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Tim Benz: NFL dancing through raindrops of covid-19, but a bigger storm is coming
This was bound to happen. Now the NFL has to brace for being unable to stop it. Or wish it away. Before this week, the covid-19 pandemic had been an ominous rumble of thunder in the distance. Now it’s become a daily rain cloud over the league. At least the...
Jimmy Butler’s triple-double helps Heat cut into Lakers’ NBA Finals series leadVideo
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Jimmy Butler is not ready to go home. A triple-double later, he joined NBA Finals lore — and the short-handed Miami Heat might have made this title matchup a series after all. Butler finished with 40 points, 11 rebounds and 13 assists, and the Heat...
Rams’ Jalen Ramsey, Giants’ Golden Tate ignite postgame fracas
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Golden Tate finally got his chance to face Jalen Ramsey, and the personal animosity between the two players exploded Sunday after the Los Angeles Rams’ 17-9 victory over the New York Giants. The Giants wide receiver and Rams cornerback exchanged blows near midfield after the game and...
Riverhounds set to begin 2020 USL Championship playoffs on the road
At this point in the season, all the Pittsburgh Riverhounds can do is focus on what they can control. Their postseason position wasn’t theirs to decide, but Saturday night they wanted to put themselves in the best position they could. In their last game of the regular season, they came...
Heat rule Goran Dragic, Bam Adebayo out of Game 3 of NBA FinalsVideo
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Bam Adebayo headed out to the court a couple hours before Game 3 of the NBA Finals, getting some shots up in his typical pregame routine. That would be the only basketball he played Sunday night. The Heat remained depleted for Game 3 of the...
Leechburg senior Cole Villa finishes 2nd at WPIAL Class AA individual championship
Leechburg senior Cole Villa has played a lot of golf over the past few years. He’s put the work in each summer, and he’s played on the Leechburg golf team since he was a freshman. But Villa never has been more confident than last Thursday when he stepped onto the...
Sergio Garcia birdies final hole to win in MississippiVideo
JACKSON, Miss. — Sergio Garcia delivered two key shots on the back nine, the last one an 8-iron to 30 inches on the final hole for birdie and a one-shot victory in the Sanderson Farms Championship. Garcia closed with a 5-under-par 67 to win for the 10th consecutive year worldwide...
Hamlin wins longest NASCAR race in Talladega history
TALLADEGA, Ala. — Denny Hamlin finally got a playoff win in a messy wreck-fest that took three overtimes Sunday, the longest race in Talladega Superspeedway history. Hamlin made the winning pass on the 200th lap — 12 more or nearly 32 miles longer than scheduled — with a three-wide sweep...
Sergino Dest becomes 1st American to play for Barcelona in league matchVideo
BARCELONA, Spain — Sergino Dest made his debut for Barcelona on Sunday, becoming the first American to play in a Spanish league match for the club. The defender went on in the 75th minute of Sunday’s game against Sevilla at Camp Nou with the score tied 1-1. He replaced left...
Astros return to Los Angeles for ALDS series against A’s, pitcher Mike FiersVideo
LOS ANGELES — The Houston Astros are returning to the scene of the crime. The Los Angeles Dodgers won’t be there, but their fans surely won’t let the visitors forget. While the Dodgers head to Texas for the NL Division Series, their ballpark is hosting the AL Division Series in...
Years after anorexia, hiatus, Italian qualifier Trevisan reaches French Open quartersVideo
PARIS — Martina Trevisan has been doing video chats from her hotel room with her mental coach every day along the way to the quarterfinals at Roland Garros, a run the 159th-ranked qualifier acknowledged is “a little” shocking, just not as much to her as to everyone else. So after...
Coronavirus has forced Penguins to adjust scouting for this week’s draft
Patrik Allvin has an interesting way of describing the NHL’s entry draft. “It the same for the players, and it the same for the scouts,” said the Pittsburgh Penguins’ director of amateur scouting. “This is the graduation. This is the thing you really work hard for. This is excitement. Every...
