Sports category, Page 74

Pat Narduzzi did not holler or raise any kind of celebratory racket when quarterback Eli Holstein announced he was returning to Pitt for the 2025 season. “I never really told him I was coming back,” Holstein told TribLive on Sunday when he was a guest server at the Beth Shalom...

MONTREAL — U.S. players knew they could clinch a spot in the final of the 4 Nations Face-Off by beating Canada in regulation on Saturday night. “And we did just that,” defenseman Zach Werenski said. No matter what happens in their game Monday night against Sweden in Boston, the Americans...

BALTIMORE — Seven more massage therapists have accused Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker of sexually inappropriate conduct, the Baltimore Banner reported Sunday. The news website says a total of 16 massage therapists from eight Baltimore-area spas have now shared accounts with the Banner. All said Tucker’s actions occurred between 2012...

BRADENTON, Fla. — The Pittsburgh Pirates have had a revolving door at first base since trading Josh Bell to Washington in December 2020, a year after he was an All-Star who hit 37 home runs and had 116 RBIs. The turnstile is at 23 players and counting now that the...

Rashid Hassan has trained top-level junior tennis players through his tennis academy for more than two decades. Without a place to call his own, he often would be at the mercy of another facility to rent space and time. Despite that, he said, he always was grateful for the opportunities...

SAN FRANCISCO — Mac McClung will leave it up to others to decide where he ranks among the best dunkers ever. When it comes to the dunk contest, there is no doubt. The G League star and dunk maven put on a remarkable show at NBA All-Star Saturday night by...

Amsal Delalic recognizes the difference between basketball in the ACC and basketball in Europe. “It’s very different,” he said after scoring a season-high 14 points in Pitt’s 74-65 victory against Miami. “It’s a lot more contact, a lot more speed. It’s just all-around — I’m not going to say madness...

MONTREAL — Dylan Larkin scored the go-ahead goal in the second period, and the United States beat Canada, 3-1, in the 4 Nations Face-Off on Saturday night, wrapping up a spot in the championship game by winning a contest that started with three fights in 9 seconds and was played...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The winning for the Larson family hasn’t slowed down at the start of 2025 as former NASCAR champion Kyle Larson watched his son, Owen, lead his team to victory in the Daytona 500’s annual prerace fishing tournament. The 10-year-old pulled a 4.58-pound fish from Lake Lloyd...

This time, Duquesne came to play. Too bad for the Dukes that they came up just short. Three weeks after taking a 20-point beating from Dayton at home, Duquesne went into arguably the hardest venue in the Atlantic 10 and nearly came away Saturday with a victory. But a loss...

BRADENTON, Fla. — Where Paul Skenes came to spring training last year looking to live up to his billing as the No. 1 overall draft pick and make his major-league debut, the Pittsburgh Pirates right-hander arrived at Pirate City last week as — in his words — “definitely a different...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Mekhi Mason hit 6 of his 11 3-point attempts and scored 20 points, and DJ Davis knocked down a 3 with just under a minute left and Washington held off Penn State to earn a 75-73 win Saturday in the first meeting between the programs. The Huskies...

BRADENTON, Fla. – When Adam Frazier returned to the practice fields at Pirate City, he was greeted with handshakes and hugs by Pittsburgh Pirates teammates old and new. Frazier, 33, signed a one-year, $1.525 million contract late last month to return to the team that drafted and developed him and...

The ball worked its way inside the paint and back to the arc as the shot clock ticked into single digits. Back inside and out to Kam Woods in the right corner. Woods’ 3-point shot went up and bounded off the back of the iron before kissing the backboard and...

Jeff Capel was pleased with Pitt’s 74-65 victory Saturday against Miami, but he also recognizes the reality of his team’s situation. He was happy to see the four-game losing streak end in front of a Petersen Events Center crowd of 8,578. But he also told reporters after the game, “We...

Breaking news: The Pittsburgh Steelers asked Kansas City about acquiring quarterback Patrick Mahomes. (Except they didn’t.) The Chiefs said Mahomes wasn’t available. (Or would have if they had been asked.) A source close to the Chiefs said, “You must be stupid. Never happened.” A source inside the Steelers organization said,...

The Super Bowl capped the first year of the NFL’s dynamic kickoff rule. Based on that final-game sample size, the concept hardly lived up to its name but still was viewed as a success. Then again, the bar was set at ground level in the previous Super Bowl, and the...

The Pittsburgh Penguins find themselves in a familiar spot compared to the last two seasons: on the outside looking in at the Eastern Conference playoffs. Fans need no reminder that the Penguins ride a two-year skid of missing the postseason. Now, as the club entered the 4 Nations Face-Off break...