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Penguins A to Z: Kevin Czuczman finds a way to impact future
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: Kevin Czuczman Position: Defenseman Shoots:...
John Steigerwald: Time to consider small-town venues for major league sports
Hit ’em where they ain’t. That was Wee Willie Keeler’s hitting philosophy. He played right field for the Yankees in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was one of the best hitters in baseball history and inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939. Maybe Major League Baseball...
Senior Spotlight: After successful football season, Avonworth senior sticks with sport he loves
Jax Miller’s senior year got off to a pretty exciting start. The 6-foot-1, 190-pound running back ran for 2,362 yards and 29 touchdowns as the Avonworth football team turned in a 15-1 record, won a WPIAL Class 2A championship and finished as the state runners-up at Hershey. “It was definitely,...
Drafting multiple players from same school not just a recent trend for SteelersVideo
In 2017, it was a pair of Volunteers. The following year, a couple of Cowboys. At training camp last year, Mike Tomlin often was heard yelling, “Big Blue.” Then, within a 3½-hour span last Saturday afternoon, the Pittsburgh Steelers took two Terrapins. It’s become a trend, four consecutive NFL Drafts...
Reports: Cowboys add ex-Bengals QB Andy Dalton as backupVideo
Andy Dalton is coming home to Texas as Dak Prescott’s backup with the Dallas Cowboys. Dalton and the Cowboys agreed to a one-year deal that guarantees the former Cincinnati starter $3 million and could be worth up to $7 million, two people with direct knowledge of the deal told the...
Senior trio leaves lasting legacy at Cornell, aims to do same in collegeVideo
For the better part of the last decade, there probably wasn’t a time when you wouldn’t find Cornell seniors Kaden DiVito, Isaiah Langston and Zaier Harrison together. “We’re pretty much together at least once a day,” Harrison said. “This quarantine stuff has kind of slowed it down a little bit,”...
Secretariat wins virtual Kentucky DerbyVideo
Secretariat won a virtual Kentucky Derby against 12 fellow Triple Crown winners, 47 years after the chestnut colt won the real race at Churchill Downs. The 1 1/4-mile race featuring computer-generated imagery was held Saturday, the same day the 146th Derby had been scheduled until it was postponed by the...
Bears decline to pick up 5th-year option on QB TrubiskyVideo
The Chicago Bears have declined their fifth-year option for quarterback Mitchell Trubisky for the 2021 season, a person familiar with the situation said Saturday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the move has not been announced. NFL Network first reported the decision. The move is hardly a surprise...
Taliani, Tanilli helped turn Deer Lakes, Gannon softball into champions
Rachel Tanilli and Maria Taliani’s first experience as softball teammates came more than a decade ago in the Deer Lakes youth program. Combining their talents led to many memories made on and off the field and brought them to one final season together on the Gannon softball team. While this...
Penguins A to Z: Sidney Crosby remains the standard
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: Sidney Crosby Position: Center Shoots:...
Gateway coach Alvis Rogers squared off with Michael Jordan long before his ‘Last Dance’
Each time Alvis Rogers sits down to watch another episode of “The Last Dance,” the 10-part ESPN miniseries about Michael Jordan and the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls, he is time-warped back to his college days at Wake Forest when he and the Demon Deacons went against Jordan and North Carolina. Rogers,...
Central Catholic football coaches deliver WPIAL championship rings door to doorVideo
What’s better than one WPIAL ring ceremony? How about 23? The covid-19 outbreak kept Central Catholic’s football coaches from handing out championship rings at school like they’d planned, so they decided to hand-deliver the rings to the 23 seniors on the roster that won the WPIAL Class 6A title. The...
‘The Wax Pack’ chronicles road trip inspired by baseball cards
NEW YORK — Brad Balukjian tore open a pack of 1986 Topps baseball cards, chewed the stale, brittle bubblegum and then planned a road trip most sports fans could only dream about. The college biology professor set out to meet every player whose image appeared on those old pieces of...
