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New bloods changing college hoops landscapeVideo
Perennial powers frontloaded the final poll of the 2012-13 college basketball season. The top 10 included Louisville, Kansas, Duke, Indiana and Georgetown. Gonzaga was No. 1, at the start of its rise to the sport’s upper echelon. Flash forward 10 years, and the AP Top 25 has a different look...
Nets’ Kyrie Irving requests trade, according to reportsVideo
NEW YORK — All-Star guard Kyrie Irving has asked the Brooklyn Nets for a trade, according to ESPN and The Athletic. Irving made the request after talks about a new contract did not go to his liking, the news outlets reported Friday. The NBA’s trade deadline is Thursday. The Nets,...
Pitt’s Nelly Cummings thrives on basketball’s most intense moments
Not only does Nelly Cummings embrace the most challenging moments on a basketball floor, but he’s been known to create them in his mind — even when they don’t exist. For proof, turn back the pages of the calendar to March 21, 2014, and the PIAA Class A championship game...
Max Duggan, Tyson Bagent among Senior Bowl QBs vying to improve stock
Quarterbacks Max Duggan and Tyson Bagent have turned the page on terrific seasons that ended badly with national championships in sight. TCU’s Duggan and Shepherd’s Bagent are trying to improve their NFL draft stock in a weeklong audition ending in Saturday’s Senior Bowl in Mobile, Ala. They are among a...
See how the Philadelphia Eagles went from long shots to Super Bowl favorites
by SPENCER URQUHART | Home Field Sports The Philadelphia Eagles were an afterthought as far as being a Super Bowl contender last February, but that is no longer the case 12 months later. The Eagles opened at +4000 to win Super Bowl 57, which was the same as the New...
Former 4th-round pick Renell Wren jockeys to be part of 2023 Steelers defensive line
Not bad work if you can get it: a reported $207,000 for about 6 seconds on the clock. But that wasn’t necessarily what Renell Wren wanted out of the 2022 NFL season. A defensive tackle who entered the league as a fourth-round pick by the Cincinnati Bengals in 2019, Wren...
Penguins’ Bryan Rust embracing his roots via larger role on penalty kill
Ahead of the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, the prospects website Hockey’s Future described then-18-year-old forward Bryan Rust as follows: “Rust plays a high-motor game that allows him to be effective in many different assignments all over the ice.” As far as being “effective in many different assignments all over the...
Support growing in NHL for longer 3-on-3 OT, fewer shootouts
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Troy Terry made his name in hockey with his shootout heroics for the U.S. in the 2017 world junior championship against Russia, much like T.J. Oshie did at the Olympics a few years earlier. Still, the Anaheim Ducks All-Star wouldn’t mind seeing fewer of them decide...
Mark Madden: Whether from outside or within, Penguins need a change before trade deadline
The NHL trade deadline is March 3. This space and others like it are debating what the Penguins should do between now and then. Honestly, I don’t know what the Penguins should do. Or can do. But I know they can’t do nothing. GM Ron Hextall has to determine a...
Former Steelers running back Sidney Thornton dies at 68
Former Pittsburgh Steelers running back Sidney Thornton, who won two Super Bowls with the team, has died. The franchise announced the death of Thornton, 68, earlier this week. The Steelers selected Thornton in the second round (48th overall) of the 1977 NFL Draft out of Northwestern State University in Louisiana....
Super Bowl 57 future odds movement: Kansas City Chiefs highs and lows from 2022
by Jim Derry | Home Field Sports Thursday was Groundhog Day, and each year we’re never really quite sure what is going to happen when Punxsutawney Phil climbs out of his little rodent hole. However, in the NFL, when it comes to the Kansas City Chiefs, for at least the...
Forget Chiefs-Eagles for a second. Who’s favored to win next year’s Super Bowl?
By Zach Ewing | Home Field Sports For fans of the Kansas City Chiefs or Philadelphia Eagles, the next two weeks are about the tension and excitement that comes with waiting for the chance at a Super Bowl victory. For the other 30 NFL teams? Well, it’s never too early...
NFL will offer free CPR training during Super Bowl week
Inspired by the lifesaving medical attention Damar Hamlin received on the field during a game last month, the NFL and American Heart Association will provide free CPR education in Arizona throughout Super Bowl week as part of the NFL Experience at the Phoenix Convention Center. Hamlin, the 24-year-old Buffalo Bills...
