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Chris Doleman, former Pitt player and Pro Football Hall of Famer, dies of brain cancer
Chris Doleman, one of the NFL’s most feared pass rushers of all-time and one of nine former Pitt players to earn induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, died Tuesday night after a prolonged battle with brain cancer. Doleman was 58. Doleman, a defensive end and outside linebacker, was...
Tim Benz: Steelers’ Alan Faneca has grown ‘wary’ of Hall of Fame process. Me too.
If former Steelers All-Pro Alan Faneca is feeling good about his chances of election to the Pro Football Hall of Fame this weekend, he’s hiding it. “I feel about it like I do every time,” Faneca told me Monday on 105.9 the X .“You are excited. You never know which...
Tim Benz: If Pirates are serious about getting a real MLB center fielder, here’s an ideaVideo
Here are the options for the Pirates in the outfield now that Starling Marte has been traded to the Arizona Diamondbacks. 1. Move Bryan Reynolds to center field and have newly acquired Guillermo Heredia play left field. 2. Keep Reynolds in left field and have Heredia play center. 3. Move...
Pitt men can’t close gap against Duke; Mike Krzyzewski yells at fansVideo
DURHAM, N.C. — Vernon Carey Jr. had 26 points and 13 rebounds as No. 9 Duke beat Pitt, 79-67, on Tuesday night after both teams honored Kobe Bryant during a pregame ceremony at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The somber opening gave way to a testy battle on the court that included...
Changes to Pennsylvania’s deer season and more appear likelyVideo
Another Saturday opener, the Sunday following and two weeks of concurrent buck and doe hunting. Those are just a few of the highlights that could define Pennsylvania’s statewide firearms deer season this fall. And that’s not all. Additional changes could be coming to bear, archery deer, turkey, raccoon and squirrel...
Kobe Bryant’s body, other crash victims identifiedVideo
LOS ANGELES — The helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant didn’t have a recommended warning system to alert the pilot he was too close to land but it’s not clear it would have averted the crash that killed nine because he may have lost control as the aircraft plunged into a fog-shrouded...
Saturday opener for deer boosted Pennsylvania hunting license salesVideo
Moving opening day of Pennsylvania’s statewide firearms deer season for the first time in 60 years helped the Game Commission sell more licenses in 2019 than in ’18. The question is whether that’s enough. For decades, opening day always fell on the Monday after Thanksgiving. Last year, commissioners bumped the...
‘Citizen of the world’: Kobe Bryant promoted basketball globallyVideo
ROME — At a Lakers preseason game in Beijing in 2013, the arena rang out with chants of “Kobe! Kobe!” — despite the injured superstar not even having suited up. From Los Angeles to Italy, Asia and beyond, Kobe Bryant was bigger than just a basketball player. He was the...
CCBC freshman Yazid Powell scores 81 points in honor of late Kobe BryantVideo
Community College of Beaver County freshman Yazid Powell has been a Kobe Bryant fan for his entire life. He idolized the Los Angeles Lakers legend growing up. He went to high school a stone’s throw from the playground where Kobe played. He mimicked his moves any chance he could, and...
Kobe Bryant leaves lasting impact on women’s basketballVideo
HARTFORD, Conn. — Kobe Bryant always had an interest in women’s basketball, one he shared with many in the sport even before his daughter Gianna started excelling at the game. Whether it was mentoring players such as Diana Taurasi, Jewell Loyd and Sabrina Ionescu or working out with Gabby Williams...
Column: Super Bowl streak ends at age 89 for Jerry IzenbergVideo
MIAMI — Jerry Izenberg can still write, as anyone who reads his columns in the Star-Ledger in New Jersey knows. Just the other day he wrote a good one about an aging sports writer who has been to every Super Bowl since the first one in 1967. That sports writer...
IUP basketball teams No. 5 this week in their respective national rankings
The Indiana University men’s and women’s basketball teams both find themselves in the top five of their respective national Division II polls this week. For the first time since last February, the Crimson Hawks women are ranked in the top five as they are No. 5 in the latest Women’s...
Westmoreland Campus Clippings: Southmoreland’s Stone readies for Duquesne
Super Bowl Sunday will be a sort of homecoming for La Salle freshman basketball player Brandon Stone (Southmoreland), who will join his teammates for an Atlantic 10 game at Duquesne. The 6-foot-11 Stone has played in 18 games, with two starts, and is averaging 3.3 points in 10.3 minutes for...
