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Kevin Gorman: Wrapping a bow on season of adversity for Mike Tomlin’s SteelersVideo
Mike Tomlin was standing before us on New Year’s Eve with an 8-8 record and a second consecutive season of the Pittsburgh Steelers on the outside looking in on the NFL playoffs. The Steelers coach wasn’t ready to wrap a bow on 2019. Nor was he willing to wallow in...
Late TD pass lifts Kentucky past Virginia Tech in Belk BowlVideo
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Lynn Bowden Jr. ran for 223 yards on 34 carries, then tossed a 13-yard touchdown pass to Josh Ali with 15 seconds left as Kentucky rallied behind its receiver-turned-quarterback to beat Virginia Tech, 37-30, on Tuesday in the Belk Bowl. Bowden ran for two touchdowns before leading...
Nick Saban vs. Jim Harbaugh in the Citrus Bowl, with much at stakeVideo
ORLANDO, Fla. — Nick Saban wants his players to know their final game will be unforgettable. His remains that way. It was in 1972, and Kent State lost. And that memory might bother Saban more than usual this week, considering he has come full circle. He is back exactly where...
Browns, GM John Dorsey part ways after disappointing 6-10 seasonVideo
CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Browns parted ways with general manager John Dorsey two days after the team fired coach Freddie Kitchens. Dorsey’s stunning departure on Tuesday came after he met with owner Jimmy Haslam, who is once again with his wife, Dee, cleaning house and restructuring the front office after...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Multiple basketball players set for homecomings
Look for homecomings to be a popular theme among some local college basketball players as the calendar turns to 2020. A number of area alums will return to the region with their teams as conference play heats up. Cal (Pa.) senior Monica Burns (Hempfield) probably will draw a crowd of...
Pat Leonard: Giants’ decision to retain Dave Gettleman promises continued irrelevanceVideo
NEW YORK — The New York Giants’ decision to retain GM Dave Gettleman is good news. It’s good news for the rest of the NFC East. “They won’t win with him,” one NFL source said. Gettleman is football’s poster boy for mocking analytics and forward thinking. In April 2018, he...
Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin fined for high sticking
Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin was fined $5,000 by the NHL for high sticking Ottawa Senators forward Jean-Gabriel Pageau during the Penguins’ 5-2 win at PPG Paints Arena on Monday. With 20 seconds remaining in regulation, Senators forward Brady Tkachuk and Malkin began wrestling on Ottawa’s end boards and were quickly...
Sidney Crosby participates in Penguins’ practice; 1st time since November
The Penguins didn’t need anyone to ride into practice on a white horse to save the day during Monday’s practice. But they certainly could have used an emotional boost. After all, it had only been approximately 14 hours since all-star forward Jake Guentzel left the ice after crashing violently into...
Mike Tomlin won’t be ‘shocked’ if there are changes to his coaching staff
Mike Tomlin began conducting exit interviews with his Pittsburgh Steelers players Tuesday, meeting first with players on the practice squad, rookies and those with expiring contracts. After talking to his veteran players, Tomlin will move on to evaluating his assistant coaches. Following an 8-8 season, changes to Tomlin’s staff could...
Mike Tomlin: Keeping Bud Dupree ‘a priority’ for SteelersVideo
The Pittsburgh Steelers’ season is over, and one of the first landmarks of an NFL offseason is free agency. Coach Mike Tomlin left little ambiguity regarding his feelings toward the Steelers’ highest-profile pending free agent. “He’s a priority of for us,” Tomlin said of outside linebacker Bud Dupree. No matter...
Penn State fires offensive line coach Matt Limegrover
The look of Penn State’s coaching staff continued to change Tuesday when coach James Franklin announced he will not renew the contract of offensive line coach Matt Limegrover. The move followed the departure of offensive coordinator Ricky Rahne, recently named the new head coach at Old Dominion. Franklin replaced Rahne...
Mike Tomlin ‘comfortable’ with Mason Rudolph serving as Steelers’ backup QB
The top two quarterbacks for the Pittsburgh Steelers finished the season on injured reserve, and they will resume that hierarchy once they return to health. That was the word from coach Mike Tomlin, who gave an early endorsement to Mason Rudolph serving as the backup to franchise quarterback Ben Roethlisberger...
