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2021 NFL mock draft: Way-too-early projections
Projecting the future of this mad, mad, mad, mad world is a fool’s errand. Lucky for you I’m a completist fool and couldn’t possibly leave you without a preview of college football’s best players and next year’s top draft prospects before I close the book on the 2019-2020 draft season....
Steelers’ Mason Rudolph might be ‘Bachelor’ star Hannah Ann’s ‘quarantine fling’
Pittsburgh Steelers fans have seen quarterback Mason Rudolph make passes on the field. Now, it looks like he’s made one off the field. Various celebrity news outlets — TMZ and Cosmopolitan, for example — are suggesting that Ben Roethlisberger’s backup is a romantic item with “Bachelor” star Hannah Ann Sluss....
In downtime before MLB Draft, more Pirates scouts are getting a long look at prospects
Ben Cherington doesn’t know the exact date of the 2020 MLB Draft, how many rounds it will last or what a virtual draft will look like. One thing the Pittsburgh Pirates general manager knows for sure, however, is his scouting department has prepared for it like never before. With the...
Ex-Penguins forward Georges Laraque announces he has coronavirus
Former Penguins forward Georges Laraque announced on Thursday that he has contracted the coronavirus. Few details were offered beyond a photo Laraque tweeted of himself in a hospital gown with respiratory assistance. In the Tweet, which was in French and English, Laraque said, “I guess I’m not invincible, just got...
Lombardi voted to IUP men’s basketball all-decade team
Dante Lombardi, an Indiana native and 2015 Kiski School graduate, has earned inclusion on Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s men’s basketball 2010s All-Decade Team, the university announced Thursday. He is a member of the five-player second team. The 2019 Crimson Hawks graduate earned National Association of Basketball Coaches All-Atlantic District honors...
Big changes in AFC East, but Bill Belichick the constant for PatriotsVideo
NEW YORK — This could be the year. You know, when Buffalo, Miami or the New York Jets (finally) step up and (finally) overtake New England for supremacy in the AFC East — something the Patriots have had for most of the last two decades. Tom Brady brought his six...
Alain Vigneault, Flyers hope to continue Stanley Cup pursuitVideo
PHILADELPHIA — Gritty is the home school teacher the world needs right now. The furry Flyers mascot offers an education of sorts each weekday on Instagram with ” Gritty’s 1/4 Hour of Power,” and his top student one day this week was forward Joel Farabee. Gritty played charades with Farabee,...
Flyers’ Ivan Provorov rare in ability to skate during pause — in Wilkes-BarreVideo
Ivan Provorov is one of the lucky ones during the pause in the NHL’s season because of the coronavirus pandemic. He is staying with his billet family in Wilkes-Barre — he lived there as a teenager after moving from Russia — and not only has access to a full gym...
Pitt gets commitments from 2021 quarterback, offensive linemanVideo
Pitt reached nine verbal commitments for its class of 2021 during a busy day of recruiting Thursday. After failing to snare a quarterback in the most recent cycle that concluded in February, Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi resumed the quest and found one — Nate Yarnell of Lake Travis High School...
‘Gift from God’: Deep dive on how Tua Tagovailoa became phenomVideo
Tua Tagovailoa is the quarterback of Miami Dolphins fans’ dreams, which is fitting, because his greatness and fame came to his grandfather in a vision back when Tua was just a tot. Long before the ukulele-strummin’, beach-vibin’, record-breakin’ icon became the biggest college football star since Tim Tebow and probably...
Golf Pass on sale to benefit American Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society has sponsored the Pennsylvania Golf Pass Booklet for more than 20 years. The booklet includes more than 60 golf courses from across the state this season, and senior community development manager Jen Barron is hoping to have more than 100 courses in 2021. “In 2013, we...
Hall of Famer Andre Dawson deals with coronavirus as morticianVideo
MIAMI — The man consoling mourners and directing his staff at Paradise Memorial Funeral Home might look familiar if he wasn’t wearing a mask. It’s baseball Hall of Famer Andre Dawson. Owning a funeral home took some getting used to, Dawson said Thursday, and now he’s adjusting to life as...
