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Draft safety breakdown: Rapp leads ball-hawking group
The NFL Draft is Thursday-Saturday in Nashville, Tenn. Each day leading up to the first round, the Tribune-Review is compiling a positional preview of the top draft prospects. Today: Safeties 1. Taylor Rapp Washington, 6-0, 208 A three-year starter, Rapp declared for the draft after his junior year at Washington....
3 best, worst Steelers safety draft picks in the Kevin Colbert era
Editor’s note: This NFL Draft will be the 20th under the eye of Pittsburgh Steelers general manager Kevin Colbert. His two-decade tenure has produced two Super Bowls and a consistent playoff contender. Colbert’s drafts mostly reflect that. Like all NFL personnel men, though, he’s had some picks he’d like to...
Greensburg’s Rocco Mediate loses way in Champions Tour event
Scott McCarron completed a wire-to-wire victory in the Mitsubishi Electric Classic for his third victory at TPC Sugarloaf on Sunday, leaving Greensburg native Rocco Mediate behind in a tie for 10th place. The winner of the PGA Tour defunct BellSouth Classic at the course in 1997 and 2001, McCarron closed...
Sean Davis might spur Steelers to draft safety
When the Pittsburgh Steelers drafted Sean Davis in 2016, they were trying to get younger at the two safety positions, where the starters had a combined age of 60-plus years spanning the previous six seasons. It topped out at a combined 66 years in 2013 between Ryan Clark (34) and...
Changes coming to District 31 American Legion landscape
Things continue to change in District 31 American Legion: Murrysville is back, and Jeannette is out. Murrysville returns after missing the 2018 season, and Jeannette is out after a disappointing end to its season. The league will begin playing May 17 and run through July 5. Hempfield East is the...
Greensburg native Rocco Mediate in 2nd going into final round of Champions event
Greensburg native Rocco Mediate is in position for his fourth PGA Tour Champions victory, but he will have to catch Scott McCarron to get it. McCarron birdied the par-5 18th hole Saturday to take a three-stroke lead over Mediate in the PGA Tour Champions’ Mitsubishi Electric Classic. The 53-year-old McCarron...
Looking back at best 3 and worst 3 picks of 2014 NFL Draft
Editor’s note: In conjunction with the Trib’s coverage leading up to the April 25 start of the NFL Draft, we’ll look back at the three best — and three worst — picks of each draft across the league over the past five years. Offensive players made up five of the...
Kevin Gorman’s Take 5: Pirates beat Giants but endure more losses
The Pittsburgh Pirates returned to PNC Park on Friday with the best winning percentage in the National League, despite what looked like a Grapefruit League lineup because of injuries. The San Francisco Giants countered with Madison Bumgarner, who was so dominant here in the 2014 NL wild card that the...
Cole Tucker ‘stoked’ for chance to make debut with Pirates
Cole Tucker is an admittedly excitable person, and his emotions were on overdrive Saturday afternoon as he prepared to make his major-league debut for the Pittsburgh Pirates. The 22-year-old shortstop was running on little sleep when he arrived at PNC Park a few hours before the Pirates played the San...
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