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Plum Junior Legion confident entering playoffs
Plum’s Junior Legion baseball team prepped for the playoffs in fine fashion. The Junior Mustangs blanked Riverview, 16-0, and Lower Burrell, 9-0, last week to end the Westmoreland County Youth Legion regular season with a 14-2 record. Plum and Monroeville finished with identical records atop the North Division, but Monroeville...
Monroeville Junior Legion chasing league championship
The Monroeville Junior Legion baseball program hopes to end the summer season batting .500. Monroeville won its first Westmoreland County Youth Legion championship last year in the program’s third year of existence. Another title this summer will make it two in four years. “It was a highly successful season, and...
Look out, boaters, when Brewers’ Christian Yelich, Pirates’ Josh Bell come to bat
Before the Milwaukee Brewers met the Pittsburgh Pirates at PNC Park on Friday night, Christian Yelich took aim at the Allegheny River. Hitting off batting practice pitcher Pat Shine, Yelich was preparing for the Home Run Derby on Monday in Cleveland. Christian Yelich did a practice round for the Home...
Penguins’ Zach Aston-Reese files for salary arbitration
Pittsburgh Penguins winger Zach Aston-Reese was the only one of the team’s four remaining restricted free agents to file for salary arbitration by Friday’s 5 p.m. deadline. Forwards Teddy Blueger and Adam Johnson elected not to file. Defenseman Marcus Pettersson did not have enough service time to earn the right...
Mark Madden: Penguins power play set for reshaping
The acquisition of Alex Galchenyuk in exchange for Phil Kessel puts the Penguins’ No. 1 power play in line for a major realignment. More deals might be made, but all the components for the man-advantage unit are currently in place. Kessel had 36 points on the PP last season. As...
Fishing report: Smallmouth bass biting at Pymatuning Reservoir
• Anglers fishing Pymatuning Reservoir are hitting on smallmouth bass, with a few largemouth bass catches being reported as well. The walleye bite has slowed but fishermen are still catching them, albeit mostly at night. The strategy for picking up the walleye appears to be drifting crawler harnesses, per reports....
Penn State football lands 20th verbal commit in 2020 class
The Penn State football program continues to add to its 2020 verbal commitment list. Bryce Mostella, a 6-foot-6, 230-pound weak-side defensive end from Kentwood High School in Grand Rapids, Mich., gave a verbal commitment to the Nittany Lions on Friday. Rivals ranks Mostella three stars. He made an official visit...
Former Seton Hill reliever Kenny Wells signs with Braves
This week has been a real thrill for the “Trill.” Kenny Wells, a former Seton Hill relief pitcher with the social media name, “Kenny Trill,” signed this week with the Danville Braves, the Advanced-Rookie level affiliate of the Atlanta Braves. He made his minor league debut on the Fourth of...
In wake of Maddon-Hurdle, recalling coaching confrontations in Pittsburgh sports history
Perhaps nothing would have happened had Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon been free to charge the Pittsburgh Pirates dugout during the teams’ Fourth of July blow-up. But Maddon was visibly angry that Pirates pitcher Jordan Lyles was throwing high and inside to his batters, and Clint Hurdle did not back...
Penguins sign coach Mike Sullivan to 4-year contract extension
With a new contract in his pocket, Pittsburgh Penguins coach Mike Sullivan is attempting to pull off a trick extraordinarily rare in hockey circles. It might be more difficult than winning back-to-back Stanley Cups like he did in 2016-17. He’s going to try to coach the same NHL team for...
MLB Network spotlights Pirates as force to be reckoned with in NL Central
“Let’s get on the Pirate ship” indeed. MLB Network’s Mark DeRosa seems to be pretty confident in the Pittsburgh Pirates. In a segment that aired Friday morning on the network’s morning show, “MLB Central,” the former journeyman utility player outlined all of the reasons the Pirates should be able to...
Steelers 2-a-days: Rookie Dionate Johnson looks to carve niche; JT Jones to fit in as edge rusher
Editor’s note: From now until the first practice of training camp at Saint Vincent College, the Trib will be running through the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 90-man roster, assessing each player’s outlook for the 2019 season. The breakdown will go through the roster in mostly-alphabetical order, (at least) two per day, between...
