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Penguins to start goaltender Tristan Jarry against Senators
The Penguins are scheduled to start goaltender Tristan Jarry for Thursday’s home game against the Ottawa Senators at PPG Paints Arena. In 30 games this season, Jarry has a 19-7-3 record, a 2.08 goals against average, a .928 save percentage and three shutouts. It remains to be seen who his...
Mike Preston: With so many NFL openings, it’s past time for more Black coaches to be hired
BALTIMORE — Black coaches are good enough to be coordinators in the NFL, but not head coaches. That’s the message the league has been sending, with hopes that it will change this year. There were eight openings soon after the regular season ended Jan. 9, leaving the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Mike...
Former Penn State offensive lineman announces transfer destination
STATE COLLEGE — One of the first Penn State players to enter the NCAA transfer portal at the end of the 2021 regular season has found his new home. Offensive lineman Des Holmes announced Wednesday that he is transferring to Arizona State for the 2022 season. Holmes has one year...
U mad, bro?: Steelers fans emote after a bad playoff loss in very different ways
This week we had a life lesson reinforced after the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 42-21 loss in Kansas City during Sunday’s playoff game. The truth hurts. People handle that pain differently. Some embrace it and admit it. Then they lash out. Others deflect it and deny it. Then they lash out. We’ve...
First Call: 2 quarterbacks linked to Steelers in early mock drafts; Joe Haden holds out hope to stay in Pittsburgh
Thursday’s “First Call” links the Pittsburgh Steelers to two quarterbacks from different mock drafts. Joe Haden is clinging to hopes that he will stay in Pittsburgh. More positive television ratings from the NFL. And an unlikely ex-Penguin plays the goal-scoring hero in Manhattan. And so it begins Between now and...
Virginia pulls away in second half to defeat Pitt
Pitt keeps getting hit in the face with lessons on how to build a championship basketball program. The one that evolved Wednesday night – in the midst of a 66-61 loss to Virginia (11-7, 5-3 ACC) at Petersen Events Center — hurt like they all do. But this one prevented...
NFL’s wild-card round TV ratings increase 21% over last yearVideo
TV ratings for the NFL’s wild-card round increased 21% over last year despite most of the games not being in doubt going into the fourth quarter. The six games averaged 30.5 million viewers, making it the second-highest average for the postseason’s opening weekend over the past six seasons. CBS and...
Georgia QB Stetson Bennett announces he will return for 1 more yearVideo
ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett is returning for another season after leading the Bulldogs to their first national championship in 41 years. Bennett, who carried a flip phone and avoided social media during the 2021 season, made an exception to his policy by posting the words “One More...
Top-ranked Jon Rahm back in California desert after 2-year breakVideo
LA QUINTA, Calif. — Jon Rahm is back in the California desert for The American Express after a two-year break. It feels as though the top-ranked Spaniard never left his Arizona home. “I would say the demographic might be a little bit older here, but it pretty much is the...
Murrysville fighter prepares for 2nd MMA bout at ‘Brawl in the Burgh 10’ in Monroeville
Growing up in Murrysville, hockey had always been Craig Perry’s sport, but he spent a good deal of time watching mixed martial-arts competitions, too. “Connor McGregor was my favorite, and I always told myself that if I ever got the chance, I’d try MMA,” Perry said. After he stopped playing...
Eagles say Jalen Hurts will be their starting QB next seasonVideo
PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Eagles say Jalen Hurts will be the team’s starting quarterback in 2022. “We talk about Jalen and the growth he had, really as a first-year starter and second-year player, and leading this team to the playoffs,” general manager Howie Roseman said Wednesday, just three days after...
Chiefs keep leaning on Jerick McKinnon, other unsung playersVideo
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Jerick McKinnon probably shouldn’t have been surprised to spend all season buried on the Chiefs depth chart. The journeyman running back had been passed over plenty of times before. Start with those early years in Minnesota, when he backed up Adrian Peterson. An injury to the...
Foot feels fine as Derrick Henry preps for Titans’ playoff returnVideo
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Derrick Henry, the man who literally ran the Tennessee Titans to the AFC championship game two years ago, is ready to play again. The 2020 AP NFL Offensive Player of the Year says his surgically repaired right foot, fixed with a steel plate, feels no different than...
