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After a season on sideline, Marcus Allen ready to shine in Steelers secondaryVideo
A hamstring injury caused Marcus Allen to miss the Pittsburgh Steelers’ rookie minicamp, voluntary organized team activities and mandatory minicamp and much of training camp last year. This time, the second-year strong safety has gone from sideline spectator to making plays at OTAs. Allen is hoping to play a prominent...
Raptors beat Warriors at home in Game 1 of NBA Finals
TORONTO — Pascal Siakam scored a playoff career-high 32 points, and the Toronto Raptors won the first NBA Finals game played outside the U.S., beating the Golden State Warriors, 118-109, on Thursday night. The Raptors hardly looked like newcomers to the NBA’s biggest stage, controlling the action most of the...
Pirates’ Jordan Lyles plans to make scheduled start after testing hamstring
On a night when three pitchers failed to control the Milwaukee Brewers in a 11-5 loss, the Pittsburgh Pirates finally got some good news about one of their pitchers. Jordan Lyles, who strained his lower left hamstring Tuesday in Cincinnati, threw a bullpen session Thursday and later declared himself “good...
Joe Musgrove, bullpen struggle in Pirates’ loss to Brewers
Clint Hurdle needed only to take a quick glance at the game summary to figure out what ailed his team Thursday night in an 11-5 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers. Actually, for much of this season. “We’ve given up way more than our share of multiple-run innings,” the Pittsburgh Pirates...
Pirates minor league report: May 30, 2019
Pirates INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 30-20) shut out Charlotte (White Sox), 4-0. The Indians held the Knights to just two hits as RHP Pedro Vasquez (1-1, 7.71) threw six scoreless innings with seven strikeouts, a walk and a hit allowed in a winning effort. CF Jason Martin (.255) went 2 for 3...
Another close call for Naomi Osaka at French Open
PARIS — Naomi Osaka screamed “Oh, my God!” after one shanked shot. Mouthed something and clasped her hands together, as if praying, after another. There were plenty of deep sighs and exaggerated eyerolls, too. The No. 1-seeded Osaka got off to a terrible start at the French Open again, never...
Lowest debut at U.S. Women’s Open for Mamika HigaVideo
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Looks like experience might not matter at the U.S. Women’s Open, at least not in Thursday’s opening round. Japan’s Mamiko Higa shot the lowest round in an open debut with a bogey-free 6-under-par 65. She was a shot ahead of another first-timer in 20-year-old Esther Henseleit of...
South Fayette grad Sara Jubas a big hit with James Madison softball
By most measures, Sara Jubas’ freshman season with the James Madison softball team was a success. She started every game she played (57) and earned a spot on the Colonial Athletic Association all-rookie team after hitting .302 with seven homers and 25 RBIs. But that was an appetizer for what...
Penn Hills players help Pittsburgh Elite flag football climb national rankings
Last fall, the Penn Hills football program won its first PIAA championship since 1995. Jayvin Turner, a Penn Hills graduate, is trying to do his part for future championships by laying the foundation for the next group of Penn Hills athletes. Turner is in his second year coaching the Pittsburgh...
Penn Hills grad Tucci continues collegiate baseball journey
A year ago when Anthony Tucci was trying to make his college decision, he decided to attend CCAC-Boyce to have more time to consider his academic and athletic paths. After a year there, the Penn Hills grad announced May 17 his intentions to play baseball at Clarion for the final...
MLB attendance down another 1.4%, 4th straight drop
NEW YORK — The Tampa Bay Rays and Miami Marlins drew 12,653 on Wednesday night — combined. Baltimore, Cincinnati, Minnesota and Tampa Bay set stadium lows this year. Kansas City had its smallest home crowd since 2011 and Toronto and San Francisco since 2010. The Marlins’ average attendance is less...
Clint Hurdle: ‘Room’ for Steven Brault in Pirates’ rotation
Steven Brault wants to make something clear about his efforts Wednesday in Cincinnati. “It wasn’t just a fluke out of nowhere,” he said of 51⁄3 shutout innings that led to a 7-2 victory for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Brault, who had allowed eight runs in 72⁄3 innings in his previous two...
