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IUP moves into top 25
Add IUP football to the Division II Top 25. After a 24-13 victory over New Haven, the Crimson Hawks moved into the No. 24 spot in the American Football Coaches Association Division II Coaches’ Top 25 Poll. Duane Brown (Apollo-Ridge) scored a pair of touchdowns and Justice Evans (Kiski Area/Central...
Bengals encouraged by 1st game under new coach Zac TaylorVideo
CINCINNATI — Andy Dalton had a career day. The defense played far better than at any time last season. An opener that could have turned ugly became a point of optimism. The Bengals couldn’t pull off the upset in Seattle, but the way they played suggested this could be a...
Hero’s welcome for David Ortiz at Fenway Park
BOSTON — Former Red Sox slugger David Ortiz had a chance to thank his adoring fans at Fenway Park exactly three months after he was shot in the back while in his native Dominican Republic. In his first public appearance since June 9, when he was seriously injured in a...
Franklin Regional grad Nate Leopold pulls in OAC honors
After a special game, Nate Leopold was awarded appropriately. A sophomore defensive back at John Carroll, Leopold was named Ohio Athletic Conference Special Teams of the Week after his performance in a 21-7 victory over Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Leopold, a Franklin Regional graduate, had a career-best eight tackles, one for a...
New-look Ravens off to record-setting start behind Lamar Jackson
OWINGS MILLS, Md. — The defending AFC North champion Baltimore Ravens stand alone atop the division after a near-flawless performance that would suggest their offseason changes only made them better than last year. Newcomers Mark Ingram and Earl Thomas contributed heavily to Sunday’s 59-10 rout of the Miami Dolphins, as...
Steelers trade backup QB Josh Dobbs
‘Duck Dynasty’ is back with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Devlin Hodges was signed by the team Monday to serve as the No. 3 quarterback after Josh Dobbs was traded to the Jacksonville Jaguars earlier in the day. Hodges impressed during training camp after signing with the team following a tryout at...
Pitt needs clean-up effort to reduce a wave of penalties
Pitt’s margin for error will be reduced significantly Saturday when it faces No. 13 Penn State at Beaver Stadium. The game will be the first of two consecutive games against ranked opponents. Pitt plays No. 17 Central Florida on Sept. 21 at Heinz Field (kickoff 3:30 p.m.). As the schedule...
Browns appear overhyped, reckless in penalty-filled debutVideo
CLEVELAND — Baker Mayfield was hurting following a shocking, stinging loss. The Tennessee Titans sacked him five times, chased him all over the field and knocked some of the defiance out of Cleveland’s brassy quarterback in Sunday’s opener. “I’ll be all right,” Mayfield said. It’s too early to know if...
History shows Week 1 losses don’t doom Steelers’ entire seasonVideo
About 14 hours after a loss that had few silver linings for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Bud Dupree managed to find one. “Nobody was getting decapitated,” Dupree said Monday in reviewing a 33-3 loss at the New England Patriots the night before, “or nothing like that.” Indeed, each of the 53...
Mark Madden: No way Antonio Brown conforms to ‘Patriot Way’
The moon landings weren’t faked. The earth isn’t flat. 9/11 was not an inside job. Antonio Brown did not intend to finagle his way to New England dating to when he was with the Steelers. Oh, it’s a believable story in the era of rigged “reality” TV. But Brown’s primary...
Struggling West Virginia a ‘work in progress’
West Virginia coach Neal Brown calls his team a “work in progress,” one that isn’t progressing fast enough with a week left until the start of the Big 12 season. The blocking of the offensive line stinks. The running game is nonexistent, and the quarterback play has been inconsistent. Across-the-board...
Steelers legend Lynn Swann resigns as Southern Cal athletic director
LOS ANGELES — Southern Cal athletic director Lynn Swann resigned after three tumultuous years atop one of the nation’s most prestigious athletic departments. The 67-year-old Swann, a Hall of Fame receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers, signed his letter of resignation Monday, just two weeks into USC’s football season. Dave Roberts,...
Steelers injury reports: Joe Haden has sprained AC joint, JuJu Smith-Schuster’s toe ‘OK’
Of the four former Pro Bowl Pittsburgh Steelers who were injured during the fourth quarter of Sunday’s season-opening loss, three were in the locker room at UPMC Rooney Sports Complex on Monday afternoon. Cornerback Joe Haden (shoulder), linebacker T.J. Watt (hip) and receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster (toe) were spotted — seemingly...
