Sports category, Page 26
DeSean Goode, Nikolaos Chitikoudis lead Robert Morris to win over Detroit Mercy
Single-digit outcomes are becoming a habit for the Robert Morris men’s basketball team, which won another close road game Friday night. As long as the Colonials are successful, coach Andy Toole has no problem with a pattern that already has produced seven victories in 10 such outings during their first...
Ole Miss breakthrough QB Trinidad Chambliss ready for Miami
NEW ORLEANS — Mississippi’s scintillating breakthrough quarterback Trinidad Chambliss and his Rebels teammates have been saying for weeks that they have the chemistry, talent and confidence to carry on in the College Football Playoff without former coach Lane Kiffin. Unlikely as that may have sounded after Kiffin left for rival...
Brad Jackson throws 3 TDs for Texas State in Armed Forces Bowl
FORT WORTH, Texas — Quarterback Brad Jackson threw for 173 yards and three touchdowns, plus ran in another score on the ground for Texas State in a 41-10 win over Rice in the Armed Forces Bowl on Friday. Lincoln Pare rushed for 106 yards on 11 carries for one touchdown...
Blake Horvath leads No. 22 Navy to 35-13 victory over short-handed Cincinnati in Liberty Bowl
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Blake Horvath threw a pair of touchdown passes and rushed for a score to lead No. 22 Navy to its 11th victory of the season, 35-13 over short-handed Cincinnati in the Liberty Bowl on Friday. Horvath scored on a 2-yard run and had scoring passes of 30...
Browns’ Myles Garrett will try to break NFL sacks record in finale against Bengals and Joe Burrow
CINCINNATI — Myles Garrett has sacked Joe Burrow plenty of times in the six seasons since Burrow was the top overall pick by the Cincinnati Bengals in 2020. That’s why it would be fitting if the Cleveland Browns All-Pro pass rusher takes down the Bengals quarterback Sunday to tie or...
Former baseball player Lenny Dykstra faces drug charges after New Year’s Day traffic stop
Retired professional baseball player Lenny Dykstra faces charges after Pennsylvania State Police said a trooper found drugs and paraphernalia in his possession during a traffic stop on New Year’s Day. Dykstra, 62, was a passenger when the vehicle was pulled over by a trooper with the Blooming Grove patrol unit...
Steelers’ T.J. Watt excited to return to play after ‘very scary’ partially collapsed lungVideo
Calling his ordeal “very scary” and repeatedly mentioning that he, at one point, was in “a significant amount of pain,” T.J. Watt on Friday expressed gratitude that he is now on the other side of his partially collapsed lung and is poised to return to game action for the Pittsburgh...
Steelers’ active roster appears fully available ahead of must-win matchup vs. Ravens
If the final practice of the regular season was any indication, the Pittsburgh Steelers will take an all-hands-on-deck approach to Sunday night’s game. Every active player except for left guard Isaac Seumalo was a full participant Friday afternoon when the team practiced at Acrisure Stadium, according to the team’s injury...
ACC’s improved nonconference showing could help its case for more March Madness bids
DURHAM, N.C. — It wasn’t long after sixth-ranked Duke finally fought off a pesky Georgia Tech team that coach Jon Scheyer pointed to the lesson emerging from the Blue Devils’ ACC opener. “I think for our guys … they’re learning very quickly that from this point forward, you’ve got to...
Penguins forward Rickard Rakell gets to live his own Olympic dream
Rickard Rakell was enthralled in 2006. Sweden’s entry into the Olympics that year was stocked with luminaries such as Nicklas Lidstrom, Mats Sundin and his personal favorite, Peter Forsberg. And a 12-year-old Rakell was captivated when Sweden goaltender Henrik Lundqvist made a stunning goalmouth save with his right leg to...
Kotelnicki returns to Kansas as associate head coach after stint as Penn State offensive coordinator
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Andy Kotelnicki will return to Kansas as associate head coach after not being retained as offensive coordinator at Penn State, Jayhawks coach Lance Leipold announced Friday. Kotelnicki and Leipold have worked together a combined 11 years at Kansas, Buffalo and Division III UW-Whitewater. Kotelnicki was Kansas’ offensive...
Kenneth Gainwell voted Steelers team MVPVideo
If Kenneth Gainwell is to be believed, he might have been the least-surprised individual to hear the news that he had been named the Pittsburgh Steelers’ MVP. The running back was announced Friday as the recipient of the 2025 honor, determined via a vote of his teammates. But Gainwell —...
Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin resumes practicingVideo
Injured Pittsburgh Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin joined his teammates for a practice session in Cranberry on Friday. Operating in a non-contact capacity, Malkin participated in a practice or morning skate for the first time since he suffered an undisclosed injury that landed him on injured reserve Dec. 9. Evgeni Malkin...
Pitt’s 2026 transfer portal tracker
Beginning at midnight Friday, the transfer portal officially opened, with players across college football free to enter their names and formally begin the process of finding new homes. At Pitt, a trickling of portal announcements began early last month, before the Panthers’ eventual loss to East Carolina in the Military...
Mark Madden: Olympics might produce great hockey, but they do nothing for NHL
So much about NHL players in the Olympics makes no sense: • The NHL is releasing its assets to play. Those assets are at risk to injury. If players get hurt, their salaries must still be paid by their employers, who gain nothing by their assets’ participation. • About that...
Penguins Erik Karlsson, Rickard Rakell named to Sweden’s Olympic roster
Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Erik Karlsson and forward Rickard Rakell were selected for Sweden’s Olympic roster on Friday. The Swedish Ice Hockey Association announced its team via a release. Karlsson has skated in 39 games this season and has scored 30 points (three goals, 27 assists) while averaging 23:47 of ice...
Seven Fields native Ava McNaughton picked for U.S. Olympic women’s hockey team; Hilary Knight to make 5th Olympics appearance
Hilary Knight is set to make her fifth Olympic appearance, and this time lead a younger, faster U.S. women’s national team that’s favored to win gold at the Milan Cortina Winter Games next month. The 36-year-old Knight headlines the list as USA Hockey released its 23-player Olympic women’s roster on...
Pitt forward Papa Amadou Kante to miss remainder of season
Pitt redshirt sophomore Papa Amadou Kante will undergo an arthroscopic right knee procedure and miss the remainder of the season, the Panthers announced Friday morning. Kante, a 6-foot-10 senior from Dakar, Senegal, had been limited to eight appearances for Pitt this season. He most recently played Nov. 28 in the...
U.S. picks 4 Nations-heavy roster for the Winter Olympics, adding Clayton Keller, Tage Thompson, Seth Jones
Tage Thompson and Clayton Keller helped the U.S. win the world hockey championship for the first time since 1933, while Seth Jones was a key part of the Florida Panthers’ second consecutive Stanley Cup run. Those contributions earned them a spot on the U.S. Olympic team as the only three...
Oregon-Indiana headed for a rematch, Ole Miss to play Miami as college football’s final four is set
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — When Indiana met Oregon in October, the game served as the best test yet of whether the Hoosiers were a one-year wonder or a program that was here to stay. They met that challenge with a double-digit win that snapped Oregon’s 18-game home winning streak. Next...
Trinidad Chamblis lifts Mississippi past Georgia in wild Sugar Bowl, into CFP semifinals
NEW ORLEANS — Trinidad Chambliss passed for 362 yards and two touchdowns, and Lucas Carneiro kicked his third field goal of the game with 6 seconds left to put No. 6 Mississippi in front for good in a 39-34 victory over third-ranked Georgia in a College Football Playoff in the...
Ravens’ Lamar Jackson responds to questions about injury, future entering Steelers game
BALTIMORE — Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson emerged from the field house like a phoenix Thursday in Owings Mills, his back contusion protected by a flak jacket and teammates and coaches energized by his presence on an otherwise bitterly cold afternoon. The two-time NFL MVP’s full participation in practice for a...
Alabama can’t stage another CFP comeback in Rose Bowl rout
PASADENA, Calif. — Alabama rallied from a 17-point deficit once in the College Football Playoff, but there would not be a repeat performance against No. 1 Indiana in a quarterfinal at the Rose Bowl on Thursday. The Crimson Tide (11-4; No. 11 AP, No. 9 CFP) tried everything possible to...
Kris Letang’s OT goal to remember lifts Penguins past Red Wings
As far as milestones go, Kris Letang has enjoyed achievements that drew a grander measure of attention. And when it comes to demanding moments, the Pittsburgh Penguins All-Star defenseman has come through in circumstances that commanded gravity far greater than the 39th game of a regular season. But getting an...
Dolphins hire Troy Aikman as a consultant in general manager search
MIAMI — The Dolphins hired ESPN NFL analyst and former Dallas Cowboys star quarterback Troy Aikman as a consultant to assist in their general manager search, a league source said Thursday. Aikman, who recently began working in the role, will remain ESPN’s lead NFL commentator while assisting owner Stephen Ross...
