Sports category, Page 2012
First Call: Antonio Brown’s ‘night vision’ practice, Cam Newton moving the needle with Patriots
Tuesday’s “First Call” features Antonio Brown’s night vision with the Washington Redskins’ quarterback. Cam Newton’s new home in New England. And a little jab at the Patriots latest cheating controversy. New Newton Want a look at Cam Newton as a Patriot? Yeah. Me neither. Here it is anyway. Via the...
Tim Benz: Steelers ‘optimistic’ fans will be in Heinz Field this fall
The Pittsburgh Steelers are still holding out hope that they will be able to play home games in front of their fans during the 2020 season. Last week, The Athletic’s Daniel Kaplan wrote that the NFL is going to allow teams an opportunity to work out their own seating volume...
Daniel McCarthy, 2018 champ, leads Fuhrer; Irwin’s Dan Obremski lurking
Daniel McCarthy couldn’t be blamed if he went to bed early Monday night. Sunday, he flew from Utah to Detroit and then drove to Pittsburgh to compete in the annual Frank B. Fuhrer Jr. Invitational at Pittsburgh Field Club. Despite getting only two hours of sleep, McCarthy was able to...
Organizational depth, creativity will be important for MLB teamsVideo
PHOENIX — The Minnesota Twins shuffled their on-field staff to protect the health of some of their older coaches. A trio of players, including Diamondbacks pitcher Mike Leake and Nationals slugger Ryan Zimmerman, announced they won’t be playing in the upcoming 60-game season. As MLB lurches toward a late-July start...
Pirates Steven Brault, Josh Bell hope to hit high note off the field, too
Pittsburgh Pirates players Steven Brault and Josh Bell will resume their baseball careers this week at PNC Park, but during the covid-19 break, they showed off another skill in a recording studio. Brault and Bell joined former players Ozzie Smith, Bernie Williams and Nick Swisher and Sharon Robinson, daughter of...
Stimmel wins WPGA spring stroke play title
Rick Stimmel is known around local golf circles as a steely veteran, someone who has played in USGA championships, bounced around mini tours and ground through qualifiers. His name always seems to surface on the leaderboard. Stimmel added another victory to his resume Monday by winning the 27th Western Pennsylvania...
All is silent on Wimbledon’s would-be Day 1Video
WIMBLEDON, England — When the clock struck 11 a.m. at the All England Club, there was silence. Not because a player dressed all in white was about to whack a serve on one of Wimbledon’s many perfectly kept grass courts, but because there is no tennis this year at the...
Double Team: Gilles Meloche was good, but not good enough to lift the Golden Seals, Barons
While the NHL is on hold because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Tribune-Review will offer the Double Team project, an examination of the five best players who have contributed substantially to the Penguins and another franchise. For consideration, a player must have played at least the equivalent of a...
Column: NASCAR rolls on, through crisis and controversyVideo
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The one thing NASCAR has always gotten right is its ability to keep the wheels turning. In crisis or coronavirus, the show finds its way to a race track and keeps plugging along. That has never been in doubt, at least not since 2001 when Dale Earnhardt...
Pirates sign 4th-round draft choice Jack Hartman
The Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday signed right-handed relief pitcher Jack Hartman, the team’s fourth-round selection (108th overall) in the 2020 draft. Hartman was 1-0 with four saves, a 3.00 ERA and 22 strikeouts in 10 appearances (12 innings) at Appalachian (N.C.) State. He is one of four right-handed pitchers the...
Nick Watney bored in isolation, nervous about how he got virusVideo
Monday marked the 10th day of self-isolation for Nick Watney, the minimum required for PGA Tour players who test positive for the new coronavirus. He said he is feeling good except for some minor fatigue, perhaps brought on by a major case of boredom, and except for the distinction of...
Nationals’ Ryan Zimmerman and Joe Ross opting out of MLB seasonVideo
The Washington Nationals will try to defend their World Series title without at least two holdovers from last year’s team, including one of the faces of the franchise. Longtime infielder Ryan Zimmerman and pitcher Joe Ross elected not to play this season, the team announced Monday. Amid the covid-19 pandemic,...
