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District college football roundup: Dayton rallies past Robert Morris
Luke Brenner and Dante Casciola scored touchdowns a couple minutes apart in the third quarter to lift Dayton to a 22-20 win over Robert Morris on Saturday in a season-opening game for both teams, giving lifetime Flyer Rich Chamberlin his 100th career victory. Brenner, a slotback, scored on a 63-yard...
Bo Bichette’s 3-run double leads Blue Jays past Pirates in Hall of Fame game
On the night the Pittsburgh Pirates celebrated their history by inducting their inaugural hall of fame class, it was the Toronto Blue Jays who brought PNC Park alive with cheers. The chants of “Let’s go Blue Jays!” grew louder with the bases loaded in the seventh inning when Bo Bichette...
What we learned in Week 1: New WPIAL approach leads to competitive schedule
This was the most competitive Week 1 in recent WPIAL history, but that probably wasn’t a coincidence. The WPIAL made a major change in recent years to the way it schedules nonconference games, an adjustment that seemed evident in the final scores Friday night. In all, there were five overtime...
As Pirates honor inaugural 19-member Hall of Fame class, ceremony disrupted by protester
The Pittsburgh Pirates celebrated their 135-year history Saturday afternoon by inducting their long-awaited hall of fame, which involved the historic gesture of signing four Negro Leagues players to honorary contracts and including them in the inaugural class. The Pirates unveiled plaques for each honoree on the wall inside the Roberto...
Another U.S.-Canada final set for women’s ice hockey worlds
HERNING, Denmark — Canada and the United States set up another showdown in the final of the women’s ice hockey world championship after blowout wins in Saturday’s semifinals. Canada routed Switzerland 8-1 after the Americans beat the Czech Republic 10-1. Since the inaugural women’s worlds in 1990, Canada and the...
New faces occupy big roles on roster Steelers have assembled to compete in AFC North
After six months of roster construction, offseason workouts, training camp practices and preseason tune-ups, the Pittsburgh Steelers will see whether they are equipped to compete in the AFC North and return to the playoffs for the third year in a row. The first test comes next Sunday at Cincinnati, and...
Mark Madden’s Hot Take: Here’s how the Steelers can reach the playoffs
There are plenty of reasons the Pittsburgh Steelers won’t make the playoffs. But if they do, here’s why: • Mitch Trubisky excels. He might. Trubisky had an excellent preseason. His arm looks terrific. He’s got the pedigree of a No. 2 pick overall. He was better in Chicago than you...
Euphoric night ends well for Pitt, but now it’s time to fix what went wrong
After Pitt fans set aside the hate they have for West Virginia and wiped away those tears of joy triggered by the 38-31 victory, they should face the truth: There are issues that need to be addressed with this football team. The Backyard Brawl on Thursday night had the feel...
Softball players from Fox Chapel, Franklin Regional savor chance to play for Team Israel
The Israel 12U softball team carried a 5-3 lead against Italy in their first game at the European Massimo Romeo Youth Tournament. Italy had the bases loaded with no outs in the final inning of play. Fox Chapel’s Izzy Zober, 11, took over pitching duties to close out the game....
Analysis: Let Serena Williams define her legacy as she leaves tennis
NEW YORK — After all of the many tributes to Serena Williams were done, the celebratory words and the video montages, the standing ovations and the shouts of her name, it seemed appropriate that she herself would provide the defining look at her legacy. So the last question at the...
NASCAR quartet of first-timers eager for playoff experience
DARLINGTON, S.C. — Austin Cindric has had more than six months to think about NASCAR’s playoffs. The rookie racer thinks he’s got a winning plan: maintain his steady, head-down approach when the 10-race postseason begins Sunday at Darlington Raceway. Cindric is among a group of four first-timers in the field...
Pirates farm report for Sept. 2, 2022: Travis Swaggerty drives in a pair for Indianapolis
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 65-60) defeated Louisville (Reds), 8-7. Indianapolis pounced early with five runs in the first inning. 2B Ji-hwan Bae (.301) had an RBI single, RF Travis Swaggerty (.258) knocked in a run with a triple and LF Blake Sabol (.300) smashed a three-run homer, his first, and ended the...
Steel Valley’s Cruce Brookins follows big blockers in run-heavy win over Sto-Rox
Cruce Brookins predicts that he and Steel Valley teammate Greg Smith could be crashing into one another on a college field in a year or two. Brookins is a Kent State commit and Smith is headed to Miami (Ohio), so they’re future rivals in the Mid-American Conference. But for now,...
