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Sharapova, Wozniacki brace for early showdown at Australian Open
MELBOURNE, Australia — A side effect of not playing much for Maria Sharapova is the likelihood of having to face highly ranked rivals in the first week of a major. It doesn’t come much tougher in the third round than a match against the defending champion. That’s the equation at...
Westmoreland Campus Clippings: GCC’s Eubank weighs options
Jassan Eubank continues to draw attention from Division I football programs as he reroutes his playing career. The former Greensburg Central Catholic standout who started out at Edinboro before transferring to Nassau Community College in Garden City, N.Y., is up to five Division I scholarship offers. A sophomore defensive lineman,...
Patriots’ Tom Brady vs. Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes a study in contrast
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One of them is a sixth-round pick who married a supermodel, became one of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history and is going strong well past his 41st birthday. The other is a first-round pick who is dating his high school sweetheart, has one season as...
Bob Costas leaving NBC after 40 years
Bob Costas is officially leaving NBC. The legendary sportscaster and 28-time Emmy Award-winning journalist is wrapping up a 40-year career at the network, according to the New York Post. “It’s all settled quietly and happily for all concerned,” Costas, 66, told the publication. An NBC representative confirmed with the Post...
Extending Ben Roethlisberger’s contract on Steelers’ offseason agenda
Ben Roethlisberger will celebrate his 37th birthday in March, right about the time he could receive a contract extension from the Pittsburgh Steelers. The 15-year veteran quarterback has one year left on his deal and historically has received an extension before the new NFL calendar begins. This year, the new...
Boomer Sooner: Tide QB Jalen Hurts transferring to Oklahoma
Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley could not help but admire Jalen Hurts from a distance. He respected how the Alabama quarterback who lost his starting job to Tua Tagovailoa put the team above his pride. Hurts could have transferred right after Alabama went another direction, as so many quarterbacks do these...
Steelers ‘open to working’ with Ryan Shazier on return for 2019
Ryan Shazier still wants to resume his NFL career, and the Pittsburgh Steelers are trying to figure out how to keep him on their payroll. Shazier will be a free agent in March but isn’t ready to resume football activities after missing the 2018 season with a spinal cord injury....
Art Rooney II: No trade talks yet involving Antonio Brown
Antonio Brown will remain property of the Pittsburgh Steelers for at least the next two months — until the new NFL season begins. Beyond that? Steelers president Art Rooney isn’t optimistic that Brown’s nine-year career with the organization will extend past mid-March. “There aren’t many signs out there that that...
Europeans unravel massive tennis match-fixing ring
PARIS — The crooked tennis players knew him as “Maestro.” To European investigators, the Armenian based in Belgium is emerging as something else: The suspected ringleader of an organized gambling syndicate suspected of fixing hundreds of matches and corrupting more than 100 players from around Europe. As Roger Federer and...
Pitt’s 2019 football schedule released with seven home games
Pitt’s 2019 football schedule was released Wednesday, and it revealed some good news for the Panthers. Pitt will play seven of its 12 regular-season games at Heinz Field for the third time in the past four seasons. Plus, the first five games will be contested within the confines of Pennsylvania....
Steelers offseason positional outlook: Cornerbacks
Editor’s note: This is Part 11 of a 12-part series breaking down the Pittsburgh Steelers at each position in the offseason. All salary cap information courtesy spotrac.com. If it’s the Pittsburgh Steelers, it’s probably an offseason in which they have question marks at cornerback. This year is no different for...
More tales from Pirates announcer Steve Blass, a master story-teller
Steve Blass can captivate an audience like few announcers before him, and he was at his best Tuesday at PNC Park. A room full of family members and friends listened while he recounted his 60 years with the Pittsburgh Pirates and told them 2019 would his 34th and last in...
Analysis: Why bottom-dwelling Coyotes could mean trouble for Penguins
The Penguins next play in Arizona on Friday night. And the Coyotes stink. That`s bad news for the Penguins. Wait. Huh? Well, as the Trib`s Jonathan Bombulie pointed out this week, "The Penguins have played seven games this season against the four teams currently occupying last place in the league`s...