Friday Football Footnotes: If not for Tom Brady, how many more Super Bowl rings would Steelers have?
Every now and then, Pittsburgh Steelers fans love to put themselves through the exercise of determining how many Super Bowl trophies the franchise would have in its display case if it weren’t for Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots. Usually that answer comes back at nine or...
Pitt Take 5: Everybody gets in the act to help winning streak reach 3 in a row
The assignment for Saturday while Pitt enjoys a weekend off is to identify the most impressive stat on the Panthers’ resume. But let’s not make it too easy. The 9-3 record in the ACC and 16 overall victories with eight regular-season games remaining give fans a chance to gloat. But...
First Call: T.J. Watt sidesteps question on Taylor Lewan; defensive line free agent idea for Steelers; Joe Mixon news
It’s a football-heavy Friday “First Call,” as Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker T.J. Watt gives his response to Taylor Lewan’s plea to patch over their past. An intriguing free agent name has been advanced for the Steelers to consider. We also are tracking Joe Mixon’s legal entanglement and the tracking future of...
Busy college football recruiting period called ‘total chaos’Video
The first Wednesday of February used to be the biggest day on the calendar for college football recruiting. Now it is an afterthought. The December signing period, which is now when nearly all major prospects finalize their plans, is still relatively new but is causing enough headaches for busy coaches...
Joel Embiid, Ja Morant, Jaylen Brown lead NBA All-Star reservesVideo
Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid, Oklahoma City’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Portland’s Damian Lillard must have known they were going to the All-Star Game. Players averaging more than 30 points typically don’t have to worry about not hearing their name called. Other players — like Miami’s Bam Adebayo, Indiana’s Tyrese Haliburton and Utah’s...
Lebioda leads on a day of ever-changing conditions at PebbleVideo
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Changes in weather and fortunes can happen without notice in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, which seems to suit Hank Lebioda just fine these days. Playing his sixth different course in his last six rounds on the PGA Tour, Lebioda ran off six birdies in an...
Turnovers cause Robert Morris’ comeback against Northern Kentucky to collapse
Andy Toole’s reaction said it all. With 4 minutes, 12 seconds to play in Thursday evening’s game between Robert Morris and Northern Kentucky, an errant pass by Enoch Cheeks made its way on the fly directly into the grasp of Robert Morris’ 13th-year coach, who was standing courtside and proceeded...
Tom Brady’s plate remains full after retirement announcementVideo
TAMPA, Fla. — Tom Brady’s future figures to be busy. The seven-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback’s retirement announcement ended speculation about if and where Brady might want to play next season, opening the door for numerous off-the-field endeavors that could occupy his time. It was announced last May that whenever Brady...
Bengals’ Mixon charged, reportedly for pointing gun at womanVideo
CINCINNATI — Cincinnati Bengals running back Joe Mixon has been charged in a warrant with a misdemeanor count of aggravated menacing, according to online court records posted Thursday. WCPO-TV, which obtained a copy of the warrant, reported that Mixon was accused of pointing a gun at a woman and saying,...
Eagles’ Jalen Hurts ready for historic Super Bowl matchup with Chiefs’ Patrick MahomesVideo
PHILADELPHIA — Brandon Graham laughed as he recalled all the doubters who rushed him during the offseason and blurted out the same question — the main concern, really — about the state of the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback. “What’s Jalen going to do?” said Graham, the strip-sacking defensive end. Yes, it’s...
NFL prospects safeguarded from inappropriate team questionsVideo
MOBILE, Ala. — Teams peppered NFL prospect Jake Andrews with questions designed to probe his personality and attitude more than just his football IQ. Those questions — such as, would you rather be a Super Bowl champion or Hall of Famer? — are standard issue for teams vetting potential draft...
Penguins forward Sidney Crosby to team up with Alexander Ovechkin at All-Star Skills event
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Sidney Crosby will team up with longtime rival Alexander Ovechkin in the breakaway competition in the NHL’s All-Star Skills event Friday. Participants for all the competitions were announced Thursday by the league. The breakaway competition will be staged at FLA Live Arena in Sunrise, Fla., and also...