Jaguars keep Doug Marrone, Dave Caldwell despite another losing season
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Jaguars are retaining coach Doug Marrone and general manager Dave Caldwell despite consecutive losing seasons. Owner Shad Khan made the announcement Tuesday after “positive meetings” with Marrone, Caldwell, their staffs and several players. “This is not the time to consider an overhaul of our organization,”...
Trib HSSN Wrestling Team of the Week: Waynesburg
The Raiders finished in third place at the 53rd annual Powerade Tournament hosted by Canon-McMillan. They had one champion, Mac Church (106), and also had wrestlers finish third, fourth, fifth and sixth. Church dominated his weight class, earning four major decisions, along with a 3-1 decision over Erie Prep’s Jacob...
Trib HSSN Wrestler of the Week: Gabe Willochell, Latrobe
No one had a better Powerade tournament than Latrobe’s Gabe Willochell and he was awarded for it by earning Outstanding Wrestler honors. He also won his weight class at 132 pounds with five pins and an ultimate tiebreaker decision. As the No. 6 seed, Willochell earned two pins in his...
Steelers on HBO’s ‘Hard Knocks’? Mike Tomlin hilariously acknowledges it’s possibleVideo
The Pittsburgh Steelers are one of five teams eligible to appear on HBO’s annual late-summer football series, “Hard Knocks.” If coach Mike Tomlin wasn’t aware of this prior, he was made aware of it during his season wrap-up news conference Tuesday at UPMC Rooney Sports Complex. And the veteran, typically...
Steelers’ Mike Tomlin ‘little bit numb’ over end of seasonVideo
Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin held a season-ending session with media members Tuesday at the UPMC Rooney Sports Complex on the South Side. Tomlin opened by appreciating the efforts of his players. But said he’s still “a little bit numb” over the way the season ended and the way...
Penguins forward Jake Guentzel out 4-6 months after shoulder surgeryVideo
Joseph Blandisi hasn’t been a member of the Pittsburgh Penguins that long. He sporadically has been a part of the roster for less than a year. That’s too brief a tenure to have witnessed how this organization has been impacted directly by maladies such as strokes, cancer or blood clots....
Maria and Andrew McCutchen announce birth of 2nd son
Andrew McCutchen and his wife, Maria, welcomed their second child, Armani X McCutchen, on Christmas Eve. The former Pittsburgh Pirates All-Star shared a link to Maria’s Instagram page which announced the baby’s birth. “Armani X McCutchen Born on Christmas Eve.” she shared on the post. “The X signifies 10 years...
First Call: Antonio Brown rips JuJu Smith-Schuster; Jets coach dismissive of Le’Veon Bell
As has been the case for most of 2019, the year couldn’t end without another day of former Steelers Antonio Brown and Le’Veon Bell being in the headlines. Brown couldn’t pass up one last chance to take a jab at former teammate JuJu Smith-Schuster on social media. Boo Boo Shoester...
What will Penguins do if Jake Guentzel is hurt, too?Video
Ok, now the hockey gods are just messing with us, right? Aren’t the Penguins out of guys to get injured? As soon as hope started to build for a return of Sidney Crosby, now Jake Guentzel might be out for a while. At least we are bracing ourselves for that...
Tim Benz: Don’t inflate Steelers’ mediocre 8-8 finish
If you looked skyward in Pittsburgh around 2:45 p.m. Monday, you saw a gorgeous double rainbow over the city. I was heading to the North Side at the time, and I felt like I was driving right into it. Both arches appeared to end directly in Heinz Field’s parking lot....
Empty Thoughts: Penguins 5, Senators 2
Observations from the Penguins’ 5-2 win against the Senators. First things first, there was no update on Penguins forward Jake Guentzel. After scoring his 20th goal of the season at 6:55 of the third, he was tripped up by Senators defenseman Thomas Chabot and crashed violently into the end boards....
Florida gets 3 TDs from Perine to defeat Virginia in Orange BowlVideo
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Lamical Perine scored on a 61-yard run in the opening minute and didn’t stop after that, totaling 181 yards rushing and receiving with three touchdowns Monday to help No. 6 Florida beat Virginia, 36-28, in the Orange Bowl. Perine carried 13 times for a career-high 138...
Penguins defeat Senators but lose Jake Guentzel to injuryVideo
Monday was an occasion to celebrate for Jake Guentzel. Having largely carried the Penguins through the first three months of the season while several of his higher-profile teammates recuperated from various maladies, Guentzel’s productive efforts were recognized Monday afternoon when he was named the Penguins’ lone representative to the NHL’s...
