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Riverhounds bring back players for small group training
The Riverhounds are back on the field. Not fully, but the Riverhounds will take what they can get as members of the team returned to their facilities Monday in small groups while following league protocol and local health guidelines. “It’s good to have (the players) back,” Riverhounds coach Bob Lilley...
Penguins A to Z: Emil Larmi’s first North American season was hardly smoothVideo
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 55 individuals under NHL contract with the organization, from mid-level prospect Niclas Almari to high-profile trade acquisition Jason Zucker. Player: Emil Larmi Position: Goaltender Catches:...
Forbes: Steelers to lose more than $156 million in stadium revenue if there are no fansVideo
As sports leagues around the world stage events without fans, the clock is ticking on the scheduled start of the NFL’s 2020 season. And if the coronavirus pandemic dictates empty stadiums in the fall, that would put a significant dent in team revenues. According to Forbes.com, the NFL would lose...
Virus has NFL prospects pondering threat of a lost season
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Joe Burrow was a competent if unspectacular quarterback as a backup at Ohio State and during his first post-transfer season at LSU. In 2019, he transformed into Super Joe. Imagine if a pandemic had shortened or wiped out that last, golden season for Burrow, who won the...
Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger throws passes to teammates, trims beard
The beard isn’t exactly sheared, but it is neatly trimmed. Before undergoing right elbow surgery in September, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said he wouldn’t cut his hair or shave until he was able to throw a “legit NFL pass” to one of his teammates. That time apparently occurred over...
Shaler native Art Howe returns home from Houston hospital after ICU stay for covid-19
After spending time in intensive care last week battling the coronavirus, Shaler native Art Howe returned to his Houston home Sunday and said he is “feeling a little bit better.” Howe, 73, was signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates as a 24-year-old in 1971, and played second base and third base...
Former major league manager, Pirates player Art Howe, a Shaler native, released from hospital
HOUSTON — Former major league manager and infielder Art Howe was released from a Houston hospital Sunday after a stay in intensive care because of the coronavirus. “Relief, back in my own bedroom. It’s just sweet,” said the 73-year-old Howe, a Shaler native. “It was a long five days or...
Pirates to sell ‘Safety Jolly Roger’ T-shirts to raise funds for covid-19 relief
The Pittsburgh Pirates unveiled on Monday T-shirts with the Jolly Roger logo wearing a red bandana as a face mask that will be sold to raise funds for coronavirus relief efforts. In a news release, the Pirates said the modified logo was designed to promote safe social health practices, and...
Unfiltered: Tim Benz, Mark Madden break down James Harrison’s ‘envelope’ story, NFL debacles, NHL’s futureVideo
It’s amazing what a comment about an envelope can cause. In this week’s “Madden & Benz Unfiltered”, Tim Benz and Mark Madden discuss former Steelers linebacker James Harrison’s comments about receiving an envelope after a hit on Browns receiver Mohammed Massaquoi in 2010. The guys also get into whether it...
PIAA board of directors to discuss restarting sports county by county
Could the PIAA take a county-by-county approach to restarting sports, or should the entire state resume summer workouts at the same time? “We want to have that discussion,” said PIAA executive director Bob Lombardi, who expects that question and others related to the coronavirus shutdown will be addressed Wednesday when...
First Call: Sidney Crosby is the Michael Jordan of hockey, former Penguins star says
Let’s hope we are a long way off from “The Last Skate” when it comes to Penguins star Sidney Crosby. But in the wake of the successful ESPN “The Last Dance” documentary about Michael Jordan, Sportsnet.ca asked Penguins assistant coach Mark Recchi for a hockey comparison to Michael Jordan. And...
Mark Madden on JuJu Smith-Schuster: ‘He wasn’t unmotivated, he was unfocused’
Some sports are starting to play without fans. Golf. NASCAR. Soccer. How can the four major North American sports — and the NCAA — learn from what they are seeing so far? That’s how Mark Madden and I start off this week’s “Madden Monday” podcast. Mark has been watching the...
Tim Benz: The ‘Dumb, Dumber, Dumberest’ of James Harrison’s envelope story
Back in a different lifetime — a fuzzy, faded memory known as 2014 — I used to host “The X Morning Show” on 105.9 The X. My cohost/producer, Bob McLaughlin, and I used to produce a weekly bit called “Dumb, Dumber, Dumberest.” It was essentially a collection of the dumbest...
