo
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...
‘Burgh’s Best to Wear it, No. 67: Francisco Cordova pitched an all-time classic for ’97 PiratesVideo
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. 67: Francisco Cordova Mention the name Francisco Cordova, and one phrase pops into any baseball fan’s head: Combined no-hitter. For one magical night in...
MLB’s Rob Manfred: ‘We owe it to our fans to be better’Video
NEW YORK — Rob Manfred knows many fans were angered by the financial fight between Major League Baseball and the players’ association during a pandemic. “We need to get back on the field, and we need to in a less-charged environment start to have conversations about how we — and...
Suspended WVU assistant football coach Koenning apologizes for commentsVideo
Suspended West Virginia defensive coordinator Vic Koenning apologized Wednesday after a player alleged he made a series of insensitive remarks, including against Hispanics. Koenning was placed on administrative leave Tuesday after safety Kerry Martin posted the allegations on his Twitter account about Koenning. “I never intended anything I said or...
Former Penn State women’s soccer standout Rodriguez ready for NWSL tournamentVideo
PORTLAND, Ore. — Raquel Rodriguez was on her way to join her new National Women’s Soccer League team when sports suddenly were shut down by the coronavirus. It wasn’t an ideal start for the Costa Rican striker with the Portland Thorns. Rodriguez, a former Penn State standout, nonetheless bonded —...
Signing with Pirates, seeing PNC Park for 1st time ‘jaw-dropping’ for top pick Nick Gonzales
Nick Gonzales knew that the number he wore at New Mexico State wasn’t a consideration for the Pittsburgh Pirates, going so far as to remove images of himself wearing a Pirates jersey with No. 21 out of respect for the late Hall of Fame right fielder Roberto Clemente. “I kind...
WVU football coach Neal Brown faces tough times head-on
These are complicated times for West Virginia coach Neal Brown, but he appears unafraid to confront them. First, two of his players — both asymptomatic — tested positive for the coronavirus, but neither had an opportunity to participate in the voluntary workouts that began earlier this month. Also, people who...
Ex-Penguins Marian Hossa, Jarome Iginla selected for Hockey Hall of FameVideo
Marian Hossa had two hockey idols growing up in the Slovakian portion of Czechoslovakia in the 1980s and early 1990s. He got to play for one of them. “One of my favorite two players was Mario Lemieux,” Hossa said. “And Wayne Gretzky.” Hossa and fellow ex-Penguins forward Jarome Iginla will...
Iginla headlines 2020 Hall class as 4th Black player elected
Jarome Iginla headlines the Hockey Hall of Fame’s class of 2020 after being elected Wednesday in his first year of eligibility. Iginla will be the fourth Black player inducted after Grant Fuhr, women’s hockey pioneer Angela James and Willie O’Ree. Iginla and Fuhr are the only Black NHL players enshrined...
