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Last change swings in Penguins’ favor in Game 3
Without the benefit of the last change, the Pittsburgh Penguins’ top line featuring Sidney Crosby, Jake Guentzel and Bryan Rust was held without a point in consecutive losses to open a first-round playoff series against the New York Islanders. That will change Sunday in Game 3 at PPG Paints Arena...
Simon moves to top line with Crosby, GuentzelVideo
From a statistical standpoint, Dominik Simon would appear to be the last player deserving of a promotion to the top scoring line for the Pittsburgh Penguins. After all, he has scored only two goals in his past 40 games. But there was Simon skating alongside Sidney Crosby and Jake Guentzel...
Opening day change is official for Pennsylvania deer hunters
The change — and it’s a big one — is official. Opening day of Pennsylvania’s statewide firearms deer season is moving. It has been the Monday after Thanksgiving each year since 1963. This year it will be the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Pennsylvania Game Commissioners on Tuesday — by a 5-3...
Outdoors notices for April 14, 2019
Notices Outdoors RIFLE/TRAP LEAGUES • In the Twi-Night Trap League on April 11, Youngwood finished in first place with a score of 195. Connellsville (194), Ruffsdale (188), East Huntingdon (187) and Hecla (186) rounded out the scoring. Connellsville (19) leads the season standings, followed by Ruffsdale (11.5), Hecla (10.5), Youngwood...
Steelers’ 3 best, 3 worst RB draft picks in Kevin Colbert era
Editor’s note: This NFL Draft will be the 20th under the eye of Steelers general manager Kevin Colbert. In conjunction with the Trib’s daily positional previews leading up to the April 25 start of the draft, we’ll look back at Colbert’s three best — and three worst — picks at...
Crosby: Penguins need ‘urgency and desperation’ in Game 3
Nobody needed to remind the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday that only four teams in NHL history have won a playoff series after losing the first three games. In the locker room at UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex in Cranberry, the players were keenly aware of what is at stake Sunday. Defeat...
Sharks’ Logan Couture thought he lost a testicle on shot block
Losing to the Vegas Golden Knights might not have been the most painful part. San Jose Sharks forward Logan Couture, sacrificing his body in the way only hockey players can this time of year, blocked a shot by the Golden Knights’ Cody Eakin during Game 2 of their Western Coference...
Penguins’ Jared McCann ‘optimistic’ about returning for Game 3
It took four seasons for Jared McCann to play in his first career postseason game. Nobody took it harder than McCann when his experience was blunted after one game because of an upper body injury. McCann was scratched from Game 2 of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ first-round playoff series against the...
Deep passing game emerges in Pitt spring game
Placing too much significance on spring football is often folly, but three Pitt players were so sure in their declarations after the Blue-Gold Game on Saturday that they should not be ignored. • In his own words, wide receiver Tre Tipton is “lovin’ life,” a revelation that actually hit him...
The Masters drawing that helped free a man from prison
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Valentino Dixon’s introduction to golf came when the warden dropped by his 6-by-10 cell at Attica Correctional Facility in New York with a photo of the iconic 12th hole at Augusta National and a simple request. Could Dixon draw the hole with his colored pencils? The warden...
Former Pitt great Aaron Donald wants to remain humbleVideo
When Aaron Donald wants to work out at Pitt’s South Side facility – and that’s almost every day – he calls ahead. “I just want to make sure I’m not in the way,” he said. The two-time defending NFL Defensive Player of the Year and one of the most decorated...
Pitt football announces most improved awards prior to Blue/Gold game
Two Pitt players switching positions, one who has battled a variety of injuries and a redshirt sophomore who moved onto the No. 1 offensive line two weeks ago were named winners of the Ed Conway Award as the most improved players in spring ball. Former safety Phil Campbell, who is...
Penn-Trafford graduate Price is ‘special talent’ for Pitt-Greensburg tennis
Penn-Trafford graduate Turner Price is turning heads as a freshman on the Pitt-Greensburg men’s tennis team. Price was 6-0 in singles and 5-1 in doubles in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference heading into the final regular-season match April 13. He was named the conference’s Player of the Week on April...
