Sports category, Page 2472
Playoffs by period: Paging Sidney Crosby — Penguins’ top line remains pointless
UNIONDALE, N.Y. — THIRD PERIOD: Islanders 3, Penguins 1 This tells you everything you need to know about the way this first-round series is going at Nassau Coliseum: Jordan Eberle and Josh Bailey have scored two goals each. Sidney Crosby has none. Crosby came into these Stanley Cup playoffs with...
Tiger Woods 1 shot back on star-studded Masters leaderboard
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods made the largest logjam in Masters history look even bigger by making Augusta National sound as loud as ever. Even on a Friday in the rain. Golf’s best worked their way to the top of the leaderboard at a Masters pregnant with possibilities. The first...
Riverhounds hope to build on first win with home opener
The Pittsburgh Riverhounds Soccer Club broke into the win column last weekend with a 1-0 victory at two-time defending league champion Louisville City. The team hopes to build on the victory as it opens the home portion of the 2019 schedule Saturday against Hartford Athletic. The match, set for 7...
Jack Johnson in for Olli Maatta, Jared McCann out with injury in Game 2 for Penguins
UNIONDALE, N.Y. – The Pittsburgh Penguins made a couple of significant lineup changes for Game 2 of their first-round playoff series with the New York Islanders. Jack Johnson was in for Olli Maatta on defense, and Jared McCann missed the game due to an upper-body injury. McCann, who took a...
Denny Hamlin hoping for hometown advantage at Richmond
RICHMOND, Va. — Denny Hamlin would love to think he has an advantage when it comes to racing at Richmond Raceway. The Joe Gibbs Racing star has won three times on the 0.75-mile, D-shaped oval and has been coming to the track for much of his life, even long before...
Passion, Divas to renew football rivalry
The Pittsburgh Passion women’s football team renews its rivalry with the D.C. Divas on Saturday. A number of the games in the series dating back more than a decade have been decided by one score. Kickoff at the home of the Divas is set for 6 p.m. The Passion kicked...
Quaker Valley grad Tanabe hopes to build on first collegiate golf victory
Michael Binney thought the jinx was over. During a fall-season match, the Bucknell men’s golf coach watched two of his players, Connor O’Brien and Quaker Valley grad Chris Tanabe, get into a four-man playoff for the title at the Quechee Club Collegiate Challenge in Vermont. A Bucknell golfer hadn’t won...
Plum grad Bucci adjusts to head coaching position at Pitt-Greensburg
Marc Bucci is no stranger to the Pitt-Greensburg men’s soccer team. In the fall of 2017, the Plum graduate served as an assistant with the Bobcats under then coach Dan Keefe. Bucci then spent last fall as an assistant an hour east at Pitt-Johnstown, his alma mater. But when Keefe...
Pair of Quaker Valley students does Sewickley Diving Academy proud
Quaker Valley sixth-graders Ruby Olliffe and Ruby Krotine have been gems for a youth diving program run out of Sewickley Valley YMCA. Olliffe and Krotine, members of Sewickley Diving Academy, qualified for the AAU Red-White-Blue National Championships on May 24-27 in Coral Springs, Fla. Olliffe (173.55 points) and Krotine (139.50)...
Pennsylvania’s respected Golden Gloves tradition renews Saturday night in Monroeville
Twenty-six amateur boxers will meet at Pro Sports Center in Monroeville at 7 p.m. Saturday night to compete at the Pennsylvania State Golden Gloves Finals, a competition that decides who will compete for a national championship in Tennessee in May. Throughout the history of the Golden Gloves tournament, Pennsylvania has...
Seton Hill baseball a ‘perfect fit’ for Plum graduate Nick Stotler
Nick Stotler enjoyed playing baseball at Lock Haven, but when he graduated last year with a degree in business administration and the school didn’t offer an MBA program, he had to look elsewhere. Stotler, a Plum native, still had one year of eligibility remaining, so he started looking to see...
5 things to watch in Pitt’s spring game
Pitt will celebrate its football program — past and present — Saturday with its spring game at Heinz Field. It’s an opportunity to get a look at what Pat Narduzzi, his coaches and players have worked on for the past month, and to maybe meet the game’s honorary coaches, former...
Steelers’ 3 best, 3 worst QB 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. His two-decade tenure has produced two Super Bowls and a consistent playoff contender. Colbert’s drafts mostly reflect that. Like all NFL personnel men, though, he’s had some picks he’d like to have...
