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West Virginia drops regular-season finale at Oklahoma State
STILLWATER, Okla. — Lindy Waters scored 19 points to lead Oklahoma State to an 85-77 victory over West Virginia on Saturday. Waters was one of five players to score in double figures as OSU pushed its record to 12-19 on the season and 5-13 in the Big 12. Yor Anei...
Kevin Gorman: Pitt’s Jared Wilson-Frame puts punctuation on final game at PeteVideo
Jeff Capel wanted Pitt to punctuate its ACC regular-season finale by stopping its 13-game losing streak, and the first-year coach likened it to putting a period at the end of a paragraph. For Jared Wilson-Frame, it was an exclamation point. The Pitt senior got to walk off the floor at...
7-time NASCAR champ Jimmie Johnson looks to heat up in desert
AVONDALE, Ariz. — Jimmie Johnson is fighting a cold. It’s the kind of debilitating, in-your-throat cold that makes it painful to swallow, much less go for a run. The seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion tried on a cool morning in the desert but quickly bailed, putting off the resumption of...
Penguins sign high-scoring draft pick Justin Almeida
The Pittsburgh Penguins got a draft pick under contract Saturday, signing 2018 fifth-rounder Justin Almeida to a three-year entry level contract that kicks in next season. A 5-foot-11, 165-pound center, the 20-year-old Almeida is having an outstanding season for the Moose Jaw Warriors, ranking fourth in the Western Hockey League...
Robert Morris loses to Fairleigh Dickinson in Northeast Conference semifinals
TEANECK, N.J. — Darnell Edge scored 20 points as Fairleigh Dickinson narrowly beat Robert Morris, 66-62, in the semifinals of the Northeast Conference Tournament on Saturday. Jahlil Jenkins had 18 points for Fairleigh Dickinson (19-13). Brandon Powell added 11 points. Mike Holloway Jr. had 10 points and eight rebounds for...
Pirates pitchers shelled in 10-1 loss to Twins
Pittsburgh Pirates pitching couldn’t solve the Minnesota Twins’ hitters Saturday in a 10-1 loss in Bradenton, Fla. Starter Clay Holmes allowed three hits and three runs — two earned — in three innings, and reliever Keone Kela had a horrific inning in the fifth, giving up four hits and four...
Outdoors notices for March 10, 2019
NOTICES Outdoors RIFLE/TRAP LEAGUES • In the Allegheny Valley Rifle League on March 1, Clymer (11-6) beat Butler (14-3), 1,168-1,164, and Murrysville (7-10) defeated Fort Hand (2015), 1,164-1,115, in the A-team standings. In the B-team division, Clymer (14-3) beat Butler (14-3), 1,157-1,141, and Murrysville (4.5-12.5) beat Fort Hand (1.5-15.5), 1,123-1,080....
Kevin Gorman’s Take 5: Pitt snaps losing streak by beating Notre Dame in home finale
Pitt needed a victory against Notre Dame on Saturday at Petersen Events Center, not just because it was the final home game for three seniors. The Panthers needed a big win so they wouldn’t be the biggest losers. A loss would have secured back-to-back 20-loss seasons for the first time...
Freshman Trey McGowens snaps slump; Pitt beats Notre Dame to end skid
Jeff Capel had several reasons to smile Saturday. The final score, obviously, felt good for Pitt’s first-year coach. Pitt stopped a 13-game, nearly two-month losing streak with a 56-53 victory against Notre Dame at Petersen Events Center, escaping last place in the ACC. Now, the Panthers (13-18, 3-15) enter the...
For Penguins, schedule gets no easier after back-to-back set with Columbus
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A physical home-and-home series with the Columbus Blue Jackets that will wrap up Saturday night is just the beginning of the most difficult stretch of schedule the Pittsburgh Penguins will deal with in the last quarter of the season. On Sunday night, they’ll play the tail end...
Penguins aim to use shot blocking as a tool, not a crutch, down the stretch
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Columbus Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella had no problem pinpointing the one area of the game that gave his team the most trouble in a 3-0 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday night. Shot blocking. The Penguins held a 24-12 advantage in blocked shots in the...
Blue Jackets turn to goalie Sergei Bobrovsky for important matchup with Penguins
The Pittsburgh Penguins have won eight straight meetings with the Columbus Blue Jackets. Over the past two seasons, goalie Sergei Bobrovsky is 0-2-3 with an .882 save percentage of the Penguins. Columbus coach John Tortorella said he will pay neither of those facts any mind as his team prepares to...
