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Grant scores 13 as Duquesne defeats George Mason 59-51Video
FAIRFAX, Va. — Dae Dae Grant had 13 points in Duquesne’s 59-51 win against George Mason on Saturday. Grant had three steals for the Dukes (18-11, 8-8 Atlantic 10), who got to .500 in the A-10 after an 0-5 start. Jimmy Clark III scored 12 points while going 5 of...
Christie has 19 points, Hawkins chips in with 18 and Minnesota rallies to beat Penn State 75-70Video
MINNEAPOLIS — Cam Christie scored 19 points, Elijah Hawkins added 18 and Minnesota rallied from a 12-point deficit in the second half and beat Penn State, 75-70, on Saturday to sweep the season series. Minnesota (18-11, 9-9 Big Ten), which won 83-74 at Penn State on Jan. 27, ended a...
NASCAR caught Joey Logano wearing an amphibious-like glove in a cheating violationVideo
LAS VEGAS — NASCAR on Saturday displayed a clearly altered glove that Joey Logano wore in qualifying at Atlanta Motor Speedway, where aerodynamic-deflecting alterations were so obvious it looked as if he was wearing part of an amphibious costume. The black glove for Logano’s left hand had webbing made of...
Henry Davis homers, draws RBI walk in 5-run 5th as Pirates beat Tigers
Henry Davis continues to make a strong impression on the Pittsburgh Pirates, whether or not he’s swinging the bat. Davis crushed his second home run of spring training in the first inning and drew a bases-loaded walk to drive in another run in a five-run fifth, showing why the catcher...
Steelers use NFL Combine to scout players who could provide help on aging defensive line
Thirteen years ago, the Pittsburgh Steelers last used a first-round pick on a defensive lineman to fit their 3-4 scheme. Cameron Heyward is still chugging along as he approaches 35 years old, but he is coming off a core muscle injury that cost him six games early last season and...
Mark Madden’s Hot Take: Penguins have few options with aging Evgeni Malkin
Sidney Crosby and Kris Letang, both 36, have prepared to play when they’re 40 since they were 10. Crosby is thusly still one of the NHL’s five best players, and Letang is very good. Their conditioning is insane. Evgeni Malkin didn’t do that. Malkin is 37. He’s aged like a...
Change, higher learning are keys for Pat Narduzzi while Pitt’s offseason shifts toward spring drills
Pat Narduzzi turns 58 nine days after Pitt’s Blue-Gold Spring game next month, steeped in the dogged stubbornness that comes from growing up with an old-school coach as a dad, a decade or more as a linebacker and 34 years as a coach at six institutions of higher learning. Those...
Union girls fend off challenge from St. Joseph to defend WPIAL title in OTVideo
Winning a WPIAL basketball championship is hard enough. Two in a row seems improbable. Add in a double-digit deficit early in the game, and the difficulty level increases even more. But the top-seeded Union girls pulled it off Saturday, coming up clutch in overtime and securing back-to-back titles with a...
A look at the Penguins’ roster as the trade deadline approaches
The NHL’s trade deadline is Friday. Here is a minimally educated guess at which members of the Penguins’ current NHL roster could be traded. All contract information is from Cap Friendly. Probably won’t be traded Noel Acciari, center: Acciari has two years remaining on a contract with a salary cap...
‘Play the right way’: Gold Glove 3B Ke’Bryan Hayes evolving into a model player for Pirates
BRADENTON, Fla. — John Wehner didn’t need defensive analytics or awards to prove what his eyes were telling him when he called Ke’Bryan Hayes the best defensive third baseman he’d ever seen. But Wehner was going out on a limb, as Hayes was only a rookie for the Pittsburgh Pirates...
WR Marvin Harrison Jr., QBs Caleb Williams, Drake Maye, Jayden Daniels vie for top spot
INDIANAPOLIS — Caleb Williams and Jayden Daniels arrived in Indianapolis as Heisman Trophy winners. Drake Maye is seeking to add to his family’s impressive athletic legacy. And the only player who might prevent those three talented quarterbacks from going 1-2-3 in this year’s NFL Draft appears to be All-America receiver...
Minor league report: Sam Poulin, Radim Zohorna return as Penguins beat CheckersVideo
Two goals by forward Vinnie Hinostroza led the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins to a 4-1 home win against the Charlotte Checkers at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Friday. Forward Sam Poulin recorded three assists for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (28-18-7-1) while linemate Radim Zohorna contributed a goal and an assist. Poulin (seven games) and...
Moon rallies past Franklin Regional to secure 5th WPIAL boys basketball title
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...
Caitlin Clark eager to enjoy rest of the ride at Iowa before draft
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...
Norwin topples North Allegheny to capture 3rd WPIAL girls basketball championshipVideo
Sweets to the sweet. Norwin girls basketball coach Brian Brozeski, who revealed after Friday’s night’s WPIAL Class 6A title game that he likes to bake, likened his team and its run to championship to making a pie. “It’s the perfect recipe,” Brozeski said, pointing to the eight girls who joined...
After loss in court, NCAA pausing investigations into 3rd-party NIL deals with athletes
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...
Fanatics founder Michael Rubin says company unfairly blamed for new MLB uniforms
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...
Olympic commission suggests changes, including splitting grassroots, elite systems, nixing word ‘amateur’
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...
Deer Lakes tops rival Burrell to win 2nd straight WPIAL Class 3A title
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...
Former Aliquippa, Pitt corner M.J. Devonshire wants to follow in his mentor’s footsteps in NFL
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...
Bryan Reynolds, Jared Triolo clear deck with homers as Pirates beat Rays
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...
Penguins recall forward Jonathan Gruden
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...
Sizable gap between analytics, results continues to confound Penguins
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...
Super Bowl champion, former Steelers linebacker Andy Russell dies at 82
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...
Mark Madden: Pittsburgh is lucky to have had all-time great sports announcers
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...
