Steelers rookie QB Will Howard returns to practice, remains on IR
For the first time during the regular season, Pittsburgh Steelers rookie quarterback Will Howard participated in practice Wednesday. Howard remains on the injured reserve list, but getting cleared to practice opens up a 21-day window during which he must be activated to the 53-man roster or else he is lost...
NFL moves its Pro Bowl festivities to Super Bowl week
NEW YORK — The NFL is moving its Pro Bowl festivities to Super Bowl week beginning this February, the latest adjustment for the all-star event that became a flag football game a few years ago. Commissioner Roger Goodell announced the change Wednesday at the league’s annual fall owners meeting. “We’ve...
Maurkice Pouncey, in 1st year of eligibility, among 4 former Steelers to advance in HOF voting
The Pittsburgh Steelers had four players advance to the next round of the Pro Football Hall of Fame balloting. Surviving the cutdown to 52 players were kicker Gary Anderson, outside linebacker James Harrison, center Maurkice Pouncey and wide receiver Hines Ward. The list began with 128 nominees and will be...
Mark Madden: Will the Penguins repeat a costly mistake with Ben Kindel?
It’s early in the development of rookie forwards Ben Kindel and Ville Koivunen. Kindel is with the Pittsburgh Penguins, Koivunen with their Wilkes-Barre/Scranton farm club. But here’s a cautionary tale: The Penguins picked Russian winger Aleksey Morozov in the first round of the 1995 NHL Draft (24th overall). Morozov played...
Former Penguins forward Jean-Sebastien Dea signs in Germany
Former Pittsburgh Penguins forward Jean-Sebastien Dea has signed a contract for the remainder of the 2025-26 season with Eisbaren Berlin of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga, Germany’s top league. That team announced the transaction via a release on Wednesday. A native of Laval, Quebec, the 31-year-old Dea began the season with...
WPIAL bracketology: Don Rebel, Chris Harlan forecast 2025 football playoff pairings
Math may matter, but not when it comes to WPIAL football wild cards. This is the second year of the playoff format in which wild card teams are no longer determined by Gardner Points or the WPIAL tiebreaker formula. Now, 16 additional berths will have to wait until Selection Saturday...
First Call: Jets owner pans Justin Fields’ play, dismisses Aaron Rodgers’ departure; Russell Wilson fires back at Sean Payton
Wednesday’s “First Call” features former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Justin Fields absorbing shots from the owner of his new team. That same owner, Woody Johnson, also comments on letting Aaron Rodgers leave for Pittsburgh. Meanwhile, Russell Wilson isn’t happy. We’ll tell you why. A former Steelers receiver is back on the...
Tim Benz: Failure to fix known problems will lead to more ‘catastrophic’ days for Steelers’ defense
If you were looking for answers from Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin on Tuesday regarding the state of his wobbling defense, you didn’t get any. That might be because he doesn’t have them. Or because he doesn’t want to say them out loud. Or because he doesn’t want to admit...
Goaltender Arturs Silovs beats former team as Penguins rout Canucks for 3rd straight win
Goaltender Arturs Silovs doesn’t harbor any ill will towards the Vancouver Canucks over trading him to the Pittsburgh Penguins in July. He understands it was a matter of sound roster management as the Canucks had a logjam in net and someone had to go. “It was fun to play for...
Steelers will again televise 4 WPIAL football finals at Acrisure Stadium
Television plans for the upcoming WPIAL football finals remain the same as last year, said the WPIAL administrator who oversees league championships. The four games played at Acrisure Stadium will again be televised through a partnership with the Pittsburgh Steelers, while the two games played elsewhere will not. The WPIAL...
Angels tab Kurt Suzuki as next manager
The Los Angeles Angels are hiring Kurt Suzuki as their next manager, multiple media outlets reported Tuesday. Suzuki, 42, has spent the past three seasons as a special assistant to Los Angeles general manager Perry Minasian. He finished his 16-year playing career by spending his final two seasons as a...
Blue Jays carry hopes of a nation into World Series amid Canada-U.S. tension
TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays have crashed baseball’s biggest party and will have the support of an entire nation when they face the star-studded and deep-pocketed Los Angeles Dodgers in a World Series played amid ongoing Canada-U.S. political tension. After 32 years in baseball’s wilderness, Canada’s lone MLB team...
Aaron Rodgers gets chance to defeat 32nd NFL team when Steelers face Packers
Aaron Rodgers has beaten 31 of the NFL’s 32 teams, the exception being the team with which he spent the first 18 seasons of his decorated career. Rodgers will get a chance to join an elite fraternity if he’s able to help the Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Green Bay Packers...
