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Westmoreland campus clippings: Honors roll in for Seton Hill baseball
Seton Hill fell short of its goal. A sign in the dugout says, “Cary, NC 484,” to signify the mileage from the Greensburg campus to the site of the NCAA Division II World Series. But the Griffins still managed a number of postseason accolades. Senior Andrew Chuba earned All-America honors...
Orioles draft Oregon State catcher Rutschman with No. 1 pick
SECAUCUS, N.J. — The Baltimore Orioles selected Oregon State switch-hitting catcher Adley Rutschman with the No. 1 pick in the MLB Draft. The announcement Monday night at MLB Network studios marked the second time the Orioles have led off the draft and first since they took LSU pitcher Ben McDonald...
Raptors good mentally, Warriors shaky physically in NBA Finals
TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors feel good mentally, and they are certainly in better shape physically than the Golden State Warriors. The Raptors know they have outplayed Golden State for perhaps 90 of the 96 minutes of the NBA Finals, and they almost overcame the one brutal stretch where they...
Jason Martin, Jake Sollon share Tri-State Open lead after 1st round
Sunnehanna Country Club pro Jason Martin and Peters Township graduate Jake Sollon shared the first-round lead at the Tri-State PGA Open at Chartiers Country Club on Monday. Each shot a 3-under par 67 to lead Nevillewood’s Kevin Shields and amateurs Justin Griffiths and Alec Stopperich by two strokes heading into...
Patrick Maroon living childhood dream with hometown Blues
ST. LOUIS — Each morning Anthony Maroon woke up during a visit to see his father, he would ask his grandmother how many days he had left with him. Nine? All smiles. The goodbyes were brutal. Patti Maroon told her grandson she couldn’t guarantee she wouldn’t cry, but she’d try....
American teen Amanda Anisimova reaches French Open quarterfinal
PARIS — To Amanda Anisimova, it seems “like, forever ago” that she was playing in the French Open main draw for the first time. For the record: It has been all of two years. Ah, to be young again. Still only 17, and ranked 51st, the precocious American with the...
Roger Goodell reiterates desire to shorten 4-game NFL preseason
BATAVIA, N.Y. — Four preseason games remain too much for Roger Goodell. The NFL commissioner Monday reiterated his stance of wanting to reduce the preseason schedule at a time the league and players’ association have begun preliminary talks on a new collective bargaining agreement. “I feel what we should be...
Penn State’s Lamar Stevens decides to stay in school
Penn State men’s basketball coach Pat Chambers received some good news this week when star forward Lamar Stevens decided to return for his senior season. Stevens is an All-Big Team Conference first-team forward. He’s the conference’s top returning scorer and rebounder. The 6-foot-8 senior averaged 19.9 points and 7.7 rebounds....
Latest signing fits Penguins’ goaltending philosophy
Because of the way the Marc-Andre Fleury era quickly became the Matt Murray era, the Pittsburgh Penguins haven’t gone into a draft explicitly looking for a No. 1 goaltender in 15 years. Instead, their goaltending development plan has been to look for talent in a variety of places in an...
Steelers’ Ryan Shazier named winner of George Halas Award for overcoming adversity
Ryan Shazier on Monday was named the 51st winner of the annual George Halas Award, an honor given annually by the Professional Football Writers of America to an NFL player, coach or staff member who overcomes the most adversity to succeed. Shazier underwent spinal stabilization surgery in December 2017 after...
Basketball will be secondary during Pitt’s trip to Italy in August
Basketball will be a part of the Pitt team’s upcoming trip to Italy, but players and coaches will see so much more outside of the Italian gymnasiums. School officials announced the team will leave Aug. 5 for a 10-day, eight-night trip with stops in Rome, Florence, Pisa, Bologna, Vicenza, and...
Could Brennan Marion’s ‘Go-Go’ offense work in the NFL?
Brennan Marion brought an avant garde approach to the spread offense when he broke onto the college football scene two years ago. The fast-paced, “Go-Go” offense put up points, yards and highlights at Howard University and now Marion hopes it translates in his first season at William & Mary. But...
