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Nationals-Angels run line play, Yankees-Guardians money line play: April 10 best bets
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...
MLB batting average up 16 points, game time down 31 minutes
NEW YORK — Major League Baseball’s new rules designed to speed pace of play and encourage more action seem to be working through the first 1 1/2 weeks of the season. Batting average is up 16 points, stolen bases have spiked 30% and the average game time is down 31...
Penguins name forward Sidney Crosby as team MVP
Forward Sidney Crosby has been named as the Pittsburgh Penguins’ team MVP for the 2022-23 season. This marks the third consecutive season Crosby has claimed the honor and the 11th time overall. The award is voted on by the players. Having appeared in all 80 of the Penguins’ games to...
NBA’s play-in tournament starts Tuesday, giving 8 teams new life
MIAMI — Getting to the play-in tournament probably wasn’t the goal of any team when training camps opened back in September. It does, however, beat the alternative. There are 12 teams with playoff spots right now, 10 teams whose seasons are over — and eight teams with a second chance....
Penguins forward Nick Bonino, defenseman Dmitry Kulikov close to returning
Injured Penguins forward Nick Bonino and defenseman Dmitry Kulikov each appear to be close to returning to the team’s lineup, starting with their regular season home finale Tuesday against the Chicago Blackhawks. Both players participated in a spirited practice session at PPG Paints Arena on Tuesday in full-contact capacities and...
Mark Madden: Tiger Woods is golf’s most popular attraction, so make some exceptions to sacred rules
If Tiger Woods can still make the shots but can’t walk, the PGA and the four major tournaments should let him use a cart. (Here’s betting LIV Golf would.) It would violate one of golf’s most sacred rules and give Woods an unfair advantage over the rest of the field....
Civil lawsuit alleging ‘blackmail and robbery conspiracy’ filed a year after Dwayne Haskins’ death
Attorneys who filed a civil lawsuit in the death of former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins claim he was “targeted and drugged” and the victim of a “blackmail and robbery conspiracy” before he was struck and killed by a dump truck while crossing on foot a Florida interstate in April...
WNBA adding charters for all playoffs and back-to-back games
NEW YORK — The WNBA is adding charter flights for the entire playoffs and back-to-back regular season games this year, the league announced Monday. The league will pay for all of the flights. “It’s significant dollars,” WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert told The Associated Press. “Now that we have best of...
Westmoreland County campus clippings: Latrobe grad Kiley Myers named MAAC pitcher of the week
Senior Kiley Myers was known for her aggressiveness and speed from the pitching circle when she played at Latrobe. Those traits followed her to college softball at Marist. Myers recently earned the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Week after winning three straight starts. She pitched a three-hit shutout...
After surgery on fractured left ankle, Pirates SS Oneil Cruz expected to miss 4 months
Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop Oneil Cruz underwent surgery late Sunday night to repair his fractured left ankle and is expected to miss four months. Drs. Greg Altman and Darren Frank performed the operation at Allegheny General Hospital to stabilize the fractured fibula and addressed the injury to the syndesmosis, according to...
Defenseman Kris Letang selected as Penguins’ nominee for Masterton Trophy
Defenseman Kris Letang was selected as the Pittsburgh Penguins’ nominee for the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy by members of the Pittsburgh chapter of the Professional Hockey Writers Association (PHWA) on Monday. The award recognizes “the National Hockey League player who best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to...
Norwin grad Jake Williams hopes to lead Geneva men’s volleyball to AMCC title
Jake Williams would not let his team lose. In the huddle during a timeout, Williams, a 6-foot-1 senior outside hitter for the Geneva men’s volleyball team, exhorted his teammates to pick up their performance. Alderson Broaddus had tied their nonconference match at one set each, and Williams could feel momentum...
Freshmen Ben Aftanas, Colin Solinski having huge seasons for upstart UPG baseball team
Like all coaches, Pitt-Greensburg baseball manager Scott Adams was optimistic about his latest incoming crop of freshmen. But Adams had a sense this season’s group of newbies could be special. At the midway point of the season, he has seen nothing to change that impression. Through early April, the Bobcats...
