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Florida State football team meets after coach accused of lyingVideo
The Florida State football team met with coach Mike Norvell on Thursday after a star player accused the coach of lying about personally connecting with each player to discuss the police killing of George Floyd and ensuing protests against racial injustice. Florida State athletic director David Coburn was making a...
AP source: NBA owners approve 22-team season restart planVideo
A person with knowledge of the situation said the NBA’s Board of Governors approved a 22-team format for restarting the league season in late July at the Disney campus near Orlando, Fla. The format calls for each team playing eight games to determine playoff seeding plus the possible utilization of...
Steelers’ Steven Nelson: Moving camp to South Side ‘won’t have a great big effect’
For the first time since before most of the parents of most of the current players were born, the Pittsburgh Steelers will not be headed to Saint Vincent College next month for training camp. By directive of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell out of concerns relating to the coronavirus pandemic, all...
Who were the PIAA football teams of the decade? MaxPreps ranks the Top 20
The most dominant high school football team in the state last decade wasn’t from Western Pennsylvania, but six WPIAL programs did make the list. MaxPreps created a formula to rank the teams of the decade and crowned St. Joseph’s Prep as the winner Wednesday. Among WPIAL teams, North Allegheny was...
Lernerville Speedway calls off pair of events
Despite counties in Southwestern Pennsylvania moving to the green phase of reopening Friday, racing at Lernerville Speedway in Sarver again is on hold as the track announced Friday’s Fab4 Revved Up with Marburger night of racing and Tuesday’s School Bus/Kid’s Bike/Enduro events have been called off. Lernerville made the announcement...
Penn State’s Lamont Wade speaks out at Pleasant Hills protest
Penn State safety Lamont Wade was on the front lines of a peaceful protest against racial injustice on Wednesday in Pleasant Hills. “If you are out here today then that means you want change,” Wade said. “And we need to see actions towards change, starting today.” Wade, a Clairton graduate,...
Steelers’ Mike Tomlin, assistants permitted to return to team complex Friday
The NFL will move one step closer to normalcy Friday when coaches will be permitted back inside team facilities for the first time since March. Commissioner Roger Goodell informed the 32 teams of his decision Thursday. Team facilities were closed to coaches for about three months as the league dealt...
Saints’ Drew Brees takes first step toward mending relationships
NEW ORLEANS — Drew Brees now realizes he had fallen out of touch. His contemporaries drove that home when they pilloried him this week for repeating a long-held conviction he had always felt comfortable expressing. In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, Brees repeated his opposition to...
Penn State QB Sean Clifford uses chess to keep mind sharpVideo
The stay-at-home directives of the coronavirus pandemic have caused everyone to adjust, including starting quarterbacks of top-10 college football teams. For Penn State’s Sean Clifford, that’s meant keeping his throwing arm in shape by tossing to his younger brother, a high school senior who verbally committed as a receiver to...
Chris Archer’s health issues make Tampa Bay trade a disaster that haunts Pirates
Two weeks into spring training, Chris Archer was counting down the days until Opening Day and the possibility of pitching for the Pittsburgh Pirates against the Tampa Bay Rays. For Archer, it would have marked a return to Tropicana Field and a shot at redemption for the ill-fated and lopsided...
‘Burgh’s Best to Wear It, No. 88: Lynn Swann displayed grace, grit in Hall of Fame careerVideo
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. 88: Lynn Swann Lynn Swann has enjoyed as diverse a career as any athlete after the end of his playing days. From his two-decade...
Malcolm Jenkins to teammate Drew Brees: ‘You are part of the problem’Video
New Orleans Saints safety Malcolm Jenkins has responded to teammate Drew Brees after Brees called kneeling during the presentation of the American flag “disrespectful.” In a four-minute Instagram video posted Wednesday afternoon, Jenkins accused Brees of being “unaware.” The response initially targeted Brees’ assertion during an interview with Yahoo! Finance...
Travel softball teams returning to action, trying to get used to coronavirus guidelines
Travel softball will return to Pennsylvania later this month and players and coaches, particularly those who missed out on the high school season, are bubbling with anticipation to play again. When they finally return to the field, they will be met with a laundry list of new safety guidelines brought...
