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Hot Rod Charlie being run in Belmont in memory of Jake PanusVideo
NEW YORK — Jake Panus wanted to help Native American children and walk on to play football at South Carolina. His death in August in a car crash stopped all that at age 16. After his father, Stephen, fought through the first wave of grief, good friend and trainer Doug...
Pirates halt throwing activity for Triple-A pitcher Miguel Yajure
Miguel Yajure, who made two starts for the Pittsburgh Pirates earlier this season, has stopped throwing for Triple-A Indianapolis while dealing with right elbow discomfort. Yajure was placed on the seven-day injured list, retroactive to Tuesday. “It’s an injury that is hindering him at this point in time where we...
‘We’re happy to have him back’: Pirates rookie 3B Ke’Bryan Hayes returns from 2-month injuryVideo
When Ke’Bryan Hayes fouled off a 2-1 Jake Arrieta pitch up and in April 3, the Pittsburgh Pirates rookie third baseman felt a jolt between the ring finger and middle finger in his left hand that ran across his wrist. The feeling was similar to something Hayes experienced near the...
James Madison stuns No. 1 seed Oklahoma in WCWS openerVideo
OKLAHOMA CITY — James Madison looked like a Women’s College World Series regular on Thursday. It actually was the Dukes’ first trip, and they made their first game memorable. Kate Gordon hit a solo homer in the top of the eighth inning and Odicci Alexander threw a complete game to...
No. 1 Ash Barty withdraws; Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer advance at French OpenVideo
PARIS — Bothered by a painful hip, top-ranked Ash Barty retired Thursday from her second-round match at the French Open, leaving the clay-court Grand Slam tournament without its top two women’s seeds and any of the top three women in the rankings. The 2019 champion trailed 6-1, 2-2 when she...
Jaguars owner unveils plans to develop downtown Jacksonville
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Before Urban Meyer agreed to coach the Jacksonville Jaguars, he needed some assurances from team owner Shad Khan. Meyer wanted facility upgrades that included improved nutrition, training, recovery and treatment areas for players. The “culture of excellence,” Meyer calls it. “If it’s not the very best, it’s...
Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski eager for a final run with the Blue Devils
DURHAM, N.C. — Mike Krzyzewski had pondered for years when it would be the right time to leave a Hall of Fame coaching career that he has long loved. Now Krzyzewski and the Blue Devils have committed to a plan: coach a final season in a farewell tour of sorts...
USFL relaunching next year, 4 decades after its birth
The USFL is relaunching in 2022, four decades after the spring football league’s short-lived run that featured such stars as Reggie White, Herschel Walker, Steve Young, Jim Kelly and future president Donald Trump. The new USFL announced Thursday it will play next spring with a minimum of eight teams “and...
Backyard Brawl with Pitt returns to West Virginia’s basketball schedule
West Virginia’s 2021-22 nonconference basketball schedule features meetings with two former Mountaineers, the return of longtime foes Pitt and Connecticut and a spot in the Big 12/SEC Challenge. WVU will open the regular season Nov. 9 against Oakland at the WVU Coliseum. Three days later, Pitt comes to Morgantown for...
Pitt hires ex-point guard Brianna Kiesel as assistant coach on women’s basketball staff
As a point guard, Brianna Kiesel provided on-court direction for the Pitt women’s basketball team. Now, she’ll do the same from the bench. Coach Lance White announced Thursday that Kiesel, who spent the past six seasons playing professionally, will join his staff as an assistant coach. “After a nationwide search...
Tunch Ilkin announces retirement from Steelers broadcast duties
Standing on a balcony overlooking the practice fields at UPMC Rooney Sports Complex, Tunch Ilkin watched the Pittsburgh Steelers go through organized team activities Thursday morning. Flanked by a group that included his wife, Karen; best friend, teammate and broadcast partner Craig Wolfley; team president Art Rooney II and general...
Canadiens’ Game 1 win tempered by late hit on Jake Evans
WINNIPEG, Manitoba — Jesperi Kotkaniemi and Eric Staal scored early goals and Montreal beat the Winnipeg Jets, 5-3, on Wednesday night in Game 1 of the second-round series, a victory tempered by a scary late-game hit on Canadiens center Jake Evans. Playing on his 25th birthday, Evans was taken off...