Tim Benz: Penguins’ reality blurs Sidney Crosby’s virtuoso performance to reach 1,500 points
While watching Sidney Crosby’s virtuoso performance Saturday afternoon in Detroit, one thing went through my mind. This one should be remembered more than it probably will be. That kind of effort from Crosby felt like it should’ve resulted in more of an exclamation point result. With the desperation level being...
First Call: Antonio Brown’s long overdue admission about playing career; White Sox reaction to Oneil Cruz collision, injuryVideo
It’s a little late, but maybe former Pittsburgh Steeler Antonio Brown has learned an important life lesson. The Chicago White Sox have some varying reactions to the Oneil Cruz injury and collision at home plate with their catcher, Seby Zavala. A familiar Steelers rival won’t be back with the Cleveland...
Madden Monday: Oneil Cruz’s injury is ‘further proof that they should allow the runner to run over the catcher’
Oneil Cruz’s fractured ankle is a gut punch for the Pittsburgh Pirates on many levels. Not the least of which is that the injury dampens the early momentum within the fan base and the belief that the team was on a fast ascent after nine games. Now, though, the 6-3...
With Pirates SS Oneil Cruz out, Rodolfo Castro ‘ready for whatever position they need me to play’
Rodolfo Castro’s heart dropped when Oneil Cruz fractured his left ankle in an awkward slide and home-plate collision Sunday, feeling a sense of sorrow and frustration for his friend and fellow Dominican. “It hurts a lot because he’s like my brother, and it hurts the team, too,” Castro said through...
Dirt-racing star Christopher Bell outruns Tyler Reddick at Bristol
Christopher Bell held on through a restart eight laps from the end to hold off Tyler Reddick and win the dirt race at Bristol Motor Speedway on Sunday night. Bell was a whiz-kid dirt racing sensation growing up, and that experience helped the Joe Gibbs Racing driver to his fifth...
Paul Newberry: Phil Mickelson begins road to redemption at Masters
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Phil Mickelson never will receive the sort of adulation that once shadowed his every step. Too many missteps along the way. But give Lefty credit. He sure LIVened things up Sunday afternoon at the Masters. Already the oldest major champion in golf history, the 52-year-old Mickelson made...
NBA playoff field set: Warriors, Clippers avoid play-inVideo
Golden State is in the playoffs. LeBron James is heading to the play-in tournament. And the Minnesota Timberwolves lost Rudy Gobert to a fight with a teammate, then won a battle to improve their playoff hopes. The final day of the NBA season was predictably wild — with tons of...
A-10 Player of the Year Ace Baldwin Jr. commits to Penn State basketball
Penn State landed Mike Rhoades as its new head coach just more than a week ago, and now it has one of the best players to suit up for him at his last job, too. Reigning A-10 player of the year and former VCU guard Ace Baldwin Jr. announced Sunday...
Masters notes: Jordan Spieth’s impressive 21 birdies not enough
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Jordan Spieth made 21 birdies at this year’s Masters, including nine Sunday while trying to keep pace with partner Phil Mickelson. And it still wasn’t enough to win — or even beat the 52-year-old Mickelson. Spieth finished the Masters tied for fourth place at 7-under, five shots...
Bruins break NHL single-season wins record by beating FlyersVideo
PHILADELPHIA — The Boston Bruins broke the NHL single-season wins record after beating the Philadelphia Flyers, 5-3, on Sunday behind David Pastrnak’s hat trick that got him to 60 goals for the first time in his career. Hats rained down from the many Bruins fans in attendance after Pastrnak scored...
Pirates farm report for April 9, 2023: Tucupita Marcano knocks in 3 runs in Indy victory
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 5-4) beat Louisville (Reds), 8-1, for its fifth straight victory. LF Tucupita Marcano (.500) was 2 for 4 with three RBIs. 2B Nick Gonzales (.207) also knocked in two runs. CF Travis Swaggerty (.286) was 2 for 5 with an RBI, including a double and triple. C Endy...
Brooks Koepka collapses as Jon Rahm rolls to Masters win
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Brooks Koepka no doubt will hear the same murmured joke no matter where he goes in the coming days and weeks. If only the Masters was 54 holes. Like those tournaments on the Saudi-back LIV Golf circuit. If that was the case, Koepka would’ve been wearing a...