Wiltrout heads to NCAA nationals
North Carolina redshirt freshman Madison Wiltrout has qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships on June 5-8 at the University of Texas. The Connellsville native and four-time WPIAL and PIAA Class AAA javelin champion qualified by finishing fifth at the Eastern Preliminary Round at North Florida in Jacksonville...
Bounce-back Jordan Binnington out to beat Bruins who took him inVideo
BOSTON — The resolve Jordan Binnington is showing in the playoffs was forged in Boston Bruins black and gold. Now it’s being used to try to beat the organization that took him in. Binnington bounced back from a rough start to the Stanley Cup Final to make 21 saves in...
Pirates’ Clay Holmes: Pitch that hit Reds’ Eugenio Suarez was an accidentVideo
Pittsburgh Pirates relief pitcher Clay Holmes said he doesn’t blame Eugenio Suarez for getting mad. Suarez is having another fine season for the Cincinnati Reds, already up to 14 home runs and 39 RBIs after totaling 34 and 104 last year. The last thing he needs is an injury when...
Ryan Moore leads strong Memorial field; shaky start for Tiger Woods
DUBLIN, Ohio — Tiger Woods got off to a slower start than he would have liked Thursday at the Memorial. That had more do with a stopwatch than a scorecard. Ryan Moore opened with five birdies in seven holes and never missed a fairway after the first one, posting a...
Kevin Gorman: ‘Football is life’ for Steelers nose tackle Javon HargraveVideo
Javon Hargrave knows this is a big year for him as the Pittsburgh Steelers nose tackle enters the final year of his rookie contract with his sights set on earning a lucrative deal. Not that you could tell by the easy smile on his face. “In the NFL, I feel...
What to know about these most-international NBA Finals
TORONTO — Sometime in the next couple of weeks, either the Toronto Raptors or Golden State Warriors will proclaim themselves to be world champions. They won’t be true “world” champions, of course. But these NBA Finals have a distinct international feel. Game 1 of the series Thursday night is in...
Champions League finalists on opposite ends of financial, success spectrums
MADRID — Familiar territory for Liverpool. So very unfamiliar for Tottenham. The second all-English Champions League final in history pits one of Europe’s most successful clubs against a side unexpectedly gatecrashing the continent’s elite. After losing last year’s final to Real Madrid, Juergen Klopp’s Liverpool has another shot at lifting...
Winners, losers of NBA’s Draft withdrawal deadline
Zion Williamson, Ja Morant and RJ Barrett all remained in the NBA Draft through the withdrawal deadline. No surprise there, nor for several other players expected to go in the first round. Numerous other players faced difficult decisions on Wednesday, though, and the outcome of those could have a huge...
Steelers sign final draft pick, 3rd-round cornerback Justin Layne
Cornerback Justin Layne became the final member of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ draft class to sign his rookie contract, when he agreed to a four-year deal Thursday that has a total slot value of about $3.45 million. The third-round draft pick out of Michigan State and the No. 83 overall player...
Penguins re-sign defenseman Juuso Riikola, keep blue line stocked
The Pittsburgh Penguins continued to shore up their depth on defense Thursday, re-signing restricted free agent Juuso Riikola to a one-year contract worth $850,000. Last year, the 25-year-old Riikola played on a two-way contract that paid him $925,000 when in the NHL and $70,000 when in the AHL. A training...
MLB to keep monitoring netting issue after child is hitVideo
HOUSTON — Major League Baseball said Thursday it will keep examining its policy on protective netting at stadiums a day after a young fan was struck by a foul ball and hospitalized. The girl was hit during Wednesday night’s game between the Chicago Cubs and Houston Astros, an incident MLB...
Rookie TE asked to switch number out of deference to Heath Miller
Zach Gentry still might hear fans chant a certain retired tight end’s first name when he catches passes at Heinz Field this season. It won’t be because he wears the same number as Heath Miller. Gentry wore No. 83 in college at Michigan and again at the Pittsburgh Steelers’ rookie...
Retiring Raven Haloti Ngata: Breaking Ben Roethlisberger’s nose was favorite play of career
Another of the principle protagonists of the heyday of the Pittsburgh Steelers-Baltimore Ravens rivalry is retiring. And this one cites one of the height of the rivalry’s most infamous plays as one that stood out most. Speaking at a news conference in Baltimore on Wednesday that both announced his retirement...
