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Mets fine Mickey Callaway, Jason Vargas after run-in with Newsday reporter
PHILADELPHIA — The New York Mets have fined manager Mickey Callaway and pitcher Jason Vargas for their expletive-filled confrontation with a reporter after a weekend loss at Wrigley Field. General manager Brodie Van Wagenen made the announcement before the Mets played Monday night in Philadelphia. He did not disclose the...
Charlie Partridge’s south Florida ties connect Pitt to fertile recruiting territory
When Charlie Partridge puts Pitt’s defensive linemen through their paces in practice, it’s easy to see he’s a coach who does not tolerate nonsense and makes sure his players stay engaged throughout each drill. The results show up on game day. Rising junior Rashad Weaver has a chance to be...
Mark Madden: Tampa Bay’s split season scheme is laughable, driven by greed
The Tampa Bay Rays want to split their season between Tampa and Montreal. That plan is ludicrous on so many levels. It’s hard to imagine fans in either city buying in, or buying tickets. Decreased inventory doesn’t figure to increase demand when it’s not really your team. How’s this for...
Study suggests Steelers rank No. 5 in NFL ‘fandom’
In one metric, the Pittsburgh Steelers remain behind the New England Patriots once again. They also trail the Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles and New York Giants. The category is NFL fandom, a study that Emory University business school professor Michael Lewis has compiled in recent years. In data that Lewis...
Ash Barty makes rapid rise in women’s tennis ranks
Ash Barty never had been ranked inside the WTA’s top 10 until April. As of Monday, she is No. 1. The 23-year-old Australian never had been as far as the quarterfinals at any Grand Slam tournament until January. As of this month, she is the French Open champion. And as...
Italy picked as host for 2026 Winter Olympics; Sweden denied again
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Riding a wave of widespread Italian enthusiasm to be an Olympic host, Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo won the vote Monday to stage the 2026 Winter Games. International Olympic Committee members voted 47-34 for the long-favored Milan-Cortina bid over Stockholm-Are from Sweden that also included a bobsled track...
U.S. soccer escapes vs. Spain to advance to World Cup quarterfinalVideo
REIMS, France — Spain tested the United States like no other team at the Women’s World Cup. The Spaniards played an aggressive and physical game that made the U.S. look disorganized at times before pulling out a 2-1 victory on Monday. It could have been just what the Americans needed:...
Pitt lands Brooklyn, N.Y., running back Israel Abanikanda
Pitt added a second running back to its class of 2020 on Monday when Israel Abanikanda tweeted his intention to enroll next year. Abanikanda (5-foot-11, 196 pounds) is entering his senior season at Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, N.Y. Officially Committed To... @oc_lincoln pic.twitter.com/BRqrjElwns— Israel Abanikanda (@IAbanikanda) June 24,...
Son of Mel Blount earns Hall of Fame Fellowship
Akil Blount, son of Pro Football Hall of Fame cornerback Mel Blount and a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ offseason roster two years ago, was named the first recipient of the James Harris-Doug Williams Fellowship on Monday. The Fellowship was created through a collaboration between the Pro Football Hall of...
NCAA’s Division I passing leader last year, Devlin Hodges looks to impress Steelers
He’s one of the longest shots among the 91 men on the Pittsburgh Steelers’ training-camp roster to still be standing with the team by the start of the regular season. But Devlin Hodges has 14,584 reasons why he believes he can make the Steelers. “As far as me feeling like...
‘The other’ Matt Murray headlines Penguins development camp roster
The Pittsburgh Penguins announced their 41-man roster for development camp on Monday and in a surprise development, goaltender Matt Murray’s name was on it. Not that Matt Murray. The other Matt Murray. This Murray is a 21-year-old goalie who just finished up a solid sophomore season at UMass, going 20-5-0...
Bills looking for couple to marry during halftime of Patriots game
The Buffalo Bills are looking for a couple to get married in a halftime ceremony during a regular season game next season. The team announced the “Halftime Wedding Experience of a Lifetime” contest last week and are looking for a couple of fans to tie the knot at New Era...
