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Championship golf is returning to Pittsburgh this summer. The United States Golf Association will hold the sixth Senior Women’s Open from Aug. 1-4 at Fox Chapel Golf Club. It’s the 94th USGA championship to be played in Pennsylvania and the first U.S. Senior Women’s Open. The men’s U.S. Open will...

With Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitchers Jared Jones and Bailey Falter injured and unavailable, Quinn Priester is back on the active roster. In advance of the start of a six-game road trip, the Pirates ended the rehab assignment of Priester on Tuesday and activated him from the 15-day injured list. Priester,...

John Force has left a Virginia hospital to move to a rehabilitation center closer to his home in California and the NHRA great celebrated the news by taking his daughter for ice cream on her birthday. Brittany Force wrote on social media the stroll outside the hospital — Force appears...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jacksonville Jaguars star pass rusher Josh Allen has changed his last name to Hines-Allen to honor his maternal family and relatives who have worn that surname on their jerseys. That will also help eliminate confusion with the Buffalo Bills star quarterback. Hines-Allen announced the change Tuesday on...

Editor’s note: From now until the first practice of training camp at Saint Vincent College, TribLive is running through the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 90-man roster, looking at each player and assessing his outlook for the 2024 season. The breakdown will run in alphabetical order with at least two players each day...

Without even taking a step onto the ice as a full-time NHLer, Pittsburgh Penguins defensive prospect Harrison Brunicke already has made history. Selected in the second round of the NHL Draft (No. 44 overall) last month, Brunicke became the first South African-born skater to hear his name be called at...

ROMNY, Ukraine — Maksym Halinichev won silver at the Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires in a match described at the time as “two of the best young fighters going for glory.” He considered the bout a loss — it wasn’t gold, after all — but it gave him a map...

NEW ORLEANS — Lawyers for retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre will ask a federal appeals court Tuesday to revive a defamation lawsuit Favre filed against a fellow Pro Football of Fame member, former tight end Shannon Sharpe, amid the backdrop of a Mississippi welfare scandal that is one of the...

Shawn Robinson was exposed to sports through most of his life, most notably as a Pitt defensive back for four years at the turn of the century. As founder and president of Orange Arrow, a consulting service aimed at helping develop young student-athletes for pursuits later in life, Robinson and...

If the Steelers are surprised about Cameron Sutton’s eight-game suspension, they shouldn’t be. And if the club is suddenly worried about what this news may do to the defense, then maybe the front office should’ve addressed slot-corner in a different way. The NFL took that action against the 29-year-old defensive...

Tuesday’s “First Call” has some interesting quotes from Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow about T.J. Watt and the field conditions at Acrisure Stadium. Some roadblocks are falling between Paul Skenes and a potential start in the Major League Baseball All-Star Game. Plus, at least one national source isn’t optimistic about...

On Sunday, the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum is hosting a launch for a new book about the 2008 Super Bowl champion Steelers defense. It’s entitled “Legendary: The 2008 Pittsburgh Steelers Defense, the Zone Blitz, and My Six Decades in the NFL.” The book is authored by the 2008 team’s defensive...

Editor’s note: From now until the first practice of training camp at Saint Vincent College, TribLive is running through the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 90-man roster, looking at each player and assessing his outlook for the 2024 season. The breakdown will run in alphabetical order with at least two players each day...

It was no secret that the strongest division in District 31 American Legion baseball this season was the Western. Even though Eastern champion Latrobe finished with the best record (16-0-3), the Western had five of the eight teams that made the playoffs. Pairings for the playoffs, which begin at 5:30...

Most of the big stars from the last Olympics will be back at the pool in Paris. Caeleb Dressel. Katie Ledecky. Ariarne Titmus. Emma McKeon. But the local favorite might just shine brightest of them all. France’s Léon Marchand has drawn comparisons to the great Michael Phelps, a link that...

It is important to win games at the AHL level, but it also is crucial to develop young players so they can make an impact in the NHL. With many players on the Pittsburgh Penguins’ roster growing older and nearing retirement, the impetus is on Kirk MacDonald to shepherd the...

For his involvement in an alleged domestic violence incident that led to criminal charges being filed, Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Cameron Sutton will miss almost half of the 2024 regular season. The NFL on Monday announced that Sutton, who returned to the Steelers in June after spending last season in Detroit,...