NFL Week 4: Russell Wilson leads Seahawks to first 4-0 start since 2013Video
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Russell Wilson threw for 360 yards and two touchdowns, and the Seattle Seahawks improved to 4-0 on the season by beating the Miami Dolphins 31-23 Sunday. The Seahawks have won their first four games only one other time in franchise history — in 2013, when they...
Mayfield, Garrett right at home as Browns beat Cowboys, 49-38Video
ARLINGTON, Texas — Baker Mayfield and Myles Garrett had homecoming gifts waiting when Cleveland visited Dallas in their home state Sunday. For Mayfield, it was a porous Cowboys pass defense that was poor against the run this time as well. For Garrett, it was an undrafted rookie right tackle who...
Joe Mixon scores 3 times to pace Bengals in Joe Burrow’s 1st win
CINCINNATI — Joe Mixon ran for 151 yards and two touchdowns and caught Joe Burrow’s pass for another score as the Cincinnati Bengals rolled up 505 yards to beat the Jacksonville Jaguars, 33-25, on Sunday for their first win of the season. The Bengals (1-2-1) worked around their recent offensive...
Lamar Jackson returns to MVP form as Ravens roll over WashingtonVideo
LANDOVER, Md. — Lamar Jackson ran for a 50-yard touchdown and threw for two scores in a bounce-back performance by the reigning NFL MVP and the Baltimore Ravens, who took control early against Washington in a 31-17 victory Sunday. Coming off a humbling loss to Kansas City on Monday night,...
Boston College’s Jeff Hafley said his time at Pitt ‘changed my life’
Boston College coach Jeff Hafley is a man who knows how to keep his life in proper order. When Hafley was asked Sunday to name the greatest memory from his five years as a Pitt assistant, he quickly said, “That’s where I met my wife. My greatest memory is meeting...
Rangers have work to do despite having top pick in NHL draftVideo
New York Rangers president John Davidson refuses to get ahead of himself with his team in the unique position of holding the No. 1 pick in the NHL Draft while also coming off an appearance in the expanded 24-team playoffs. Exciting as it is having the opportunity to add someone...
L.A. Kings acquire former Penguins defenseman Maatta from BlackhawksVideo
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — The Los Angeles Kings acquired defenseman Olli Maatta from the Chicago Blackhawks in a trade for minor league forward Brad Morrison. The Kings announced the deal Sunday to acquire Maatta, a two-time Stanley Cup champion with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Maatta spent last season with the Blackhawks...
Oklahoma, Pitt fall out of AP Top 25Video
Oklahoma dropped out of The Associated Press college football poll for the first time since September 2016 and No. 24 Iowa State jumped back into the Top 25 after a day of upsets. There largely was stability at the top of the rankings Sunday after No. 1 Clemson, No. 2...
John Steigerwald: Bob Gibson’s dominance hard to watch as Pirates fan
Bob Gibson brushed me back once. More on that in a minute. Gibson died Friday from pancreatic cancer. He was 84. Every player who tried to get a hit over the last 52 years can thank Gibson. His 1.12 ERA in 1968 was the last straw for major league owners...
With David DeCastro’s return, Steelers look to build consistency on offensive line
Until the NFL postponed their game Sunday, the Pittsburgh Steelers were on track to accomplish a modest goal on their offensive line against the Tennessee Titans. The Steelers would have started the same five players up front in consecutive games for the first time this season. Because that matchup has...
AP source: Titans have 2 new positives, none for rest of NFL
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Another Tennessee Titans player and another staff member have tested positive for the coronavirus, while the rest of the NFL returned no new positives on Sunday, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press. The Titans’ outbreak is now at 20 cases, with 18 positive...
CCAC Boyce baseball team looks forward to spring season
Austin Long is optimistic. The head baseball coach at the Community College of Allegheny County Boyce Campus in Monroeville hopes the team can return to game action in the spring after last spring’s season was wiped out at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Ongoing issues with the pandemic also...
This Date in Sports History: Oct. 4
1895 — Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open. Rawlins beats Willie Dunn with 36-hole total of 173 at the Newport Golf Club in Newport, R.I. 1927 — John Longden rides the first official winner of his career, named Hugo K. Asher, in Salt Lake City. 1940 — Fritzie Zivic...
