Sports category, Page 729
Lions lament blowing big lead in chance to reach 1st Super Bowl
ALLEN PARK, Mich. — The Detroit Lions had their best season in generations. Players, coaches and at least some fans are not ready to celebrate at the moment. The Lions let an opportunity slip to play in the Super Bowl for the first time, becoming the first team to lose...
Bishop Canevin fires 1st-place boys basketball coach in middle of his 1st season
The Bishop Canevin boys basketball team is close to clinching a section title, but the Crusaders will finish their season with a different coaching staff. First-year coach Damien Cornish said he and his assistants were let go Monday after meeting with school administrators who told him “the player and parent...
Former Blue Jays, Red Sox and Astros manager Jimy Williams dies at 80
BOSTON — Jimy Williams, the 1999 American League Manager of the Year for Boston who won 910 games over a dozen seasons that included stints with Toronto and Houston, has died. He was 80. The Red Sox said Williams died Friday at AdventHealth North Pinellas Hospital in Tarpon Springs, Florida,...
Analysis: Hard to blame Lions’ Dan Campbell for staying true to his aggressive self
Dan Campbell’s aggressiveness bit his team. The Detroit Lions blew a 17-point halftime lead and missed an opportunity to reach the Super Bowl for the first time in franchise history because their head coach stuck to the same philosophy that helped him turn a perennial loser into a championship contender....
The 49ers showing off comeback ability on drive to Super Bowl
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The San Francisco 49ers have turned into the comeback kids this postseason. The only team that didn’t pull off a second-half rally in the regular season has done it in back-to-back weeks in the playoffs, capped by one of the biggest comebacks in conference championship game...
Analysis: Ravens fail to reach Super Bowl after dominant regular season
OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Less than 24 hours after Baltimore’s season ended with a loss in the AFC championship game, All-Pro safety Kyle Hamilton was dealing with both physical and emotional pain. “Body is sore, heart sore,” he said. “But we move on.” The Ravens head into the offseason lamenting...
Old Dominion dismisses scoring leader Vasean Allette from team for ‘conduct unbecoming of a Monarch’
NORFOLK, Va. — Old Dominion scoring leader Vasean Allette has been dismissed from the team for “conduct unbecoming of a Monarch,” interim coach Kieran Donohue said. Donohue made the announcement Sunday, one day after he said Allette was suspended and did not play in a 76-70 home loss to Georgia...
UConn, Purdue stay atop AP Top 25 while chaos ensues elsewhere in poll
The top five of the AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll remained unchanged Monday, with defending national champ UConn still ahead of mighty Purdue, streaking North Carolina, defensive-minded Houston and Tennessee. There was plenty of chaos in the rest of the poll, where 10 teams moved at least five...
Chiefs finally show what they can do when they play error-free ball
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs kept making dumbfounding mistakes all season — dropped passes, penalties, miscommunication — and each time, Patrick Mahomes confidently insisted they were oh-so-close to putting it all together. Seems as if they finally did. In three playoff wins, two on the road in...
Taylor Swift-inspired flight numbers offered for Chiefs-49ers Super Bowl
MIAMI — Taylor Swift was born in 1989. Travis Kelce wears jersey No. 87. American Airlines and United Airlines took notice. Whether you’re a Swiftie or a member of Chiefs Kingdom, if you need flights from Kansas City to Las Vegas and the Super Bowl on Feb. 11, a few...
Art Rooney II on playoff losses: ‘We’ve had enough of this’
Acknowledging there is a sense of urgency throughout the organization, Pittsburgh Steelers president Art Rooney II said Monday the franchise needs to get back to winning games in the playoffs. The Steelers haven’t won a postseason game since the 2016 season. The seven-year drought is the longest for the franchise...
Pitt freshman guards Jaland Lowe, Bub Carrington learning tough lessons
Pitt coach Jeff Capel was properly complimentary of freshman guards Jaland Lowe and Bub Carrington during his regular Monday chat with reporters on the ACC conference call. But in the wake of Pitt’s sixth conference loss in nine games Saturday at Miami, Capel’s overall point is more important and goes...
