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Penguins have no problems with ‘lacrosse goals’Video
Even if you’re fairly keyed into hockey, the name probably escapes you. But you probably know who he is. The guy from Michigan who scored that goal. On March 24, 1996, in an NCAA West regional semifinal game between Michigan and Minnesota, Michigan’s Mike Legg picked the puck up with...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Podkul has 2 big games for Grove City women’s basketball
Grove City junior forward Allison Podkul (Hempfield) had a career-high six assists and five steals to go with six points as Grove City (16-2, 8-2) handed Saint Vincent (13-6, 9-1) its first PAC loss of the season 68-65. Junior Madison Kollar (Latrobe) led Saint Vincent with 16 points, and junior...
Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio retiring after 13 seasonsVideo
Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio announced his retirement Tuesday, ending a 13-year run in which he guided the Spartans to heights they hadn’t reached in decades. Dantonio went 114-57 as Michigan State’s coach and won Big Ten titles in 2010, 2013 and 2015. The last of those three seasons included...
Trib HSSN wrestling team of the week: Waynesburg
The Raiders were trailing Saturday in the WPIAL Class AAA team championship at Canon-McMillan. With three bouts remaining, Waynesburg needed three wins and they needed bonus points in the process. Decisions by Nate Stephenson (152 pounds) and Luca Augustine (160) put Waynesburg in position, trailing by three points. Freshman Eli...
Trib HSSN wrestler of the week: Waynesburg’s Eli Makel
Waynesburg was in need of a big victory in the final match of the WPIAL Class AAA team championship Saturday afternoon at Canon-McMillan and 170-pound freshman Eli Makel answered the call. The Raiders had just gotten back-to-back wins from Nate Stephenson and Luca Augustine to cut Seneca Valley’s lead to...
Duquesne’s Keith Dambrot works closely with players to tap potential, regulate passionVideo
Long after the end of practice Tuesday morning — while most of his teammates were catching a snack or perhaps a nap before the flight to St. Louis — Duquesne’s Marcus Weathers was working on his jump shot. Never mind that he leads the Dukes in scoring (14.5 per game),...
WR Deon Cain: ‘I know how much I can help Steelers out’ in 2020
Though he did not join the Pittsburgh Steelers until mid-November and played only 72 offensive snaps for them, Deon Cain made an impact. Cain caught five of the six targets thrown his way and twice drew important pass interference penalties (one gained 26 yards, another was in the end zone)....
Steelers game against Jacksonville in 2020 season won’t be played in London
If the Pittsburgh Steelers play an international game in the 2020 season, it won’t be against the Jacksonville Jaguars. The Jaguars confirmed Tuesday that they will play back-to-back home games in London next season, but said their games against the Steelers and Chicago Bears will be played at Jacksonville’s TIAA...
First Call: Why Peter King didn’t vote for Troy Polamalu; emotional goal for Western Pa. NHL starVideo
In Tuesday’s “First Call,” we somehow bring Antonio Brown, Mike Vick and Plaxico Burress together. A great Twitter burn by an NFL team. Someone outs themselves as a person who didn’t vote for Troy Polamalu to make the Hall of Fame. And two great stories about some NHL products from...
Pirates catcher Jacob Stallings earns trust of teammates in seizing No. 1 roleVideo
His affable father, fair or not, was not necessarily one of the more popular figures in Pittsburgh sports. But the just-as-genial Jacob Stallings, undoubtedly, is one the most popular players among his Pittsburgh Pirates teammates. Less than two years after Kevin Stallings was let go by Pitt following a winless...
Tim Benz: How Patrick Mahomes is becoming the NFL’s Sidney Crosby
Is Patrick Mahomes about to become the NFL’s version of Sidney Crosby? I can see it happening. How about you? A well-adjusted, mature-beyond-his-years, media-poised, marketing-friendly star who plays in front of a maniacal local fan base and has national appeal. He puts up points. He’s exciting to watch. And he’s...
Tim Benz: My bad, Troy. I could’ve done this better.
My bad, Troy. You deserved better for this. I dropped the ball. I was so busy being concerned about Steelers guard Alan Faneca getting into the Pro Football Hall of Fame — and mad when I found out that it didn’t happen — that I barely acknowledged your candidacy and...
