Sports category, Page 546

One team got hot in the fourth quarter, and the other was not. Moon’s Michael Santicola broke a fourth-quarter tie with consecutive 3-pointers about a minute apart as the top-seeded Tigers rallied late to defeat No. 2 Franklin Regional, 53-48, in the WPIAL Class 5A boys basketball final Friday night...

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Caitlin Clark knew with Iowa’s final regular-season home game looming, it was time to make her decision about whether to enter the WNBA Draft or stay in college for a fifth season. That’s why Clark announced Thursday that she would go to the WNBA at the...

Following another courtroom loss, the NCAA has halted investigations into booster-backed collectives or other third parties making name, image and likeness compensation deals with Division I athletes. In a letter to member schools Friday, NCAA President Charlie Baker said the Division I Board of Directors directed enforcement staff “to pause...

BOSTON — Fanatics founder Michael Rubin says his company is being unfairly blamed for new Major League Baseball uniforms that have see-through pants and other fit and design problems. “This is a little bit of a difficult position,” he said Friday at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. “We’re purely...

A panel charged with reviewing the Olympic structure in the U.S. is calling for Congress to consider wide-ranging changes, including government funding of the U.S. Center for SafeSport, severing grassroots from the elite sports system and even removing the word “amateur” in a potential rewrite of the 1978 law that...

Billy Schaeffer couldn’t quite put into words what it meant for Deer Lakes to win back-to-back WPIAL boys basketball titles and this time do so against rival Burrell. But the wide smile on his face told the story. “I don’t know what to say, so I’m just going to keep...

As far as mentors go, M.J. Devonshire may be without peers when it comes to the prospects attending the NFL Combine in Indianapolis. When the former Pitt cornerback was contemplating whether to return to school for a sixth season or declare for the NFL Draft, all he did was dial...

BRADENTON, Fla. — Bryan Reynolds took play-by-play announcer Greg Brown’s “clear the deck” home run call to another level. Reynolds smashed a cannonball that sailed over the deck and left field bleachers and out of LECOM Park, his second shot this week that left the ballpark. It inspired Jared Triolo...

The Pittsburgh Penguins recalled Jonathan Gruden from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League on Friday. This marked the third transaction in less than 48 hours with Gruden. On Thursday afternoon, he was recalled to the NHL roster only to be returned to the AHL roster approximately 10 hours later. This...

A lie detector test would be in order for anyone claiming to have predicted that at this increasingly late juncture of the season, an inability to score enough goals would be the Pittsburgh Penguins’ Achilles’ heel. From afar, as the Penguins got underway in October, inconsistent goaltending, struggles on the...

Andy Russell, the seven-time Pro Bowl linebacker who won two Super Bowl rings with the Pittsburgh Steelers, has died. Russell, a 16th-round draft pick who played 12 seasons with the Steelers, was 82. A source confirmed Russell’s death to TribLive. A cause of death was not immediately known. News partner...

Bill Hillgrove retired. Kind of. He will cease doing Pittsburgh Steelers radio broadcasts after 30 years. But Hillgrove will continue to do Pitt football and basketball. It says a lot about Hillgrove’s limitless energy when, at 83, he wants to slow down gradually. And continue to serve as the midnight mayor...

After 30 years of doing radio play-by-play for Pittsburgh Steelers games, Bill Hillgrove announced Thursday that he would be retiring from that position. However, he will continue to do play-by-play for Pitt football and basketball. “You can’t completely stop,” Hillgrove said during Thursday’s “Breakfast With Benz” podcast. “I think people...

In the 21 months since Omar Khan took over for Kevin Colbert as the Pittsburgh Steelers general manager, we have spent a lot of time trying to figure out ways the two men might be different. Khan may be a little more aggressive in free agency and moving up the...

Friday’s “First Call” examines Omar Khan’s statements about the Pittsburgh Steelers’ inside linebacker situation and Diontae Johnson’s future. Plus we look at a busy weekend for local college hoops and the Robert Morris hockey playoff game. Inside out If you are looking for comfort when it comes to the Steelers’...

Interest in Pitt’s final three regular-season games isn’t the same as it would have been if the Panthers had defeated either Wake Forest or Clemson. At this point, no one wants to hear the initials N-I-T when N-C-A-A are the only letters that really matter in March. Nonetheless, Pitt has...

BRADENTON, Fla. — When the Pittsburgh Pirates played their Grapefruit League home opener, Jack Suwinski found his name in the same spot of the batting order as he was at the end of last September. Pirates manager Derek Shelton had Suwinski hitting cleanup, behind Oneil Cruz, Bryan Reynolds and Ke’Bryan...

The Pittsburgh Penguins had a modest three-game winning streak halted as they were shut out for the third time this season, losing to the Seattle Kraken, 2-0, at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle on Thursday. Kraken goaltender Philip Grubauer unofficially made 33 saves to record his first shutout of the...

As spring camp nears, Penn State will be without a veteran defensive lineman. Defensive tackle Jordan van den Berg is no longer on the roster, a team spokesperson confirmed to PennLive on Thursday night. The news of his exit was first reported by on3. Van den Berg, who was not...

Before the start of the season, Jeff Capel felt good about Pitt’s nonconference schedule. There was a trip to Morgantown, W.Va., where the Mountaineers are usually tough to beat. Plus, Capel scheduled a home date with a Missouri team from the SEC that was in the NCAA Tournament last season....

The College Football Playoff unveiled a 12-team format in the spring of 2021 that looked like an exciting step in the evolution of the postseason, with potential to lift the sport’s national profile even further while boosting all five power conferences and keeping the other five relevant. Three years later,...