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Are Pirates’ pennant hopes gone? Here’s why they are, and why there’s hope
There is an argument to be made that the Pittsburgh Pirates’ playoff hopes disappeared during the three-game sweep by the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. The Pirates never have been more than five games over .500 this season, and that was April 20. Even after winning eight of 12 leading...
Belle Vernon grad Josh Hoffman claims MVP honors in Ohio summer baseball league
Incoming Youngstown State freshman baseball player Josh Hoffman has had a strong summer in preparation for his first college season. He has some hardware to prove it. Hoffman, a Belle Vernon graduate and Tribune-Review all-star, was named the Your Sports Network/Baird Brothers Player of the Year in the Youngstown Class...
‘Huddle Up with Gus’: Dave Hanson goes behind the scenes of filming ‘Slap Shot’
Dave Hanson of “Slap Shot” fame wasn’t a shoo-in to play hockey. “I thought I was moving on to play collegiate football,” Hanson told Gus Frerotte and Dave Hager during this week’s “Huddle Up with Gus” podcast. “I had a couple opportunities to go on and play collegiate football.” An...
Vegas sours on Penguins after last season’s struggles
After a 100-point season followed by a first-round playoff exit, Las Vegas doesn’t like the Pittsburgh Penguins quite as much as they used to. The Penguins are a 10-1 choice to win the Eastern Conference in odds released by BetOnline.ag on Monday. They were a 6-1 pick to win the...
Former Steeler Merril Hoge thinks team will be better than last year
Golfing at a charity event last week, former Pittsburgh Steelers running back Merril Hoge shared some thoughts about his former team and said he thinks they might be better this season than last. “I think the key word here is team. Teams win championships,” Hoge said to PennLive on Wednesday...
Former Penguins center’s dog hits charts with rendition of ‘Old Town Road’
There’s a good chance Josh Jooris’ dog is about to become more famous than he is. Last Thursday, the former Penguins center posted a video on Instagram of his Australian Shepherd, Charlie, singing along when the Lil Nas X hit “Old Town Road” starts playing. The video went viral. View...
First Call: Antonio Brown mad at Madden video game; competitive-eating scandal
In Monday’s “First Call,” Antonio Brown doing what Antonio Brown does. Perhaps the most impressive point Wimbledon has ever seen. Ranking the Steelers offensive trio. And a competitive-eating scandal. A.B. on brand This is right from the Mr. Big Chest playbook. Antonio Brown is mad that he didn’t get a...
Steelers 2-a-days: Eli Rogers in the slot? Mason Rudolph No. 2 QB?
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...
Tim Benz, Mark Madden discuss Pirates disaster vs. Cubs, Penguins chemistry, NFL schedule
In this week’s “Madden Monday” podcast, Tim Benz and Mark Madden take a look at what went wrong with the Pirates during their disastrous series in Chicago to start the second half of the season. Not only did the Pirates come out of the All-Star break cold, they helped the...
Tim Benz: The potential issues that make NFL’s 18-game plan terrible
In recent days. there has been increased discussion over the prospect of an 18-16 split for the NFL regular season. In other words, every team would play 18 games. But individual players would be forced to sit out two of them. The hope is that the league could increase revenue...
Tim Benz: Penguins going younger, faster to mask issues on defense
This is the third of our five posts examining the “money quotes” from Mike Sullivan’s interview on 105.9 the X with Mark Madden last week. This entry looks at an admission from Sullivan about his team. Two, actually. Frankly, neither is groundbreaking. More or less, both corroborate opinions that many...
Simon Pagenaud wins IndyCar race in Toronto, his third victory of season
TORONTO — Simon Pagenaud won his third race of the season, and Alexander Rossi tightened the championship race with Josef Newgarden in IndyCar’s Sunday race through the streets of Toronto. The win on the streets around Exhibition Place is the first for Pagenaud this year away from Indianapolis Motor Speedway....
NFL opens academy in London, Steelers’ JuJu Smith-Schuster helps
LONDON — For the past three years, the only way Sergei Starodoubtsev experienced the NFL was by watching highlights of JuJu Smith-Schuster and other players on Instagram. That the 17-year-old found himself sharing a field with the Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver — he was the one in workout clothes, not...