Pirates option top prospect Mitch Keller to Triple-A Indianapolis
The Pittsburgh Pirates made their first roster cut of spring training Saturday when they optioned their No. 1 prospect, pitcher Mitch Keller, to Triple-A Indianapolis. Keller, a 22-year-old right-hander who is ranked the No. 19 prospect by MLB Pipeline, allowed 10 runs (all earned) on 10 hits, including three home...
Top-seeded Robert Morris women set for Northeast Conference Tournament
Research is ongoing, but Robert Morris women’s basketball SID Ethan Woy believes the Colonials lead the nation in hair color changes. Whether it is freshman guard Isabella Posset going from a blonde to a brunette or junior center Nneka Ezeigbo’s braids fluctuating between red and orange, RMU keeps onlookers guessing....
Ex-Pirate pitcher Esteban Loaiza gets 3-year federal sentence for drug trafficking
Former Pittsburgh Pirate pitcher Esteban Loaiza was sentenced in federal court in San Diego to three years in prison for drug trafficking on charges involving about 44 pounds of cocaine, federal prosecutors said. In a plea agreement in U.S. District Court, Loaiza, 47, of Imperial Beach, Calif., admitted he took...
Duquesne eliminates Saint Louis, 72-51, breezes into A-10 semifinals
Dan Burt didn’t expect sleep to come easily Friday night. “I’m sure the adrenaline will keep me up,” Duquesne’s women’s coach said. But after the Dukes pounded Saint Louis, 72-51, in an Atlantic 10 quarterfinal before 1,009 at Palumbo Center, Burt can be sure of this: “When you play like...
Kevin Gorman: Jake Guentzel’s goal is to push Penguins into playoffsVideo
Jake Guentzel doesn’t deny he is goal-oriented, even if the Pittsburgh Penguins winger is focused more on the standings than his statistics as he approaches a meaningful milestone. It’s more about the race than the chase. Guentzel’s overtime winner against the Florida Panthers on Tuesday night was his 33rd goal...
Dukes’ Amari Kelly suffers season-ending knee injury
Duquesne freshman forward Amari Kelly will miss the rest of the season after injuring his knee Wednesday night in the Dukes’ 85-75 loss at Saint Louis. Kelly, 6-foot-9, is the second member of Duquesne’s freshman class and front line to suffer a season-ending knee injury. Austin Rotroff, 6-10, was injured...
Mark Madden: Penguins helping ensure Blue Jackets lose ‘all-in’ bet
As the NHL’s Feb. 25 trade deadline beckoned, Columbus was half-expected to trade goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky and winger Artemi Panarin, each in the final season of his contract. A rebuilding of sorts seemed likely. But there were no obvious suitors for Bobrovsky. The legit Stanley Cup contenders all have legit...
Pitt’s Rashad Weaver motivated by 9-year-old cancer survivorVideo
Rashad Weaver didn’t have a long speech prepared Friday for his Pitt teammates before the second day of spring drills. He only wanted a few seconds of their time. But, to him, what he had to say mattered as much as anything he’ll do this season. Weaver, a rising junior...
Antonio Brown indicates that trade coming in ‘less than 24 hours’
Antonio Brown predicts he will be employed by a new NFL team within “24 hours.” Brown, who reportedly scuttled a possible trade to the Buffalo Bills, posted a live Instagram video Friday afternoon in which he indicated that his nine-year tenure with the Pittsburgh Steelers is about to come to...
Blue Jays belt seven homers in beating Pirates in both split-squad games
The Toronto Blue Jays hit seven homers in beating the Pittsburgh Pirates in a pair of split-squad games on Friday. In Bradenton, Trevor Williams made his spring debut and allowed two runs on five hits over three innings, striking out three and walking two in an 11-0 loss at LECOM...
Point Park’s Shields is NAIA’s top athlete, again
What Anna Shields has done at Point Park will become legendary long after she graduates. It will tough to forget her “run” of success. Arguably the fastest woman in Pittsburgh for the duration of her college running career, Shields achieved elite status and stayed there. For the fifth time, she...
Columbus rivalry makes Penguins’ Garrett Wilson feel right at home
A home-and-home series – like the one the Pittsburgh Penguins and Columbus Blue Jackets are currently in the middle of – is a relatively rare occurrence in the modern NHL. The Penguins, for instance, have only three of them on their schedule this season. For someone like winger Garrett Wilson,...
Report: Steelers will trade RT Marcus Gilbert for 6th-round draft pick
One day after signing two of their offensive linemen to contracts, the Pittsburgh Steelers are cutting ties with another. ESPN reported Friday afternoon the Steelers will trade oft-injured right tackle Marcus Gilbert to the Arizona Cardinals for a sixth-round draft choice. Steelers are shopping starting RT Marcus Gilbert for a...