Soccer training goes on at Cologne despite positive tests
COLOGNE, Germany — Cologne’s players are continuing to train despite the three positive tests for coronavirus at the club that have unsettled the German soccer league’s restart plans. Cologne said Friday that three people had tested positive but didn’t name them or say whether they were players, who are currently...
From TE to ILB, ranking the best and worst Steelers’ offseason moves
The transition from monitoring offseason transactions to overseeing offseason training — even if on a virtual basis — began Monday for the Pittsburgh Steelers. This period, also known as Phase 1 of the NFL’s conditioning program, provides an opportune time to analyze the moves the Steelers made — or didn’t...
Pirates GM Ben Cherington: Team is going to be ‘flexible’ about spring training site
General manager Ben Cherington said the Pittsburgh Pirates are going to be “flexible” about the site of a potential spring training and are “comforted” by the level of attention state government officials are giving toward plans to reopen businesses. Cherington made the comments during a 22-minute guest appearance with Bucco...
Senior Spotlight: Franklin Regional catcher gets head start on future career during quarantine
Editor’s note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight WPIAL spring athletes whose senior years were cut short by the coronavirus pandemic. While most high school students are at home, working on homework or training for college sports during the coronavirus pandemic, Franklin Regional senior Bryce Harper has been getting a...
Retired Pirates broadcaster Steve Blass learning to adjust to life without baseball
Steve Blass retired from the Pittsburgh Pirates broadcast booth to enjoy life away from baseball. What Blass wasn’t expecting is life without baseball. Blass, 78, had no way of knowing or preparing for the MLB season to be suspended amid the coronavirus crisis, let alone that he and his wife,...
NFL rookies, teams face similar problems as in 2011 lockoutVideo
Joe Burrow should be getting ready to report to rookie minicamp this month, then joining the veterans on the Cincinnati Bengals for the rest of the offseason program. But like everyone else around the NFL, Burrow is left on his own to prepare for the season with facilities shut down...
Mike Tyson serious about a ‘comeback,’ shows explosive burst on Twitter
Mike Tyson is back in the gym, and let’s suffice it to say that he’s still got it. Explosive is an understatement that can can be verified courtesy of Iron Mike’s official Twitter account. The 53-year-old former world heavyweight boxing champion spoke about a comeback with Atlanta rapper T.I. on...
Almost a straight-A student, Clint Hurdle could have gone to Harvard
Clint Hurdle never went to college, but he was offered an academic scholarship to Harvard. “I was deeply intrigued about what it would be like to go to an Ivy League school and be a student,” Hurdle said. Hurdle, who managed the Pittsburgh Pirates for nine years, was a coveted...
Surrounded by family, Clint Hurdle goes back to school while embracing new life
He rises every morning around 6:30, just in time to watch the sun rise over Anna Maria Island on the Gulf Coast of Florida. “Sunrises are pretty magnificent here,” Clint Hurdle said. Life isn’t bad, either, for the only manager in 27 years to bring playoff baseball back to Pittsburgh....
Pittsburgh sports remain weeks away from playing in front of fans under state’s reopening plan
The return of the Penguins and Pirates playing before fans in Pittsburgh remains at least weeks away after state officals announced that Allegheny County and most of Southwestern Pennsylvania will remain in the red phase of the reopening process. Although two dozen northern counties will move to the yellow phase...
Despite social distancing regulations, area golfers happy to be back on courseVideo
Jim Dunn felt like a little kid anticipating the first day of school. It didn’t matter temperatures were in the upper 40s and low 50s and light rain fell, the 83-year-old Murrysville native couldn’t wait to play his first round of the season. At 8 a.m. Friday, Dunn walked to...
Commentary: Best sports docs include Pirates’ Dock EllisVideo
Sports and cinema have an uneasy alliance. For every “Raging Bull,” there are an abundance of flicks that get it wrong when they try to recapture a memorable event or famous athlete. Seriously, how does the compelling life of Babe Ruth produce not one, but two of the greatest stinkers...
