Chris Adamski stories, Page 134
Mike Tomlin spends long days on phone ‘talking football’ with Steelers staffVideo
These days, Kiya Tomlin can hear her husband’s familiar, booming voice coming from out of their home office. “I don’t know what they are talking about,” the wife of Mike Tomlin said, while chuckling, by phone this week, “but all I know is just that they just talk soooooo much...
Kiya Tomlin, wife of Steelers coach, converts fashion business into mask-making operationVideo
Kiya Tomlin kept her four-person staff on payroll after her Etna-based fashion retailer was ordered to close as part of the state’s social-distancing directive. The wife of Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin, she was forced to abandon production of her spring collection, and decided to sell her existing inventory at...
5 Penguins among best centers of past 53 years in NHL.com listVideo
To fill space and provide content during the suspension of its season, the NHL is releasing top-16 lists on its official website. It should come as no surprise for an organization so synonymous with scoring that the Pittsburgh Penguins are well represented on the list of the game’s best centers...
Bryan Rust content if suspension of season costs him milestone for PenguinsVideo
Despite missing the first 11 games of the season because of a hand injury, Bryan Rust blew past his career high for points Jan. 14. During the Pittsburgh Penguins’ next game three days later, he established a personal best for goals. Each occurred before the All-Star break, and Rust kept...
Steelers-Cowboys Hall of Fame Game still set to go on as scheduledVideo
Keep those plans for that early-August two-hour drive northwest, Pittsburgh. For now. The preseason-opening Hall of Fame Game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Dallas Cowboys is still on, a spokesperson for the Pro Football Hall of Fame said Thursday in an email to the Tribune-Review. As it has been every...
North Huntingdon’s Austen Swankler on NHL Central Scouting draft list
The NHL draft, like the rest of the sports world, remains in limbo. But the league’s official internal scouting service has released its final rankings in advance of it. And local product Austen Swankler is on the list. Swankler, a North Huntingdon native, came in at No. 200 in the...
Steelers’ T.J. Watt, Rams’ Aaron Donald among favorites to win defensive player of yearVideo
Four Pittsburgh Steelers are among the more than six dozen names that a prominent betting site have named as potential candidates for 2020 NFL defensive player of the year. The list of more than six dozen names is headed by a Pitt alumnus. Penn Hills High School graduate Aaron Donald...
Penguins Foundation distributes 500 backpacks of supplies for schooling at home
Families who lack educational resources in their homes during this school-from-home period are the target of a donation from the Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation, the team announced Wednesday. The organization’s charitable arm is donating school supplies filling 500 backpacks — 200 each to State Police barracks in Allegheny and Somerset counties...
Penguins’ Bryan Rust settles into routine of working out, board games, street hockeyVideo
Hockey players are famously routine-oriented. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise Bryan Rust has been drawn to a daily schedule even during these uncertain times of stay-at-home orders. “I get up, usually have a little bit of a slow morning and usually have a coffee, hang out a little...
Penguins’ Zach Aston-Reese moves in with Bryan Rust, wifeVideo
Take a nationwide lockdown headed into its fourth week, the suburban house of a hockey player and his wife, add her brother, his teammate and three dogs. “My wife has been good with it — a house full of boys,” Bryan Rust said Tuesday. “But she has been awesome.” Rust...
Penguins’ 2016 Stanley Cup Final wins, 2009 Game 7 to air on TV, radio
The Stanley Cup playoffs would have begun Wednesday, and as such potentially could have been one of the most-watched and listened-to nights of the year on AT&T SportsNet and 105.9 FM radio. In lieu of what could have been Game 1 of a Pittsburgh Penguins-Philadelphia Flyers first-round series, the stations...
Patrick Marleau remains hopeful he’ll still get shot at Stanley Cup with PenguinsVideo
Patrick Marleau is stuck some 2,500 miles from Pittsburgh, and the 3 ½ weeks he has been separated from the Pittsburgh Penguins now dwarfs the brief time he has played for them. Asked Monday about his tenure with the Penguins, Marleau began by using the past tense — twice. Marleau...
In covid-19 era, will 2020 see sports join 1994 MLB, 2005 NHL as champion-less seasons?