NFL plans to play full season despite coronavirus uncertainty
The NFL is planning to play a full season though it’s uncertain what that will look like. League spokesman Brian McCarthy said Thursday that since January the 2020 schedule was intended for release after the draft. It is planned for release by the end of next week, with the date...
NFC East has a new look but success may be slow to achieveVideo
The NFL’s worst division has plenty of new kids — and coaches — on the block. It might not translate into much more success in 2020. After combining for only 24 wins last season, the NFC East got three new coaches: Mike McCarthy (Dallas Cowboys), Ron Rivera (Washington Redskins) and...
Chiefs use 5th-year option on Patrick MahomesVideo
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs are exercising their fifth-year option on Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes, a person familiar with their decision told the Associated Press, though both sides remain optimistic that they will agree on a long-term contract before the start of the season. The person...
NFLPA president, Browns center JC Tretter calls for CBA reviewVideo
NFL Players Association president JC Tretter is calling for a re-examination of a portion of the labor agreement with the league affecting disability coverage for former players. Tretter, a center with the Cleveland Browns, succeeded Eric Winston as union president earlier this year. Tretter wants the NFLPA’s executive board and...
USL extends 2020 season suspension for 3rd time
The United Soccer League announced the temporary suspension of the USL Championship season has been extended. On March 18, the league announced the season would be suspended until May 10. This came after the league — home to the Pittsburgh Riverhounds — decided to suspend the beginning of the season...
Little League World Series canceled for 1st time amid coronavirus impactVideo
For the first time since its inception in 1947, there will not be a Little League World Series in South Williamsport. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, Little League International decided Thursday to cancel the annual regional and world-championship events, as well as its six other World Series tournaments. “After a...
Olympic gymnastics champ Laurie Hernandez opens up after former coach Maggie Haney banned for 8 years
Olympic champion gymnast Laurie Hernandez is now comfortable sharing her story. Hernandez took to Instagram on Thursday, a day after her long-time U.S. Olympic coach Maggie Haney was banned by USA Gymnastics for eight years for verbal and emotional abuse of athletes. The move came after two months of hearings,...
NASCAR to resume season May 17 with 7 races in 10 days
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR announced Thursday that it will resume its season without fans starting May 17 at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina with the premier Cup Series racing three more times in a 10-day span. NASCAR joins the UFC as the first major sports organizations to announce specific return...
Nittany Lions defensive line coach John Scott walked long road to Penn StateVideo
Not long after John Scott Jr. graduated from Western Carolina in 1999, he had a difficult time separating from football. Penn State’s first-year defensive line coach tried the indoor version of the game, spending one season playing for the soon-to-be defunct Greensboro (N.C.) Prowlers of AF2. He also crossed the...
Wake Forest turns to ETSU’s Forbes as men’s basketball coachVideo
Wake Forest has hired East Tennessee State’s Steve Forbes as its men’s basketball coach. The school announced the hiring Thursday following a search that concluded less than a week after the school fired Danny Manning. Forbes, 55, is coming off a five-year run with ETSU that ended with a 30-win...
Riverhounds set to play in USL eCup: 2020 FIFA Edition
Virtual sporting events have become relatively popular during the coronavirus pandemic. The NBA held an NBA 2k20 virtual tournament where players from across the league faced off to see who was the best. MLB players are competing in an MLB The Show tournament with one representative from each team. Now,...
ESPN to re-air classic Steelers’ Le’Veon Bell Monday Night Football ‘walk-off’ win
There have been plenty of Pittsburgh Penguins and Pittsburgh Pirates classic games broadcast since the start of the coronavirus shutdown of live sports. Now, a recent memorable Pittsburgh Steelers game will be shown nationally on ESPN. The network, in conjunction with the NFL, announced Thursday that it would re-air five...
Bengals release QB Andy DaltonVideo
CINCINNATI — The Bengals cleared the way for Joe Burrow to lead the team by releasing quarterback Andy Dalton, who holds several of the franchise’s passing records but couldn’t lead Cincinnati deep into the playoffs. The move Thursday gives Dalton, who had a year left on his deal, a chance...