Quinton Martin’s 3 touchdowns lead Belle Vernon past Laurel Highlands
With Penn State coach James Franklin in attendance for the first half, Quinton Martin ripped off three touchdown runs to help push Belle Vernon to a 41-20 win over visiting Laurel Highlands on “The Beach” at James Weir Stadium. The three touchdowns gave the Leopards’ a 21-0 halftime lead as...
Robert Fulton scores 4 touchdowns as Latrobe beats Franklin Regional in 2OT
Robert Fulton scored on a 5-yard run in the second overtime, and Latrobe won its second game of the season by defeating Franklin Regional, 36-33. Fulton rushed for 252 yards and four touchdowns. He also scored on runs of 2, 92 and 73 yards. The senior transfer now has rushed...
Serena Williams loses at U.S. Open in likely last match
NEW YORK — Serena Williams lost what is expected to be the last match of her transcendent tennis career Friday night, eliminated from the U.S. Open in the third round by Ajla Tomljanovic 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-1 before an electric crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium. Unwilling to go quietly, Williams...
Burrell pulls out overtime win against Deer Lakes
Burrell needed overtime, but the extra session was worth it as the 2-0 Bucs pulled out a 27-21 decision over Deer Lakes on Friday at Buccaneer Stadium. Burrell tried to win it in regulation, driving to the Deer Lakes 14 with 3.7 seconds to go. After two Lancers timeouts, Ryan...
Blue Jays shut out Pirates, who clinch 4th consecutive losing season
It wasn’t quite a backyard brawl – even though a West Virginia product was pitching against the Pittsburgh Pirates – but the cheers and sing-son chants of boisterous Toronto Blue Jays fans drowned out their counterparts and only made the result harder to swallow. Behind 7 1/3 shutout innings by...
Canucks sign J.T. Miller to 7-year, $56 million contract
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The Vancouver Canucks signed forward J.T. Miller to a seven-year, $56 million contract Friday. The 29-year-old Miller, who grew up in Coraopolis, was Vancouver’s leading scorer last season with 99 points on 32 goals and 67 assists in 80 games. He was set to become an...
Wolff makes an ace and leads LIV Golf event over newcomersVideo
BOLTON, Mass. — Matthew Wolff became a footnote in LIV Golf history with the first hole-in-one, an ace that carried him to a 7-under-par 63 and a one-shot lead over a pair of newcomers Friday in the LIV Golf Invitational-Boston. One of those newcomers was British Open champion Cameron Smith,...
Former coach, GM Gene Klein to be inducted into Hounds Hall of Fame
Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC will hold a ceremony to induct former coach, general manager and television broadcaster Gene Klein into the Riverhounds Hall of Fame at halftime of their Sept. 10 game against Louisville City FC at Highmark Stadium. Klein will become the sixth member of the team’s Hall of Fame....
Analysis: Rams’ Aaron Donald missed chance to defuse criticsVideo
Aaron Donald was scheduled for a media blitz to promote a product before he swung a helmet at opposing players during a joint practice last week. The tour went on Wednesday, as planned. Donald wasn’t prepared for it. Given an opportunity by the Associated Press to address the incident, which...
Tigers’ Austin Meadows reveals mental health struggles
DETROIT — Detroit Tigers outfielder Austin Meadows revealed on Friday he has been dealing with mental health issues along with physical ailments and will not play again this season. “This season has been an unfortunate struggle with a series of injuries and illness, from dealing with vertigo early on, then...
Penn State-Purdue tops Backyard Brawl in national TV ratings
Fox’s coverage of the Penn State-Purdue game drew bigger national television ratings than ESPN’s broadcast of the Backyard Brawl between Pitt and West Virginia on Thursday night. According to showbuzzdaily.com, the Penn State-Purdue game drew 3.512 million viewers while the Pitt-West Virginia game drew 3.152 million viewers. The Pitt-West Virginia...
Steelers sign RB Jason Huntley, DT Renell Wren to practice squad
Running back Jason Huntley and defensive tackle Renell Wren were signed to the Pittsburgh Steelers’ practice squad Friday, adding a pair of players to the organization who have NFL experience. Huntley appeared in six games over the past two seasons for the Philadelphia Eagles, accumulating 70 rushing yards on 18...
