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Western Michigan beats defending champ Denver in Frozen Four
ST. LOUIS — Owen Michaels scored his second goal 26 seconds into the second overtime, and Western Michigan beat defending champion Denver, 3-2, on Thursday night to advance to its first Frozen Four title game. Wexford native Brian Kramer also scored, and freshman Hampton Slukynsky stopped 20 shots for a...
Justin Rose steals the Masters show, builds 3-shot lead over Scottie SchefflerVideo
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Justin Rose managed to steal the attention away from Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy in the Masters by matching his personal best at Augusta National with a 7-under-par 65 for a three-shot lead Thursday in the first major of the year. Scheffler did his part in his...
Acclaimed boxing trainer Tom Yankello among newest inductees in Pa. sports hall of fame
Boxing trainer Tom Yankello and two former Pittsburgh Steelers are among 11 individuals who’ll be honored this month by the Western Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame. Yankello, who first started training fighters at the Beaver County Boxing Club in 1991, was chosen as the “Inductee of Distinction”...
With baseball season heating up, buzz builds for Freeport International
High school baseball in the All-Kiski Valley is in its fourth week, while college teams have been knocking it out of the park for nearly two months. The Pirates, despite their inauspicious start, are giving baseball fans something to talk about in the early season. While those games are in...
Pitt offensive coordinator Kade Bell looks for balance while developing his 4 QBs
Kade Bell can’t sit down with his father, Kerwin, to talk ball as often as he would like, but when they do, the ideas likely fly almost as fast as their offenses move from one play to the next. Often, the subject is quarterbacks, a given considering Kade is Pitt’s...
Nick Dunlap is 1st in decade, youngest ever to hit 90 at Masters
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Nick Dunlap had seen some big numbers start creeping into his game before he arrived at the Masters. Nothing could have prepared him for the amount of strokes he’d take in 18 holes Thursday. The 21-year-old dropped five shots over his final three holes of an already...
Phil Mickelson shoots 75 at Masters, could miss cut for 1st time since 2016
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Phil Mickelson’s attempt to turn back the clock one more time at the Masters got off to a rocky start. The 54-year-old three-time Masters champion opened with a 3-over-par 75 on Thursday, leaving him well back of the leaders. He is in jeopardy of missing the cut...
Masters whiz kid Jose Luis Ballester takes different kind of relief
AUGUSTA, Ga. — U.S. Amateur champion Jose Luis Ballester had to take a kind of relief Thursday at the Masters, just not the kind found in the Rules of Golf. Ballester, a 21-year-old from Spain, had to use the restroom in the worst way on the par-5 13th hole, where...
Penguins’ Kyle Dubas named Canada’s general manager for IIHF World Championship
Pittsburgh Penguins president of hockey operations Kyle Dubas was named general manager for Hockey Canada’s entry in the upcoming International Ice Hockey Federation’s (IIHF) World Championship tournament. His appointment was announced Thursday. A native of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., Dubas has previously worked for Hockey Canada in international tournaments. Earlier...
Pitt football honors retiring TribLive beat reporter Jerry DiPaolaVideo
Pitt football coach Pat Narduzzi had a special sendoff for longtime TribLive beat reporter Jerry DiPaola on Thursday as the Panthers wrapped up spring practice. Narduzzi gifted DiPaola a Panthers game jersey with his name embroidered on the back to recognize DiPaola’s nearly 15 years on the beat. DiPaola will...
Penguins’ Valtteri Puustinen, Vasily Ponomarev excited for call-up ahead of Calder Cup playoffs
By nature of having spent the majority of this season in the American Hockey League, as compared to last, when he was in the NHL for most of the year, 2024-25 could be framed as disappointing for Valtteri Puustinen. Becoming a full-time NHLer remains the primary objective for the 25-year-old...
Pirates option RHP Thomas Harrington to Triple-A Indianapolis
The Pittsburgh Pirates optioned right-handed pitcher Thomas Harrington to Triple-A Indianapolis and will make a corresponding move before Friday’s series opener at the Cincinnati Reds. The 23-year-old Harrington is ranked the No. 3 player in the Pirates’ system and a top-100 prospect by both Baseball America and MLB Pipeline. Harrington...
Injuries to sideline 5 Penguins forwards for final 3 games this season
Pittsburgh Penguins forwards Noel Acciari, Blake Lizotte, Rutger McGroarty, Tommy Novak and Matt Nieto will miss the final three games of the regular season due to undisclosed injuries. Coach Mike Sullivan announced their statuses following a practice session in Cranberry on Thursday. Sullivan noted there is hope McGroarty, a rookie,...
