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Family loyalties will be tested by Edmunds brothers matchup between Steelers, Bills
The Edmunds brothers don’t have to worry about making dinner reservations Saturday night or how many tickets to commandeer for friends and family members Sunday when an historic football matchup takes place at Heinz Field. Parents Ferrell and Felicia Edmunds are taking care of the ancillary details in advance of...
Murrysville’s Andrew Mastovich makes All-ECAC team
Andrew Mastovich surely made his mark in the Penn State Behrend men’s soccer program. The senior defender out of Franklin Regional added another postseason accolade Wednesday when he was named to the All-Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III All-Star First Team. Mastovich, the AMCC Defensive Player of the Year, is...
Mark Madden: Cheating Patriots should be banned from NFL playoffs
After Spygate in 2007, the New England Patriots lost a first-round draft pick. Coach Bill Belichick was fined $500,000. The team was fined $250,000. That punishment was fair. But the Patriots kept cheating. The NFL’s discipline inexplicably got lesser. After Deflategate in 2015, quarterback Tom Brady was suspended four games,...
Antonio Brown takes shot at NFL, Ben Roethlisberger in latest Twitter tirade
Mr. Big Chest had a lot to get off his Wednesday, with Antonio Brown taking aim at the NFL over what he perceives as racism and calling Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger a “loser.” Brown, who remains unemployed while the NFL investigates sexual assault allegations against the All-Pro wide receiver,...
First Call: Le’Veon Bell brags about bowling, Antonio Brown’s new song, potential Starling Marte trade partnerVideo
In “First Call” Wednesday, Le’Veon Bell brags about his bowling night out, Antonio Brown tries his hand at music, and a logical trade partner for Starling Marte emerges. Bell’s bowling boast Steelers Hall of Famer Jerome Bettis was renowned as a great bowler, with a perfect game under his belt....
Tim Benz: Young Jedi Tristan Jarry should rebound after Penguins’ ‘Star Wars’ night loss
AT&T SportsNet’s Penguins reporter Dan Potash got into the mood for “Star Wars” night at PPG Paints Arena Tuesday. The Force is with me...how about you?? Puck drop is seconds away! -DP #StarWarsThemeNight @penguins @NHLNetwork pic.twitter.com/QaAPxD9Yqk— AT&T SportsNet™ PIT (@ATTSportsNetPIT) December 11, 2019 Unfortunately for the Pens, the Montreal Canadiens...
Who will come out on top in Steelers-Bills defensive duel?
It’s our weekly “Breakfast With Benz” podcast wrapping up Steelers coach Mike Tomlin’s press conference. TribLive Steelers beat writer Joe Rutter hops on with me this week. We pick apart the huge game looming against the Buffalo Bills on Sunday night. And there’s a lot of meat on the bone....
U mad, bro? Readers agitated over fake punts, Steelers play calls, NFL refs, Pitt tweetsVideo
You were mad because “U mad, bro?” was late last week. Well, we heard you. So we are back on schedule this week. And your discontent is just as obvious as ever. This week’s complaints from readers range from Steelers play calling, to our coverage of the team, to NFL...
Empty Thoughts: Canadiens 4, Penguins 1
Observations from the Penguins’ 4-1 loss to the Canadiens: Canadiens coach Claude Julien has faced the Penguins enough times to know what they’re all about. Speed, skating, scoring. And special teams, specifically the power play. “Tonight, we’ve got another challenge against a team that’s usually pretty dangerous on the power...
Yankees land ace Gerrit Cole on record 9-year, $324M deal
SAN DIEGO — The New York Yankees landed the biggest prize of the free agent market, adding Gerrit Cole to their rotation with a record $324 million, nine-year contract on Tuesday night, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because...
Tristan Jarry sets Penguins’ record for shutout sequence
When it comes to Penguins goaltending, there is a trinity of Tom Barrasso, Marc-Andre Fleury and Matt Murray at the top of the group of men who have tended the pipes for the franchise. They’re the only three to win a Stanley Cup for the Penguins as the starting goaltender,...
Texas Tech stuns No. 1 Louisville at Madison Square Garden
NEW YORK — Here’s one poll position no team might want: Louisville is the latest No. 1-and-done in an upset-crazed college basketball season. Davide Moretti scored 18 points and hit successive 3-pointers that helped Texas Tech knock off undefeated No. 1 Louisville, 70-57, on Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden....