Pirates’ Josh Bell named National League player of the month
Josh Bell, whose monumental and historic home runs are turning him into the face of the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise, was named Monday as the National League player of the month. Bell, 26, led the Major Leagues with 46 hits and 31 RBIs in May, but five of his 12 home...
RMU alum, ‘part-Yinzer’ Marcelis Branch hopes to stick with Steelers
Florida native Marcelis Branch called Allegheny County home for more than five years earlier this decade, and the Robert Morris product is back in Pittsburgh this spring. “I’m part-Yinzer now,” Branch said with a wide smile during Pittsburgh Steelers organized team activities last week at UPMC Rooney Sports Complex. Branch...
Draft day ‘nerve-racking,’ even for 1st-round picks like Pirates’ Cole Tucker
With “hundreds of people” gathered around the television, Cole Tucker and his family just wanted to go somewhere quiet. It was MLB Draft day in 2014, and with the Los Angeles Dodgers on the clock at No. 22, Tucker’s agent had just called with the news. “Hey, man, it’s happening....
Penguins trainer Chris Stewart honored by IUP
Pittsburgh Penguins head trainer Chris Stewart has received a prestigious award from his alma mater, IUP, being named one of the inaugural members of the school’s College of Health and Human Sciences Hall of Distinction. Stewart has been the Penguins’ head trainer for 13 years. Including a year spent as...
Terrelle Pryor signs with Jacksonville Jaguars
Jeannette’s Terrelle Pryor will head to camp with another new team, his ninth in eight years in the NFL. The Jacksonville Jaguars signed the veteran quarterback-turned-wide receiver to a one-year contract. The 6-foot-4, 228-pound Pryor spent last season with the New York Jets and Buffalo Bills during what has been...
Rob Gronkowski puts football return rumors to rest
Rob Gronkowski says he’s in a good place and isn’t planning to return to football. The former New England Patriots tight end, who played just his senior year of high school football at Woodland Hills, took part in a children with cancer event at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. on...
If Pirates’ Josh Bell skips HR Derby, Neal Huntington wouldn’t protest
When Josh Bell was asked Sunday whether he will enter the Home Run Derby, he smiled and said “maybe.” Neal Huntington wouldn’t have been upset if Bell’s answer was “no.” The Pittsburgh Pirates slugger, the National League Player of the Month for May, appears to be a lock to receive...
Local golfers set to compete at NJCAA national championship
Ryan Skladany, a Gateway graduate and student at the Community College of Allegheny County, Boyce Campus, leads a local contingent of golfers to the National Junior College Athletic Association’s Division III National Golf Championship on Tuesday through Friday at Chautauqua Golf Club in Chautauqua, N.Y. Skladany earned the trip to...
4 players jockeying for Steelers’ starting right tackle job
How much continuity has the Pittsburgh Steelers offensive line had? And just how rare is that? Put it this way: Putting aside temporary injury- (or suspension-) related fill-ins, the starting five this season will undergo its first change since the middle of the 2015 season. Across the rest of the...
With possible Phil Kessel trade, Penguins need productive Patric Hornqvist
If the Pittsburgh Penguins, as expected, trade Phil Kessel this summer, they’re probably going to need the right wings that remain on the roster to ramp up their production next season. That’s why Patric Hornqvist’s resurgence while playing for the Swedish national team at the World Championships last month is...
Podcast: Mike Ditka recalls growing up in Aliquippa, his drive to succeed
Mike Ditka, the former Pitt All-American and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, grew up wanting to be a dentist. “That didn’t work out, you can tell,” he told Gus Frerotte in the first part of this week’s “Huddle Up with Gus” podcast. Ditka tells the story of...
Mark Madden: More MLB netting a good idea, but so is common sense
Rory McIlroy drilled a spectator in the head with a tee shot in the PGA’s Memorial Tournament on Friday. Perhaps golf should border the fairways with protective netting. The subject of more protective netting became sadly relevant last Wednesday when a foul ball hit by the Chicago Cubs’ Albert Almora...
Joe Boros looks to defend Tri-State Open title
Treesdale Golf and Country Club director of instruction Joe Boros shot a 5-under par 67 during the final round and held off two golfers to capture the 2018 Tri-State Open at Williams Country Club. Boros finished at 5-under for the tournament as he held off Shawn McCall and amateur Andy...
