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Julie Ertz has been named to the U.S. roster for a pair of upcoming matches against Ireland after taking time off for the birth of her son. Ertz has not played for the United States since the bronze medal-winning victory over Australia at the Tokyo Olympics. She and husband Zach...

In football and life, spring is a time for optimism and rebirth. Such was the case Tuesday when wide receiver Bub Means bounced off Pitt’s practice field — outdoors for the first time this year — and displayed large doses of confidence and enthusiasm for the upcoming season. Some examples...

BY GABE HENDERSON | Home Field Sports The National League West has been the most top-heavy division in all of baseball for quite some time now. It’s been the Los Angeles Dodgers’ world for everyone else to live in over the last decade. The historic franchise has dominated in the...

Canaan Smith-Njigba earned a spot on the Pittsburgh Pirates’ Opening Day roster with a strong spring, then showed why with one swing when he hit a three-run, opposite-field home run for the lead in the sixth inning. The Minnesota Twins rallied late for a 7-5 win Tuesday afternoon in the...

BY ZACH EWING | Home Field Sports The Central divisions are often the most forgotten in Major League Baseball and never was that more true than last year when powerhouse teams on each coast (plus the Houston Astros, who of course play in the American League West) dominated the conversation...

BY GABE HENDERSON | Home Field Sports The American League East is one of the most competitive divisions in baseball year after year. This is highlighted by the fact that each of the five teams has won the division pennant at least once since 2014. While the Boston Red Sox...

BY SPENCER URQUHART | Home Field Sports Each day, one of our experts will offer up a best bet (or two or three) that mobile sportsbooks are offering. It might be a traditional spread bet, a player prop or one of the various odds boosts that books offer. Here are...

Bryant Gumbel will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award during the 44th Annual Sports Emmy Awards on May 22 in New York, The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced Tuesday. Gumbel’s career has spanned more than 50 years on NBC, CBS and HBO. He has hosted “Real Sports with...

AUSTIN, Texas — A trip to the Masters and a chance to play in two $20 million tournaments are among the incentives for PGA Tour players to play this fall if they don’t reach the FedEx Cup playoffs. The PGA Tour sent out a memo Monday that offered a few...

BY ZACH EWING | Home Field Sports Oddsmakers have set the lines for the NCAA Women’s Final Four, which tips off on Friday night from Dallas, Texas. LSU vs. Virginia Tech gets the Final Four festivities started as the first national semifinal to be played on the evening. Unsurprisingly, the...

GENEVA — Russian athletes were given conditions Tuesday on how they could return to international sports events, though the International Olympic Committee said its advice to sporting bodies did not include the 2024 Paris Games. Though the IOC gave guidance rather than orders to Olympic sports, it still defies repeated...

BY COREY LONG | Home Field Sports After consecutive 100-loss seasons for the Pittsburgh Pirates, general manager Ben Cherington believes it’s time for his team to take a step forward in 2023 and become a more competitive unit. “It’s time to start getting better,” Cherington said during an appearance on...

Saint Vincent freshman basketball player Jaden Gales continues to reap the benefits of a dazzling debut season. Gales was named the Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III Rookie of the Year, and also garnered All-ECAC Second Team honors. Previously, the 6-foot-6 forward was tabbed the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Rookie of...

South Carolina senior guard Brea Beal knew she could trust Dawn Staley before she even suited up for the Gamecocks. It wasn’t just Staley’s coaching accolades, which include fueling South Carolina’s meteoric rise in women’s basketball, that sold Beal. Beal knew that Staley — a Black woman like her —...

PHOENIX — Dan Snyder’s future in the NFL as owner of the Washington Commanders remains in standby mode while his peers gathered at a posh resort for the league’s annual meetings and waited for news on the potential sale of the team. A discussion on Snyder isn’t on the formal...

SEATTLE — An undefeated South Carolina team led by star Aliyah Boston and guided by vaunted Dawn Staley, an Iowa squad that features high-scoring Caitlin Clark and the return of LSU and flashy coach Kim Mulkey headline the women’s Final Four this weekend. Virginia Tech is the newcomer to the...

Nearly three weeks before the end of spring practice and nine months before signing day, Pitt reached double digits in 2024 verbal commitments Tuesday when prep offensive lineman Adham Abouraya pledged to enroll next year. Coach Pat Narduzzi’s 10-man class is now ranked No. 9 in the nation and tied...

Jason Delay won the three-man battle to be the backup catcher, and a pair of rookies — infielder Ji Hwan Bae and outfielder Canaan Smith-Njigba — will join the Pittsburgh Pirates when they travel to Cincinnati for the season opener, a source confirmed Tuesday morning to the Tribune-Review. The Pirates...

For a while, it looked like Chad Veltri would go down in college hockey history as the goaltender who wound up ending Robert Morris’ hockey program. Now he might be the goalie who helps resurrect it. On March 14, 2021, Veltri made 44 saves at the Island Sports Center as...

They’re refining skills of young prospects at the NBA Academy in Africa. The vocabulary, too. “There is a word that really we don’t like, which is ‘raw,’” said Franck Traore, head of basketball operations for NBA Africa. “When you have an African player going to the U.S., they say ‘raw.’”...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The U.S. gambling industry is adopting a new responsible marketing code that will ban sports books from partnering with colleges to promote sports wagering, bar payments to college and amateur athletes for using their name, image or likeness, and end the use of the terms “free”...

BY SPENCER URQUHART | Home Field Sports The National League Central is set to be a two-horse race once again according to the odds with the St. Louis Cardinals and Milwaukee Brewers well ahead of the rest of the pack. The Cardinals and Brewers were the class of the division...

The Pittsburgh Penguins, for a moment, have given themselves at least some space to breathe. The teams chasing them for the final Eastern Conference playoff spot are helping out as well. By virtue of the Pens’ electrifying yet excruciating 4-3 regulation win over the Washington Capitals on Saturday, the club...