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AP source: NBA presents players with plan for season restartVideo
The NBA has told the National Basketball Players Association that it will present a 22-team plan for restarting the season to the league’s board of governors on Thursday, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press. The teams that will be going to the ESPN Wide World...
Blackhawk’s Sean Miller adds international flavor to Arizona rosterVideo
Sean Miller has reeled in some of nation’s best recruiting classes during his 11-year stint at Arizona, players who starred in college, won multiple NCAA Tournament games, went on to the NBA. His latest group has a distinctly international flavor to it. Filling the gaps left by three potential first-round...
Gene Walter breezes to Tri-State PGA win
Gene Walter finished his first competitive round of the season with a birdie on Wednesday at Wildwood Country Club. He didn’t realize that his 20-foot putt that lipped out was for eagle. He thought he was putting for birdie. It didn’t matter. All he had to do to win the...
Senior Spotlight: After lights-out junior year, South Park pitcher Brenden Gray excited to head to Seton Hill
Editor’s note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight WPIAL spring athletes whose senior years were cut short by the coronavirus pandemic. As the South Park Eagles entered the playoffs last year, they had two of the hottest pitchers in the WPIAL. Kevin Vaupel, who is now playing collegiate ball at...
Senior Spotlight: Final tennis season wiped out, but South Park senior’s golf game in full swing
Editor’s note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight WPIAL spring athletes whose senior years were cut short by the coronavirus pandemic. Stone Ellis was a rock for the South Park boys golf and tennis teams the past several seasons. He hoped to cap his prep athletic career this spring with...
Former Mars pitcher Will Bednar named to freshman All-American team
Although his freshman season was cut short, former Mars pitcher Will Bednar received postseason honors this week. After pitching 15⅓ innings this season for Mississippi State, the 6-foot-2, 229-pound right-hander was named to Collegiate Baseball’s 2020 Freshman All-American team. Bednar was one of 24 relief pitchers named to the team...
Penn State ‘Gunslinger’ Sean Clifford eyes increased accuracyVideo
The coronavirus robbed him of appropriate use of his “gun” and left him without much to sling to over the past 12 weeks. But Penn State quarterback Sean Clifford still proudly plays the part. Clifford on Wednesday was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with the word “GUNSLINGER” at the top,...
Penn State’s Shaka Toney pushes teammate P.J. Mustipher beyond his perceived limits
Shaka Toney earned second-team All-Big Ten honors while recording 6½ sacks last season. That makes him the sack leader among Penn State’s returning players. But that’s only part of the reason junior defensive tackle P.J. Mustipher respects the Nittany Lions’ fifth-year senior defensive end. The other part stems from a...
Jackie Sherrill says Johnny Majors was his ‘father figure’
Jackie Sherrill said he had little trouble replacing Johnny Majors as Pitt’s coach in 1977. He had recruited and coached most of the players over three seasons at Pitt. After spending the 1976 season as coach at Washington State, Sherrill was the logical choice to replace Majors, who left for...
Mark Madden: Baseball will lose out in battle for fans among 4 major American sports
Between owner Bob Nutting so obviously prioritizing profit over winning and attendance not permitted at PNC Park for what figures to be well over a year, the Pirates might be in a load of trouble once tickets can be sold again. It’s hard to imagine anyone being interested. The Pirates...
PGA Tour announces coronavirus testing detailsVideo
The PGA Tour announced a deal with Sanford Health to conduct covid-19 testing of players, caddies and essential personnel five days before the season resumes. That applies to every stop on the PGA Tour, PGA Tour Champions and the developmental Korn Ferry Tour. Sanford Health is based in South Dakota...
AP source: MLB rejects 114-game plan, now looking at 50Video
NEW YORK — MLB rejected the players’ proposal for a 114-game schedule in the pandemic-delayed season with no additional salary cuts, telling the union that teams have no reason to think 82 games is possible and now will discuss even fewer. Players made their proposal Sunday, five days after management’s...