Former NFL QB Ryan Leaf heading to ESPN broadcast booth
Ryan Leaf has been hired by ESPN to be a college football analyst, another step in the remarkable comeback of the former Washington State star who has battled drug addiction and served time in prison. Leaf will be paired with play-by-play announcer Clay Matvick and mostly will call games on...
South Korea’s Sei Young Kim wins LPGA Marathon Classic
SYLVANIA, Ohio — Sei Young Kim won the Marathon Classic on Sunday for her second LPGA Tour victory of the season, making five straight birdies in a mid-round burst and shooting a 6-under-par 65 for a two-stroke victory over Lexi Thompson. Kim began the birdie run on No. 7 and...
Retief Goosen wins Bridgestone Senior Players for 1st Champions title
AKRON, Ohio — Retief Goosen birdied the final two holes to win the Bridgestone Senior Players Championship on Sunday at Firestone Country Club for his first PGA Tour Champions title. The 50-year-old Hall of Famer from South Africa broke a tie for the lead with a 15-foot putt on the...
Dylan Frittelli earns 1st PGA win at John Deere Classic
SILVIS, Ill. — While the rest of the leaders faltered, Dylan Frittelli surged to his first PGA Tour title. Frittelli won the John Deere Classic on Sunday, closing with a 7-under-par 64 for a two-stroke victory over Russell Henley. The South African earned a spot next week in the British...
Mark Goetz breezes to first Westmoreland County Amateur golf title
Mark Goetz began Sunday’s final round of the 52nd annual Westmoreland County Amateur with a seemingly comfortable five-shot lead. But a problem on the third hole at Totteridge Golf Course near Hannastown gave hope for the rest of the field. Goetz, a Greensburg native and rising junior at West Virginia,...
After a Tour de France on TV, Thibaut Pinot looms large in picture
BRIOUDE, France — Like a lost love, the Tour de France gains in value for riders who can’t race in it. That was the lesson Thibaut Pinot learned last year when the French rider, who’d fallen sick at the Giro d’Italia in May, then missed the Tour and watched on...
Lewis Hamilton wins record 6th British GP, extends F1 leadVideo
SILVERSTONE, England — A day of dramatic English sporting glory began with a far more fortuitous — but still record-breaking — victory for Lewis Hamilton on the nation’s Formula One track. A sixth British Grand Prix success was sealed not with a thrilling overtaking move but by a canny pit...
Pirates squander short-lived lead, get swept by CubsVideo
CHICAGO — This wasn’t the way the Pittsburgh Pirates wanted to come out of the All-Star break. The Pirates entered the break a game under .500 (44-45) and 21⁄2 games behind the first-place Chicago Cubs. A sweep would vault the Pirates into first place in the NL Central. But the...
John Steigerwald: NFL finds another way to give fans less for their money
“Eighteen games is straight baloney, either way you cut it.” You wonder how many NFL players agree with that tweet from Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end Cameron Heyward on Saturday. According to Andrew Beaton of the Wall Street Journal, the owners are going to try to sell the players on an...
Ex-AAF players hope experiences translate into jobs with Steelers
Winston Craig was between practice reps on a warm early April afternoon in San Antonio. Suddenly, he and his teammates noticed something peculiar. Media videographers were trickling onto the field. The San Antonio Commanders, a member of the fledgling Alliance of American Football, typically would have welcomed the coverage —...
Federer dominates Djokovic in every stat except final score in Wimbledon loss
WIMBLEDON, England — Roger Federer won more points than Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon final. Federer was the first of the pair to come within a point of taking the championship Sunday, too. Had two such chances in the fifth set. Indeed, Federer dominated the historic match in nearly every...
Royals trade right-hander Homer Bailey to A’s for prospect
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals traded Homer Bailey to the Oakland Athletics for minor league infielder Kevin Merrell on Sunday after scratching the veteran right-hander about 45 minutes before his scheduled start of their series finale against Detroit. The 33-year-old Bailey has rebounded this season with the...