Pirates’ Gregory Polanco promoted to Triple-A for next stage in rehab
After playing four games for the Single-A Bradenton Marauders, Gregory Polanco will shift his rehab assignment to Triple-A Indianapolis, where he is scheduled to play Saturday night against the Charlotte Knights. Polanco, who had shoulder surgery in September after hitting a career-high 23 home runs for the Pittsburgh Pirates, played...
Kevin Gorman’s Take 5: For Penguins, everyone is a game-time decision
UNIONDALE, N.Y. – The Pittsburgh Penguins had an optional skate Friday at Nassau Coliseum, so the absence of Sidney Crosby, Jake Guentzel and Patric Hornqvist, Brian Dumoulin and Kris Letang didn’t raise any eyebrows. When Matt Murray did not participate, however, it begged an obvious question: Is he still starting...
Penguins coach Mike Sullivan opts for physicality on 4th line
UNIONDALE, N.Y. — When Zach Aston-Reese was cleared to return from a lower-body injury before the start of a first-round series with the New York Islanders, Pittsburgh Penguins coach Mike Sullivan had to decide what kind of identity he wanted his fourth line to take. He opted for physicality. For...
Overtime woes grow into troubling trend for Penguins
UNIONDALE, N.Y. – When the Pittsburgh Penguins went 5-9 in overtime in the regular season, it was easy to chalk up the poor record to the peculiarities of the tiebreaking format. From the difficulty of making sensible line changes to the outsized impact a turnover can have, three-on-three hockey provides...
Steelers host WR/KR Diontae Johnson of Toledo
Diontae Johnson had a knack for finding the end zone at Toledo, which is one reason the Pittsburgh Steelers invited him to UPMC Rooney Sports Complex on Friday for a predraft visit. Johnson, a 5-foot-10, 183-pound wide receiver/return specialist, was the lone player to visit the Steelers, giving the team...
After playoffs debut, Penguins’ Jared McCann ready for moreVideo
UNIONDALE, N.Y. — After getting his first taste of the Stanley Cup playoffs in Game 1 against the New York Islanders, Jared McCann is ready for more. The 22-year-old forward was the only Pittsburgh Penguins player in the Game 1 lineup who hadn’t participated in the postseason, so the 4-3...
Penguins’ Erik Gudbranson breathes sigh of relief after ugly Game 1 injury
UNIONDALE, N.Y. – When he went crashing into the boards in the third period of Game 1 against the New York Islanders on Wednesday night, his availability for Game 2 wasn’t the first thing on the mind of Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Erik Gudbranson. He was more concerned with making sure...
Aaron Donald makes historic 7-figure donation to Pitt football
Aaron Donald, the two-time defending NFL Defensive Player of the Year of the Los Angeles Rams, is doing more than lifting weights at the University of Pittsburgh Performance center. Pitt announced Friday morning that Donald, a Penn Hills graduate who was the nation’s most dominant defender in 2013, has made...
Why Penguins coach Mike Sullivan might stick with Game 1 lineup
In Friday’s Sided.co podcast, Jonathan Bombulie, the Trib’s Penguins beat writer, joins me from Long Island to preview Game 2 of the Penguins-Islanders series. We figure out why Mike Sullivan may stick with his failed lineup decisions from Game 1 against the Islanders. We also talk about why Phil Kessel...
Penguins forced to thrive in Long Island hornet’s nest
UNIONDALE, N.Y. – In the first round of last year’s playoffs, Philadelphia Flyers fans yelled profanities so profane that they would make a Teamster blush. In the 2017 Stanley Cup Final, Nashville Predators fans were chucking catfish in their general direction. For most of the Pittsburgh Penguins roster, a playoff...
Rain delay can’t save Pirates in road loss to Cubs
CHICAGO — Jose Quintana struck out 11 in seven innings of four-hit ball, and the Chicago Cubs blanked the Pittsburgh Pirates, 2-0, on Thursday night. Daniel Descalso and Victor Caratini each had two hits and an RBI in a game that was delayed 69 minutes by rain before the eighth....
Pirates minor league report: April 11, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 4-3) won their fourth straight game, 7-3 over Charlotte (White Sox). 3B Ke’Bryan Hayes (.267) went 3 for 5 with two doubles, a solo home run and three RBIs. LF Trayvon Robinson (.429) went 4 for 4 at the plate and stole a base. CF Bryan Reynolds (.393)...