IUP’s Dan Braun named top golf coach in Atlantic Region
The college golf season was cut short by coronavirus restrictions, but IUP coach Dan Braun continues to clean up with postseason awards. A small but impressive body of work in 2019-20 has garnered Braun the Atlantic Region Coach of the Year. The award was announced by the Golf Coaches Association...
Fox Chapel teen catches pair of large flathead catfish on Allegheny River
Will Carnevale has been fishing off his family’s dock in Allegheny Township off the Allegheny River for quite some time, but this past weekend he received quite the surprise … twice. After casting his line Friday night, the Fox Chapel senior said he walked into the house for a few...
Penguins A to Z: Evan Rodrigues found what he wanted in Pittsburgh
While the NHL is on hold because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Tribune-Review will offer Penguins A to Z, a player-by-player look at all 54 individuals under NHL contract with the organization, from mid-level prospect Niclas Almari to high-profile trade acquisition Jason Zucker. Player: Evan Rodrigues Position: Center Shoots:...
Art Rooney ‘disappointed’ Steelers won’t go to Saint Vincent for training camp
Pittsburgh Steelers president and owner Art Rooney II expressed his disappointment Wednesday that training camp will not be held this year at Saint Vincent in Unity. The NFL informed teams Tuesday that training camps must be conducted at team practice facilities, which meant a change of plans for the 10...
Pirates would hold spring training at PNC Park, GM Ben Cherington confirms
Pittsburgh Pirates general manager Ben Cherington confirmed Wednesday that an abridged spring training to prepare for an MLB season this summer would be held at PNC Park. “If it happens, and assuming it happens, it would take place in Pittsburgh,” Cherington said on a conference call, adding that the club...
Report: NBA to return in July, have 22 teams
The NBA has a plan that would see a 22-team return of the league that would start in July, according to ESPN. According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, each of the 22 teams will play eight regular-season games in Orlando for seeding purposes for the playoffs. The plan calls for games...
Steelers’ Art Rooney II issues statement on killing of George FloydVideo
Pittsburgh Steelers president Art Rooney II released a statement Wednesday morning regarding the killing of George Floyd last week at the hands of Minneapolis police officers and the protesting that has taken place in cities all over the country. “Over the last week, we have witnessed the anger and frustration...
Pirates starting pitcher Chris Archer will miss 2020 season following surgery
Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Chris Archer will miss the 2020 MLB season after undergoing surgery to relieve symptoms of neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome. The Pirates said the surgery was performed in St. Louis by Dr. Robert Thompson, a vascular surgeon at Washington University Center for Thoracic Outlet Syndrome at Barnes-Jewish Hospital....
Penguins captain Sidney Crosby issues statement on George Floyd’s death, racism
Penguins captain Sidney Crosby issued a statement today through the team as well as his own foundation denouncing racism Wednesday. Crosby’s statement comes in the wake of several days of civil unrest around the nation following the killing of George Floyd, an African-American, at the hands of Minneapolis Police on...
Former Pitt coach Johnny Majors, who led Panthers to 1976 national title, dies
Johnny Majors, a devoted son of the South whose single act of reviving Pitt football endeared him to a very northern city, died Tuesday night in Knoxville, Tenn. He had turned 85 on May 21. Jackie Sherrill, who followed him from Iowa State to Pittsburgh and became his eventual successor...
’Burgh’s Best to Wear It, No. 89: Mike Ditka came to Pitt to be a dentist, left a legendary football playerVideo
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. 89: Mike Ditka Mike Ditka forged his reputation on toughness, running over defenders as a tight end and challenging his players as a Super...
Pitt commit Malik Newton’s coach calls him ‘unique kind of kid’
Hank Sawyer has seen dozens of running backs come through his program while winning three state championships in 22 years as coach at Lake Taylor (Va.) High School. With all that experience, you would think he understands what makes Pitt commit Malik Newton such a successful high school player. “I...
Tri-State PGA kicks off season
Opening day for the Tri-State PGA season is Wednesday with the Head Professional Championship at Wildwood Country Club in Allison Park. There will be 32 golf club professionals teeing it up. The Tri-State PGA schedule has been delayed for more than two months. Rob McClellan, Gene Walter and Jason Martin...