Steelers president Art Rooney II wants to see ‘quality play’ out of QBs, Kenny Pickett in 2024
Art Rooney II is open to Kenny Pickett getting another shot to be the Pittsburgh Steelers starting quarterback. The Pittsburgh Steelers team president also is open to the organization bringing back Mason Rudolph provided he can be coaxed out of leaving in free agency. What Rooney isn’t open to is...
What happens to Olympic medals now that Russian skater Valieva has been sanctioned for doping?
The highest court in sports sanctioned Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva for doping violations at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. The ruling set the stage for U.S. skaters to receive gold medals after they finished second behind Valieva and her teammates in the team competition. The case rocked the Olympics when,...
South Carolina keeps grip on No. 1 in AP women’s poll as top teams stumble; Kansas State up to 2
South Carolina remained the clear No. 1 team in the country and No. 2 Kansas State matched its best ranking ever after a chaotic week that saw nearly half of the AP Top 25 lose at least one game. The Gamecocks received all 35 first-place votes Monday in the latest...
Mark Madden: More changes needed for Penguins to contend after All-Star break
The Pittsburgh Penguins have nine days between games and are five points out of a playoff berth as the NHL All-Star break beckons. They have won 21 games, lost 23. They have games in hand on seven of the eight teams they’re chasing. The Eastern Conference is mostly rotten. The...
Franklin Regional grad Garrett Thompson making a name for himself with Ohio U wrestling
Throughout his time as a wrestler, Franklin Regional grad Garrett Thompson said he mostly had been an unknown. He never qualified for the PIAA championships in high school, and his college recruiting prospects, at least where bigger schools were concerned, were almost nonexistent. So before this, his redshirt sophomore season...
Freeport grad Alexis Schrecongost takes off with Edinboro swimming after transferring from ToledoVideo
Like a lot of athletes, Alexis Schrecongost had visions of being a Division I athlete. During her time as a swimmer at Freeport, she proved herself worthy of competing against the nation’s best, earning a scholarship to Toledo. But Schrecongost found out that being a Division I athlete sometimes it...
Lamar Jackson after falling to 2-4 in the playoffs: ‘I’m not frustrated, I’m angry’
BALTIMORE — With a trip to the Super Bowl just one victory away, the Baltimore Ravens looked nothing like the team that finished the regular season with the best record in the NFL before thrashing Houston in their playoff opener. Worse, Lamar Jackson bore little resemblance to the quarterback who...
The Super Bowl is set: Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs will face Brock Purdy and the 49ers
Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs are heading to Las Vegas with a chance for a rare repeat while facing the San Francisco 49ers in a Super Bowl rematch from four years ago. The Chiefs beat Lamar Jackson and the No. 1-seeded Baltimore Ravens, 17-10, in the...
Westmoreland County campus clippings: GCC grad Nate Ward transfers to Duquesne
Nate Ward is coming home. After spending four years playing soccer in the Big Ten Conference at Indiana, the former Greensburg Central Catholic standout is set to play a fifth year at Duquesne. Ward, a former TribLive Westmoreland player of the year, graduated from Indiana in December. “I had an...
Penn State will be represented by Kansas City Chiefs, San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII
Super Bowl XLVIII is set, and at least one former Penn State player is going to hoist the Lombardi Trophy. Penn State will have three former players vying for a Super Bowl ring when the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers square off on the sport’s biggest stage in...
Penguins goaltender Alex Nedeljkovic finds the right temperature
On Wednesday at the Pittsburgh Penguins’ facility, the mood was serious. After all, the team had just returned from the American Southwest with nothing but a pair of unappetizing road losses to the Vegas Golden Knights and Arizona Coyotes. When a reporter asked several of the team’s prominent players about...
U.S. to receive gold medals in wake of figure skater Kamlia Valieva’s Olympic DQ
GENEVA — International Olympic officials have told counterparts in the United States that their figure skating team will receive gold medals now that Russian skater Kamila Valieva has been disqualified for doping at the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing. The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee received word Monday night that...
Madden Monday: Arthur Smith seems like a good fit for the Steelers, and that may be the problem
It sure seems like recently interviewed candidate Arthur Smith fits the perfect profile for what Mike Tomlin may want in an offensive coordinator. Smith, who interviewed for Matt Canada’s old job on Sunday, was an offensive line coach, tight ends coach and eventual offensive coordinator (2019-20) with the Tennessee Titans....