Robert Morris reportedly mulling move out of Northeast Conference
A potential move out of the Northeast Conference for Robert Morris — a possibility that has been whispered about more than once in recent years — is once again a topic of conversation. On Wednesday night, Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports reported the Colonials have emerged as a potential candidate...
Drew Brees draws ire of Steelers’ Cameron Heyward, LeBron James, othersVideo
NEW ORLEANS — Drew Brees was criticized sharply by fellow high-profile athletes including some of his own teammates on Wednesday after the Saints’ quarterback reiterated his opposition to kneeling during the National Anthem. In an interview with Yahoo, Brees was asked to revisit former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s 2016 protest...
Eastern Swim Association cancels summer schedule
Add the Eastern Swim Association (ESA) to the long list of sports organizations deciding to cancel summer events in the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. The ESA decided Monday in a Zoom meeting of the 11 member clubs to call off the dual-meet schedule, set to start June 16, as...
Four Pitt voices speak loudly on the passing of coach Johnny Majors
Here’s what Pitt people are saying about Johnny Majors, who died Tuesday night in Knoxville, Tenn.: Pitt Chancellor Patrick Gallagher “Coach John Majors was, and always will be, an important part of the University of Pittsburgh’s history. He is a celebrated championship-winning coach, but his impact on our players endured...
Years after leaving, Johnny Majors told John Pelusi, ‘I should have never left Pitt’
Johnny Majors walked down the steps into John Pelusi’s basement, picked up a cue stick, surveyed the pool table and laid down a challenge. “He said to my dad, ‘If I beat you at pool, your son’s going to come to Pitt,’” Pelusi said. “My dad says, ‘He’s not going...
Horse named for Dr. Anthony Fauci finishes second in debutVideo
A racehorse named for Dr. Anthony Fauci finished second in his debut Wednesday at Belmont Park in New York. Fauci, a 2-year-old colt, was beaten by a horse named Prisoner in the third race. Fauci was the even-money favorite. Co-owner Phillip Antonacci named the horse for Fauci in mid-March after...
AP source: NBA presents players with plan for season restartVideo
The NBA has told the National Basketball Players Association that it will present a 22-team plan for restarting the season to the league’s board of governors on Thursday, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press. The teams that will be going to the ESPN Wide World...
Blackhawk’s Sean Miller adds international flavor to Arizona rosterVideo
Sean Miller has reeled in some of nation’s best recruiting classes during his 11-year stint at Arizona, players who starred in college, won multiple NCAA Tournament games, went on to the NBA. His latest group has a distinctly international flavor to it. Filling the gaps left by three potential first-round...
Gene Walter breezes to Tri-State PGA win
Gene Walter finished his first competitive round of the season with a birdie on Wednesday at Wildwood Country Club. He didn’t realize that his 20-foot putt that lipped out was for eagle. He thought he was putting for birdie. It didn’t matter. All he had to do to win the...
Senior Spotlight: After lights-out junior year, South Park pitcher Brenden Gray excited to head to Seton Hill
Editor’s note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight WPIAL spring athletes whose senior years were cut short by the coronavirus pandemic. As the South Park Eagles entered the playoffs last year, they had two of the hottest pitchers in the WPIAL. Kevin Vaupel, who is now playing collegiate ball at...
Senior Spotlight: Final tennis season wiped out, but South Park senior’s golf game in full swing
Editor’s note: Each day, Trib HSSN will spotlight WPIAL spring athletes whose senior years were cut short by the coronavirus pandemic. Stone Ellis was a rock for the South Park boys golf and tennis teams the past several seasons. He hoped to cap his prep athletic career this spring with...
Former Mars pitcher Will Bednar named to freshman All-American team
Although his freshman season was cut short, former Mars pitcher Will Bednar received postseason honors this week. After pitching 15⅓ innings this season for Mississippi State, the 6-foot-2, 229-pound right-hander was named to Collegiate Baseball’s 2020 Freshman All-American team. Bednar was one of 24 relief pitchers named to the team...
