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Bushy Run Legion, Trafford Junior Legion complete successful seasons
The only things missing from the Bushy Run American Legion and Trafford Junior Legion baseball teams’ season in 2024 were state titles. Both teams advanced to their respective state tournaments, a first time for Bushy Run and the fourth consecutive season for Trafford, but injuries and being shorthanded end their...
Pirates farm report for Aug. 3, 2024: Billy Cook, Nick Yorke each double twice in Indy loss
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 49-54) lost 8-7 to Toledo (Tigers) in 10 innings. RF Billy Cook (.282) went 2 for 4 with two doubles, two runs scored and a stolen base. LF Nick Yorke (.313) went 2 for 4 with two doubles, a run scored and an RBI. C Henry Davis (.314)...
Homers by Joey Bart, Bryan Reynolds propel Pirates past Diamondbacks to tie series
Derek Shelton’s anxiety was running high during a rain delay Saturday night, as the Pittsburgh Pirates manager sat in his office and watched the downpour and the clock as it ticked past the one-hour mark. Shelton realized that the longer the delay lasted, the less chance he would be able...
Kaori Yamamoto retains lead after weather delayed round at U.S. Senior Women’s Open
After a long, weather-delayed third round at the U.S. Women’s Senior Open on Saturday at Fox Chapel Golf Club, Kaori Yamamoto held on to her lead after shooting 1-over-par. She will be in last pairing Sunday for the final round, leading the field at 7-under. Four others are chasing Yamamoto...
Steelers inside the ropes: George Pickens gets 2 scores, but defense dominates ‘Seven Shots’
Despite coach Mike Tomlin withholding some of his most experienced — and decorated — defensive players from team portions of practice Saturday, that unit showed it was up to the challenge at the outset of a two-hour workout at Saint Vincent. Defense ruled the opening “seven shots” 2-point simulation drill...
Tigers retire Hall of Fame Jim Leyland’s No. 10 next to World Series winner Sparky Anderson on wallVideo
DETROIT — Jim Leyland’s No. 10 was retired by the Detroit Tigers, putting the Hall of Fame manager’s name and number in white on a brick wall next to World Series winner Sparky Anderson. “When I look out on that wall and see my name with the Tiger greats, it’s...
OLB Markus Golden bided his time, waiting for Steelers to bring him back for 1 more year
Markus Golden knew he would return for a second season with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He just didn’t know when he would get the call to come back. “If they had told me to come in the day after the season ended, I would have done that,” Golden said Saturday. “I...
Steelers camp report: Tomlin reduces wear and tear on players day after physical night workout
On the heels of a physical workout under the lights at Latrobe Memorial Stadium, coach Mike Tomlin dialed back the contact Saturday as training camp returned to its normal weekend afternoon time slot. After players wore pads Friday night and Tomlin held a rematch of the feisty “backs on backers”...
Steelers get best and worst of Justin Fields at training camp — and that’s fine with them
The qualities that made Justin Fields the No. 11 overall draft pick in 2021 have been evident during the first 10 days of Pittsburgh Steelers training camp at Saint Vincent. The 25-year-old quarterback has dazzled with long runs after breaking containment in the pocket. He has made some laser-sharp throws...
Steve ‘Mongo’ McMichael, who has ALS, enters the Pro Football Hall of Fame in ceremony at his homeVideo
Steve McMichael couldn’t make it to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, so the ceremony came to him. Battling ALS and bedridden in the advanced stages of the neurological disease, the 66-year-old two-time All-Pro defensive tackle was the second player enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame among seven...
Isiah Kiner-Falefa took winding road from rehab assignment to being activated by Pirates
Isiah Kiner-Falefa’s return from a rehabilitation assignment to the major leagues was a winding road, one that involved a trade and required multiple crossings of the Canadian border. Kiner-Falefa was traveling back and forth from Toronto to Triple-A Buffalo while recovering from a left knee sprain, then took a flight...
Debuts of 3 new coordinators to weigh heavily in Penn State’s success
STATE COLLEGE — It’s a testament to Penn State’s returning players that the Nittany Lions are considered to be a strong contender for the 12-team College Football Playoff this season, the first year of expansion from the four-team field. During the CFP’s four-team era (2014-23), making the cut proved elusive...