Kevin Harvick wins NASCAR’s return race at DarlingtonVideo
DARLINGTON, S.C. — This was a 400-mile drive unlike any other in modern-day NASCAR. The grandstands were empty. There wasn’t a tailgate inside the track. Everyone wore face coverings — some with the team logos, others opting for plain disposable medical masks. It was nothing close to the corporate sponsorship,...
PIHL cancels remaining playoff games from 2019-20 season
In a move it hoped to avoid, the PIHL on Sunday afternoon canceled the remainder of the unplayed playoff games from the 2019-20 season. The PIHL expressed its regret in a statement on Twitter and went on to thank the players, coaches, managers, administrators and game staff for their contributions...
College football season remains possibility at 3 schools in California State systemVideo
SAN DIEGO — The California State University system’s plan for a mostly virtual fall semester because of the coronavirus pandemic doesn’t necessarily close the door on football at its three schools that play in the far-flung Mountain West Conference. San Diego State is looking at having football players return to...
Penguins A to Z: Sam Lafferty shows he’s more than a nice story
While the NHL is on hold due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Tribune-Review will offer Penguins A to Z, a player-by-player look at all 55 individuals under NHL contract with the organization, from mid-level prospect Niclas Almari to high-profile trade acquisition Jason Zucker. Player: Sam Lafferty Position: Center Shoots:...
John Steigerwald: Despite what Blake Snell says, MLB players in no danger
Blake Snell is afraid. In case you never heard of Snell, he is a 27-year-old pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays. In a Twitch stream Wednesday night, he said, “I should not be getting paid half of what I’m getting paid because the season’s cut in half.” That’s what the...
All quiet in Berlin as Bundesliga soccer returns without fans and without incidentVideo
BERLIN — A strong police and media presence outside the stadium provided the only clues Union Berlin was about to play Bayern Munich in its biggest — and quietest — Bundesliga game of the season Sunday. Only a few diehard soccer fans showed up outside Union’s stadium and quickly were...
Paul Sullivan: Has baseball reached its endgame?
Good morning, students. Welcome back to our class, “History of Baseball in America.” I hope you all have read the required e-material for today, and in a minute we’ll have the book’s author, former baseball writer Adam Fraley, joining us to give his views on the extinction of what once...
Bills DT Ed Oliver charged with drunken driving in Texas
HOUSTON — Buffalo Bills defensive lineman Ed Oliver was arrested during a traffic stop in the Houston area and charged with drunken driving and illegally carrying a handgun, authorities said. Montgomery County sheriff’s deputies pulled Oliver over Saturday after receiving reports around 9 p.m. of someone driving recklessly in a...
Rookie RB Anthony McFarland’s size not a deterrent in Steelers’ plans for him
The NFL’s leading rusher last year in the regular season and postseason stands 6-foot-3 and weighs 247 pounds. The NFL often is a copycat league, but the incoming class of rookie running backs has little resemblance to the Tennessee Titans’ Derrick Henry. Of the 16 running backs taken in last...
Decision to get Tommy John surgery blessing in disguise for former Knoch pitcher
Alex Stobert has had quite a journey through college. The former Knoch pitcher who helped the Knights capture WPIAL and PIAA titles in 2015 — throwing 26 scoreless innings out of 27 during the PIAA postseason — has made the rounds. After playing at Tallahassee (Fla.) Community College for two...
Mac Engel: Ex-sports columnist explains why he felt Mavericks shouldn’t have drafted Michael Jordan at No. 4 in ’84Video
Randy Galloway figures suggesting the Dallas Mavericks should not draft Michael Jordan was not his biggest screw-up. “Out of many, but it’s one of the two of my bigger screw-ups,” Galloway said. “The first is when I wrote (Dallas Cowboys coach) Jimmy Johnson didn’t get enough in the Herschel Walker...
Bye buy games? Smaller college football programs could lose millions in Power 5 payoutsVideo
In 2018, with his school facing the possibility of cutting staff to make up a huge shortfall in state funding, Northern Illinois athletic director Sean Frazier added a football game at Florida State to the Huskies’ schedule. The road trip came with a $1.6 million payout to NIU. “Florida State,...