Penn State QB Drew Allar learning from ‘humbling’ CFP loss
Drew Allar was a week removed from Penn State’s College Football Playoff semifinal loss to Notre Dame before sitting down with quarterbacks coach Danny O’Brien and watching that play — the unfortunate interception that ended the Nittany Lions’ season in the Orange Bowl. Allar was trying to lead a winning...
Steelers host son of Deion Sanders, 1st-round QB prospect Shedeur, for official draft visitVideo
The son of Prime Time is in Pittsburgh. Shedeur Sanders was a guest of the Pittsburgh Steelers as an official draft visitor to UPMC Rooney Sports Complex on Thursday. Sanders’ father is Pro Football Hall of Fame former cornerback Deion. Shedeur is considered a likely first-round pick in the April...
With more basketball to play, Hempfield grad makes plans to head to Europe
Sarah Liberatore is proof Division II college basketball can be the right fit. It can even open doors to the next level, just like Division I can. Liberatore, a Hempfield graduate who recently finished her college playing career at NCAA Division II Florida Tech, signed with an agency and is...
Penguins recall trio of forwards from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
With three games remaining in the regular season, the Pittsburgh Penguins made a handful of transactions with their American Hockey League affiliate Thursday morning, recalling forwards Emil Bemstrom, Valtteri Puustinen and Vasily Ponomarev from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton under emergency roster conditions. Bemstrom, an All-Star at the AHL level this season and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton’s...
Pat McAfee’s ‘Big Night Aht’ was a long night full of surprise guests
Pat McAfee may be an ex-NFL player, a wrestling commentator and host of massively popular sports talk program “The Pat McAfee Show,” but he’s still a Pittsburgher at heart. And the city loves him back, as evidenced by the 90-minute ticket sellout for his Wednesday night PPG Paints Arena show...
Tim Benz: Ray Shero’s sense for the moment served him, and the Penguins, quite well
When I heard about the untimely death of former Pittsburgh Penguins general manager Ray Shero Wednesday afternoon, a specific memory of interviewing him quickly came to mind. I think about it often, independent of hockey, the Penguins, or, up until Wednesday, even independent of Shero himself. In over 30 years...
First Call: No Aaron Rodgers reveal at ‘Big Night Aht,’ ‘Sell The Team’ chants with Paul Skenes on stage
Thursday’s “First Call” recaps an uncomfortable moment for Paul Skenes at Pat McAfee’s “Big Night Aht” event. Ben Roethlisberger gets candid about Arthur Smith. Justin Fields avoids specifics about his time in Pittsburgh. And an opponent for the Steelers’ trip to Ireland may not be set in stone just yet....
With ‘high-IQ’ plays, third baseman Ke’Bryan Hayes saves runs for Pirates
When Ke’Bryan Hayes saw first baseman Endy Rodriguez crash into catcher Joey Bart on a Willson Contreras pop fly in the eighth inning, one word crossed the Pittsburgh Pirates third baseman’s mind. “Whenever they hit, they hit pretty hard,” Hayes said. “In my head, I was like, ‘Dang.’ ” What...
U mad, bro?: April anger from Pirates fans is already boiling over
We are way beyond April Fools’ Day. But there are plenty of fools in Pittsburgh Pirates management. They seem to be proving that on a daily basis. Obtuse quotes from the owner. One public relations fumble after another. And the construction of an offense utterly incapable of extending a rally....
Pirates farm report for April 9, 2025: Ji-Hwan Bae, Braxton Ashcraft spark Indy
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 3-5) took care of Louisville (Reds), 7-3. CF Ji-Hwan Bae (.250) went 2 for 4 with a double and his first home run. 1B Malcom Nunez (.240) went 1 for 3 with his first homer and two RBIs. C Henry Davis (.250) went 2 for 4 with a...
Frozen Four 1st-timer Penn State trying to break through for titleVideo
ST. LOUIS — If big-game experience counts for anything, Denver hockey coach David Carle was encouraged how the defending champion Pioneers dealt with their share of second-half adversity to make it back to the Frozen Four. “We’ve learned and grown up through every challenging experience,” the seventh-year coach said of...
Masters ’25: Starting times for the opening 2 rounds
AUGUSTA, Ga. — At Augusta National Golf Club All Times EDT a-amateur Thursday-Friday 7:40 a.m.-10:48 a.m. — Davis Riley, United States; Patton Kizzire, United States. 7:51 a.m.-10:59 a.m. — Kevin Yu, Taiwan; Jhonattan Vegas, Venezuela; Nicolai Hojgaard, Denmark. 8:02 a.m.-11:10 a.m. — Mike Weir, Canada; Michael Kim, United States; Cameron...
