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UPG’s Chris Common has three-home run game to tie program record
Chris Common has turned his senior season into a greatest hits album. The left fielder from Penn-Trafford broke the school’s career hits record last week and on Wednesday the Bobcats’ career home run leader tied a single-game mark with three home runs in a 15-4 victory over neighboring Saint Vincent...
Pirates minor league report: May 1, 2019
Pirates INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 13-12) lost 9-7 to Columbus (Indians). RHP Rookie Davis (0-2, 7.13) got the loss after allowing eight runs on 12 hits in five innings. Davis also gave up two home runs and had three strikeouts. The Indians hit three home runs in a game with six total...
NASCAR throws in the flag on trying to liven up qualifying
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR abandoned its yearslong bid to add excitement to qualifying and announced Wednesday it will return to single-car laps after the current format became a laughingstock. All three national series will make the change at all oval tracks, starting this weekend at Dover. NASCAR for more than...
Lionel Messi hits 600 goals with a brace, Barca blanks LiverpoolVideo
BARCELONA, Spain — Facing its toughest opponent of the season, Barcelona once again turned to Lionel Messi to move the team within one step of reaching its first Champions League final in four seasons. Messi scored his 599th and 600th goals for Barcelona to subdue a Liverpool lineup that had...
Booger McFarland to be lone ‘Monday Night Football’ color analyst
ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” will return to a two-man booth when it kicks off its 50th season later this year. The network announced Wednesday that Joe Tessitore will be back doing play-by-play, and Booger McFarland will move up to the booth after being a field-level analyst. ESPN also announced Lisa...
Recording: Sean Miller involved in paying Deandre Ayton $10K monthly
NEW YORK — A former aspiring business manager for NBA players took the witness stand at a college basketball bribery trial Wednesday to deny charges that he paid off coaches at major programs to get their help in landing clients with potential for lucrative pro contracts. “I never paid a...
Pitt scores runs by the dozen in 26-2 victory against Maryland Eastern Shore
The hits — and more than two dozen runs — just kept on comin’ for the Pitt baseball team Wednesday afternoon. The Panthers (16-28, 4-17 ACC) rapped out 21 hits — including a grand slam by David Yanni — in an historic 26-2 victory that completed a two-game sweep of...
Kentucky Derby favorite Omaha Beach drops out
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Suddenly, the Kentucky Derby is wide open. Favorite Omaha Beach was scratched because of a breathing problem Wednesday night, leaving a pair of Hall of Famers on the sideline: trainer Richard Mandella and jockey Mike Smith. Churchill Downs oddsmaker Mike Battaglia revised the morning line to make...
Phil Rosenthal: For Cubs’ Addison Russell, Iowa a fitting purgatory
Iowa. That place where, in the movies at least, baseball players dead to the outside world briefly emerge from a purgatorial cornfield to play before vanishing again. Seems like the right spot for Addison Russell, whose 40-game suspension for violating MLB’s domestic-violence policy concludes this week. The Cubs, who continue...
Blue Jackets seek more history with every playoff game
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Columbus Blue Jackets continue to journey deeper into uncharted territory with each win in these playoffs. Among the franchise firsts so far: Winning a playoff series (they swept Tampa Bay in the opening round), first appearance in the second round, first second-round game played — and...
Rookie Bryan Reynolds continues hot start as Pirates top Rangers 7-5
ARLINGTON, Texas — Rookie Bryan Reynolds is closing in on teammate Gregory Polanco for a little piece of Pittsburgh Pirates history. Polanco is enjoying the view. Reynolds kept up his impressive start, hitting a three-run double as the Pirates completed a two-game sweep in Texas by topping the Rangers, 7-5,...
Surrounded by talent, Steelers’ Isaiah Buggs stood out at Alabama
Only four FBS teams in the country last season had more sacks than Alabama. And who led the national runner-up Crimson Tide in sacks? That would be the second of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ three sixth-round draft picks last weekend, Isaiah Buggs. “He can get to the passer,” said the man...
Penn State, West Virginia, Pitt teams recognized for academic progress
A total of 11 teams at Penn State, Pitt and West Virginia earned NCAA Public Recognition Awards for outstanding academic progress based on scores from the 2014-15 through 2017-18 school years. The awards are presented annually to teams finishing among the top 10 percent of their respective sport. Among the...
