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Freshman PG Sincere Carry pivotal part of Duquesne’s early success this season
Duquesne has prevailed down the stretch of tight games this season, winning all three one-point decisions it has been involved in and going 5-1 in those decided by five or fewer points. Ask coach Keith Dambrot why, the first player he mentions is a freshman. “We have a good point...
Super Bowl berths on the line in conference title games
The Los Angeles Rams are back inside the stadium where they lost for the first time this season, looking for retribution and a Super Bowl berth as they face the New Orleans Saints in the NFC championship game. The Superdome is coming alive for the last time this football season...
Penguins defense unravels in loss to Golden Knights
LAS VEGAS — Jonathan Marchessault scored three goals for his second career hat trick to lead the Vegas Golden Knights to a 7-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday night. Phil Kessel, Dominik Simon and Sidney Crosby scored for the Penguins, and Casey DeSmith finished with 28 saves. Marc-Andre...
‘Not a goodbye, just a thank u’ – Antonio Brown sends Instagram message to Steelers fans
During his feud with the Pittsburgh Steelers, Antonio Brown has taken to social media often. His post Saturday night, though, seemed to come from the heart. Brown, the star receiver whose Steelers tenure is in peril, posted a message on Instagram in which he thanked Steelers fans. Accompanying a short...
Josh Williams leads Robert Morris past Bryant in Northeast Conference play
SMITHFIELD, R.I. — Josh Williams hit four 3-pointers and scored 15 points as Robert Morris rolled to a 79-65 win over Bryant on Saturday. Malik Petteway added 14 points with nine rebounds and four steals for the Colonials (9-9, 4-1 Northeast Conference). Matty McConnell (Chartiers Valley) had 13 points, five...
Strength, determination lift Saints WR Michael Thomas
When he returned to Taft High after winter break of his junior year, Michael Thomas carried the gift — if you want to call it that — his father, Michael Sr., had given him. They were called Gripmasters, two four-inch strips of colored plastic held together with four spring-loaded coils....
Phil Mickelson drains long birdies for Desert Classic lead
LA QUINTA, Calif. — Phil Mickelson made three long birdie putts on the back nine Saturday to take a two-stroke lead into the final round of the Desert Classic. Making his first start of the year, the 48-year-old Mickelson shot a bogey-free 6-under-par 66 on the Stadium Course at PGA...
Tim Benz: Pitt draws high praise from Syracuse despite loss
SYRACUSE, N.Y. Last Monday, the basketball teams that played Saturday at the Carrier Dome took big steps forward. Pitt toward becoming a legitimate ACC program again by upsetting 11th-ranked Florida State at home. Syracuse toward being a legitimate Sweet 16 threat again by upsetting top-ranked Duke at Cameron Indoor Stadium....
Second-half surge leads Syracuse past Pitt
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim breathed a sigh of relief. Five days after his Orange’s biggest win of the season, there was no letdown. Tyus Battle scored 22 points, Boeheim’s son Buddy had a season-high 13 points and Syracuse beat Pitt, 74-63, on Saturday, the Orange’s zone defense...
Safety Morgan Burnett tells NFL Network he wants Steelers to release him
Morgan Burnett was the Pittsburgh Steelers’ biggest free-agent signing last offseason. The union between them doesn’t appear as if it’s going to last too long. The NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported Burnett told him he “wants to be released from his deal before free agency.” A nine-year NFL veteran who...
Micky Phillippi’s victory not enough in Pitt wrestlers’ 36-9 loss to Oklahoma State
Keith Gavin was pleased with the most notable occurrence of the day when Pitt redshirt freshman wrestler Micky Phillippi defeated Oklahoma State’s Daton Fix, 3-1, at 133 pounds. But Pitt’s coach left Fitzgerald Field House on Saturday afternoon knowing there’s still a lot of work to do. Oklahoma State, the...
Patriots to test Chiefs’ suddenly stingy defense
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The only defense the Kansas City Chiefs played most of this season was, well, in defense of their own defense, which gave up so many yards and points that it became a running joke around the league. Yes, the Chiefs scored in bushels. They also allowed...