Steelers 2-a-days: Josh Dobbs fights to hang on to No. 2 QB job, Bud Dupree in contract year
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 face 26-game stretch of reckoning
The time of reckoning has arrived for the Pittsburgh Pirates, but it doesn’t have to be an unpleasant situation. Optimists might argue you should label the next 26 games as an opportunity. The stretch that begins Tuesday at Minute Maid Park in Houston and concludes July 25 against the St....
Steelers 2-a-days: Jordan Dangerfield’s staying power, David DeCastro’s Hall of Fame potential
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...
‘Huddle Up:’ Ex-NFL great Chris Long retires to parents’ home – for now
It’s not often that an 11-year NFL veteran and two-time Super Bowl winner retires and lives in his parents’ house, but that’s just what has happened to Chris Long. “They’re working on my house, so we’re a family of four living with my folks,” he said with laugh during this...
Chez Reavie holds on for 1st PGA Tour win in 11 years
CROMWELL, Conn. — Chez Reavie is a PGA Tour winner again after 11 years and 250 events. Reavie won the Travelers Championship on Sunday, closing with a 1-under-par 69 for a four-stroke victory over Keegan Bradley and Zack Sucher. The 37-year-old Reavie, whose first title came as a rookie at...
Pirates minor league report for June 23, 2019
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 39-34): Defeated Pawtucket (Red Sox), 4-3. 2B Nick Franklin (.191) hit a two-run single in the top of the seventh to put the Indians ahead 3-2. After Pawtucket tied it in the bottom of the eighth, C Christian Kelley (.207) singled in the winning run in the top...
Fisheries surveys show lakes with lots of bass, channel cats
So you want to catch some fish, huh? Well, here’s a tip. Start by casting your line where the fish are. Pretty sage stuff there, I know. Confucius-esque, almost. But if you want to catch fish, you’ve got to know what waters the fish call home and in what sizes...
Study says changing values will impact fish and wildlife management
It’s more evidence of a coming storm, perhaps. Fewer Americans than ever hunt these days. It recently hit a 25-year low. A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service report, released in 2016, showed that 11.5 million Americans hunted. That was 4.4 percent of the population. If that sounds like a lot,...
John Steigerwald: Maybe best deals are no deals for Penguins stars
Sometimes the best trades are the ones you don’t make. Somebody said that a long time ago, but nobody has been able to prove it because general managers, no matter the sport, never talk about the trades they could have made but didn’t. So maybe Penguins general manager Jim Rutherford’s...
Wildlife watching from water a real treat
There’s no official name, so far as I know, for the portal that took us into another world. But it hides behind a tricky entrance. We arrived at the state park boat launch mid-morning of a weekday. It’s summer, and school is surely out everywhere, but still, the crowd was...
Lewandowski, Team USA capture 3×3 gold with perfect record
Joe Lewandowski is bringing home the gold. The Point Park men’s basketball coach took Team USA to Amsterdam this week for the FIBA 3x3 World Cup and the Americans finished with a perfect 7-0 record to win the championship. The U.S. team captured the title for the first time in...
P.K. Subban ‘extremely excited’ about with trade to Devils
NEWARK, N.J. — P.K. Subban wasn’t exactly shocked Saturday when the six-time All-Star defenseman was traded from the Nashville Predators to the New Jersey Devils. “I’ve been through the process before,” Subban said in a conference call with the media Sunday. “There was a lot of talk after the season...
Penn-Trafford grad Dan Obremski part of ‘toughest field’ for Fuhrer Invitational
Dan Obremski didn’t need to look at the field to know how tough the Frank B. Fuhrer Invitational, which begins Monday at Pittsburgh Field Club in Fox Chapel, will be this year. After taking away the 15 spots normally reserved for Tri-State PGA professionals, Fuhrer was able to invite a...
