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Las Vegas, where the party never ends, prepares for its biggest yet: Super Bowl 58
LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas proposed to the NFL in December 2021. “Let’s just marry these brands, and let’s bring the Super Bowl here,” Steve Hill, president and CEO of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, recalled telling a room of NFL franchise owners. They said yes. The betrothal...
Jets defenseman Brenden Dillon suspended 3 games for hit on Penguins forward Noel AcciariVideo
Winnipeg Jets defenseman Brenden Dillon was suspended three games by the NHL as a result of a hit he delivered to the head of Pittsburgh Penguins forward Noel Acciari. The league announced the suspension Wednesday evening. During the Penguins’ 3-0 win at PPG Paints Arena on Tuesday, Dillon’s left shoulder...
Mark Madden: Caitlin Clark is a unicorn, so the WNBA should treat her like one
Caitlin Clark is a legit phenomenon. The 6-foot senior guard for the University of Iowa is impacting her sport like nobody before her. Never mind her considerable skills, which have her 66 points away from becoming the all-time leading scorer in NCAA women’s basketball. Clark moves the needle. That’s what...
Tim Benz: Duquesne players, staff rally around Keith Dambrot during his wife’s cancer battle
Duquesne point guard Kareem Rozier said he could see the strain affecting his head coach after the team’s win Wednesday against Chicago State. “Right after the game, you could tell he was hurt,” Rozier said. “He knew what he had going on the next couple of days with his wife....
First Call: Art Rooney II leaves door open to a QB trade; Oilers fail to match Penguins’ record win streak
Pittsburgh Steelers owner Art Rooney II is commenting on the team’s quarterback landscape. One national media pundit is projecting that Russell Wilson will land in Pittsburgh. Patrick Peterson is standing by his early season comments about the San Francisco 49ers in advance of the Super Bowl. The Edmonton Oilers come...
Pirates by Position: Starting job at second base could be biggest battle of spring training
Since Adam Frazier was traded amid an All-Star season in 2021, second base has been something of a misnomer for the Pittsburgh Pirates. It’s more like a short stop. The Pirates have tried 24 players at the position over the past two-plus years, and not one has started even half...
‘Urgent’ care: Penguins show they understand reality of their situation coming out of break
The word “urgency” has become quite popular in recent weeks around the Pittsburgh sports scene. Steelers owner Art Rooney II said his franchise is starting to feel that sense when it comes to ending its seven-year drought without a playoff win. When we will see evidence of that urgency from...
Edmonton’s winning streak ends in Vegas just short of Penguins’ NHL record 17-game run
LAS VEGAS — Chandler Stephenson scored the go-ahead goal, Adin Hill stopped 30 shots, and the Vegas Golden Knights brought an end to the Edmonton Oilers’ 16-game winning streak with a 3-1 victory on Tuesday night. Edmonton was looking to tie the 1992-93 Pittsburgh Penguins for the longest NHL win...
Penguins’ retooled power play leads to win against Jets after Noel Acciari’s injury
The Pittsburgh Penguins have altered, amended and augmented their woefully underwhelming power play in a multitude of ways this season. On Tuesday, their latest revision appeared to aid that endeavor greatly during a 3-0 shutout of the Winnipeg Jets at PPG Paints Arena Another thing that helped? Getting five minutes...
Former Olympic gymnastics champion Gabby Douglas announces return to competition
Gabby Douglas, the 2012 Olympic all-around gymnastics champion, will return to competition for the first time in nearly eight years at the Winter Cup on Feb. 24 in Louisville, Ky. The 28-year-old Douglas, who made the announcement on NBC News NOW on Tuesday, was a teenager when she competed in...
Chiefs will likely be short-handed when they play 49ers in the Super BowlVideo
HENDERSON, Nev. — The Kansas City Chiefs could be without three key players when they play the San Francisco 49ers in Sunday’s Super Bowl. Wide receiver Kadarius Toney appeared to get into dispute with Chiefs management about a hip injury that sidelined him for six games, going on Instagram to...
José Altuve and Houston Astros agree to new contact adding $125 million for 2025-29Video
José Altuve and the Houston Astros agreed to a $125 million, five-year contract that covers 2025-29. Houston announced a new multiyear deal for Altuve on Tuesday without disclosing financial details. Altuve has a $26 million salary for 2024 in the final season of a $163.5 million, seven-year deal. The eight-time...