Outdoors notices for Jan. 20, 2018
NOTICES Outdoors RIFLE/TRAP LEAGUES • In the Pittsburgh and Suburban Rifle League on Jan. 9, Frazier-Simplex (7-0) defeated Murrysville (1-5), 1,483-1,464; and Allegheny (3-5) beat Irwin Post 228 (0-7), 1,440-1,427. Dormont-Mt. Lebanon (6-1) had a bye. Murrysville’s Kevin Dufford and Frazier-Simplex’s John Husk each shot 298 for the high score...
Latrobe’s Butler expands game for Holy Cross basketball
Austin Butler always wanted to be the scorer, the go-to guy who had the green light to fire away and get to the rim whenever he wanted. But he lived that life. It was glamorous. Everything he thought it would be, in fact. Now the former Latrobe star believes it...
Art Rooney ‘feels good’ about Steelers running backs heading into 2019
For the second year in a row, the Pittsburgh Steelers are facing the prospect of playing a season without one of their star playmakers. While it’s too early to know what life will be like without wide receiver Antonio Brown in 2019, team president Art Rooney II liked the way...
Penguins, Phil Kessel learn from power-play mistakes
When the Pittsburgh Penguins gave up their league-leading 10th shorthanded goal of the season last Saturday in Los Angeles, coach Mike Sullivan seethed. He wasn’t angry that his world-class first power-play unit turned pucks over. That happens to the best of them. He was angry because his team wasn’t learning...
Marc-Andre Fleury savoring plentiful playing time as Penguins come to town
Marc-Andre Fleury didn’t know what he had until it was gone. Fleury came into Saturday night’s showdown between the Vegas Golden Knights and Pittsburgh Penguins as the NHL’s leader in minutes played with 2,494, almost 200 more than second-place John Gibson of Anaheim. Fleury has started 42 of his team’s...
Serena Williams untested heading into Week 2 of Australian Open
MELBOURNE, Australia — Maybe Serena Williams will be tested in the Australian Open’s fourth round, because no one has come close to making her work too hard so far. Playing clean and powerful tennis, Williams overwhelmed 18-year-old Dayana Yastremska of Ukraine, 6-2, 6-1, on Saturday. Williams grabbed a pair of...
Jermaine Haley’s layup caps comeback, lifts West Virginia over No. 7 Kansas
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Kansas coach Bill Self left his postgame news conference, saw West Virginia’s Bob Huggins down a hallway and stopped for a handshake. “Go win the rest of them,” Self said. Wishful thinking, perhaps, but Huggins will gladly take this one over his friend in what has become...
Penguins beat Coyotes on Phil Kessel’s OT winner
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Phil Kessel scored on a power play with less than a minute left in overtime. Matt Murray stopped 30 shots, and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Arizona Coyotes, 3-2, on Friday night. Outscored 10-4 in consecutive losses, the Penguins fell behind on Clayton Keller’s first-period goal following...
McPhatter leads local group on Division II football all-star list
The Don Hansen Football Gazette All-Region Committee released the 2018 NCAA Division II All-Super Region 1 squad Friday, and several local players were named to the lists. Lamont McPhatter, a New Castle graduate and junior safety at Cal (Pa.), was selected the Defensive Player of the Year after recording 63...
Solving Syracuse’s vaunted zone next lesson for Pitt
Jeff Capel has taught his team plenty of basketball this season. Pitt’s players know how to drive to the hoop, draw fouls and rebound against bigger opponents. But there’s more to building a winning program than talented athletes trying to execute Xs and Os. Capel is hoping to build a...
Gateway grad John Paul Kromka makes immediate impact for UPJ men’s basketball
In his first college basketball game Nov. 9, John Paul Kromka found himself in a pressure situation with all the eyes in the arena fixated on him. The 6-foot-7 Gateway graduate and freshman on the Pitt Johnstown men’s basketball team went the foul line with one second left and the...
Duquesne looks to continue hot start in Atlantic 10
It wasn’t just a 25-year hex that Duquesne’s most recent victory exorcized. It allowed the program to achieve another milestone for the first time in school history. The Dukes’ 74-68 win Wednesday was their first at Richmond since Dec. 20, 1993. Although the tangible value of that particular accomplishment can...
Robert Morris enjoys stability among starting five, coach Andy Toole
Robert Morris coach Andy Toole will make no apologies for employing the same starting lineup through the first 17 games of the season. “Usually, I change starters every day,” said Toole, noting he might have set some unofficial school record. “Those guys have been some of our most consistent performers....