Pitt’s Jeff Capel offers scholarship to junior college guard Ryan Murphy
Pitt coach Jeff Capel has four scholarships available for the 2019-20 season, and he appears to be saving one of them for junior college guard Ryan Murphy. Pitt is one of 11 schools to make Murphy an offer, according to verbalcommits.com. Murphy, 6-foot-2, 192 pounds, signed with Washington State last...
Pitt target’s JUCO coach likes his ex-player’s shooting ability, swagger
Pitt coach Jeff Capel has four scholarships available for the 2019-20 season, and he appears to be saving one of them for junior college guard Ryan Murphy. Luke Adams, who was Murphy’s coach at New Mexico Junior College last season, confirmed Pitt has made his former player an offer. Pitt...
Pitt could play at Fenway Park come 2020 bowl season
Just what the college football world has been missing all these years: A rematch of the 2011-2012 BBVA Compass Bowl between Pitt and SMU. Yes, it’s possible by the 2020 postseason now that the ACC and the AAC are creating a bowl game to be played at Fenway Park in...
Pro day prospects earn NFL rookie minicamp invitations
Six prospects who attended the Cal (Pa.) pro day at Pittsburgh Indoor Sports Arena in Cheswick have earned rookie minicamp tryouts with NFL teams. A seventh player, St. Francis (Pa.) cornerback Jermaine Ponder, signed with the Cleveland Browns as an undrafted free agent. The second annual event, which was run...
Bob Baffert takes aim at record-tying 6th Kentucky Derby win
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The pain of seeing Cavonnier get beat by a nose in his first Kentucky Derby nearly kept trainer Bob Baffert from returning to Churchill Downs. He figured he would never again have a horse good enough to win on the first Saturday in May. A year later,...
London marathon runners quench thirst with sports drink in edible seaweed pods
No, the runners did not have to eat them, but they could. The golf ball-sized pouches made from seaweed and filled with a sports drink were handed out to thousands of runners for the London marathon on April 28. The marathon offered “race organizers and company officials a mass experiment...
Steelers to put individual tickets on sale
Individual tickets for the Pittsburgh Steelers’ eight regular-season and two preseason home games will go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. Ticketmaster will handle the sale of all individual tickets. They will not be sold at the Heinz Field box office. Fans may purchase up to eight tickets per household...
Best news from Texas: Starling Marte’s bat comes alive in 11th inningVideo
Perhaps no one has noticed, but the Pittsburgh Pirates haven’t won a game the normal way — you know, in nine innings — since April 14 (and they haven’t done it at home since April 7). Since their most recent nine-inning victory at PNC Park, they’ve played four extra-inning games,...
First Call: Artie Burns’ future, a rookie wants Le’Veon Bell’s number
In “First Call” Wednesday, Kevin Colbert talks about Artie Burns’ future, Benny Snell embraces the role of replacing Le’Veon Bell, Andrew McCutchen pokes fun at himself. Burns burned out? Is Artie Burns’ toasted for good? The Pittsburgh Steelers have been very blunt that Burns’ tough 2018 shot his confidence. Now...
U mad, bro?: Not all Steelers fans are happy with drafting Devin Bush, Diontae Johnson
It’s an all-Steelers-NFL-draft edition of “U mad, bro?” Fans are mad about trading up, my critique of missing out on certain positions, and uttering the name of a certain big-chested wide receiver out loud. An unsigned email takes umbrage with my article likening Toledo wide receiver Diontae Johnson’s draft profile...
Tim Benz: Father of Steelers draft choice renounces Browns fandom
Imagine being a fan of the Cleveland Browns. Your team leaves. It comes back. And becomes an NFL punchline for decades. Now, on the verge of, potentially, Cleveland’s first division championship in decades, you renounce your fandom to start rooting for … … the hated Pittsburgh Steelers? That’s what DeAndre...
Former Penguin Colby Armstrong talks about trading Evgeni Malkin
Our first Sided.co podcast of May features former Pittsburgh Penguins winger Colby Armstrong. He joined me on 105.9 the X Friday. The AT&T Sportsnet hockey analyst gives his opinion on the idea of trading Evgeni Malkin, or some other high-profile Penguins. Armstrong seems to think that the better route for...