North Allegheny grad Ayden Owens-Delerme finishes 9th in decathlon at Olympics
Former WPIAL track star Ayden Owens-Delerme, who entered Saturday in contention for a medal, finished ninth in the decathlon while making his Olympic debut in Paris. The North Allegheny graduate accumulated 8,437 points in the 10-event competition held over two days at the 80,000-seat Stade de France. A former college...
Xander Schauffele, Jon Rahm share lead in star-heavy chase for Olympic gold in golfVideo
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — Golf finally has some Olympic buzz from a big and boisterous gallery, and it has the star power to match going into the final round of the men’s competition with medals finally at stake. Xander Schauffele and Jon Rahm were tied for the lead Saturday, one shot...
Trinity Rodman’s ‘bit of magic’ sends U.S. women into Olympic soccer semifinalsVideo
PARIS — Mallory Swanson says Trinity Rodman gave the United States a bit of magic when the team needed it most. Rodman scored in extra time, and the United States advanced to the women’s soccer semifinals at the Paris Olympics with a 1-0 victory over Japan on Saturday. “Ultimately in...
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif clinches medal at Olympics amid controversyVideo
VILLEPINTE, France — Boxer Imane Khelif of Algeria clinched a medal at the Paris Olympics in an emotional fight Saturday that followed days of sharp scrutiny and online abuse as misconceptions about her gender exploded into a larger clash about identity in sports. Khelif defeated Anna Luca Hamori of Hungary,...
Sha’Carri Richardson’s comeback halted by Julien Alfred, who wins 100-meter title
SAINT-DENIS, France — Sha’Carri Richardson’s comeback story hit a brick wall Saturday when Julien Alfred romped in the rain to the 100-meter title in 10.72 seconds to bring the first Olympic medal to her island country of Saint Lucia. Racing one lane to the left of Richardson, and with water...
Penn State grad Stephen ‘Pommel Horse Guy’ Nedoroscik adds another bronze at OlympicsVideo
Stephen Nedoroscik’s meticulous attention to details and rituals do not stop with his pommel horse routine. Outside the gym, the Penn State graduate can be obsessive, too. So when he again solved his Rubik’s Cube in under 10 seconds Saturday ahead of the pommel horse final at the Paris Olympics,...
Katie Ledecky swims into history with 800 freestyle victory at OlympicsVideo
NANTERRE, France — Every year on August 3, Katie Ledecky is reminded of her first Olympic gold medal. She was just 15 years old, a reserved high schooler who had surprisingly made the U.S. swim team for the London Games. Then she went out and shocked the world, beating everyone...
Katie Ledecky swims into history with 800 freestyle victory at the Paris Olympics
NANTERRE, France — Katie Ledecky capped another stellar Olympics by becoming only the second swimmer to win an event at four straight Summer Games, holding off Ariarne Titmus to win the 800-meter freestyle Saturday night. It was Ledecky’s second gold medal in Paris and ninth of her remarkable career, which...
Central Catholic grad Michael Grady felt ‘joy and happiness and relief’ in winning Olympic goldVideo
Michael Grady did not get to participate in the opulent opening ceremonies of the Olympics on July 26. As a rower, his presence would have been fitting for the “parade” of nations that took place on mechanized watercraft surging through the rain and the Seine river of Paris. But the...
U.S. men’s basketball rolls into Olympic quarterfinals as top seed after rout of Puerto RicoVideo
VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France — Halfway to its goal of gold, the U.S. has the No. 1 seed going into the medal round at the Paris Olympics. And now the real games start. Anthony Edwards scored 26 points, six players reached double figures for the U.S. and the Americans wrapped up the...
Simone Biles captures 7th Olympic gold medal by winning women’s vault for 2nd time
PARIS — Simone Biles is getting kind of old for this. Just maybe not too old to keep going. Maybe. Minutes after the American gymnastics star won the seventh Olympic gold of her career Saturday in a vault final that left little doubt that, even at 27, she remains in...
Mark Madden’s Hot Take: For Pirates to succeed, Oneil Cruz has to help more than he hurts
Oneil Cruz giveth and he taketh away. The Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop did the latter this past Wednesday when he made three errors, including two on the same play. Cruz’s miscues led directly to three unearned runs and a 5-4 loss at Houston. Cruz did the former Friday when he went...
Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz meet for the Olympic tennis men’s singles gold
PARIS — Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz will meet for the men’s tennis singles gold medal at the Paris Olympics on Sunday in the latest installment of a fascinating old-vs.-young rivalry that included a matchup in the Wimbledon final three weeks ago. Alcaraz won that one — “Quite comfortably,” Djokovic...
