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Pitt Take 5: Scrimmage on Saturday at Acrisure gives quarterbacks avenue to make their case
Pat Narduzzi will take his team over to Acrisure Stadium on Saturday for Pitt’s final scrimmage of the summer. Big surprise: Quarterbacks will be a major area of focus. Narduzzi reiterated Friday morning that he doesn’t know when he will make his decision public between Kedon Slovis and Nick Patti,...
5 things to watch for in Steelers preseason game at Jaguars
Camp has broken at Saint Vincent, leaving the Pittsburgh Steelers to their UPMC Rooney Sports Complex facility the remainder of the 2022 season. But before they have a practice on the South Side, the Steelers head to northern Florida for their only preseason road game. Here are five things to...
Converted starters experiencing success within Pirates bullpen
The Pittsburgh Pirates may very well end their campaign 30 games or more under .500. With a month and a half left in the year, the attention of manager Derek Shelton, general manager Ben Cherington and the rest of the Pirates organizational brass soon will turn to analyzing what went...
Friday Football Footnotes: Myles Jack returns to Jacksonville; Deshaun Watson suspension shifts odds
This week’s “Friday Football Footnotes” features a new Pittsburgh Steeler talking about his old team. We find out about how the betting odds were impacted by Deshaun Watson walking away with an 11-game suspension in Cleveland. We even get into Gaelic football, and an ex-Duquesne player has officially signed with...
Pirates farm report for Aug. 18, 2022: Malcom Nunez hits game-winning homer for Curve
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 55-57) was blanked by Iowa (Cubs), 3-0. RHP Jerad Eickhoff (5-5, 4.45) started and gave up three runs on five hits, including a homer, in five innings. LHP Cam Allred (2.59) pitched two scoreless innings, allowing two hits. RHP John O’Reilly (6.25) and LHP Cam Vieaux (3.00) each...
Sean Clifford, Jonathan Sutherland named Penn State captains for record 4th time
Penn State named six captains for the 2022 football season Thursday, making history with two of the choices. Redshirt senior quarterback Sean Clifford and linebacker Jonathan Sutherland became the first four-time captains in program history. The addition of an extra year of eligibility for players on the roster during the...
Bryan Reynolds hits a pair of 2-run homers; Pirates pound Red Sox
The Pittsburgh Pirates provided a fitting finale to a series that started with insults by Dennis Eckersley but ended with a final score that should make the Boston Red Sox broadcaster choke on his clam chowder. Not for nothingness. Bryan Reynolds hit a pair of two-run homers — including the...
Pitt hopes 1,000-yard rusher emerges from deep running back room
Dating back to the first time it happened — Tony Dorsett, 1,686 yards as a freshman, 1973 — Pitt has claimed 15 running backs who have broken the 1,000-yard barrier in 23 of 49 seasons. The list is an impressive one, including: • Pro Football Hall of Famers Dorsett and...
Steelers inside the ropes: Connor Heyward keeps showing good hands, racking up catches
Connor Heyward was a running back for most of his football life, and he averaged a mere 15 catches per year over his first four college seasons at Michigan State. Drafted as a tight end after converting to the position in 2021, it perhaps was fair to question if Heyward’s...
Daily camp report: ‘I’ll be good,’ Cam Heyward says after exiting with ankle injury
The sight of defensive captain Cameron Heyward kneeling on the ground in pain wasn’t exactly what the Pittsburgh Steelers wanted to see on the final day of training camp at Saint Vincent. Heyward went down on the third play of seven shots, the 2-point simulation that typically begins each Steelers...
Penguins give assistant coach Todd Reirden contract extension, new job title
Todd Reirden has earned a reputation as an assistant coach who makes his team’s defensemen better. That’s a talent the Penguins are willing to pay for. The Penguins signed Reirden, 51, to a two-year contract extension and upgraded his title from assistant coach to associate coach, the team announced Thursday....
Pitt’s quarterbacks won’t trot to the sideline this season for play calls
Pat Narduzzi expects to be especially wary of play-stealers this season after he has changed the method of delivering calls to the quarterback. Throughout former offensive coordinator Mark Whipple’s three seasons at Pitt, the quarterback trotted almost to the sideline to get the play call. In the few seconds available,...
Steelers sign rookie RB Max Borghi, waive/injured Master Teague
The Pittsburgh Steelers swapped a pair of undrafted rookie running backs on and off their roster, signing former Washington State star Max Borghi and waiving/injured former Ohio State star Master Teague III. Teague signed with the Steelers 15 days prior and was getting a heavy workload in training camp practices...
