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Western Pennsylvania Youth Football League cancels 2020 season
The Western Pennsylvania Youth Football League announced Monday morning it has canceled its 2020 season. A message on Twitter said the decision was made after the league’s board of representatives expressed and discussed concerns over several months and also presented ways to possibly have a season amid the ongoing coronavirus...
Tim Benz, Mark Madden break down Pittsburgh’s 3-1 win in Game 2 on ‘Hockey in the Hub’ postgame show
The Penguins evened their qualifying-round series against the Montreal Canadiens with a 3-1 victory Monday night. Trib columnists Tim Benz and Mark Madden break down the highlights of Game 2 on the Big Shot Bob’s “Hockey in the Hub” postgame show. Watch and listen here....
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, investor group to buy XFL
Former WWE star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and an investor group have agreed to buy the XFL for approximately $15 million, according to a Monday news release. The second iteration of the XFL lasted five weeks before the coronavirus pandemic shut down operations in March. The next month, the league...
Stanley Cup winner shares dark moments confronting dyslexiaVideo
Tears streamed down Brent Sopel’s face as he watched himself on screen, summoning the courage to detail the darkest moments of his lifelong struggles with dyslexia. The stinging memories of being taunted by classmates. The empty feelings of worthlessness that drained Sopel even while winning the Stanley Cup as a...
Derek Holland stretches career to 12th season, finds new home with Pirates
Derek Holland’s phone erupted with an alert Sunday morning while he chatted with reporters on a Zoom conference call from Chicago. It was time for him to spit, the preferred method used for players’ covid-19 tests. What? No nasal swab? “Hell, no,” Holland said. “If they did, I’d retire. I’ll...
Highlands’ Chandler Thimons ready to take big steps in sophomore year
Highlands quarterback Chandler Thimons had quite the season under center as a freshman last year. The 6-foot-2, 200-pounder completed 84 of 170 passes for 1,363 yards and 11 touchdowns. He was one of the top freshman passers in the WPIAL, and with a solid first year under his belt, Thimons...
Penguins to start goaltender Matt Murray in Game 2
The Penguins are scheduled to start goaltender Matt Murray for Game 2 of their qualifying round series against the Montreal Canadiens at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto on Monday according to coach Mike Sullivan. During Game 1 on Saturday, Murray made 32 saves on 35 shots in a 3-2 overtime loss....
Unfiltered: Tim Benz and Mark Madden discuss Penguins’ loss and plan for Game 2Video
Tim Benz and Mark Madden discuss the Penguins - Canadiens series so far, Pirates’ struggles, Notre Dame joining the ACC, NFL players opting-out, and answer some reader comments on this week’s edition of “Unfiltered” on TribLive’s Facebook page. Madden slammed the Penguins for their Game 1 performance, saying the biggest...
Brooks Koepka’s biggest challenge is history in bid for 3 in a row
Peter Thomson might have been up to his old tricks. He once described the Americans as the “greatest collection of golfers in the world” right before he captained an International team that annihilated the U.S. in the 1998 Presidents Cup. So what to make of his prediction at Carnoustie nine...
Steelers add depth at safety by signing 4-year veteran Curtis Riley
One of the question marks for the Pittsburgh Steelers heading into training camp was depth at safety behind starters Minkah Fitzpatrick and Terrell Edmunds. Curtis Riley will get a chance to erase such concerns. Riley, a journeyman safety, signed a one-year contract with the Steelers on Monday. Riley, 28, spent...
First Call: Antonio Brown’s NFL return still cloudy, Marc-Andre Fleury won’t start Monday
The NFL may have given Antonio Brown a road map for his reinstatement. But plenty of questions remain before he steps onto a field again. The result of Penguins-Canadiens in Pittsburgh wasn’t exactly a hit. But the NBC ratings were. Marc-Andre Fleury won’t start in goal for Las Vegas Monday....
Madden Monday: You know what Penguins did wrong. What did Canadiens do right?
Since the Pittsburgh Penguins’ 3-2 overtime loss in Game 1 to the Montreal Canadiens, Mark Madden and I have spent a lot of time grousing about the result and what the Penguins did wrong. We could use another day or two to get through it all. But what did the...
Tim Benz: Mike Sullivan is ignoring the obvious when it comes to net-front issues
After the overtime loss Saturday to the Montreal Canadiens in the 2020 playoff opener, Pittsburgh Penguins head coach Mike Sullivan blamed a lack of offensive net-front presence as a major factor. “We generated a fair amount of scoring chances,” Sullivan said after the defeat. “It’s not that there wasn’t opportunity....
