Sports category, Page 458
U.S. goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher retiring from international soccer
U.S. women’s national team goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher is retiring from international soccer. Naeher is on the team’s roster for a pair of upcoming matches in Europe but those games will be her last after a full 11 years playing for the United States. Over the course of her career, Naeher...
Penguins acquire forward Philip Tomasino from PredatorsVideo
The Pittsburgh Penguins acquired forward Philip Tomasino from the Nashville Predators on Monday. In return, they exchanged a fourth-round pick in the 2027 draft. Tomasino, 23, was a first-round draft pick (No. 24 overall) in 2019. A right-handed shot, he has appeared in 11 games this season and has recorded...
Penguins reassign forward Sam Poulin to AHL
The Pittsburgh Penguins assigned forward Sam Poulin to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League Monday following a team practice in Cranberry. Poulin, the Penguins’ first-round (No. 21 overall) draft pick in 2019, skated in a career-high six NHL contests this season after playing in three both in 2022-23 and 2023-24....
Duquesne falls to 0-6 after loss to Hampton in Cayman Islands Classic
Duquesne’s nightmarish start continues. A year after making their first NCAA Tournament appearance in 47 years, the Dukes’ season-opening losing streak in men’s basketball reached six games Monday at the Cayman Islands Classic, the worst start in the 110-year history of the program. Hampton’s Noah Farrakhan scored 24 points, including...
Kevin Hayes returns to Penguins’ lineup as club attempts to pull out of tailspin
Kevin Hayes has not enjoyed the experience of having to watch from the press box as the Pittsburgh Penguins navigate an early-season tailspin. Hayes, who suffered an unspecified upper-body injury Nov. 5, returned to the Penguins’ lineup Saturday vs. Utah Hockey Club, but he missed the eight previous games as...
Kansas stays at No. 1 ahead of showdown vs. No. 11 Duke; Ole Miss, Mississippi State back in AP Top 25
Kansas remained solidly entrenched at No. 1 in the AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll Monday ahead of its showdown with No. 11 Duke in Las Vegas, while a pair of schools from the Magnolia State elbowed their way back into the rankings. Ole Miss returned to the poll...
Duquesne football ranked in final regular season poll, falls short of FCS playoffs
Duquesne’s football team wrapped up its season Saturday after a 21-14 loss to Central Connecticut State, failing to earn an automatic bid to the postseason. On Sunday, the Dukes were not selected to participate in the Division I FCS playoffs as an at-large team. On Monday, Duquesne was ranked No....
Pitcher Yusei Kikuchi and Los Angeles Angels agree to a $63 million, 3-year contract, AP source says
Left-hander Yusei Kikuchi and the Los Angeles Angels have agreed to a $63 million, three-year contract, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity Monday because the deal, first reported by the New York Post, was subject to a successful physical....
Latrobe grad Sofia DeCerb helps James Madison women’s soccer make program history with timely saves in goal
Texas State had all the momentum. After falling behind James Madison, 2-0, in the Sun Belt women’s soccer championship match, TSU rallied to tie the score 2-2 in the 55th minute. And in the 70th minute, the Bobcats had a breakaway. All that stood in the way of the go-ahead...
St. Joseph grad Trinity Lockwood-Morris taps into new talent with Pitt-Greensburg cross country teamVideo
Throughout a three-sport high school career at St. Joseph, Trinity Lockwood-Morris did her share of running. Whether it was on the soccer pitch or up and down a basketball court — or during offseason training for both — running was a part of her life. But it wasn’t something she...
Pitt men’s soccer to play Kansas City in NCAA Round of 16
Midfielder Arnau Vilamitjan buried a penalty kick in the 45th minute, and the Pitt men’s soccer team made the score hold up for a 1-0 victory over Cornell in the second round of the NCAA tournament Sunday night at Pitt’s Ambrose Urbanic Field. The No. 2-seeded Panthers (13-5) played down...
Mark Madden: Pirates will cash in on Paul Skenes; he will get his cash elsewhere
Some say the Pittsburgh Pirates are the worst organization in big-time sports. Given their priorities, they’re a lot closer to being one of the best. That’s what the dorks who protest and rent billboards don’t get: There’s no mining shame and embarrassment from an owner and franchise that don’t care...
First Call: NFL reviewing George Pickens’ scrum in Cleveland; thoughts on Russell Wilson staying in PittsburghVideo
Monday’s “First Call” has some potential fallout from the end of Thursday’s Steelers-Browns game. There’s some forecasting about the future of Pittsburgh’s quarterback position. We preview the “Monday Night Football” game and its implications for the Steelers. And the Duquesne basketball team continues its tournament in the Cayman Islands. League...