Loss to Sharks shows how far Penguins have left to climb
The Pittsburgh Penguins have been playing some pretty good hockey since turning their season around at the beginning of December. They’re 14-5-1 in their past 20 games. They deserve no worse than a solid B-plus on their report card. Late Tuesday night, they got an up-close look at what an...
Super Bowl planners: Shutdown brings ‘uncharted territory’
ATLANTA — A day after travelers waited nearly 90 minutes in snail-speed security lines at the world’s busiest airport, Atlanta’s mayor is concerned about the waits that could result when the city hosts the 2019 Super Bowl. The ongoing partial government shutdown is “uncharted territory” amid planning for one of...
First call: Antonio Brown teases another interview; Mike Tomlin tweets about Mike Munchak
In Wednesday`s "First Call," Tomlin tweets! Guess what it is about. Antonio Brown is not to be outdone. Plus, updates on two major WPIAL stars. Another interview threat Antonio Brown`s post-meltdown Instagram interview with James Harrison got scrubbed. But now the disgruntled Steelers wide receiver is teasing another interview. As...
Tim Benz: Hits and misses from James Harrison’s newest anti-Mike Tomlin take
Disgruntled ex-Steelers linebacker James Harrison is on his anti-Mike Tomlin kick again. Watch FS1`s "Undisputed" clip below. Then we`ll see where he`s right and where he`s wrong. • Regarding Tomlin`s relationship with Antonio Brown: Harrison is right when he says Tomlin is too lax when...
Steelers assistant could help Mike Tomlin with replays, clock management
Art Rooney II is open to the Pittsburgh Steelers delegating an assistant coach to handle replay challenges and clock management issues for coach Mike Tomlin. Tomlin has not won a replay challenge in two seasons and he has come under criticism for use of timeouts and clock strategy in the...
Tim Benz: Art Rooney II’s take on Steelers ‘circus’ is pure ‘nonsense’
Pittsburgh Steelers owner Art Rooney II had his annual season-ending powwow with the team’s local print outlets Wednesday. He made one comment that was so far from true, it couldn’t see the truth with the Hubble telescope. Rooney was asked about the perception that his team is a circus and...
Matt Murray’s hot streak ends in Penguins’ loss to Sharks
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Tomas Hertl needed just three games to get his first NHL hat trick. It was more than a five-year wait for the second one, which came while he’s playing perhaps the best hockey of his career. Hertl knocked down Evgeni Malkin with his backside to score...
American Sloane Stephens advances at Australian Open
MELBOURNE, Australia — Sloane Stephens advanced at the Australian Open at the expense of her former doubles partner, Timea Babos, in a second-round match the women’s tour billed as a battle of the so-called “frenemies.” Fifth-seeded Stephens, the 2017 U.S. Open champion, dominated the Rod Laver Arena opener 6-3, 6-1...
TCU sends West Virginia to 0-5 mark in Big 12
FORT WORTH, Texas — Desmond Bane scored 26 points to lead six TCU players in double figures as the Horned Frogs beat West Virginia, 98-67, on Tuesday night, sending the Mountaineers to their first 0-5 conference record in 23 years. TCU (13-3, 2-2 Big 12) got off a slow start,...
Saints’ Mark Ingram cherishing playoff run as uncertainty loomsVideo
METAIRIE, La. — Mark Ingram readily acknowledges his last game with the Saints could come Sunday, when New Orleans hosts the Los Angeles Rams in the NFC championship game. But Ingram hasn’t given up on bucking conventional wisdom and remaining with New Orleans, even though his contract is expiring and...
Edelman again proves to be valuable playoff performer for New England
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — His face still was a little flushed from stepping out of the subfreezing temperatures at Gillette Stadium just minutes after the Patriots’ 41-28 divisional-round win over the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday. Still, Julian Edelman stood at his locker satisfied — at least for a moment. Then...
3 thoughts on Pitt basketball: Panthers show drive for more success
The chants started at the end of Pitt’s victory against Florida State on Monday night at Petersen Events Center. Who could blame the students in the Oakland Zoo, many of whom (mainly the younger ones) never had seen a Pitt victory against an ACC opponent in person? The chant was...
