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First call: Terrelle Pryor wants to play for Steelers
In Friday`s "First Call," would Terrelle Pryor be a fit with the Steelers? Tom Brady is campaigning for Ty Law. And the Jets may not want Le`Veon Bell after all. Well, if AB is leaving... Jeannette`s Terrelle Pryor is one of the greatest players in WPIAL history. Now he wants...
Tim Benz, Jonathan Bombulie break down Penguins, ponder Derick Brassard’s future
Check back here weekly for Friday Penguins chats with Jonathan Bombulie, our Penguins beat writer at the Trib. The Penguins get another last place team at PPG Paints Arena on Friday night when Ottawa visits. Can Mike Sullivan`s team finally take care of business against lesser competition after losing eight...
Penn Hills cherishes Aaron Donald as he prepares for Super Bowl debut
When Los Angeles Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald takes the field Sunday for the Super Bowl, millions will be watching — including those from Western Pennsylvania who knew him long before his time in the NFL. Those who watched the Penn Hills graduate before his professional football days expect Donald...
Steelers’ Antonio Brown does some confusing interviews at Super Bowl
Antonio Brown is speaking again publicly. So that`s a recipe for disaster. Forget the big interview reveal, Brown is starting to do a bunch of little ones. Although Brown is not saying much. Mainly because I don`t know how capable he is of doing so. For those thinking there has...
Football footnotes: Tim Benz breaks down smart plays for Super Bowl betting
I had a pretty good NFL playoffs as far as making picks. I won`t say who. I won`t say where. I won`t say how much. But I`ll just say I went 8-4. So stick with me, kid. You`ll make some money. Here`s my advice on the Patriots-Rams Super Bowl. Take...
Tim Benz: The definitive all-Steelers Super Bowl roster
Super Sunday is this weekend. Without the Pittsburgh Steelers. Again. But that doesn`t mean we haven`t had our fair share. Eight of `em, in fact. So, it`s time for us to do what we do best in Pittsburgh when the Super Bowl doesn`t involve the Steelers. We just flash back...
Steelers Nation shares mixed emotions about Tom Brady’s greatness
One thing we know for sure going into Super Bowl LIII: Many Steelers fans will passionately root against New England Patriots star quarterback Tom Brady. After all, Brady has dashed the Steelers’ championship dreams time and time again. How much heartbreak can one fan base take? Plus, he’s taking our...
Penguins’ Evgeni Malkin out at least 2 games with upper-body injury
Evgeni Malkin has an upper-body injury and won’t play Friday against the Ottawa Senators or Saturday night in Toronto, Pittsburgh Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said. Sullivan said Malkin’s status is day-to-day. Malkin was injured Wednesday when he recorded two assists in the 4-2 victory against the Tampa Bay Lightning. It...
New-look Penguins finally do what’s expected in win against last-place Ottawa
Perhaps the trade seven hours earlier had a little something to do with it. Or maybe what happened was mere coincidence. In any case, the Pittsburgh Penguins finally proved they can do more than once what almost every other NHL team does rather easily. They defeated a last-place team Friday...
Robert Morris falters late; NEC leader loses to St. Francis (Pa.)
Jamaal King scored 23 points, Isaiah Blackmon calmly sank two free throws — neither time did the ball touch the rim — with 2.8 seconds on the clock and St. Francis (Pa.) knocked off Northeast Conference leader Robert Morris, 76-73, Thursday night. Blackmon finished with 20 points, Keith Braxton added...
Hampton connection helps Duquesne swimmers to success
Call it a happy coincidence Duquesne swimming boasts three Hampton graduates. The Dukes swim team sure does. Senior Kristen McKnight and sophomore Clare Flanagan swim, and freshman diver Adrienne White are part of a roster that features 28 swimmers and divers, and no other high school has more than two...
The Rams just sold a year’s worth of gear in 10 days
The Los Angeles Rams’ Super Bowl berth has been good news for its merchandise business, with the team ringing up about $3.5 million in online sales in the 10 days after they clinched a spot in the big game. To put that number in perspective, it’s about the same amount...
Pirates expect better Kevin Newman for spring training
Kevin Newman’s baptism into the majors was less than inspiring for fans of the Pittsburgh Pirates. After fans watched Newman post a .209 average and .478 OPS with 23 strikeouts, no stolen bases and underwhelming defense in 31 games over seven weeks, many wondered if he was just another overhyped...
