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Tim Benz: Cubs manager Joe Maddon thinks he’s figured out Pirates, NL Central
When the All-Star break ends, the second half of the season will resume the same way the first half ended for the National League Central. Division rivals will be jockeying for position as all five teams reboot the schedule within 4 ½ games of each other in the standings. The...
Leechburg, Apollo-Ridge boys soccer ready to take on WPIAL competition together
For the first time in the history of their schools, Apollo-Ridge and Leechburg will have a boys soccer program as the two schools have formed in a co-op agreement. Building a program from scratch is no easy task. It involves garnering interest from a student body — in this case...
Pirates’ Josh Bell collects 1 of NL’s 5 hits in All-Star Game loss
CLEVELAND – Josh Bell has a plan for the next time he faces the Yankees’ Masahiro Tanaka. He’s just not speaking about it publicly. If there is a next time, it could be in a World Series. Until then, Tanaka must live with the fact that Bell got the best...
Top pick Jack Hughes skates at New Jersey Devils camp
NEWARK, N.J. — Top draft pick Jack Hughes was a little disappointed on his first night with the New Jersey Devils at their development camp for young players. Sitting around a TV with Joey Anderson, fellow USA Hockey National Team Development Program teammate and Devils’ draft pick Patrick Moynihan and...
Pirates farm report for July 9, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 44-44) is on all-star break. Right-handed pitchers Mitch Keller (6-3, 3.32), Montana DuRapau (1-1, 1.93) and Dovydas Neverauskas (1-1, 2.31) and right fielder Trayvon Robinson (.322) were selected for the International League All-Star game Wednesday night. Next: Thursday at Columbus (Indians), 7:05 p.m. ALTOONA (Double-A, 47-38) is on...
49ers’ Jimmy Garoppolo goes to QB summer school before campVideo
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Jimmy Garoppolo is going to summer school before starting training camp with the San Francisco 49ers. Garoppolo is spending part of his down time between the end of minicamp and the start of training camp July 27 working in Southern California with quarterback guru Tom House....
Franklin Regional grad Palmer Jackson captures C.R. Miller Match Play title
Palmer Jackson captured the 46th C.R. Miller Match Play Invitational title Tuesday by breezing to victories in the semifinals and finals. The Franklin Regional graduate and Notre Dame recruit defeated Riverside’s Skyler Fox, 6 & 5, in the semifinals, and then rolled to a 7 & 6 win against Elizabeth...
Seton Hill to retire number of late volleyball teammate, Maggie Murray
An annual homecoming weekend match will be particularly special for the Seton Hill women’s volleyball team in the fall. On Oct. 12, when the Griffins host Bloomsburg at 1 p.m., the school will retire the No. 9 jersey of fallen teammate Maggie Murray. Murray, a 2018 graduate, died as a...
Bushy Run blanks Kiski Valley in Game 1 of District 31 Legion playoffs
During the beginning stages of a first-round game with Bushy Run on Tuesday, the Kiski Valley Legion baseball team seemed like it had everything under control. But Bushy Run (14-4), which has the third-highest run total in District 31, was able to produce six runs between the fourth and sixth...
Steelers’ TE crowd thins after top 2 Vance McDonald, Xavier Grimble
Allowing Jesse James to leave via free agency, the conventional narrative goes, was an easy decision for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Even if James was a starting-caliber NFL tight end, the Steelers already had one of those in Vance McDonald, and it would be a salary-cap faux pas to pay two...
Pirates ready to take aim on 1st place in NL Central
CLEVELAND — While street sweepers clear away debris from the past two days of celebrating baseball and its stars, All-Star closer Felipe Vazquez will pack up the car Wednesday morning and return to Pittsburgh with his family. But he won’t be there long. It’s off to Chicago’s Wrigley Field on...
Former Latrobe standout Austin Butler back to work after surgery
The ball went through the basket — swish — and a smile curled up on the shooter’s face. Yes, this is the stuff. How I’ve missed you, old friend. Austin Butler was out of basketball for the last three months as he recovered from shoulder surgery. But the former Latrobe...
Deer Lakes, West Point to play for District 26 10U baseball title
West Point 10U Little League All-Stars will face Deer Lakes at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Apollo for the District 26 baseball championship. The teams met in pool play, with Deer Lakes defeating West Point, 7-4. West Point is 4-2 in the tournament. West Point advanced by defeating West Shamokin, 17-3,...