Mentored youth trout program to continue despite complainers
It’s Pennsylvania’s biggest youth fishing outreach program, one that appears popular with its target audience. And yet a small but vocal minority would kill it. The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission makes available two mentored youth trout fishing days annually. One is the Saturday before the regional opening day of...
Flat second period dooms Penguins in loss to CanadiensVideo
Through the first two-plus months of the season, there are plenty of factors you could point to for any of the defeats the Pittsburgh Penguins have experienced. • Injuries? Very much so. The Penguins largely have hobbled through the season with players of varying importance sidelined because of maladies ranging...
Penn State upsets fourth-ranked MarylandVideo
STATE COLLEGE — At 6-foot-9, Mike Watkins always stands out in a crowd. Even one that’s made up of hundreds of screaming fans. Watkins pumped his fists as swarms of his classmates poured onto the court after Penn State joined a series of unranked teams to knock off top-five opponents...
Looking at how leasing might impact hunter access long term
Truly scientific polls are conducted at random. This does not appear to be that, so the results have to be considered in that context. But it’s interesting nonetheless. The survey The American Hunting Lease Association is an organization that connects hunters and landowners, sells lease insurance and generally serves as...
Winter driving advice and more outdoor news
Take a quick look around the outdoors world with a tip, a new piece of gear and more: Tip of the week Enjoying a winter outdoor adventure starts with being able to get where you’re going and, just as importantly, get back home again. That can be difficult when snow...
Catcher at top of Pirates’ wish list
SAN DIEGO — It doesn’t take a deep dive into the Pittsburgh Pirates roster to determine the area that lacks depth. Jacob Stallings is the only catcher on the 40-man. Stallings, who turns 30 later this month, has played just 95 games and accumulated 282 plate appearances in four major...
Paul Newberry: NFL should suspend Patriots’ Bill Belichick for seasonVideo
Anyone who’s watched the New England Patriots stumble around for the past month or so surely saw this coming. With every wobbly pass delivered by Tom Brady, every disgusted look coming from beneath Bill Belichick’s hoodie, every result that went on the wrong side of New England’s win-loss ledger, it...
Westmoreland campus clippings: Latrobe’s Pevarnik leaving Penn State
Former Latrobe golf standout Brady Pevarnik will play for a new team next season. Pevarnik is leaving Penn State and will transfer to the College of Charleston (S.C.) for the spring semester. A a regular contender during his WPIAL career, Pevarnik has top-10 finishes at the notable Scott Robertson Memorial...
Ravens’ Lamar Jackson shrugs off leg injury, keeps focus on winsVideo
OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Setting NFL records and garnering MVP votes doesn’t mean that much to Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson, who is far more interested in stacking wins and getting Baltimore to the Super Bowl. Jackson stands 23 yards shy of breaking Michael Vick’s single-season record for yards rushing by...
Washington (Pa.) native Riley Barber debuts against PenguinsVideo
The pronouns still trip up Riley Barber. Even after being a professional for five seasons and with the considerable gulf of time in having taken up residence in Michigan for well over a decade, he still mixes up “we” and “they” when it comes to the Pittsburgh Penguins. “When ‘we’...
Penguins to start Tristan Jarry against Canadiens
The Penguins will start goaltender Tristan Jarry for Tuesday’s game against the Montreal Canadiens at PPG Paints Arena. Jarry enters the contest with a shutout sequence of 144:51, including back-to-back shutouts in his previous two games. In 11 games this season, he has 7-4-0 record along with a 1.82 goals...
IUP men’s basketball moves up one spot in national rankings
The IUP men’s basketball team remains undefeated, and it ticked up one spot to No. 5 in the National Association of Basketball Coaches Division II Top 25 Poll released Tuesday afternoon. The Crimson Hawks, 7-0 after a 76-63 win at Mansfield on Saturday, held the No. 6 position the previous...
On the Fringe: Reed becoming known for more than ‘Captain America’
MELBOURNE, Australia — This might be the end of that “Captain America” business. If it wasn’t his finger-pointing interview after the Ryder Cup in France, a few swipes of sand in the Bahamas should make it a little more clear. Patrick Reed is not doing or saying the things that...