Analysis: Federer-Nadal-Djokovic rivalry remains compellingVideo
NEW YORK At some point, of course, Rafael Nadal and the rest of the Big Three will stop winning Grand Slam titles, someone younger will emerge and a shift at the top of tennis will happen. Just not yet. And while so much attention in the sport has been focused...
Steelers’ Chuks Okorafor unsure why he was Sunday inactive, takes it in stride
Sunday, for the first time in his NFL career, Chuks Okorafor was not activated to play during a Pittsburgh Steelers game. The 2018 third-round pick, apparently, has been surpassed on the offensive tackle depth chart by Zach Banner. “It is what it is,” Okorafor said Monday at UPMC Rooney Sports...
For Penguins’ Jake Guentzel, superstar treatment could become normVideo
Jake Guentzel was going to be a star in the basement of the Dickson home in Mars on Monday afternoon no matter how many goals he scored last season. As part of an annual September tradition for the Penguins, Guentzel delivered the family’s season tickets to their home Monday afternoon....
Nathan Legare, Samuel Poulin help Penguins prospects win Buffalo rookie tournament
The high-flying duo of Samuel Poulin and Nathan Legare were at it again for the Pittsburgh Penguins on Monday afternoon. Legare broke a third-period tie and Poulin added the empty netter as a team of Penguins prospects defeated the Buffalo Sabres, 6-4, to finish in first place in the annual...
8 golfers advance out of Drive, Chip and Putt regional at Oakmont
Eight regional finalists moved on to the big show in the seventh annual Drive, Chip and Putt competition. Four boys and four girls advanced out of a regional competition held Saturday at storied Oakmont Country Club. The eight players will join 72 others competing in the national finals on April...
Weekend College Top 10: Defense dominant for No. 21 W&J football
Every Monday, the Tribune-Review will highlight 10 top area college performances from the weekend: 1. No. 21 W&J football edges No. 18 Wittenberg Mike Williams (Langley) forced a fumble that Nick Getz returned 52 yards for a touchdown with 9 minutes, 53 seconds left to help the Presidents win their...
Pitt’s Pat Narduzzi shields players from reporters before Penn State gameVideo
Pat Narduzzi is feeding the prevailing perception that the Pitt/Penn State game is different from all others. Just as he has done in the past (with one exception), the coach has shut off all contact between his players and the media in the week leading up to the Penn State...
John Steigerwald: Antonio Brown looks crazy like a fox
Antonio Brown got the last laugh. He laughed at the Steelers and laughed at the Oakland Raiders and he laughed at the National Football League, and if you think he cares about the $15 million in guaranteed money he left behind in Oakland on Saturday, he’s laughing at you, too....
Steelers trade No. 3 quarterback Josh Dobbs to Jaguars for 5th-round pickVideo
A week after Mason Rudolph was named backup quarterback, Josh Dobbs’ tenure with the Pittsburgh Steelers is over. Dobbs was traded to the Jacksonville Jaguars for a fifth-round pick Monday afternoon, ending his tenure with the Steelers at 2 ½ years since he was drafted with a 2017 fourth-round pick....
How did Steelers fall so flat vs. Patriots? Tim Benz, Mark Madden analyze
Who’s to blame for the Steelers’ season-opening blowout loss to the Super Bowl champions? A little bit of everyone. TribLIVE columnists Tim Benz and Mark Madden break down Sunday night’s Steelers disaster in Foxborough, laying blame on everything from the game plan, to the inexperience on defense, to a lack...
First Call: Steelers fans, it could be worse; you could be a Browns fan
In Monday’s “First Call,” our AFC North recap features a rotten start for Cleveland. Also, the Bengals hang tough and the Ravens go bonkers. Plus, Philadelphia fans live down to their reputation, while Saquon Barkley lives up to his. Cleveland clunker I’m not one who dismissed the offseason hype about...
Tim Benz, Mark Madden recap Steelers’ ugly loss to Patriots
It’s time for this week’s “Madden Monday” with Mark Madden of 105.9 the X. And it’s ugly. How could it be anything else after that disaster in New England? The Steelers lost to the Patriots 33-3. The passing game was awful. The run game was non-existent. The play calling was...