ESPN, Fox, Warner Bros. Discovery to launch sports streaming platform in fall
ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery announced plans Tuesday to launch a sports streaming platform in the fall that will include offerings from at least 15 networks and all four major professional sports leagues. A one-stop app to view most sports should be a welcome sight for fans, who continue...
Penguins defenseman P.O Joseph eager to ‘give back what someone gave me before’
Perhaps there just isn’t a word-for-word way to translate the idea of fear from French to English. Or maybe it’s just his own personal way of explaining the idea of fright. But P.O Joseph, a native of Quebec, has a unique way of describing it. He calls it “the scaries.”...
Duquesne’s Grant takes moment to soak in career milestone, refocuses on A-10 foes
In Lorain, Ohio, Cleveland’s sports teams rule. It is the hometown of Duquesne basketball star Dae Dae Grant, a self-proclaimed beholder of NBA superstar LeBron James, a native of nearby Akron, whose prolific professional career began in 2003 with the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Cavs and Cleveland Browns put basketball and...
Raiders hire Steel Valley graduate Luke Getsy as offensive coordinator
HENDERSON, Nev. — The Las Vegas Raiders hired former Chicago Bears offensive coordinator Luke Getsy on Tuesday, going to their second option after Kliff Kingsbury withdrew from consideration Saturday. Getsy is a Steel Valley graduate who played two years at Pitt before transferring to Akron. New Raiders coach Antonio Pierce...
Chiefs like role as Super Bowl underdogs against 49ers
LAS VEGAS — For most of the past six years, Patrick Mahomes has had to manufacture the chip that he carries on his shoulder, because the Kansas City Chiefs have been so good for so long that they were almost always expected to win. That is no longer the case....
49ers’ Brock Purdy remains unfazed by rise from last pick in draft to Super Bowl QB
LAS VEGAS — Minutes after the San Francisco 49ers finished off a stunning comeback to win the NFC championship, star defender Nick Bosa pulled aside quarterback Brock Purdy and marveled at his journey. Purdy has undergone a meteoric rise from “Mr. Irrelevant” as the final pick of the 2022 draft...
Everyone hopes Chiefs-49ers Super Bowl won’t come down to officiating call
San Francisco 49ers CEO Jed York was asked the other day what comes to mind when he thinks back to his team’s Super Bowl loss to Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs four years ago, and he quipped: “I mean, I remember Nick Bosa getting held on third-and-long —...
Professional Women’s Hockey League to stage game at PPG Paints Arena
The Professional Women’s Hockey League will stage a game between its teams based in Toronto and Montreal at PPG Paints Arena on March 17 at 12:30 p.m. In conjunction with games played a day earlier between the Ottawa and Boston teams at Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena and New York and...
Column: Rory McIlroy and Jay Monahan have trust issues in golf’s big divideVideo
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — The obnoxious money ruining golf was sure to create trust issues with the leadership, and that lingers even as PGA Tour Enterprises is now flush with cash from its new minority investor. Now it might be a question of who has lost the locker room: Jay...
Pittsburgh Stadium Authority backs Steelers’ bid to host NFL draft
The City of Pittsburgh formally approved a bid by the Steelers to host the next available NFL Draft. The city’s Stadium Authority voted unanimously Tuesday to enter into agreements with the NFL, the Pittsburgh Steelers, marketing groups and municipal agencies to “support, effect or cause to occur an NFL Draft...
Minor league report: Nailers win 10th consecutive gameVideo
Two goals by forward Jordan Martel led the Wheeling Nailers to a 3-1 road win against the Reading Royals at Santander Arena in Reading on Tuesday. The victory extended a winning streak to 10 games. Defenseman David Drake recorded two assists for Wheeling (26-16-1-1) while forward Dillon Hamaliuk contributed a...
Pitt, N.C. State set to tangle in Raleigh, hoping to polish their reputations
Over the next week that includes two difficult road games, Pitt can enhance or damage its reputation relative to the rest of the ACC. Going into its game Wednesday night in Raleigh, N.C., against N.C. State, Pitt (14-8, 5-6) is tied for eighth in the 15-team conference, a middle-of-the-road team...
Who will referee this year’s Super Bowl? How do NFL officials prepare?
Some folks who could get plenty of TV time during Super Bowl 58 between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers are household names, of course, from Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and Christian McCaffrey on the field to a certain pop star — Taylor Swift — expected to cheer...
