At 45, Venus Williams sets record at Australian Open but falls in the 1st round
MELBOURNE, Australia — It took 45 years to be in a position to set a record that has drawn so much attention. So another 14 1/2 minutes serving to keep her Australian Open hopes alive felt like no time at all for Venus Williams. Ranked No. 576 and playing on...
Minor league report: Penguins tame Wolf PackVideo
A goal and two assists by forward Rafael Harvey-Pinard led the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins to a 4-1 win against the Hartford Wolf Pack at Mohegan Arena on Saturday. Defenseman Finn Harding scored his first professional goal and had an assist for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (25-11-1-2) while forwards Tristan Broz and Gabe Klassen each...
Seahawks dominate 49ers from opening kick, advance to NFC title game
SEATTLE — Rashid Shaheed returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown, Kenneth Walker III rushed for three scores and the Seattle Seahawks advanced to the NFC Championship game with a dominant 41-6 victory over the San Francisco 49ers on Saturday night. Sam Darnold threw a touchdown pass and got his...
Robert Morris men beat Northern Kentucky in another close game
This time, another close outcome went Robert Morris’ way. Ryan Prather Jr. scored 23 points, including the go-ahead basket in overtime, and Nikolaos Chitikoudis and DeSean Goode registered double-doubles as the Colonials stopped a three-game losing streak with a 92-89 victory Saturday night over Northern Kentucky at Truist Arena in...
‘Embarrassing’: Pitt obliterated by No. 20 Louisville in most lopsided defeat of Jeff Capel era
Through Jeff Capel’s tenure at Pitt, now in its eighth season, fans have grown accustomed to more valleys than peaks as the Panthers have struggled to reach the NCAA Tournament or establish momentum as a program. Over that span, there’s been no shortage of lows in terms of overall results...
Penguins, Arturs Silovs lose another shootout, fall to Blue Jackets
The Pittsburgh Penguins are lucky that shootouts are not what decide postseason games. But if their luck in shootouts does not improve, that could be the reason they miss the postseason for the fourth consecutive season. On Saturday, they were defeated by the Columbus Blue Jackets, 4-3, in a shootout...
Treysen Eaglestaff scores 22, West Virginia blows 12-point lead, beats Colorado
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Treysen Eaglestaff scored 22 points, Honor Huff scored nine of his 14 points in the final seven minutes, and West Virginia blew a 12-point lead before beating Colorado, 72-61, on Saturday. Brenen Lorient had 12 points and nine rebounds for West Virginia (12-6, 3-2 Big 12) and...
After spate of injuries, Pitt-Greensburg women’s basketball team gets back on the court
For much of her time, Pitt-Greensburg sophomore Jocelyn Bielak has been playing basketball and loving every minute of it. Even when times have been tough. An injury-ravaged season came to a halt earlier this month for Bielak and the Bobcats when UPG was unable to fill out a lineup, the...
Bo Nix out for season after breaking ankle in win over Bills
DENVER — Ja’Quan McMillian intercepted Josh Allen’s deep throw in overtime, and Bo Nix led the Broncos into position for Wil Lutz’s 24-yard field goal that sent Denver to the AFC Championship game with a 33-30 win over the Buffalo Bills on Saturday. The downside: Nix will have season-ending surgery...
‘Backdoor’ betting sites embrace Steelers coaching search
Willing to risk 46 cents on Chris Shula? Less than a week into the Pittsburgh Steelers’ search, online prediction markets have taken in more than $340,000 from those speculating about who will or won’t be the next coach. The innovative websites operate more like stock markets than the sportsbooks of...
Market begins to declutter for Steelers as they aim to zero in on top coaching candidates
In-person interviews with teams have yet to even begin for the vast majority of the leading NFL coaching candidates, but that didn’t mean Saturday didn’t bring news — most of it good — for the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Steelers were scheduled to continue virtual interviews over the weekend, but what...
Jimmie Williams leads Duquesne men past Fordham
After a three-game slide, Duquesne is back in the win column. For now. Jimmie Williams scored 19 points, and Cam Crawford added 16 to lead the up-and-down Dukes to a 74-63 road victory Saturday over Fordham at Rose Hill Gym in New York. Tarence Guinyard narrowly missed a double-double for...