Jeff Capel works to boost Pitt players’ spirits without accepting defeatVideo
Jeff Capel grew up in an atmosphere of winning: state championship in high school; Final Four berth as a player; and national championship as an assistant at Duke. Winning matters to Pitt’s coach, who has presided over 174 victories with three teams. Yet, Pitt’s slide toward the bottom of the...
Tom Brady, Jared Goff have massive age gap but same Super Bowl dreamVideo
ATLANTA — Tom Brady vividly remembers the first time he experienced all the hype, hoopla and heightened expectations of playing in the Super Bowl. The New England Patriots quarterback was just a wide-eyed yet supremely confident second-year player who was on the verge of jumpstarting what has become one of...
Jersey worn by Lynn Swann approaches $20K with auction deadline nearing
As time winds down on the latest chance to bid on Pittsburgh Steelers’ game-worn memorabilia, a 1980 Lynn Swann jersey has gotten a high bid of $19,488. The jersey worn by the Hall of Fame wide receiver is the top item in a collection of 32 Steelers-related memorabilia available for...
St. Joseph graduate featured in Super Bowl ad
A former St. Joseph boys basketball standout will get a shining moment on professional football’s biggest night. Chris Conroy, a 2005 St. Joseph graduate, is starring in a Super Bowl commercial for Mercedes Benz’s A-Class model. In the ad, which was posted online Thursday and is titled “Say The Word,”...
Steelers WR JuJu Smith-Schuster says ‘everyone just needs to stop being divas’
Exactly a month after Jesse James used a celebrity family known for its reality show to describe the Pittsburgh Steelers, JuJu Smith-Schuster went on ESPN to do the same. Making the rounds during Super Bowl week in Atlanta, Smith-Schuster was on “First Take” Thursday morning when he insisted the Steelers...
Hines on Ben criticizing Steelers teammates: ‘You should know better.’
Making the media rounds at the Super Bowl in Atlanta, Hall of Fame wide receiver Hines Ward has not shied away in his criticism of former teammate Antonio Brown. Ward also used his time on radio row Thursday to target quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. It was Roethlisberger’s reported altercation with Brown...
Justin Schultz nearing finish line on long road back from broken leg
The last time Justin Schultz played in a hockey game, the sock tanlines he had acquired in a summer spent on the golf course had yet to fade. Schultz broke his leg Oct. 14 in Montreal. On Thursday, his road to recovery took another step forward as he joined the...
Super Bowl 2019: Some of the prop bets that are making the bookies nervous
At the SugarHouse Casino, they’re seeing a lot of action on C.J. Anderson scoring the first touchdown. The biggest liability for the William Hill-US bookmakers is whether James Develin will score. Most of their bettors are saying no, he will not. Some guy walked into Resorts Casino in Atlantic City...
Texas Rangers’ new stadium will have synthetic turf, not grass
ARLINGTON, Texas — The Texas Rangers will use specially designed synthetic playing surface rather than grass in their new retractable-roof stadium that opens in 2020. Texas’ decision will make it the fourth of the 30 major league teams to use artificial turf. Toronto’s Rogers Centre and Tampa Bay’s Tropicana Field...
NCAA bans Missouri from postseason after academic misconduct
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The NCAA handed one-year postseason bans and other penalties to Missouri’s football, baseball and softball programs while placing its entire athletic department on probation Thursday after a two-year investigation revealed academic misconduct involving a former tutor. The penalties mean that the Tigers’ highly regarded football team...
Penguins coach Mike Sullivan: Derick Brassard will play when he’s healthy
Pittsburgh Penguins coach Mike Sullivan found the suggestion literally laughable, letting out a small chuckle when he was asked about it following Thursday’s practice in Cranberry. Is there any chance the Penguins might keep center Derick Brassard on the sidelines, even if he has recovered from the upper-body injury that...
For Penguins, it takes a village to help Evgeni Malkin return to form
Pittsburgh Penguins center Evgeni Malkin sat out Thursday’s practice in Cranberry for maintenance after a particularly grueling effort the night before. By playing a physically and emotionally engaged style of hockey, recording a pair of assists and fighting fellow superstar Steven Stamkos when tensions boiled over in the third period,...
