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Steelers’ Ryan Shazier named winner of George Halas Award for overcoming adversity

Ryan Shazier on Monday was named the 51st winner of the annual George Halas Award, an honor given annually by the Professional Football Writers of America to an NFL player, coach or staff member who overcomes the most adversity to succeed. Shazier underwent spinal stabilization surgery in December 2017 after...
Basketball will be secondary during Pitt’s trip to Italy in August

Basketball will be a part of the Pitt team’s upcoming trip to Italy, but players and coaches will see so much more outside of the Italian gymnasiums. School officials announced the team will leave Aug. 5 for a 10-day, eight-night trip with stops in Rome, Florence, Pisa, Bologna, Vicenza, and...
Could Brennan Marion’s ‘Go-Go’ offense work in the NFL?

Brennan Marion brought an avant garde approach to the spread offense when he broke onto the college football scene two years ago. The fast-paced, “Go-Go” offense put up points, yards and highlights at Howard University and now Marion hopes it translates in his first season at William & Mary. But...
Pirates’ Josh Bell named National League player of the month

Josh Bell, whose monumental and historic home runs are turning him into the face of the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise, was named Monday as the National League player of the month. Bell, 26, led the Major Leagues with 46 hits and 31 RBIs in May, but five of his 12 home...
RMU alum, ‘part-Yinzer’ Marcelis Branch hopes to stick with Steelers

Florida native Marcelis Branch called Allegheny County home for more than five years earlier this decade, and the Robert Morris product is back in Pittsburgh this spring. “I’m part-Yinzer now,” Branch said with a wide smile during Pittsburgh Steelers organized team activities last week at UPMC Rooney Sports Complex. Branch...
Draft day ‘nerve-racking,’ even for 1st-round picks like Pirates’ Cole Tucker

With “hundreds of people” gathered around the television, Cole Tucker and his family just wanted to go somewhere quiet. It was MLB Draft day in 2014, and with the Los Angeles Dodgers on the clock at No. 22, Tucker’s agent had just called with the news. “Hey, man, it’s happening....
Penguins trainer Chris Stewart honored by IUP

Pittsburgh Penguins head trainer Chris Stewart has received a prestigious award from his alma mater, IUP, being named one of the inaugural members of the school’s College of Health and Human Sciences Hall of Distinction. Stewart has been the Penguins’ head trainer for 13 years. Including a year spent as...
Terrelle Pryor signs with Jacksonville Jaguars

Jeannette’s Terrelle Pryor will head to camp with another new team, his ninth in eight years in the NFL. The Jacksonville Jaguars signed the veteran quarterback-turned-wide receiver to a one-year contract. The 6-foot-4, 228-pound Pryor spent last season with the New York Jets and Buffalo Bills during what has been...
Rob Gronkowski puts football return rumors to rest

Rob Gronkowski says he’s in a good place and isn’t planning to return to football. The former New England Patriots tight end, who played just his senior year of high school football at Woodland Hills, took part in a children with cancer event at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. on...
If Pirates’ Josh Bell skips HR Derby, Neal Huntington wouldn’t protest

When Josh Bell was asked Sunday whether he will enter the Home Run Derby, he smiled and said “maybe.” Neal Huntington wouldn’t have been upset if Bell’s answer was “no.” The Pittsburgh Pirates slugger, the National League Player of the Month for May, appears to be a lock to receive...
Local golfers set to compete at NJCAA national championship

Ryan Skladany, a Gateway graduate and student at the Community College of Allegheny County, Boyce Campus, leads a local contingent of golfers to the National Junior College Athletic Association’s Division III National Golf Championship on Tuesday through Friday at Chautauqua Golf Club in Chautauqua, N.Y. Skladany earned the trip to...
4 players jockeying for Steelers’ starting right tackle job

How much continuity has the Pittsburgh Steelers offensive line had? And just how rare is that? Put it this way: Putting aside temporary injury- (or suspension-) related fill-ins, the starting five this season will undergo its first change since the middle of the 2015 season. Across the rest of the...
With possible Phil Kessel trade, Penguins need productive Patric Hornqvist

If the Pittsburgh Penguins, as expected, trade Phil Kessel this summer, they’re probably going to need the right wings that remain on the roster to ramp up their production next season. That’s why Patric Hornqvist’s resurgence while playing for the Swedish national team at the World Championships last month is...
Podcast: Mike Ditka recalls growing up in Aliquippa, his drive to succeed

Mike Ditka, the former Pitt All-American and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, grew up wanting to be a dentist. “That didn’t work out, you can tell,” he told Gus Frerotte in the first part of this week’s “Huddle Up with Gus” podcast. Ditka tells the story of...
Mark Madden: More MLB netting a good idea, but so is common sense

Rory McIlroy drilled a spectator in the head with a tee shot in the PGA’s Memorial Tournament on Friday. Perhaps golf should border the fairways with protective netting. The subject of more protective netting became sadly relevant last Wednesday when a foul ball hit by the Chicago Cubs’ Albert Almora...
Joe Boros looks to defend Tri-State Open title

Treesdale Golf and Country Club director of instruction Joe Boros shot a 5-under par 67 during the final round and held off two golfers to capture the 2018 Tri-State Open at Williams Country Club. Boros finished at 5-under for the tournament as he held off Shawn McCall and amateur Andy...

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