A champion will be crowned but college football chaos will linger beyond Indiana-Miami title game
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Once the legal wrangling over paying players finally got settled last summer, there was hope that college football might finally stumble into something resembling stability. Or at least find its footing for a couple of months. It was too much to ask, at least right away....
Mark Madden’s hot take: Steelers also need a roster reset
The Pittsburgh Steelers will have a new head coach. The Steelers are replacing their entire coaching staff. They will probably hire somebody else’s defensive coordinator to be their head coach, thus maintaining their misguided organizational commitment to prioritizing defense in an era of score more, faster. But this is as...
Penn State announces signing of 39 players in 2026 transfer class
With the official closing of the 2026 transfer portal window closing Friday, Penn State made all of its portal movement — at least to this point — official. The Nittany Lions announced the signings of 39 transfer additions, according to a university release. A whopping 24 of those players followed...
Penguins goaltender Arturs Silovs scheduled to start against Blue Jackets
The Pittsburgh Penguins are scheduled to start goaltender Arturs Silovs in Saturday’s game against the Columbus Blue Jackets at PPG Paints Arena. Coach Dan Muse announced Silovs’ status following a morning skate in Cranberry. In 21 games this season, Silovs has an 8-6-7 record, a 3.06 goals-against average, an .890...
Joe Starkey: What the national media won’t talk about regarding Mike Tomlin’s Steelers tenure
A few years ago, the great Peter King joined my radio show for his usual spot, and we talked about Mike Tomlin. At that point, Tomlin’s playoff-win drought had reached six years or so. We agreed it was a major concern, but King opined that Tomlin always seemed to overachieve...
Riley, defending champ Taylor part of 5-way tie for lead at windy Sony Open
HONOLULU — The wind arrived early and stayed late Friday in the second round of the PGA Tour’s season-opening Sony Open. Davis Riley thrived in the difficult conditions in the morning, birdieing the par-5 18th for a 64 and a share of the lead. Riley matched defending champion Nick Taylor,...
Minor league report: Penguins fall to Wolf PackVideo
Forward Gabe Klassen had two goals for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 4-3 loss to the Hartford Wolf Pack at Mohegan Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Friday. Linemate Atley Calvert recorded two assists for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (24-11-1-2) while forward Aidan McDonough contributed a goal. Goaltender Sergei Murashov made 28 saves on 32...
Seahawks know what to expect in 49ers as teams played 2 weeks agoVideo
RENTON, Wash. — For the Seattle Seahawks to host another playoff game and move closer to the fourth Super Bowl appearance in franchise history, they will have to dispose of a familiar foe. Very familiar. The top-seeded Seahawks (14-3) host the San Francisco 49ers (13-5) in the NFC’s Divisional round...
Broncos host 1st playoff game in a decade, face banged-up BillsVideo
DENVER — After the Buffalo Bills ended the Denver Broncos’ season with a 31-7 thrashing in the playoffs last year, Sean Payton resolved to return the postseason party to Denver with its mile-high air and thunderous, stadium-rattling crowd. “We talk about earning seeds and trying to get all edges. It...
ACC more than survived, it thrived. Miami in the College Football Playoff final is proof
MIAMI — The Power 4 conference that didn’t get its champion into the College Football Playoff has a team that tied for second playing in the CFP’s national title game. So much for the demise of the ACC. The league that looked most vulnerable a few years ago when the...
Pitt transfer portal rundown: Who did the Panthers bring in?Video
As the dust settles around the transfer portal window (Jan. 2-16), a stock can be taken of the players who departed Pitt’s program and those the Panthers acquired. In total, TribLive counted 22 departures. As for additions, the tally stands at 15. Thirteen players announced commitments to Pitt on social...
Analysis: John Harbaugh, set to take over Giants, will look to have better 2nd actVideo
John Harbaugh is heading to Broadway, aiming to make his second act even better than his first. Harbaugh didn’t have to wait long after the Baltimore Ravens fired him last week following 18 seasons. He had plenty of options and chose the New York Giants. His contract was still being...
Bears’ Caleb Williams presents an elusive challenge for Jared Verse, Rams defenseVideo
LOS ANGELES — When Jared Verse begins to elaborate on the methodology of sacking Caleb Williams, it’s quickly obvious the Los Angeles Rams star edge rusher has been thinking about this monumental task quite a bit. “You just have to keep rushing,” Verse said. “You have to keep running. Honestly,...
