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Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice will have a disciplinary hearing with the NFL on Sept. 30 in New York, a person with knowledge of the schedule told the Associated Press on Thursday. The person, speaking on condition of anonymity because the details haven’t been announced, said Sue L....

The venue is different as is the opponent, but Mike Tomlin is treating the Pittsburgh Steelers’ second preseason game much like the first. Tomlin said Tuesday he will rest most of his veteran players when the Steelers play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Saturday night at Acrisure Stadium. The same...

NEW YORK — The NFL can be put on trial over civil claims that Brian Flores and other Black coaches face discrimination, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday, rejecting the league’s attempt to force Flores into arbitration with Commissioner Roger Goodell as the arbitrator. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of...

The quest for 2025 WPIAL and PIAA football championships is under way at stadiums across Western Pa. As teams hold preseason workouts at high schools around the region, TribLive writers and photographers are previewing the upcoming season. The Trib is compiling preview features for every team in the WPIAL and...

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It’s become commonplace for five-star recruits to enter the transfer portal a year or two after signing with their original schools. Just take a look at the 2023 recruiting class. Eleven out of 247 Sports’ top 25 high school prospects in that cycle have transferred. Some players — star safety...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The NCAA has informed Michigan that the organization will announce the results of its sign-stealing investigation on Friday, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press. The person spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to share the details. The...

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Lionel Taylor, who starred for the Denver Broncos in the 1960s and became the first wide receiver in pro football history to record a 100-catch season, has died. He was 89. His grandson, also named Lionel Taylor, told the team that Taylor died at his home near...

The Pittsburgh Penguins announced Ryan Papaioannou as coach of their ECHL affiliate Wheeling Nailers on Thursday morning. Papaioannou (pronunced pa-pah-wawh-noh) succeeds Derek Army, who departed this summer to take an assistant position with the American Hockey League’s Colorado Eagles. Papaioannou, 41, joins the Penguins from the Brooks Bandits of the...

Caleb Junko would not be offended to learn that at times over the last few years on fourth down, when he’d be sent on the field to punt, some Pitt fans were crossing their fingers and hoping for a good result. Junko, primed to serve as the Panthers’ full-time punter...

Organizers of the Los Angeles Olympics will sell naming rights for a handful of its venues in deals expected to bring multiple millions of dollars to the 2028 Games while breaking down the International Olympic Committee’s long-sacrosanct policy of keeping brand names off its arenas and stadiums. The organizing committee...

Cameron Heyward and Chris Boswell were holding-in during Pittsburgh Steelers training camp. Mike Tomlin is talking tough about a Steelers’ defense that hasn’t been tough enough for years. And the Pirates continue to be extremely tough to watch at all. So in the dog days of August, all you pups...

Thursday’s “First Call” plays connect-the-dots between Odell Beckham Jr. and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Shedeur Sanders and a former Pitt wide receiver are dealing with training camp injuries. Plus, we check in on Najee Harris’ recovery from that scary eye injury in Los Angeles. OK with OBJ? A social media post...

Mark DeRosa thought he got screened by Paul Skenes. When the Team USA manager called the Pittsburgh Pirates ace to pitch him on playing in the World Baseball Classic next spring, Skenes didn’t answer. But Skenes called right back and readily accepted. “I had this pitch I was going to...

INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 67-48) lost 6-5 to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (Yankees) when RHP Eddy Yean (6-5, 3.06) gave up two runs in the bottom of the ninth. LHP Hunter Barco (3.70) started and pitched four scoreless innings, allowing three hits and no walks with five strikeouts. RHP Jack Little threw 1⅓ scoreless innings...

Washington County finished just a few innings short of a crowd-pleasing win at the PONY League World Series championship game Wednesday night at EQT Park. Washington took a three-run lead into the bottom of the fifth inning but fell 6-4 to Chinese Taipei, which won its 11th World Series crown....

OXNARD, Calif. — Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones credited an experimental trial drug for successfully treating advanced melanoma as he disclosed his cancer diagnosis publicly for the first time. Jones revealed his illness in a documentary series, “America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys,” which will debut on Netflix next...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — Maxx Crosby kept running into star athletes over the summer, from NBA great Kevin Garnett to former NFL wide receiver Steve Smith Sr., and the instant connection they shared made the Las Vegas Raiders’ star pass rusher think about another athlete he keeps coming across a...

There’s no slowing down the Milwaukee Brewers. The Pittsburgh Pirates can attest to that. The Pirates lost their fifth straight game and were swept for the ninth time this season Wednesday afternoon at American Family Field in Milwaukee as the Brewers punished Mitch Keller and the Pirates’ bullpen on the...

PHILADELPHIA — Cleveland rookie quarterback Shedeur Sanders sustained an oblique injury during drills ahead of practice Wednesday and is considered unlikely to play in the Browns’ preseason game against the Eagles. Sanders did not play the remainder of the practice session after he was hurt and was ruled out of...

Competitors from Caliguri’s Academy of Martial Arts in Lower Burrell marched into the USAMA world karate championships looking to add some hardware. Grandmaster Frank Caliguri, Master Nancy Caliguri and their daughter and instructor Kelli Caliguri helped coordinate the tournament, which was held in Chicago. They guided four students to first-place...

Officials will be cracking down on college football players who feign injuries, the number of overtime timeouts will be reduced and referees will use different verbiage when announcing the results of video reviews. Those are among the changes for the 2025 season, the National Football Foundation announced Wednesday in its...