Pirates, Jordan Lyles pounded in series finale vs. Cubs
It is difficult to gauge what was most explosive in Pittsburgh on this Fourth of July: the annual fireworks, Joe Maddon’s temper or the Chicago Cubs offense. The Cubs tagged Jordan Lyles and reliever Clay Holmes for four home runs and nine extra-base hits in avoiding a four-game sweep by...
Technology allows NBC to add elements to Tour de France
Phil Liggett remembers the early days of Tour de France coverage in the United States, which would involve him traveling to Paris at the end of a stage, recording voiceovers all night and then rejoining the circuit for the next stage. Those days, though, are ancient history. The Tour has...
Dolphins defensive tackle Kendrick Norton has arm amputated after accident
Miami Dolphins defensive tackle Kendrick Norton was involved in a two-car accident early Thursday morning that resulted in his left arm being amputated. Norton’s left arm had to be amputated by paramedics at the scene for him to be removed from the rolled-over vehicle, sources told the South Florida Sun...
Former Penguins 2nd-rounder Zachary Lauzon not giving up dream
Zachary Lauzon’s once-promising professional hockey career remains in doubt. But the former highly touted Pittsburgh Penguins draft choice sounds as if he has achieved a level of content perspective for a 20-year-old in his position. “If I look back on who I was and how I was feeling mentally a...
Cubs’ Joe Maddon ejected, restrained in confronting Pirates’ Clint Hurdle
With the Pittsburgh Pirates going for a four-game sweep, things apparently reached a boiling point for Chicago Cubs manager Joe Madden on Thursday. Maddon was ejected during the top of the fourth inning of the Fourth of July game at PNC Park, and the veteran manager stormed out of the...
U.S. women’s team prepares for ‘final insult’
Megan Rapinoe considers Sunday to be the final insult. Just a few hours after the United States and the Netherlands meet in the Women’s World Cup final in France, Brazil or Peru will celebrate winning the Copa America, South America’s men’s championship. And then at night, the United States or...
Super-sub Carli Lloyd: Depth, versatility key for U.S. women
LYON, France — Carli Lloyd said the success the United States is having at the Women’s World Cup in France isn’t an extension of the 2015 title run. The so-called 2019ers are their own team. “We don’t really bring up the 2015 World Cup that much because it’s done. It’s...
For Penn State coaches, scouring social media is a recruiting requirement
Ja’Juan Seider, Penn State’s running backs coach, scrolls through two phones daily as recruiting tools, often to his wife’s exasperation. He does so for this reason. “The one day you don’t scroll,” Seider said, “is the one day you’re too late.” College football’s recruiting cycle has entered what’s known as...
JJ Matijevic returns to baseball, says he learned lesson during suspension
Humbled and motivated by mistakes, slugger JJ Matijevic is back in the swing of things. Matijevic, a minor leaguer with the Houston Astros, recently returned from a 50-game suspension for violating league rules pertaining to the use of banned drugs. The former Norwin and Arizona star twice failed a test...
Pirates notebook: Clint Hurdle to ‘unplug’ during All-Star break
Pittsburgh Pirates manager Clint Hurdle refuses to spend his All-Star break conducting a big-picture midseason evaluation. “I’ll unplug the whole time,” he said of the three-day break. But that doesn’t mean an all-encompassing look at his team isn’t being done. It’s just taking place a little earlier. “The 50,000-foot evaluation...
Injured Pirates reliever Keone Kela feels ‘good, strong’ in bullpen session
The Pittsburgh Pirates have had one of baseball’s best bullpens during the past three-plus weeks, and the unit has been missing one of its best arms. That player appears close to rejoining his fellow relievers. Keone Kela experienced no setbacks during a bullpen throwing session Wednesday. Kela has been on...
Pirates in middle of tightly bunched NL Central race
As play began on the Fourth of July, the last-place team in the National League Central is closer to the division lead than the second-place team in any other MLB division. It’s shaping up to be that kind of season and that kind of stretch drive for the Pittsburgh Pirates...
Joey Chestnut, Miki Sudo repeat as hot dog eating champions
NEW YORK — Joey “Jaws” Chestnut ate 71 wieners and buns to secure his 12th title at Nathan’s Famous annual July Fourth hot dog eating contest on Thursday, just a few hot dogs shy of breaking the record he set last year. In front of a crowd of fans and...