Niners’ Jimmy Garoppolo takes Tom Brady’s lessons into 1st Super Bowl startVideo
MIAMI — Jimmy Garoppolo had a front-row seat in the best classroom on the best way to prepare for being a starting quarterback in the Super Bowl. After watching Tom Brady prepare for two Super Bowl wins as his backup on New England, Garoppolo gets the chance to translate those...
Report: Astros working on deal to bring in Dusty Baker as managerVideo
HOUSTON — Dusty Baker is working to finalize an agreement to become manager of the Houston Astros, a person with knowledge of the negotiations told yhe Associated Press on Tuesday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal has not yet been completed. The 70-year-old Baker becomes the...
Duquesne aims for improved shooting against No. 7 DaytonVideo
When Duquesne plays No. 7 Dayton on Wednesday night at PPG Paints Arena, the Dukes’ most challenging opponent won’t be the Flyers or their future NBA first-round draft choice, Obi Toppin. Actually, the Dukes (15-4, 5-2 Atlantic 10) have been fighting a more stubborn foe the past few weeks: the...
Roger Federer saves 7 match points in Australia; Novak Djokovic up nextVideo
MELBOURNE, Australia — Roger Federer was not going to go gently, of course, no matter how daunting the number of match points — his opponent accumulated seven — no matter how achy his 38-year-old legs, no matter how slow his serves, no matter how off-target his groundstrokes. Federer still plays...
Trib HSSN Wrestler of the Week for week of Jan. 27, 2020
Burrell 152-pounder A.J. Corrado turned in a solid performance at the Thomas Chevrolet tournament in Bedford this past weekend, taking home first place with a 4-0 record and four pins. None of Corrado’s matches got out of the first round. Corrado was the No. 1-seed heading into the tournament and...
Trib HSSN Wrestling Team of the Week for week of Jan. 27, 2020
Following a 17th straight section championship last week, the Burrell wrestling team traveled to Bedford for the Thomas Chevrolet tournament. Burrell placed second behind Chestnut Ridge and scored 225.5 points. Three Bucs — Ian Oswalt (132 pounds), AJ Corrado (152) and Ricky Feroce (195) — earned individual titles at the...
House resolution proposed against minor league contraction
WASHINGTON — Four members of the House of Representatives introduced a resolution Wednesday urging Major League Baseball not to follow through with its proposal to eliminate 42 current minor league teams. MLB made the proposal last year to the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, the governing body of the...
Kevin Gorman: A ‘Dream Outfield’ deferred, Pirates turn to Gregory Polanco for productionVideo
Now that the Pittsburgh Pirates have traded two-thirds of the so-called Dream Outfield, we finally can wake up to this reality: It was more of a fantasy. The idea of fielding an outfield of All-Stars Andrew McCutchen, Starling Marte and Gregory Polanco in the same fashion as the early 1990s...
Judge frees Antonio Brown from house arrestVideo
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Florida judge freed NFL free agent Antonio Brown from house arrest Tuesday, allowing him to travel freely as he awaits trial on charges that he attacked the driver of a moving truck. Circuit Judge Michael Usan agreed to let Brown travel freely within the United...
Pirates appear to have few options to fully replace Starling Marte’s offense
By this past weekend, it had been two months since the Pittsburgh Pirates’ new management team started engaging in trade talks regarding their starting center fielder. So Monday’s announcement of the trade of Starling Marte to the Arizona Diamondbacks probably didn’t catch new manager Derek Shelton by surprise. “The one...
Starling Marte thanks fans and Pirates in farewell post
Starling Marte, who spent 13 years in the Pirates organization, took to social media Monday to say goodbye to Pittsburgh and Pirates fans, after he was traded to the Arizona Diamondbacks. The outfielder thanked the city and fans for their support and expressed gratitude for playing for the Pirates, which...
Penguins sign defenseman Marcus Pettersson to contract extension
Marcus Pettersson was pragmatic about his situation as an unrestricted free agent in September. As training camp approached, Pettersson acknowledged he wasn’t of the same ilk of All-Stars such as Winnipeg Jets forward Patrik Laine or Toronto Maple Leafs forward Mitchell Marner and several other high-profile restricted free agents who...
