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Jeannette product, Long Island standout Julian Batts has ‘good career ahead’
Julian Batts showed steady improvement over the course of his four years with the Long Island men’s basketball team. While the school underwent a significant change — the LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds were rebranded as the LIU Sharks after a merger with C.W. Post — Batts felt he stayed the same....
Steelers awarded compensatory draft pick after 3rd round, No. 102 choice overall
The compensatory draft pick the Pittsburgh Steelers were anticipating will be the 38th pick of the third round and the No. 102 overall draft choice. The NFL unveiled the 32 compensatory picks that were awarded Tuesday to 15 teams. The Steelers have only one of those picks. Compensatory picks are...
Duquesne’s Marcus Weathers named to Atlantic 10 second team
Junior forward Marcus Weathers became the first Duquesne player in nine years named to an All-Atlantic 10 first or second team when he was selected Tuesday to the conference’s second team. The most recent Dukes player so honored was Damian Saunders in 2011. It’s an especially prestigious honor for Weathers...
Tigers hit 3 homers off Derek Holland in win over Pirates
Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Derek Holland struck out six batters with no walks and allowed only four hits in 5 1/3 innings against the Detroit Tigers. Problem was, three of them were home runs. C.J. Cron and Jeimer Candelario homered off Holland in the second inning, and Cameron Maybin hit one...
Locals Oberdorf, Myers garner MAAC softball honors
Marist teammates and former Westmoreland County and WPIAL softball standouts Claire Oberdorf and Kiley Myers swept the latest Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference player of the week honors. Oberdorf, a third baseman out of Greensburg Salem, was tabbed player of the week and Myers, who is from Latrobe, was the pitcher...
Fully recovered after Tommy John surgery, Edgar Santana ready to bolster Pirates’ bullpen
BRADENTON, Fla. — Edgar Santana was more than 1,000 miles away from Pittsburgh last season, and that made it difficult on the Pirates relief pitcher. Santana underwent Tommy John surgery in September 2018. He spent the majority of last year in Florida rehabbing his elbow at the Pirate City training...
Penguins forward Nick Bjugstad sidelined with new injury
NEWARK, N.J. — Pittsburgh Penguins forward Nick Bjugstad will miss Tuesday’s road game against the New Jersey Devils at Prudential Center because of an undisclosed injury. He will be sidelined on a week-to-week basis. Coach Mike Sullivan did not disclose the nature of the injury but specified it is not...
Ivy League cancels basketball tournaments over coronavirus concerns
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The Ivy League on Tuesday canceled its men’s and women’s basketball tournaments because of concerns about the spread of coronavirus. The four-team tournaments were scheduled to be played Friday through Sunday at Lavietes Pavilion in Cambridge. The Ivy League instead will award its automatic NCAA Tournament bids...
NFL pushes back franchise tag deadline while awaiting CBA vote from players
Delayed once because of uncertainty over the proposed collective bargaining agreement, the deadline for NFL teams to use the franchise and transition tags has been pushed back again. Teams now will have until 11:59 a.m. Monday to decide whether to use the tags on players. The Pittsburgh Steelers are expected...
Steelers, Cowboys selected to play in Hall of Fame game
The Pittsburgh Steelers have suspected for a few months that they would be one of the teams competing in the Hall of Fame game, which kicks off the NFL preseason. The Pro Football Hall of Fame made it official Tuesday, announcing the Steelers will face the Dallas Cowboys at 8...
First Call: 2 Pirates get thrown out at home plate on same playVideo
Tuesday’s “First Call” gives you a glimpse at how the 2020 Pirates season is going to go. It’s only March. It’s still spring training. But the club’s highlight of the year may have already occurred. Let’s set the scene. The Pirates are in the process of losing an otherwise innocuous...
Trying to figure out how to make Penguins ‘connections’ work again
Brian Metzer is the Penguins Radio Network host. He does that job so you don’t have to. I know Metz loves the work. But with the way the Penguins are going right now, would you want that gig? I mean, it’s not doing play-by-play for the Pirates. But it ain’t...
Steelers ‘Believe it or Not’: Team’s belief in James Conner bouncing back in 2020
The building of the 2020 Pittsburgh Steelers is about to begin. NFL free agency starts March 18. The NFL Draft begins April 23. So we have been taking a look at some of the things the Steelers have told us about what they plan to do this offseason. And if...