Play of Steelers’ high-profile secondary hasn’t ‘met my vision,’ coach Mike Tomlin admits
If he were viewing the progress of his secondary through binoculars, Mike Tomlin would be continually adjusting the focus knob to get a clearer picture of what he sees in front of him. Tomlin admitted as much Tuesday when he said the Pittsburgh Steelers’ acquisitions at cornerback and safety haven’t...
Pitt aims to clean up offensive line play before next test vs. N.C. State
No player more personified Pitt’s penalty woes over the weekend at Syracuse than Kendall Stanley, who was flagged for five of the team’s 13 infractions. In particular, three of Pitt’s four false start penalties were on Stanley, who also had an unnecessary roughness call in the fourth quarter. While Pitt’s...
Penguins broadcaster Josh Getzoff returns to television booth
Tuesday was fairly quotidian for Josh Getzoff. After dropping his kids off at day care in the morning, he trekked to UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex in Cranberry to do his customary preparation as the play-by-play voice of the Pittsburgh Penguins on SportsNet Pittsburgh broadcasts. He updated his “boards,” which are...
Penguins goaltender Arturs Silovs scheduled to face Canucks
Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Arturs Silovs is scheduled to start Tuesday’s game against his former team, the Vancouver Canucks, at PPG Paints Arena. Coach Dan Muse announced Silovs’ status following an optional morning skate in Cranberry. To this point of the season, the Penguins have alternated every start in net between...
WR Calvin Austin could return from 2-game absence when Steelers face PackersVideo
After missing the past two games because of a shoulder injury, Calvin Austin could return for the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday when they play the Green Bay Packers in prime time at Acrisure Stadium. Austin has not practiced since he injured his shoulder in the Steelers’ game against the Minnesota...
Blue Jays in World Series for 1st time since before Ohtani was born, while Dodgers seek to repeat
NEW YORK — When slugger Joe Carter hit the last World Series pitch thrown in Canada over the left-field wall to win the Toronto Blue Jays’ second consecutive title, it was 8 1/2 months before Shohei Ohtani was born. The Blue Jays are back in baseball’s championship round for the...
Mark Madden: No one is afraid of Steelers’ predictable defense
Let’s take a look at the reality of the Pittsburgh Steelers defense. Not the myth. The myth holds that the defense is elite. It’s not. It’s predictable. As Cincinnati wideout Ja’Marr Chase said after he, the Bengals offense and 40-year-old quarterback Joe Flacco dropped 33 points on the Steelers on...
First Call: Broderick Jones’ thoughts on facing Micah Parsons; Justin Fields’ future in New York
In Tuesday’s “First Call,” Pittsburgh Steelers tackle Broderick Jones discusses his matchup with Micah Parsons when Green Bay visits Acrisure Stadium on Sunday night. An ex-Steeler made an impressive defensive play during “Monday Night Football.” Justin Fields is in limbo as the New York Jets’ starting quarterback. Plus, we have...
Tim Benz: Predicting the Steelers’ difficult 3-game stretch between AFC North games
After splitting back-to-back games in the AFC North, the Pittsburgh Steelers (4-2) are about to play three straight games out of the division before a rematch against the Cincinnati Bengals (3-4). Those games won’t be easy. On Sunday night, the Green Bay Packers come to town. Then the Steelers host...
Jackson Smith-Njigba, defense power Seahawks past Texans
SEATTLE — Jaxon Smith-Njigba had his NFL-leading fifth 100-yard receiving game of the season as the Seattle Seahawks beat the Houston Texans, 27-19, on Monday night. Smith-Njigba, who entered the game leading the league in receiving yards, gave Seattle a 14-0 lead late in the first quarter when he caught...
Springer’s homer sends Blue Jays into World Series with win over Mariners in Game 7 of ALCS
TORONTO — George Springer put Toronto ahead with a three-run homer in the seventh inning and the Toronto Blue Jays advanced to the World Series for the first time since 1993 by beating the Seattle Mariners 4-3 in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series on Monday night. It...
Gibbs has career-high 218 yards of offense and 2 TDs, helping Lions bounce back and beat Bucs 24-9
DETROIT — Jahmyr Gibbs was offered oxygen on the bench after on a 78-yard run. He turned it down. Clearly, he was not out of breath. Gibbs scored on a long sprint in the second quarter, a 5-yard spinning plunge in the third and accounted for a career-high 218 yards...
