Jerry DiPaola stories, Page 21

Numbers painted a sorry picture Tuesday night for the Pittsburgh Pirates in the Oakland Coliseum, and the result was another loss, 5-2 to the A’s. It was the third in a row, fourth in five games on the current West Coast road trip and 12th in the past 15. But...

The Pittsburgh Pirates completed the March 29 trade of pitcher JT Brubaker to the New York Yankees on Tuesday, acquiring switch-hitting, minor-league second baseman/shortstop Keiner Delgado as the player to be named. Delgado, 20, is rated the 20th-best Yankees prospect by MLB Pipeline after he was named last year to...

Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi lost a veteran special teams player and reserve cornerback to the transfer portal Monday, a day after he received a verbal commitment from a transfer who plays the same position. I am officially in the Portal as a Grad Transfer !!! pic.twitter.com/ucEnkcKiop— JAHVANTE A. ROYAL (@jahvante_royal)...

After losing seven players to the transfer portal since spring practice ended, Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi secured a verbal commitment Sunday from former Kentucky defensive back Jaremiah Anglin Jr. H2P ???? #Committed pic.twitter.com/r5tAAmKP3g— Jaremiah Anglin Jr. (@jaremiahhjr) April 28, 2024 Anglin was redshirted last year in his freshman season at...

Starting pitcher Jared Jones stood up to adversity and — without exhibiting his best stuff on the mound — gave his team a chance to win. Rowdy Tellez snapped out of a monthlong slump by ripping his first two doubles of the season and — with a veteran’s wisdom —...

While the Pittsburgh Pirates are in California this week to play the San Francisco Giants and Oakland A’s, injured pitchers Marco Gonzales and Ryan Borucki will meet with new doctors there to get further information on their situations, general manager Ben Cherington said Sunday. Gonzales, who has made three starts...

Three days of weather-related postponements in Omaha might delay catcher Yasmani Grandal’s return to the Pittsburgh Pirates’ active roster. Grandal, a 12-year veteran, hasn’t played with the Pirates this season and has been on a rehab assignment in Triple-A Indianapolis while recovering from plantar fasciitis in his left foot. He...

Penn State cornerback Kalen King will follow former Nittany Lions teammate Joey Porter Jr. into the NFL after he was drafted Saturday by the Green Bay Packers in the seventh round. He was the 255th of 257 players drafted overall, missing Mr. Irrelevant status by two choices. He also was...

Many people in Aliquippa graduate M.J. Devonshire’s family and inner circle were hoping he could stay home to play in the NFL. That didn’t happen, however, as the former Pitt cornerback was selected by the Las Vegas Raiders in the seventh round Saturday. He was the 35th cornerback drafted, 229th...

The Buffalo Bills picked a player with elite speed when they drafted Penn Hills graduate and former Penn State cornerback Daequan Hardy in the sixth round (219th overall) on Saturday. Hardy (5-foot-9, 178 pounds) may be able to contribute to the Bills quicker on special teams than on defense, but...

Day after day, Bub Means, M.J. Devonshire and other Pitt defensive backs competed at practice. But Devonshire knew long before Means’ first practice in 2022 that he was dealing with someone special. The New Orleans Saints knew it, too, and they drafted Means on Saturday in the fifth round of...

Hunter Nourzad spent six seasons on the offensive lines of Cornell and Penn State, getting experience at center, guard and tackle. He’s mainly a center, but that versatility caught the eyes of the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs, who drafted him Saturday in the fifth round (159th choice overall)....

Former Penn State tight end Theo Johnson raised his NFL stock considerably during the combine in Indianapolis, and his efforts paid off Saturday when he was selected in the fourth round (107th overall) by the New York Giants. The Giants are getting a 6-foot-6, 260-pound athlete who can catch. Penn...

After disrupting Big Ten offenses at Penn State, Adisa Isaac will turn his attention toward the NFL next season after he was drafted in the third round (93rd overall) by the Baltimore Ravens on Friday. One of the Big Ten’s best edge rushers, Isaac (6-foot-4, 249 pounds) started 10 games...

Former Pitt offensive lineman Matt Goncalves received plenty of pats on the back, hugs and text messages Friday night when he was drafted in the third round (79th overall) by the Indianapolis Colts One text stood out, however, when he connected with former Pitt defensive line coach Charlie Partridge, who...

Dru Joyce III has been Duquesne’s head coach for less than a month, and he’s wasted no time restocking the Dukes’ roster. The most recent of the four transfer players to give Joyce a verbal commitment is former Furman forward Alex Williams, who made his announcement Friday. Let’s get it!!...

When the New England Patriots selected Penn State’s Caedan Wallace in the third round Friday night (68th overall), they got one of the most experienced offensive tackles in the NFL Draft. #PennState OT Caedan Wallace has 40 career starts and 1,276 snaps at right tackle in his career.He’s one of...

Duquesne University put the finishing touch on its historic 2023-24 men’s basketball season, with the announcement Thursday that coach Keith Dambrot, guards Jimmy Clark III and Dae Dae Grant and the entire team will be inducted into the Merle Gillian Duquesne University Athletics Hall of Fame. They will join a...

Before the NFL Combine, there were questions about whether teams would spend a Day 1 or 2 pick on Penn State edge rusher Demeioun “Chop” Robinson. Those questions were answered in a positive manner at the Combine, and he was drafted in the first round (21st overall) Thursday night by...

Almost all of the NFL Draft watchers projected Penn State offensive tackle Olumuyiwa (pronounced O-LOU-moo-YEE-wuh) Fashanu to be selected in the first round, and that became reality Thursday night when he came off the board 11th overall to the New York Jets. Fashanu was joined in the first round by...

Duquesne coach Dru Joyce watched from the bench last season when Jahsean Corbett recorded a double-double for Chicago State against the Dukes. So, when Corbett’s name appeared in the NCAA transfer portal after the season, Joyce pounced. Corbett responded, visited campus, and Thursday he made a verbal commitment to Duquesne...

Baldwin graduate Dorien Ford, who came to Pitt as the 12th-ranked prospect in Pennsylvania but never found a permanent place on the field, entered the NCAA transfer portal Thursday. pic.twitter.com/ltuGoKZZse— Dorien Ford (@DorienFord_21) April 25, 2024 Ford (6-foot-4, 325 pounds) was initially a defensive tackle when he joined Pitt’s class...

Dru Joyce received his first two verbal commitments as Duquesne’s head coach Wednesday when transfer guards Cameron Crawford and Tre Dinkins announced on social media their intentions to enroll this year. Trusting God's Plan???? pic.twitter.com/4IEaY2zJXj— Cam Crawford (@camcrawford0) April 24, 2024 Crawford (6-foot-5) is approaching his redshirt junior season after...

Turning back the pages of time to the first NFL Draft on Feb. 8, 1936, you will see no one who wore Pitt colors was chosen from a team that shut out six of its 10 opponents during the preceding autumn. That draft held inside Philadelphia’s Ritz-Carlton Hotel 24 years...