‘Burgh’s best to wear it, No. 28: Half-century after World Series triumph, Steve Blass remains ‘a Pirate for life’
The Tribune-Review sports staff is conducting a daily countdown of the best players in Pittsburgh pro and college sports history to wear each jersey number. No. 28: Steve Blass Steve Blass’ biography could have only one title: “A Pirate For Life.” And so it was named. Pittsburgh Pirates chairman of...
Nazem Kadri scores buzzer-beating goal as Avalanche beat BluesVideo
EDMONTON, Alberta — Nazem Kadri scored a buzzer-beating power-play goal to give the Colorado Avalanche a 2-1 comeback victory over the defending Stanley Cup champion St. Louis Blues in Western Conference round-robin play Sunday night. Kadri’s shot crossed the goal line with 0.1 seconds on the clock. The NHL reviewed...
Carter Hart has 34 saves in Flyers’ win over BruinsVideo
TORONTO — Carter Hart and the Philadelphia Flyers sure didn’t look stale following a 4 1/2-month pause to the NHL season. Hart stopped 34 shots, and the Flyers got a balanced and opportunistic attack in opening the expanded playoffs seeding round with a 4-1 win over the Presidents’ Trophy-winning Boston...
Justin Thomas holds on to win in Memphis, Peters native Todd fades down stretchVideo
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Justin Thomas wants to make his second stint as No. 1 in the world last longer than the first time around. “I hope so,” Thomas said Sunday after winning the FedEx St. Jude Invitational to take the No. 1 spot for the first time since June 2018....
Marcus Pettersson and John Marino remain resolute on Penguins blue line
John Marino picked a rotten year to be a rookie defenseman. Not so much because of everything else that made 2020 a rotten year. But because he has so much company. One of the defining traits of the NHL’s 2019-20 campaign was there were so many freshman blue liners who...
Pirates swept by Cubs, waste Steven Brault’s strong start
When analyzing the Pittsburgh Pirates’ 2-1 loss to the Chicago Cubs in 11 innings Sunday, you must consider the painful truths: • The Pirates (2-7) are not taking advantage of the gift runner rule inserted into baseball in this 60-game season. They have started four extra innings in two games...
Brad Keselowski wins in New Hampshire for 3rd win since shutdownVideo
LOUDON, N.H. — Brad Keselowski won at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Sunday for his third victory of the NASCAR season and 33rd of his career. Keselowski and Denny Hamlin swapped stage wins and had the lead a combined 18 times before Keselowski, who is in a contract year for...
Phil Kessel helps Coyotes hold off Predators in series openerVideo
EDMONTON, Alberta — Oliver Ekman-Larsson scored the first of Arizona’s three first-period goals, former Pittsburgh Penguins forward Phil Kessel had two assists and the Coyotes held on to beat the Nashville Predators, 4-3, on Sunday to open their Stanley Cup qualifier series. The Coyotes made the most of their first...
Penguins coach Mike Sullivan endorses duo of Jack Johnson, Justin Schultz
Penguins coach Mike Sullivan is typically hesitant to blame any individual player or select groups of players for any on-ice performance. He normally will defend them all. Such was the case when he was asked about the third defensive pairing of Jack Johnson and Justin Schultz on Sunday. During Saturday’s...
Penguins’ Conor Sheary on missed penalty shot in Game 1: ‘A bad move, I guess’
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Conor Sheary joined a somewhat select but certainly futile group of company during Saturday’s 3-2 overtime loss to the Montreal Canadiens in Game 1 of their qualifying-round series at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena. He became the seventh player in franchise history to attempt a postseason penalty shot but...
Jimmy Butler misses Heat practice, teammate hints he’s isolatingVideo
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Jimmy Butler was not with the Miami Heat for practice Sunday, and one of his teammates suggested he was quarantining away from the team. The Heat said only that Butler, who scored 22 points in Miami’s restart-opening win over Denver on Saturday, had “an excused...
Mets slugger Cespedes leaves team, opts out of 2020 seasonVideo
ATLANTA — New York Mets slugger Yoenis Cespedes opted out of the 2020 season on Sunday because of the coronavirus pandemic, providing some clarity after the team said it was unable to locate him. Cespedes did not report to the ballpark for the Mets’ game at Atlanta, and the team...
