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Outdoors notices for Jan. 6, 2018
NOTICES Outdoors SHOOTS ON TAP • California Hill Gun Club holds sporting clays and five-stand shoots Sundays from 9 a.m.-noon. All are open to the public. Call 724-938-3480. • Sporting clays is closed for the winter at West Penn Sportsmen’s Club, but five stand is open Thursdays from 5-8 p.m....
Searching for the turning point in Penguins’ topsy-turvy season
During the depths of the team’s early season despair, Pittsburgh Penguins winger Patric Hornqvist had one firm belief he never wavered from. “One shift’s going to turn the season around for us,” he said Nov. 16 while the Penguins were in the midst of losing nine of 10 games. Less...
No practice, no problem for streaking Penguins
There’s a dirty little secret about the Pittsburgh Penguins’ current eight-game winning streak that coach Mike Sullivan probably doesn’t want his players to think about. The team is playing its best hockey of the season during a stretch where it’s had the least amount of practice time. When the Penguins...
Penguins’ Justin Schultz skates for first time since breaking leg in October
Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Justin Schultz returned to the ice for the first time Saturday since suffering a broken left leg Oct. 13 in Montreal. Schultz wasn’t outfitted in his hockey gear, but he skated on his own before the Penguins practiced at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex in Cranberry. “It’s...
Pitt puts up little resistance in ACC opener vs. North Carolina
Still four months shy of his 19th birthday, Pitt freshman Trey McGowens heard the noise in Petersen Events Center, felt the vibrations of a sellout crowd of 12,508 and never forgot what team he and his teammates were playing. “I was a little jittery going out,” he said. “Coach had...
Report: Steelers expected to hear trade offers for Antonio Brown
Citing unnamed sources, the NFL Network reported Saturday morning the Pittsburgh Steelers are expected to consider trade requests for disgruntled star receiver Antonio Brown. NFL Network reported the Steelers “have not closed the door on the thought of Brown playing for someone else, provided they could receive adequate compensation.” The...
Report: Ben Roethlisberger contract extension with Steelers coming by March
What widely was expected to happen over this offseason reportedly is going to get done before March 13, according to ESPN. The Pittsburgh Steelers are “expected to restructure and extend” the contract of 36-year-old Ben Roethlisberger before the 2019 league year begins, Adam Schefter wrote Saturday afternoon. This season’s NFL...
Top 3B prospect Ke’Bryan Hayes, former 1st-rounder Will Craig invited to Pirates spring training
The organization’s top hitting prospect and a former first-round pick are among those that the Pittsburgh Pirates announced Saturday will be invited to spring training. Third baseman Ke’Bryan Hayes is rated as the Pirates’ No. 2 overall prospect by MLB Pipeline, and first baseman Will Craig was the No. 22...
Previewing Saturday’s AFC wild-card playoff games
AFC South Division rivals Indianapolis and Houston square off in the opening game of the NFL playoffs Saturday, while prime time is reserved for the Dallas Cowboys and Seattle Seahawks. Here is a breakdown of the games. INDIANAPOLIS (10-6) at HOUSTON (11-5) Sunday, 4:35 p.m., ESPN OPENING LINE — Texans...
Breaks starting to go Penguins winger Dominik Simon’s way
After Friday night’s 4-0 victory over the Winnipeg Jets, Pittsburgh Penguins winger Dominik Simon said he’s a firm believer that good things happen when a player puts pucks on net. Sometimes, they don’t even need to go all the way to the back of the net for good things to...
No ‘hard feelings’ for North Carolina’s Cameron Johnson in return to Pitt
Cameron Johnson enjoyed his return engagement at Petersen Events Center so much he didn’t even mind a smattering of boos when he was introduced to the crowd before the game. “It was nice to be back,” said Johnson, a graduate student who transferred from Pitt to North Carolina after the...
Alabama tight end Irv Smith Jr. follows in steps of father, O.J. Howard
Alabama’s Irv Smith Jr. was determined to be a wide receiver in high school. Never mind that he’s the son and nephew of former NFL tight ends and is built for that position, too. He caved to the reality his junior year at Brother Martin High School in New Orleans...