First Call: Steelers’ Highsmith praised; RMU hockey players unload; Pitt, Penn State Hall of Fame nominees
Thursday’s “First Call” has an odd honor for Steelers linebacker Alex Highsmith, Hall of Fame nominations for Pitt and Penn State greats and Marc-Andre Fleury back in the crease for the Vegas Golden Knights. Plus, the Robert Morris hockey teams get to air their grievances against the university president who...
U mad, bro: Penguins fans seething about Mike Sullivan, jawing about Tristan Jarry; Pirates fans fed up with Bob Nutting
We are in the midst of a short week coming off of Memorial Day. But there is no shortage of evil emails, tenacious tweets and pouting Facebook posts. Pittsburgh fans are livid over another early Penguins ouster from the playoffs, the pathetic Pirates and the ridiculous Robert Morris hockey mess....
Tim Benz: Penguins’ efforts to salvage Robert Morris hockey may get some help. Will the university accept it?
Like testing a newly frozen pond, we may be ready for our first skate toward progress when it comes to saving the Robert Morris University men’s and women’s hockey teams. Now it’s time to find out how thin the ice is. A day after Penguins President and CEO David Morehouse...
Alex Dixon leads Riverhounds to 2nd straight road win
Alex Dixon had a hand in creating all three goals as the Pittsburgh Riverhounds picked up their second straight road win with a 3-2 victory over Loudoun United on Wednesday night in Virginia. The Riverhounds took a 1-0 lead in the 18th minute when a Dixon cross from the left...
Pirates farm report for June 2, 2021: Oneil Cruz has 4 hits, homer for Altoona
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 12-12) and Columbus (Indians) were rained out. They will play a doubleheader at 5:05 p.m. Friday. Next: Thursday vs. Columbus (Indians), 7:05 p.m. ALTOONA (Double-A, 16-9) beat Richmond (Giants), 9-4, behind a 4-for-5 showing by SS Oneil Cruz. Cruz hit a two-run homer, his fifth, and drove in...
Former Pitt center and NBA 1st-round pick Eric Mobley dies at 51
Eric Mobley, one of only eight Pitt basketball players chosen in the first round of the NBA Draft, has died. He was 51. RIP ? pic.twitter.com/fBKb4lUpcV— Pitt Basketball (@Pitt_MBB) June 3, 2021 Born in the Bronx, N.Y., Mobley played at Salesian High School in New Rochelle, N.Y., before enrolling at...
Last-place Sabres win draft lottery; Kraken get No. 2 pick
BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Buffalo Sabres won the NHL Draft lottery, and the expansion Seattle Kraken jumped up the order to take the No. 2 pick Wednesday night. The Sabres have the No. 1 pick for the fourth time in franchise history and second in three years. It marks a...
Same strong field at Memorial gets new look for golf course
DUBLIN, Ohio — Jon Rahm was motoring to victory along the back nine of Muirfield Village last year at the Memorial, and just as compelling was the activity on the front nine. Heavy equipment was inside the ropes, ripping out huge strips of turf. Rahm returned to what tournament host...
Fox Chapel’s Skirboll, Highlands’ Bonnett ready for Olympic trials
Zoe Skirboll was among the spectators at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Swim Trials in Omaha, Neb., and she watched the best in the nation compete for spots on the team that competed a month later in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. “It was breathtaking,” said Skirboll, an Aspinwall resident. “I had...
James Washington trying to establish role in Steelers’ new-look offenseVideo
As one relationship begins for James Washington — he married his longtime girlfriend, Julia White, in March — another could be nearing its conclusion. The Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver is entering his fourth and final season of the contract he signed after being selected in the second round of the...
Penguins GM Ron Hextall: ‘If we go into the next season with this group, we’re comfortable’
As a goaltender with the Philadelphia Flyers in the 1980s and 1990s, Ron Hextall was often furious. If you dared cross him or a teammate, he would unleash something ferocious upon you, usually in the form of a slash to the ankle or a punch to the face. As a...
Japan’s vaccine push ahead of Olympics looks to be too late
TOKYO — It may be too little, too late. That’s the realization sinking in as Japan scrambles to catch up on a frustratingly slow vaccination drive less than two months before the Summer Olympics, delayed by a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, are scheduled to start. The Olympics risk...
Sacked: Browns All-Pro Myles Garrett ‘retires’ from basketball
BEREA, Ohio — Myles Garrett can dump all the quarterbacks he wants. His dunking days are over. The Browns’ All-Pro defensive end, who recently posted videos on Twitter and Instagram of him dominating on the basketball court, has put his hoops game on hold. On Wednesday, Garrett, who is attending...