John Steigerwald: In listening to Kaepernick, Nike shows its values are misplaced
Colin Kaepernick lit a cherry bomb two days before Independence Day and disturbed what had been a pretty quiet beginning of the summer, if you don’t count the stupidity surrounding the U.S. women’s soccer team. Kaepernick, who apparently majored in revisionist history at Nevada, decided to be offended by Nike’s...
Newest tennis sensation Gauff looking toward future
WIMBLEDON, England — A day after her memorable Wimbledon ended, Coco Gauff already was thinking about coming back. “Obviously, there’s always room for improvement,” Gauff said in an interview with the Associated Press on Tuesday at All England Club. “I’m going to go and practice and improve some things,” the...
Union looks for changes in baseball’s economics after expiration of CBA in 2021
CLEVELAND — MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said Tuesday there has been one preliminary meeting with the union to discuss the collective bargaining agreement that expires in 2021. Tony Clark, executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, is concerned that the game’s economics are changing, evidenced by the delayed...
Despite record HR pace, MLB’s Rob Manfred insists balls aren’t juiced
CLEVELAND — On one side, you have American League All-Star starting pitcher Justin Verlander, who believes the baseballs are juiced this season. He has allowed a major league-high 26 home runs in only 19 starts, with perhaps 15 more outings to go. “It’s a joke,” he said Monday at All-Star...
John Daly, days after being treated for spider bite at Uniontown Hospital, withdraws from British Open
John Daly has withdrawn from the British Open three days after being told he can’t ride in a cart. The R&A announced Tuesday that Daly, who won the Open at St. Andrews in 1995, has withdrawn because of a medical condition. He was replaced at Royal Portrush by Kevin Streelman....
Plum grad Courtney Zezza signs pro basketball contract with team in Greece
Plum and St. Francis (Pa.) graduate Courtney Zezza will begin her professional basketball career in Greece. The Red Flash’s all-time leader in blocked shots (299) signed a contract with Kronos Agiou Dimitriou, a member of the Greek C Basketball League. The league has been in operation for 35 years. Kronos...
Former Penguins center Greg Johnson dies at age 48
Former Pittsburgh Penguins center Greg Johnson, who spent parts of two seasons with the team in 1997, died Sunday in Detroit at age 48, according to multiple reports Tuesday. A cause of death was not immediately known. A skilled center who was the University of North Dakota’s all-time leading scorer,...
NFL Network to carry both Steelers preseason home games
The NFL Network will air 13 preseason games live this summer, and two of the Pittsburgh Steelers games are on the list, although viewers will have to live outside the region to watch them. The preseason opener Friday, Aug. 9 against Tampa Bay and the Saturday, Aug. 17 game against...
Former Steelers WR Antonio Brown must help pay for boy’s college
Former Pittsburgh Steelers receiver Antonio Brown will help pay for the college education of the toddler who nearly was hit by furniture Brown was accused of throwing off a balcony in 2018, according to court documents released this month. A settlement reached in a lawsuit brought by the boy’s grandfather,...
Pro Football Focus lists Steelers as 3rd-best offensive line in preseason rankings
Despite offseason upheaval that included the trade of wide receiver Antonio Brown and the official departure of running back Le’Veon Bell, one area of the Pittsburgh Steelers offense remains a constant. And Pro Football Focus took notice. The web site devoted to analyzing NFL players and teams compiled its preseason...
Arbitration date set for Penguins winger Zach-Aston Reese
The arbitration hearing for Pittsburgh Penguins winger Zach Aston-Reese is set for July 22 in Toronto. Aston-Reese, 24, recorded eight goals and 17 points in 43 games with the Penguins last season while making $925,000. Evolving Wild’s contract projections suggest he is in line for a two-year deal worth about...
Tim Benz: How Alison Riske nearly seized opportunity at Wimbledon
There was no raising of the Jolly Roger at Wimbledon’s Centre Court. No one waved a Terrible Towel. And “Renegade” was never played. London ain’t ready for that much Pittsburgh n’at, anyway. Peters Township product Alison Riske gave it her best against Serena Williams during the Wimbledon quarterfinals. But the...
