Sports category, Page 27

It was 17 years ago when an injury to the long snapper cost the Pittsburgh Steelers a win during what ended up a Super Bowl season. The stakes weren’t high Saturday. But fair to say Logan Lee performed better as an emergency long snapper than James Harrison did in 2008....

INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 69-49) lost 11-5 to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (Yankees). RHP Bubba Chandler (4.05) started and went 3⅓ innings, allowing four runs on six hits with five walks and five strikeouts. SS Mike Jarvis finished the game on the mound for Indy, throwing 1⅓ scoreless innings. 3B Alika Williams (.265) went 1...

With an overflow crowd of 6,115 on hand, the second largest in Highmark Stadium history, the Pittsburgh Riverhounds came out fast and confident Saturday against their oldest rivals, the Charleston Battery. The Palmetto 11 came into the game with the second-best record in the Eastern Conference of the USL Championship...

Roman Wilson provided optimism Saturday night that the Pittsburgh Steelers may have a capable No. 2 wide receiver this season. The second-year wideout, who missed all but a handful of snaps last season, caught two passes for 72 yards in the Steelers’ 17-14 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at...

Despite coach Mike Tomlin’s apparent attempts to shield him from injury, outside linebacker Nick Herbig was the first Pittsburgh Steelers player to leave Saturday’s preseason game because of one. Herbig left the game after the Steelers’ second defensive series because of a hamstring injury. There was no immediate update on...

OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Robert MacIntyre ducked his head under the branches and climbed into a mess of bushes behind the fifth green without a golf club, first seeing if he could find his ball and then deciding if it was worth trying to play it. Through an opening he...

Art Rooney II and Ben Roethlisberger took a trip down memory lane Saturday night when the Pittsburgh Steelers unveiled an exhibit commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Super Bowl XL season. Two hours before the Steelers kicked off their second preseason game against Tampa Bay, the team’s president and future...

Al Oliver finally got the Hall call he was waiting for — not the one everyone talks about — and treated it with the same approach he did when a pitch he liked came across the plate. Oliver knows if he’s ever going to be elected to the National Baseball...

The Pittsburgh Pirates finally cracked the code against Chicago Cubs lefty Shota Imanaga, and rookie right-hander Mike Burrows rose to the moment by getting out of a bases-loaded jam to keep the score even. But the Cubs came through in the clutch, breaking a tie by scoring two runs in...

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT — It’s not an ice-cream cone. It’s not an Italian rainbow cookie. It’s the baseball bat being used at the Little League World Series. Easton’s 2026 Hype Fire USA Bat with the neon green grip and the pink-and-neon yellow barrel is hard to miss at the plate. And...

STATE COLLEGE — Penn State is one of the nation’s most veteran teams, a big reason the Nittany Lions are ranked No. 2 in the Associated Press Top 25 heading into the season. The quarterback position, manned by third-year starter Drew Allar, is a big part of that. There are...

Kyle Louis enters his redshirt junior year at Pitt having been named to the preseason watch lists of just about every applicable defensive award in college football. The Butkus Award, Bronko Nagurski Trophy, Walter Camp Player of the Year, Chuck Bednarik Award, Lombardi Award — Louis will be in play...

Prospect Watch Hunter Barco Position: LHP Height: 6-foot-4 Weight: 235 pounds Level: Triple-A Notable: Ask any Pirates fan to name an up-and-coming prospect at Triple-A who’s getting ready for an anticipated MLB debut, and just about every answer would be Bubba Chandler. Although Chandler’s first MLB start seems a matter...

True believers bleat loudly about the “Steeler way.” But some of that preferred method is stupid. Like rewarding veterans who “wait their turn.” Like making rookies “earn it.” Those two notions may conspire to stifle the Steelers’ running game. Jaylen Warren isn’t a No. 1 back. He’s 5-foot-8. Played at...

For this week’s Bucs Beat Q&A, TribLive sat down with Pirates catcher Henry Davis: You deked Miguel Andujar on a 9-4-2 play at the plate against the Cincinnati Reds on Aug. 8. What’s the key to selling a deke? I don’t know. My head coach in college (Dan McDonnell) told...

Here’s a look at the Pittsburgh Pirates’ schedule for this upcoming week. vs. Blue Jays 6:40 p.m. Monday (SN PIT) 6:40 p.m. Tuesday (SN PIT) 12:35 p.m. Wednesday (SN PIT) • The Blue Jays arrive at PNC Park aiming to strengthen their first-place position atop the AL East Division. The...

John Wiley makes no attempt to hide it: The Wiley men are loud. That should make the Knoch sideline interesting this fall as three generations of Wileys try to lead the Knights to the WPIAL football playoffs. T.J. Wiley is the head coach. His father, 74-year-old John, a Pennsylvania Scholastic...

HOUSTON — Baltimore rookie right-hander Brandon Young lost his bid for the first perfect game in Orioles history with four outs remaining Friday night in a 7-0 win over the Houston Astros. Young retired the first 23 batters he faced, only to have his shot at history end on slow...

SAN FRANCISCO — Niall Shiels Donegan, the Scot who grew up in nearby Mill Valley, advanced to the U.S. Amateur semifinals Friday at The Olympic Club to the delight of his large, vocal gallery. Donegan — set for his first season at North Carolina after two years at Northwestern —...

INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 69-48) beat Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (Yankees), 6-5, on an RBI single by RF Matt Fraizer (.309) in the top of the 10th. Frazier went 3 for 5 with two doubles, two runs scored and his 14th stolen base. CF Ji Hwan Bae (.291) went 1 for 5 with a triple,...

PITTSBURGH — Teddy Bridgewater always planned to play football this year. Just maybe not quite this early. In a perfect world, the well-traveled quarterback wouldn’t be spending this weekend in Pittsburgh getting ready for his preseason debut with Tampa Bay but in Miami helping Northwestern High prepare to defend the...