A year without awarding the Stanley Cup? No 2020 NBA champion? Even, perhaps, no World Series or Super Bowl winner? All are seemingly in play as the nation — and world — deals with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The major sports leagues in North America have been shut down in...
Steelers on to Plan D or E in long quest to find tight end to succeed Heath Miller
The familiar calls of “HEEEEEEEATH” from the Heinz Field crowd have faded in the four years since Heath Miller announced his retirement. There probably still are some fans, even with Miller at 37, who are still making those elongated cries in an effort to bring him back to Pittsburgh. Since...
Penguins’ Bryan Rust, Zach Aston-Reese, Marcus Pettersson buy 500 pizzas for needy
In another example of goodwill by athletes from local pro sports teams during the coronavirus pandemic, Pittsburgh Penguins players Bryan Rust, Zach Aston-Reese and Marcus Pettersson purchased 500 personal pizzas for local community distribution centers. The Fox’s Pizza Den personal-sized pizzas were delivered early Friday to the locales in the...
One day at a time, NFL to re-air every Sunday of 2019 season
Questions persist about whether the 2020 NFL season will be played. And in lieu of a “virtual” season, how about re-living the most recent regular season, in real time? The NFL, through its popular RedZone channel, is giving sports-starved fans that opportunity, over a 17-day span beginning Monday. Starting then,...
Mike Sullivan appreciates time at home, balances keeping Penguins engagedVideo
Mike Sullivan has spent more time working on his pickleball game than Sidney Crosby has on the ice. There’s a much better chance Sullivan is lost in a hardcover novel these days than he’s finding himself immersed in an opponent’s detailed scouting report. As in most of the rest of...
Betting site: Steelers more likely to place 3rd in AFC North than to win it
There are myriad futures betting options available for those who follow the NFL, from wagering on the Super Bowl winner to each division’s champion to over/under individual team wins. Another is betting on what place a team will finish in its division. At least one site believes it is more...
Penguins’ Mike Sullivan: doctors, nurses, law enforcement ‘are our true heroes’
Mike Sullivan cracked a joke to open up his video conference call with media Tuesday. “I never thought I’d say this,” the Pittsburgh Penguins coach said, his sly smirk visible even through the choppy nature of the call, “but I’m happy to be doing this today.” A Boston-area native and...
If NHL resumes play, 2 weeks needed for minicamp, Penguins’ Mike Sullivan saysVideo
Mike Sullivan knows the answer isn’t an easy one, but the Pittsburgh Penguins coach insisted the NHL has “great leadership” that he’s willing to entrust to make the correct decision. But in Sullivan’s opinion, the league’s players would need “somewhere in the timeframe of two weeks” to ramp back up...
Mike Sullivan: Win at N.J. showed Penguins were emerging from funk, have momentumVideo
There is no good timing, of course, for a pandemic or for the paralyzation of the economy facing the nation. But to coach Mike Sullivan, the pause of the NHL season came at a particularly bad time for his Pittsburgh Penguins. Twenty-four hours before the league’s final games before the...
NHL player vote: Penguins’ Sidney Crosby ‘most complete player,’ but not best forward
The NHL’s players apparently do not consider Sidney Crosby to be the league’s best forward — but they do view him as the game’s most complete player. And if the stakes are highest, they’re still sticking with Sid. The NHL Players Association on Tuesday released the results of their annual...
Pirates preventing Jameson Taillon from pitching in 2020
A pitcher who has already had all too much of his baseball career affected by injury and health, Jameson Taillon acknowledges that he’s allowed the fierce competitor inside of him to lobby to return to a major-league mound in 2020. “Yeah, I’d be lying if I said that I hadn’t...
Pirates’ Jameson Taillon against neutral-site World SeriesVideo
During a conference call with Pittsburgh media Monday afternoon, Jameson Taillon repeatedly asserted players were open to a myriad of possibilities aimed at salvaging as much of the 2020 MLB season as possible. “Players,” the Pittsburgh Pirates union representative said, “will visit just about anything.” There is one thing, though,...
Steelers lag well behind Ravens in odds to win AFC North
The Baltimore Ravens remain a heavy favorite to win the AFC North this season — assuming it is played at all — but the Pittsburgh Steelers are by far the No. 2 choice. According to odds released on FoxBet.com, the reigning division champions are a 3-to-5 pick to win the...