Steelers 2-a-days: Alex Highsmith awaits his role, Mike Hilton eager for new contractVideo
Editor’snote: Leading up to a unique Pittsburgh Steelers training camp staged at Heinz Field this year, the Tribune-Review will be running through the team’s 90-man roster, assessing each player’s outlook for the 2020 season. The breakdown will go through the roster, in mostly alphabetical order, two per day, between June...
Diamondbacks right-hander Mike Leake opts out of seasonVideo
PHOENIX — Arizona Diamondbacks right-hander Mike Leake opted out of the 2020 season because of concerns about the coronavirus. Diamondbacks general manager Mike Hazen did not elaborate on Leake’s decision during a Zoom call Monday, but the pitcher’s agent issued a statement saying he made a personal decision not to...
26 NHL players have tested positive for covid-19 as league nears restartVideo
The NHL said 26 players have reported testing positive for the new coronavirus since voluntary workouts began June 8. Monday’s update includes four additional cases among those tested at team facilities, to go along with the 11 announced June 19. The league said it is aware of 11 other players...
WVU men’s basketball player tests positive for covid-19
A member of the West Virginia men’s basketball team has tested positive for covid-19 and will be quarantined for 14 days, the West Virginia University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics announced. The player was not unidentified. Voluntary workouts for the team’s student-athletes who have tested negative for the virus will begin...
Kiski Area taking advantage of opportunities provided by WPBL
Kiski Area baseball coach Aaron Albert and the Cavaliers were excited for the 2020 baseball season. They had a roster full of seniors and after making the playoffs last year for the second time since 2016, they had high expectations. Although the coronavirus pandemic brought an end to those hopes,...
USGA transfers media rights from Fox Sports to NBCVideo
The USGA is transferring its U.S. media rights from Fox Sports to NBC, which returns the U.S. Open and U.S. Women’s Open to NBC this year and for the final seven years of the Fox contract. The transfer is largely attributed to the covid-19 pandemic that shut down golf for...
New men’s basketball coaches relying on transfers to stabilize programsVideo
Mark Byington has spent more than three months as the men’s basketball coach at James Madison without being able to take a recruiting trip or meet personally with the eight players joining his program during the coronavirus pandemic. But he takes some comfort in that five of the newcomers have...
North Allegheny grad Jack Wright earns All-American honor at Virginia
North Allegheny alum Jack Wright earned an impressive honor as a freshman on the Virginia men’s swimming team. Wright, 19, was selected as a Division I All-American in the 800-yard freestyle relay by the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America. The relay achieved a NCAA A cut of...
Netflix series to dramatize Kaepernick’s path to activism
LOS ANGELES — Colin Kaepernick is joining with Emmy-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay on a Netflix drama series about the teenage roots of the former NFL player’s activism. “Colin in Black & White” will examine Kaepernick’s high school years to illuminate the experiences that shaped his advocacy, Netflix said Monday. “Too...
A long-overdue ‘Tip of the Cap’ to baseball’s Black pioneersVideo
Barack Obama tipped his cap. So did three other former U.S. presidents and a host of prominent civil rights leaders, entertainers and sports greats in a virtual salute to the 100-year anniversary of the founding of baseball’s Negro Leagues. The campaign launched Monday with photos and videos from, among others,...
Mark Madden: No chance pro athletes follow all covid-19 protocols
I have little confidence any of America’s big-time pro sports leagues will see their seasons through to a conclusion, or even start/resume them. The NBA has the best plan. It doesn’t matter that Florida is a covid-19 hot spot as long as all NBA personnel stay inside the Disney World...
USA Football plans return to play for youths in 2020
USA Football has developed a phased approach for the return of youth football this year. The plan is based on phased reopening guidelines from the CDC. The governing body for the sport in this country advises youth leagues to consult their city or county health departments to determine which CDC...
Odds on another Pirates/Yankees World Series: 300/1
If you believe anything’s possible in a 60-game baseball season, you can bet on World Series matchups involving the Pittsburgh Pirates. With fresh enthusiasm generated by first-year manager Derek Shelton, the Pirates resume camp at PNC Park on Wednesday in preparation for the first game in about three weeks. BetOnline.ag...