Penn State’s Trace McSorley could face long wait at NFL DraftVideo
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of stories heading into the NFL Draft on April 25-27. Today’s installment focuses on quarterbacks. It was setting up so perfectly for Trace McSorley. By returning for his senior season at Penn State, McSorley would avoid being lumped into the quarterback-heavy...
NFL Draft QB breakdown: Does Kyler Murray have what it takes to go No. 1?Video
The NFL Draft will be conducted April 25-27 in Nashville, Tenn. Each day leading up to the first round, the Tribune-Review is compiling a positional preview of the top draft prospects. Today: Quarterbacks —- 1. Kyler Murray Oklahoma, 5-10, 207 Murray followed in Baker Mayfield’s footsteps by winning the Heisman...
The other side: Could the Islanders really sweep the Penguins?
Are the Islanders destined for a sweep? That’s the question crossing minds in New York after Friday night’s 3-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins gave the Islanders a 2-0 series lead in the Stanley Cup playoffs. The best-of-seven first-round series shifts from Nassau Coliseum to PPG Paints Arena for Game...
NFL Draft gives teams variety of options at running backVideo
Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of stories heading into the NFL Draft on April 25-27. Today’s installment focuses on running backs. The low point for running back prospects came in the 2013-14 classes, when not one ball carrier was selected in the first round of the...
NFL Draft RB breakdown: Alabama’s Josh Jacobs likely 1st-rounder, but who’s next?Video
The NFL Draft will be conducted April 25-27 in Nashville, Tenn. Each day leading up to the first round, the Tribune-Review is compiling a positional preview of the top draft prospects. Today: Running backs —- 1. Josh Jacobs Alabama, 5-10, 220 Because of Alabama’s deep crop of running backs, Jacobs...
Outdoors Xtras, including Pistol Pete, egg bait and a dry stew
Lure of the week Lure name: Pistol Pete Company: Pistol Pete Flies (pistolpeteflies.com) Lure type: Fly Sizes and colors: Available in two sizes — #6 and #10 — in dozens of colors, from black, last supper, chartreuse and egg sucking to green, red, renegade and mafia Pete Target species: Trout...
Kevin Gorman: Penguins shouldn’t panic, but they need to show some urgencyVideo
UNIONDALE, N.Y. – The Pittsburgh Penguins say they aren’t about to press the panic button, even after they blew a lead against the New York Islanders and a critical chance to even their Stanley Cup playoffs first-round series. Maybe they already did. Not only did the Penguins make a lineup...
Pirates minor league report for April 13, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 5-3) won 9-2 over Charlotte (White Sox). The Indians scored five runs in the third inning and three in the fourth to gain a 8-1 advantage. 1B Will Craig (.290) highlighted the third inning with a two-run homer. He finished 2 for 4 with three RBIs and two...
Evgeni Malkin takes responsibility, vows improvement after Penguins loss
UNIONDALE, N.Y. — Whenever the Pittsburgh Penguins have found themselves in a tough spot in the playoffs in recent years, Evgeni Malkin has been a voice of motivation in the locker room. It was no different after they lost 3-1 Friday night to drop the first two games of a...
Moran’s pinch homer in 10th gives Pirates win over Nationals
WASHINGTON — Colin Moran had a pinch-hit, three-run homer in the 10th inning, and the Pittsburgh Pirates scored five runs off Washington’s struggling bullpen in a 6-3 victory over the Nationals on Friday night. Moran’s homer to right center off Justin Miller was his second as a pinch hitter in...
Penguins falter late as Islanders take 2-0 series leadVideo
UNIONDALE, N.Y. — In the rafters hang the numbers of some of the game’s all-time greats: Bossy, Potvin, Trottier, Smith. On the other side of the ice stand some of the most decorated players in today’s game: Crosby, Malkin, Kessel and Letang. Through two games of a first-round playoff series...
Pitt players, coaches visit Children’s Hospital, 6 other sites around townVideo
When Pat Narduzzi, his players and coaches visited Children’s Hospital on Friday, he played catch with one patient, colored with another (and stayed inside the lines) and at the end of day was reminded of how lucky he is to coach Pitt’s football team. The visit was part of a...