Penguins are close to fully healthy lineup for 1st time this season
There are far worse places to be marooned than Southern California in January. Such as Western Pennsylvania in January. Zach Aston-Reese experienced the former last week. After testing positive for covid-19 on Dec. 11, Aston-Reese and fellow Pittsburgh Penguins forward Danton Heinen were placed into the NHL’s protocols for the...
Browns’ Baker Mayfield has surgery, starts road to ‘true self’
CLEVELAND — Baker Mayfield has shifted into comeback mode. The Cleveland Browns quarterback had successful surgery Wednesday to repair a torn labrum in his left shoulder, an injury that affected his play, led to a disappointing season and raised doubts about his future. Mayfield posted a video on social media...
Freshman pitcher bowls 300 game for WCCC
To have success as a pitcher, the key is throwing strikes. The same can be said of a bowler. Throwing strikes is the key to winning games. Westmoreland County Community College freshman Chaz Lankey, who pitches for the baseball team in the spring, was throwing strikes recently at Main Bowling...
Penguins won’t face former goaltender Matt Murray on Thursday
Matt Murray’s return to Pittsburgh will have to wait. At least as far him being on the ice in a game is concerned. The Ottawa Senators goaltender, who led the Penguins to their two most recent Stanley Cup titles in 2016 and ’17, will not be in net for Thursday’s...
Naomi Osaka, Ash Barty advance toward Australian Open showdown
MELBOURNE, Australia — For the first set, Naomi Osaka’s rediscovered love of the game meant it was anything but fun for Madison Brengle in the second round of the Australian Open. The defending champion conceded only four points in the first four games Wednesday and rifled forehand winners seemingly at...
NHL reschedules games, season set to end on time April 29
The NHL on Wednesday revealed new dates for 98 games postponed for coronavirus-related reasons, keeping the end of the regular season on schedule for April 29. The changes include moving 23 other games around and 95 games — including nine of the Penguins’ — filling the Feb. 7-22 gap that...
Bruce Arians fined $50,000 by NFL for slapping helmet of Bucs safety Andrew AdamsVideo
TAMPA, Fla. — Bucs coach Bruce Arians has been fined $50,000 by the National Football League for slapping the helmet of safety Andrew Adams during Sunday’s 31-15 win over the Eagles in an NFC wild-card playoff game. Arians said he was trying to prevent Adams from getting a penalty for...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Bryan Butler named women’s soccer coach at Saint Vincent
He used to play against the Bearcats in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference, but now Bryan Butler will coach against his alma mater, Geneva, in the fall. Butler is the new women’s soccer coach at Saint Vincent. He has a number of coaching stops on his resume, the most recent one...
9 Penguins games rescheduled
Nine of the Penguins’ games have been rescheduled. The changes are part of a league-wide reshuffling of the overall schedule that was pockmarked by a number of postponements over the past three months because of issues related to covid-19. Five of the Penguins’ games were previously postponed because of matters...
Pirates GM: No plans to hire another coach to replace Glenn Sherlock on Derek Shelton’s staff
The Pittsburgh Pirates lost a member of Derek Shelton’s coaching staff when Glenn Sherlock left to become Buck Showalter’s bench coach with the New York Mets, but general manager Ben Cherington doesn’t expect to add another coach to replace Sherlock. Cherington said Wednesday afternoon that between third-base coach Mike Rabelo,...
Mason Rudolph, Dwayne Haskins vow to be good fits for Matt Canada’s Steelers offense
Matt Canada, by all indications, will have a second season in which to deploy his offense as coordinator for the Pittsburgh Steelers. The man who currently has the best chance to be entrusted putting Canada’s vision into action has pledged to be a more captive audience than his predecessor. “I’m...
Dale Earnhardt Jr. matches his father as NASCAR Hall of Famer
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Dale Earnhardt Jr. recognized early he would never be a seven-time NASCAR champion like his dad. It was unrealistic to believe he would match the late Dale Earnhardt on the track. The Intimidator was tough as nails, didn’t tolerate any nonsense and built a winning resume that...