Penguins score in myriad ways to run winning streak to 8
With 1,475 regular-season games over 21 years to his credit, it’s awfully hard for 42-year-old Pittsburgh Penguins center Matt Cullen to experience something that’s never happened to him in an NHL game before. On Friday night, he managed to record an unusual first. Cullen scored a goal with his ear...
Penn State’s Pat Chambers suspended one game for shoving player
Penn State basketball coach Pat Chambers was suspended for one game by director of athletics Sandy Barbour after he shoved guard Myles Dread during the Nittany Lions’ 68-55 loss to Michigan on Thursday night. The suspension will keep Chambers off the bench Sunday night when Penn State plays Wisconsin at...
Texans, Colts meet in playoffs after turning around seasons
HOUSTON — Saturday’s wild-card game between the Houston Texans and Indianapolis Colts is a matchup that seemed improbable early this season after Houston dropped its first three games and the Colts limped to a 1-5 start. Instead of letting their tough starts lead to disappointing years, these teams that both...
Dak Prescott seeks 1st playoff win as Cowboys host Seahawks
ARLINGTON, Texas — Russell Wilson won a wild-card game with Seattle as a rookie, a Super Bowl in his second season and another NFC championship the third time around. The best Dak Prescott can hope for with the Dallas Cowboys is to join Wilson on that list of title winners...
Plum graduate Loebig aims for another run at nationals with Pitt hockey
Last year, Ryan Loebig was one of several first-year members of Pitt’s Division I men’s hockey team to hear shared stories from the Panthers’ 2017 trip to the American College Hockey Association national tournament. Then, after helping Pitt to a successful regular season, which included the College Hockey Mid-American championship...
Franklin Regional grad Jamie Mauro leading ACHA Division I hockey in scoring
A couple of weeks into the season, Jamie Mauro said Slippery Rock hockey coach Dave Grimm broke the news to him that he was leading all of ACHA Division I in scoring. Since then curiosity has got to Mauro, so he checks the ACHA website every now and then to...
Mark Madden: Steelers, fans should be done with disrespectful Brown, Harrison
Most professional athletes don’t understand that every single one of them is disposable. That got proven when pro baseball not only survived but flourished after Babe Ruth retired and has been indisputably apparent ever since. Pro football is the topic du jour now that Antonio Brown and his flunky, James...
Reports: West Virginia hires Troy’s Neal Brown to replace Dana Holgorsen
West Virginia wasted little time finding a replacement for football coach Dana Holgorsen, replacing him with Troy’s Neal Brown, according to reports from Yahoo Sports and ESPN.com. Brown, 38, is one of only six FBS coaches with 10 victories in each of the past three seasons, He was 35-16 in...
Retired agent: Steelers can go after some of Antonio Brown’s money
By skipping the walkthrough last Saturday and a meeting at the team hotel later that night, did Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown violate the terms of his contract, giving the team a chance to withhold his game check and possibly recoup a portion of his signing bonus? A retired...
Steelers add former CFL WR and young LB to roster on futures contracts
A 22-year-old linebacker and a journeyman 26-year-old wide receiver are the latest players the Pittsburgh Steelers signed to futures contracts on Friday. The new additions are linebacker Tegray Scales, a first-year linebacker who spent the final two weeks of the 2018 season on the Indianapolis Colts practice squad, and wide...
Lefty reliever Tyler Lyons among 4 non-roster invitees to Pirates spring training
One of the National League’s best left-handed set-up men just two seasons ago is among four nonroster invitees to spring training, the Pittsburgh Pirates announced Friday. Former St. Louis Cardinals reliever Tyler Lyons was invited to the Pirates’ major-league camp, which begins the week prior to Lyons’ 31st birthday. Lyons...
Former NFL Pro Bowl players try curling with Olympic goal
Defensive lineman Jared Allen retired from the NFL in 2015 and wasn’t ready to give up on the competition he’d come to enjoy as a five-time All-Pro. His solution: The Olympics. The problem: He didn’t compete in any Olympic sports. Less than a year later, Allen and three other former...
A year after having 4 1st-team All-Pros, Steelers fail to land any
In a reflection of the team missing the playoffs, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ representation on the AP All-Pro first team plummeted. A year after leading the league with four first-team honorees after going 13-3, the Steelers were shut out on the team announced Friday. Center Maurkice Pouncey was named to the...