East Tennessee State defeats Wofford for Southern Conference titleVideo
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Isaiah Tisdale said he had a dream East Tennessee State was going to win the Southern Conference Tournament. That dream was realized Monday night. Tisdale scored 24 points and was named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player as top-seeded ETSU defeated upset-minded Wofford, 72-58, to win the SoCon...
Duke’s Tre Jones earns ACC Player of Year honorsVideo
GREENSBORO, N.C. — The ACC on Monday named Duke guard Tre Jones as the league’s player of the year and its defensive player of the year and Leonard Hamilton of regular-season champion Florida State as coach of the year. Jones, a sophomore, is averaging 16.2 points and 6.4 assists for...
Iowa’s Luke Garza earns Big Ten honor; Penn State’s Lamar Stevens makes 1st teamVideo
ROSEMONT, Ill. — Iowa center Luka Garza is the Big Ten Player of the Year after emerging as one of the nation’s best players this season, and Wisconsin’s Greg Gard took coach of the year honors in voting announced Monday. Garza leads the Big Ten in scoring and ranks fifth...
Astros’ Justin Verlander has lat strain, unlikely to be ready for openerVideo
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Houston Astros ace Justin Verlander has a mild strain of a back muscle and said it would “probably take a miracle” for him to pitch on Opening Day against the Los Angeles Angels on March 26. In an effort to remain positive, Verlander quickly added,...
Florida State wants to live up to No. 1 seed in ACC TournamentVideo
Florida State has accomplished several milestones in Leonard Hamilton’s nearly two decades with the Seminoles, from winning an ACC Tournament to getting within a game of the Final Four two seasons ago. Yet, his fourth-ranked Seminoles have never been in the position they are this week: entering the league tournament...
NHL, MLB, NBA, MLS close locker room access amid coronavirus outbreakVideo
MIAMI — The NBA, NHL, Major League Baseball and Major League Soccer are closing access to locker rooms and clubhouses to all non-essential personnel in response to the coronavirus crisis, the leagues announced in a joint statement Monday night. The leagues said they made the decision “after consultation with infectious...
Pitt carries little hope into ACC Tournament, but even that’s something
Since the middle of the previous decade, there’s been a common thread to the latter stages of Pitt’s basketball seasons: The team has staggered to the finish line every year since 2015. No matter the coach. Jamie Dixon ended his final two seasons 0-5 and 1-4, including NIT and NCAA...
Trib HSSN wrestler of the week: Canon McMillan’s Gerrit Nijenhuis
On the way to becoming the WPIALs all-time wins leader this weekend in Hershey and capturing his second straight state title, Canon-McMillan’s Gerrit Nijenhuis was dominant. He went 4-0 in the 182-pound bracket, winning two matches by decision, one by major decision and one by pin. His final win of...
Kevin Gorman: With NCAA tourney in balance, Robert Morris has edge in coach Andy TooleVideo
Robert Morris has a built-in advantage to win the Northeast Conference championship game, and it has less to do with home-court advantage than it does who is on the sideline. Colonials coach Andy Toole has Robert Morris a win away from clinching a berth in the NCAA Tournament, an event...
Pirates option prospects Will Craig and Oneil Cruz to Triple-A, reassign 3 othersVideo
Two of the Pittsburgh Pirates’ top prospects were optioned to Triple-A on Monday, and three others were reassigned to the organization’s minor league camp. Shortstop Oneil Cruz and corner infielder Will Craig were optioned to Indianapolis. The Pirates’ No. 3 prospect according to MLB Pipeline, the 6-foot-7 Cruz slashed .217/.250/.435...
Burrell football coach Shawn Liotta authors ‘No Huddle, No Mercy’
When Burrell football coach Shawn Liotta speaks at coaching clinics across the country, he always seems to get asked a certain question. “Someone will always come up to me and ask ‘Coach, how do you play so fast?’ and there are definitely little secrets to that,” Liotta said. So, to...
Robert Morris, St. Francis split first two games; No. 3 all that mattersVideo
The sweat was real. The passion was clear. The victories were sweet. The defeats decisive and sour. There were plenty of displays of good basketball by both teams and other times when no one could find the net for several minutes. All those things described how Robert Morris (19-14) and...