Tim Benz: Penguins’ weekend on center stage shows how bad things have gotten
In the not-too-distant past, a pre-Thanksgiving mini-bye for the Steelers would’ve been the perfect time for many Pittsburgh sports fans to shelve their NFL obsessions and take in a little Penguins hockey for a few days. Not only were the Steelers off this past weekend because of their Thursday night...
Madden Monday: ‘We’ll know instantly’ if Steelers’ loss to Browns will result in long-term damages
In the days since the Pittsburgh Steelers (8-3) fell to the Cleveland Browns (3-8) on Thursday night, many Steelers fans have had the same concern. Was that just one bad night? Or was that a harbinger of things to come? Was that the 2024 version of losing to Washington after...
Pitt struggled to handle Wisconsin’s John Tonje, but Jeff Capel said Panthers learned ‘great lesson’ in defeat
The consolation game went into triple overtime and the shot clock wasn’t working at the outset. So, the start of the Greenbrier Tipoff championship game in White Sulpher Springs, W.Va., was delayed 75 minutes. Then, while Pitt was attempting to deal with No. 19 Wisconsin in its most difficult test...
No. 5 UCLA women’s basketball team ends No. 1 South Carolina’s 43-game winning streakVideo
LOS ANGELES — Top-ranked South Carolina felt something it hasn’t known in over 2 1/2 years. The sting of defeat after being thoroughly dominated in a 77-62 women’s basketball loss to No. 5 UCLA on Sunday. Gone was the overall 43-game winning streak. Done was the run of 33 consecutive...
Duquesne men lose again, this time in Cayman Islands
Duquesne’s season-opening streak without a victory in men’s basketball under first-year coach Dru Joyce III reached five Sunday with a 71-60 loss to South Dakota State in the first of three games in three days for the Dukes at the Cayman Islands Classic in George Town, Grand Cayman. Oscar Cluff’s...
Pitt suffers 1st loss, falling to undefeated No. 19 Wisconsin in Greenbrier Tipoff
Two undefeated teams met Sunday night in the championship game of the Greenbrier Tipoff in White Sulpher Springs, W.Va., and No. 19 Wisconsin’s late surge was enough to hand Pitt (6-1) its first loss of the season 81-75. Pitt played almost the entire game without guard Damian Dunn, who suffered...
Maverick McNealy birdies last hole to finally win on PGA Tour
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — Maverick McNealy has learned in his five years on the PGA Tour that trying to win a tournament is “designed to make you feel as uncomfortable as you possibly can.” Standing in the 18th fairway Sunday in the RSM Classic, part of a four-way tie...
Alabama, Mississippi out of top 10 in AP poll; Penn State remains No. 4Video
Alabama and Mississippi tumbled out of the top 10 of the Associated Press Top 25 poll Sunday, and Miami and SMU moved in following a chaotic weekend in the SEC and across college football in general. Oregon is No. 1 for the sixth straight week and Ohio State, Texas and...
NFL Week 12: late-game rally derailed by a missed extra point and Cowboys stun CommandersVideo
LANDOVER, Md. — Austin Seibert missed his second extra point of the game with 21 seconds left after Jayden Daniels and Terry McLaurin connected on an 86-yard touchdown, Juanyeh Thomas returned the ensuing onside kick attempt for a touchdown and the Dallas Cowboys pulled out a 34-26 victory Sunday that...
Tulsa fires coach Kevin Wilson a day after blowout loss to South Florida
TULSA, Okla. — Tulsa fired football coach Kevin Wilson on Sunday and will elevate wide receivers coach Ryan Switzer on an interim basis for the remainder of the season. The Golden Hurricane lost to South Florida 63-30 on Saturday, dropping their record to 3-8. The school’s decision concludes Wilson’s two-year...
When Harbaugh brothers meet Monday, Archie Manning can relateVideo
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Archie Manning can empathize with what Jack Harbaugh will be going through again Monday night. For the first time in 11 years, the 85-year-old patriarch of the Harbaugh family has to be a neutral observer with Jim’s Los Angeles Chargers hosting John’s Baltimore Ravens in the...
Rico Carty, who won the 1970 NL batting title with the Atlanta Braves, has died
Rico Carty, who won the 1970 NL batting title when he hit a major league-best .366 for the Atlanta Braves, has died. He was 85. Major League Baseball, the players’ association and the Braves paid tribute to Carty on social media on Sunday. No further details on Carty’s death were...