Hall of Fame safety, Packers legend Willie Wood dies at 83Video
LOS ANGELES — Willie Wood, the Hall of Fame defensive back who won five NFL championships with the Green Bay Packers under coach Vince Lombardi and made the first interception in Super Bowl history, died Monday. He was 83. Wood died of natural causes in Washington, D.C., according to Robert...
ESPN draws huge ratings for Kobe Bryant tribute gameVideo
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Lakers’ first game since Kobe Bryant’s death was the second-most watched regular-season NBA game on ESPN. The game Friday against the Portland Trail Blazers averaged 4.41 million viewers. The only telecast to surpass that since ESPN resumed NBA coverage in 2002-03 was a January...
Scandal-ridden Astros hire Rays exec James Click as new general managerVideo
HOUSTON — The Houston Astros hired James Click as their new general manager Monday, taking the Tampa Bay Rays executive and putting him in charge of the scandal-ridden team a week before the start of spring training. Click succeeds Jeff Luhnow, who along with manager AJ Hinch was suspended by...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Franklin Regional grad Kemerer gets huge win for Iowa wrestling
Michael Kemerer has won some big matches in his college wrestling career at Iowa, but the one he registered last Friday night turned heads around the country. Kemerer, a redshirt senior out of Franklin Regional who is ranked No. 2 in the nation at 174 pounds, worked his way past...
Super Bowl LIV scores 99.9 million TV viewers with Chiefs comebackVideo
NEW YORK — The audience for the Super Bowl saw a year-to-year increase for the first time since 2015, as 99.9 million TV viewers watched the Kansas City Chiefs’ 31-20 come-from-behind victory over the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday. Nielsen data showed the Fox telecast of the game from Miami...
Australian Open winner Novak Djokovic reclaims No. 1 rankingVideo
MELBOURNE, Australia — Novak Djokovic returned to No. 1 in the ATP rankings Monday after winning his eighth Australian Open title, and Sofia Kenin’s first Grand Slam trophy boosted her to a career-high No. 7 — and made her the leading American — on the WTA list. Djokovic’s 6-4, 4-6,...
NASCAR readies for season of much-needed changesVideo
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The sky isn’t falling — or at least it doesn’t feel that way — as NASCAR heads into the first of two seasons full of change. In the three months since Kyle Busch won his second championship, NASCAR took its awards ceremony to Nashville, Tenn., and...
Chiefs coach Andy Reid finally earns elusive Super Bowl titleVideo
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — When Andy Reid walked into an interview with the Philadelphia Eagles armed with a 6-inch binder containing notes on how to build a winning team, management was sold. But it took him 21 years and two teams to win it all. Big Red finally got his...
New Ohio State volleyball coach Jennifer Flynn Oldenburg broadens Baldwin connection
Ohio State athletics has developed a narrow but significant pipeline in attracting former Baldwin athletes into its distinguished program. Two of the greatest female athletes in school history at Baldwin, Jennifer Flynn Oldenburg and Kelly Kovach Schoenly, are members of the OSU coaching fraternity. Oldenburg, 41, was hired Jan. 17...
Pirates’ Kevin Kramer motivated by daughter’s birth
If Kevin Kramer was a shallow thinker without much ambition, he might have welcomed MLB’s roster expansion from 25 to 26 players. He might have seen it as an easier way to sneak onto the Pittsburgh Pirates’ 2020 roster. But Kramer, 26, responded to a question about 26-man rosters with...
Oddsmakers give decent chance of Steelers bouncing back, winning Super Bowl LV
Despite missing the playoffs for the past two years and finishing with an 8-8 record in 2019, the Pittsburgh Steelers are getting respect from oddsmakers regarding their chances of competing for a Super Bowl in the 2020 season. A pair of online betting sites have include the Steelers among the...
Young Mahomes leads comeback for ages as NFL closes its first centuryVideo
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — They were celebrating the passage of time as much as football at this Super Bowl: 100-year-old World War II veterans at midfield for the pregame coin flip, 50-year-old pop diva Jennifer Lopez handling halftime, and, of course, a quarterback who turns 25 this year saving the...
Notre Dame’s Mike Brey takes lessons learned into game against Pitt
After Notre Dame lost to Syracuse, 84-82, last month, Irish coach Mike Brey was looking for help anywhere he could find it. It was one day after Brey’s high school coach, the legendary Morgan Wootten, died at age 88. Brey played for and coached with Wootten at DeMatha Catholic in...
