Chris Adamski stories, Page 141

He’s the most experienced inexperienced player on the Pittsburgh Steelers roster. Because he has not appeared in a regular-season game or spent a day on the regular-season roster, Lavon Hooks is considered a first-year player. Funny, because four prior NFL training camps and 15 preseason games suggest he’s anything but...

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...

Damian Prince was doing his first one-on-one interview as a professional football player from UPMC Rooney Sports Complex locker room last month, baring his emotions in discussing how he considered quitting football before the Pittsburgh Steelers called to offer him a spot at their rookie minicamp. And then, in an...

Editor’s note: From now until the first practice of training camp at Saint Vincent, the Trib will run through the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 90-man roster, assessing each player’s outlook for the season. The breakdown will go through the roster in mostly alphabetical order, (at least) two per day, between June 14...

Make no mistake, Henry Mondeaux takes pride in his abilities on the football field. The Pittsburgh Steelers defensive lineman admits getting cut three times last year after being an undrafted free agent was difficult. “I learned about myself,” Mondeaux said after a Steelers minicamp session. “Going home and not being...

Editor’s note: From now until the first practice of training camp at Saint Vincent, the Trib will run through the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 90-man roster, assessing each player’s outlook for the season. The breakdown will go through the roster in mostly alphabetical order, (at least) two per day, between June 14...

Allowing Jesse James to leave via free agency, the conventional narrative goes, was an easy decision for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Even if James was a starting-caliber NFL tight end, the Steelers already had one of those in Vance McDonald, and it would be a salary-cap faux pas to pay two...

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...

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...

When Alison Riske joined the Peters Township girls tennis team in 2006, she already was one of the country’s highest-ranked players for her age group. It would be her only season of high school tennis, typically not a domain for the elite of the sport. Riske would go on to...

Stop if you’ve heard this before. Pittsburgh Pirates general manager Neal Huntington is walking a tricky line of weighing options with an inconsistent team in the race for the postseason. Huntington is in his fourth consecutive mid-summer that scenario. His team entered the final day before the All-Star break 3½...

Pittsburgh Pirates manager Clint Hurdle is getting away from baseball over the All-Star break this week. So he made sure to set the starting rotation for his team’s upcoming games Sunday. Chris Archer, Jordan Lyles and Trevor Williams will start games during an important three-game series at the Chicago Cubs...

Kevin Kramer was born just as “Seinfeld” was beginning to become a 1990s cultural phenomenon, and he was 4 years old when its final episode aired. But with his last name, even if Kramer didn’t watch the TV show, he certainly is aware of it. And that became even more...

Editor’s note: From now until the first practice of training camp at Saint Vincent, 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...

The sunny and cloud-dotted skies over a warm final week of June weren’t the only blue and white at this year’s Pittsburgh Penguins development camp. That’s because no U.S. or Canadian college was better represented than Penn State. “I think it’s awesome,” said wing Brandon Biro, who had 40 points...

Monday and Tuesday, Pittsburgh Pirates fans have a player who legitimately puts the “Star” in All-Star to cheer on during the festivities surrounding Major League Baseball’s midsummer classic. That isn’t always the case. From the likes of Evan Meek to Ed Sprague to Carlos Garcia to Mike Williams (the latter,...

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...

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...

It is difficult to gauge what was most explosive in Pittsburgh on this Fourth of July: the annual fireworks, Joe Maddon’s temper or the Chicago Cubs offense. The Cubs tagged Jordan Lyles and reliever Clay Holmes for four home runs and nine extra-base hits in avoiding a four-game sweep by...

Zachary Lauzon’s once-promising professional hockey career remains in doubt. But the former highly touted Pittsburgh Penguins draft choice sounds as if he has achieved a level of content perspective for a 20-year-old in his position. “If I look back on who I was and how I was feeling mentally a...

With the Pittsburgh Pirates going for a four-game sweep, things apparently reached a boiling point for Chicago Cubs manager Joe Madden on Thursday. Maddon was ejected during the top of the fourth inning of the Fourth of July game at PNC Park, and the veteran manager stormed out of the...

Pittsburgh Pirates manager Clint Hurdle refuses to spend his All-Star break conducting a big-picture midseason evaluation. “I’ll unplug the whole time,” he said of the three-day break. But that doesn’t mean an all-encompassing look at his team isn’t being done. It’s just taking place a little earlier. “The 50,000-foot evaluation...

The Pittsburgh Pirates have had one of baseball’s best bullpens during the past three-plus weeks, and the unit has been missing one of its best arms. That player appears close to rejoining his fellow relievers. Keone Kela experienced no setbacks during a bullpen throwing session Wednesday. Kela has been on...