Mason Rudolph: Focus is on Steelers’ game Saturday, not on trade rumors or QB depth chart
He didn’t start the preseason opener, and he’ll be the third quarterback in for the second preseason game. He’s spent most of this abbreviated week of practice taking third-team reps. But if any of that is bothering the Pittsburgh Steelers’ most tenured quarterback, Mason Rudolph wasn’t letting it show Thursday....
Kenny Pickett to back up Mitch Trubisky in Steelers’ preseason game at Jacksonville
Mitch Trubisky will start at quarterback for the second preseason game in a row, but the order in which the backups will enter the game has been flipped. Coach Mike Tomlin confirmed Thursday that first-round pick Kenny Pickett will be the first quarterback off the bench when the Pittsburgh Steelers...
Browns QB Deshaun Watson settles for 11-game suspension
BEREA, Ohio — Deshaun Watson has reached a settlement with the NFL and will serve an 11-game suspension and pay a $5 million fine rather than risk missing his first season as quarterback of the Cleveland Browns following accusations of sexual misconduct. Watson was accused of sexual assault and harassment...
Mark Madden: No lies detected with Dennis Eckersley’s comments about Pirates
Dennis Eckersley of the Boston Red Sox TV crew was not complimentary of the Pittsburgh Pirates during Tuesday’s broadcast: “You talk about a no-name lineup. There’s no team like this,” Eckersley said. “This is a hodgepodge of nothingness. It’s ridiculous. It really is.” Eckersley sounded dumbfounded. The Pirates hadn’t played...
B1G deal: Big Ten lands $7 billion, NFL-style TV contracts
The Big Ten’s new $7 billion media rights deal will string the conference’s top football games across three major networks each week, creating an NFL-style television schedule on Saturdays. The Big Ten announced Thursday it has reached seven-year agreements with Fox, CBS and NBC to share the rights to the...
First Call: Antonio Brown goes after Tom Brady on Twitter; Fox’s Jay Glazer says Steelers are ‘Mitch Trubisky’s team’
Thursday’s “First Call” features Antonio Brown’s latest social media meltdown. Jay Glazer tamps down any quarterback controversy with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Plus, we have updates on Joe Burrow’s health in Cincinnati and Baker Mayfield’s starting status with the Carolina Panthers. A.B. goes after TB12 Antonio Brown is using social media...
U mad, bro?: Steelers fans split on booing Mason Rudolph, Pirates fans on edge about Dennis Eckersley’s comments
Some people are mad that Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph got booed Saturday night. Others seem to think he got off easy. Some people are angry at what Red Sox broadcaster Dennis Eckersley said about the Pirates. Others seem to think he could have poured it on more. Some people...
Tim Benz: Talk of trading Chase Claypool for Roquan Smith is one thing, dealing him for the sake of it is something else
I’ve been pretty hard on Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Chase Claypool over the past year and a half. But even I’m a little hesitant to jump on all the recent talk about him being traded. The latest salvo in that regard came from ProFootballTalk’s Mike Florio. Speaking Wednesday on 93.7...
Pirates encouraged with how rookie RHP Roansy Contreras battled in return to majors
Roansy Contreras was making his first major-league start in more than a month when the Pittsburgh Pirates rookie right-hander ran into trouble in the second inning Wednesday night against the Boston Red Sox. Contreras was experiencing command issues and, after giving up three runs on four hits and a walk,...
Penn State’s James Franklin addresses transfers, position battles, moreVideo
Since James Franklin addressed the media last week, two former blue-chip recruits left the program. On Saturday, running back Caziah Holmes was removed from Penn State’s roster. Two days later, defensive end Ken Talley entered the transfer portal. Not surprisingly, those were the first two questions Franklin fielded Wednesday. “In...
Pirates farm report for Aug. 17, 2022: Nick Gonzales has 4 hits, walk-off double for Altoona
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 55-56) doubled up Iowa (Cubs), 10-5. RF Travis Swaggerty (.266) went 3 for 4 with a homer, his 13th, a double, a walk and two RBIs. 2B Hoy Park (.232) went 3 for 3 with a double, his sixth homer, a walk and three RBIs. LF Cal Mitchell...
Roansy Contreras outdueled by Rich Hill in return as Pirates drop 6th straight
When Bryan Reynolds followed Kevin Newman’s leadoff single by hitting a towering, two-run home run in the first inning, the Pittsburgh Pirates looked like a team ready to snap its five-game losing streak. It was but a tease. Rich Hill was the model of efficiency thereafter. He allowed only one...
