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Maple Leafs’ Auston Matthews out at least 3 weeks with knee injury

Toronto Maple Leafs center Auston Matthews will miss at least three weeks with a sprained knee. The team announced the reigning MVP’s anticipated absence Friday, two days after Matthews was injured in Toronto’s victory against the New York Rangers. Matthews is expected to miss at least six games and could...
Mark Madden: Stuck in salary cap purgatory, Penguins have to play better to keep playoff spot

It’s difficult to draw a bead on the Penguins. The Penguins mostly look like excrement on skates lately, but have points in each of their last six games (3-0-3). They’re in the Eastern Conference’s second and last wild-card berth, but only two points ahead of hard-charging Buffalo, which has five...
Steelers’ T.J. Watt withdraws from Pro Bowl to recover from lingering injuries

T.J. Watt won’t participate in this year’s Pro Bowl games so he can recover from injuries that nagged him during the 2022 season. Buffalo Bills linebacker Matt Milano will replace the Steelers outside linebacker, who missed most of the first half of the season with a torn pectoral muscle. He...
Drew O’Connor and the Penguins’ 4th line are generating goalsVideo

Drew O’Connor was able to laugh. After all, when you win, miscues are easier to accept. But in the moment, things were a bit anxious for the young Pittsburgh Penguins power forward. During the third period of a wild 7-6 overtime home win against the Florida Panthers on Tuesday, O’Connor...
Novak Djokovic tops Tommy Paul, faces Stefanos Tsitsipas in Australian Open final

MELBOURNE, Australia — Of all of his considerable talents, Novak Djokovic’s ability to cast aside whatever appears to stand in his way might be the most valuable. So forget about the potential distraction of his father’s decision to stay away from Rod Laver Arena for Djokovic’s semifinal against unseeded American...
Friday Football Footnotes: Art Rooney II says Steelers will keep Mitch Trubisky, pursue NFL Draft

This week’s “Friday Football Footnotes” looks at Mitch Trubisky’s future with the Pittsburgh Steelers. We also discuss the prospects of the city hosting the NFL draft, and potentially keeping the prospect of AFC Championship home games. Speaking of AFC Championship games, we also have an update on Patrick Mahomes’ injury...
3 takeaways: Penguins give up another power-play goal to Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin

During Thursday’s 3-2 shootout win against the Pittsburgh Penguins, Washington Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin opened the scoring with a power-play goal exactly six minutes into regulation. That was Ovechkin’s 18th power-play goal against the Penguins in 71 career games. Only forward Mike Gartner, a member of the Hockey Hall of...
Tim Benz: Ranking the Steelers’ 6 wins, 5 losses in home AFC Championship games

On Thursday, Pittsburgh Steelers owner Art Rooney II came out against the idea of having neutral site AFC and NFC Championship games. “I hate the idea,” Rooney said. “I don’t like that at all. My sense is that if you put that up for a vote it wouldn’t pass today,...
Termarr Johnson ranks highest among Pirates prospects in MLB Pipeline’s updated top 100

Termarr Johnson hasn’t played a full season in the minor leagues, but MLB Pipeline already ranks the Pittsburgh Pirates’ 2022 first-round pick as the No. 1 second-base prospect and among its top 30 players overall. Ranked 26th, Johnson is the only Pirates player to crack the front half of MLB...
Pitt Take 5: Miami game starts 10-game stretch that will define Panthers’ season

Pitt embarks on a crucial 10-game stretch Saturday when it attempts to rise above third place in the ACC with a game against No. 20 Miami at Petersen Events Center. Both teams are 7-3 in the conference. A victory probably adds another brick to Pitt’s status as an NCAA Tournament...
College basketball broadcaster Billy Packer dies at 82

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Billy Packer, an Emmy award-winning college basketball broadcaster who covered 34 Final Fours for NBC and CBS, died Thursday. He was 82. Packer’s son, Mark, told The Associated Press that his father had been hospitalized in Charlotte for the past three weeks and had several medical issues,...
Eagles, 49ers ride Jalen Hurts, Brock Purdy to brink of Super Bowl

PHILADELPHIA — The late-game meltdowns stick in San Francisco. Take the Super Bowl against Kansas City following the 2019 season. The 49ers became the third team in Super Bowl history to cough up a 10-point lead in the second half and lost to the Chiefs. Or last season’s NFC title...
Penguins give ground to Capitals with shootout loss

With more than three decades of history as heated combatants dating to their days as members of the Patrick Division, the Pittsburgh Penguins and Washington Capitals are firmly established as rivals. Both squads have ended the other’s season in the playoffs going back to the early 1990s. So something like...
Ryder extends Farmers lead to 3, Rahm gets hot on windy dayVideo

SAN DIEGO — Sam Ryder extended his lead to three shots in the Farmers Insurance Open with a 4-under-par 68 in challenging wind in the second round Thursday on Torrey Pines’ South Course, while Jon Rahm had an eagle and three straight birdies late in his 5-under 67 on the...
Bengals confident returning to ‘Burrowhead Stadium’ to face Chiefs

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs have lost three straight games to the Cincinnati Bengals, including last year’s AFC title game, when they blew an early 21-3 lead in an overtime defeat before a sea of stunned fans inside Arrowhead Stadium. Patrick Mahomes, who expects to lead the...
Art Rooney II mum on potential contract extension for Mike Tomlin

Mike Tomlin has two years remaining on his contract as coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, which historically is when he is in line to receive an extension. An exception occurred in 2021 when he was heading into the last year of his deal, and team president Art Rooney II gave...

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