Sports category, Page 308

Rhett Lashlee has done the math. It rolls around in the SMU coach’s head every week. The more he thinks about it, the more it doesn’t add up. Why, Lashlee wonders, is the ACC fighting what seems to be an uphill battle for respect from the College Football Playoff committee?...

After a 1-9 season, Saint Vincent fired head football coach Aaron Smetanka along with offensive coordinator Sam London III and defensive coordinator John Bell, launching an immediate search for new staff members. The remainder of the coaching staff was still listed on the school’s athletics website, but that does not...

Derrick Henry is on pace for one of the most productive seasons by a running back in NFL history, let alone for the Baltimore Ravens. But, in one respect, he’s been told he’s not yet fully ingratiated to the team. There’s a saying often heard at the Ravens’ Under Armour...

Patrick Queen leaned his head back and smiled, pausing before answering a question he knew was coming. Asked about playing for the first time against the team where he spent the first four seasons of his NFL career, he tried to balance his inner trash talker with diplomacy. Now that...

INDIANAPOLIS — Anthony Richardson showed the Indianapolis Colts over the past two weeks off the field that he could be their starting quarterback. Again. Two ugly losses might have helped convince Indy’s brain trust, too. Either way, Richardson has won back the job. Coach Shane Steichen announced Wednesday that he...

A tradition unlike any other in the Alle-Kiski Valley or Pittsburgh region continues this weekend. The 51st Pennsylvania Karate Championships, a keystone event since the early 1970s, returns Saturday to the grand ballroom of the Quality Inn in New Kensington. It is where the event began all those years ago....

Two starting skill position players joined a starting cornerback among those who sat out Wednesday’s Pittsburgh Steelers practice because of injury. Running back Najee Harris and receiver Van Jefferson were listed as practice non-participants Wednesday on the injury report. Harris suffered an ankle injury late in this past Sunday’s win...

The day football programs set aside to honor their seniors is almost always a special time, often the last home game — such as it will be at Pitt on Saturday — and an event coaches might use to motivate their players. “I talked to our team just about playing...

Alex Highsmith was using a wheeled cart Wednesday, the idea being the device would make it easier for a man with an ankle sprain to get around the Pittsburgh Steelers’ locker room. With Highsmith unable to play Sunday, the Steelers’ reserve outside linebackers face far different kinds of obstacles in...

Basketball Hall of Famer Gregg Popovich has been away from the team because he suffered a mild stroke earlier this month, the San Antonio Spurs announced Wednesday. Popovich is in his 29th season as coach of the Spurs and there is no timetable for his return to the sideline, the...

The Pittsburgh Penguins had a few more bodies at their optional morning skate Wednesday in Cranberry. In total, 12 players took to the ice. That represented an increase from the eight souls who were present for Monday’s session, a handful of hours before the Penguins were blasted by the Dallas...

The Pittsburgh Pirates turned to one of their former farmhands as their new hitting coach by hiring Matt Hague, according to a source. Hague spent seven seasons with the organization, including 33 games in the majors. TSN Sports first reported the hire. Hague, 39, spent four seasons as a minor-league...

Penn State is not unique in prioritizing depth along its interior defensive line. That’s standard practice for all programs that want to be best-equipped to handle the rigors of a long season. While the No. 4 Nittany Lions feel confident in the ability of veterans Dvon J-Thomas and Zane Durant...

The Pittsburgh Penguins are scheduled to start goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic in Wednesday’s home game against the Detroit Red Wings at PPG Paints Arena. Tristan Jarry is slated to serve as his backup while rookie Joel Blomqvist will be a healthy scratch. Coach Mike Sullivan announced the team’s plans in net...

The Pittsburgh Penguins’ 7-1 home loss to the Dallas Stars on Monday was a white flag of sorts. Trading center Lars Eller to Washington the next day was confirmation thereof. The Penguins can’t compete with top-tier teams, not least because they ill-advisedly attempt to beat them at their own game...

Former Steeler Diontae Johnson is coming back to Pittsburgh this Sunday with the Baltimore Ravens. And the veteran wide receiver knows it is going to be a little bit awkward getting around Acrisure Stadium. “Just being back in that stadium where it all started, it’s going to be different,” Johnson...

When the NFL schedule was released in May, we all wondered what state the Pittsburgh Steelers would be in by the time the crucial AFC North games finally started in Week 11. “I’ll play (the divisional games) whenever they schedule us,” head coach Mike Tomlin said Tuesday. “We’ve got no...

Lars Eller was determined to do his part to get the Pittsburgh Penguins out of the malaise they have found themselves mired in barely a month into the 2024-25 season. “The adversity we’re going through has to make us better,” the dependable third-line center said in Cranberry on Tuesday. “We...