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First Call: Antonio Brown begs for Patriots reunion; Yankees green light huge cash for Gerrit Cole

Friday’s “First Call” gives us Phil Kessel’s unique headgear, Antonio Brown’s plea for a job, Gerrit Cole’s huge contract on the horizon and a Pitt player emerges from nowhere in the NFL. Take me back! Please! Antonio Brown’s online flirtation with the New England Patriots continues. The outcast wide receiver...
Kessel Comeback: Phil Kessel returns to Pittsburgh with 1st-place Coyotes

The “Kessel Comeback” is upon us! Friday night marks the return of Phil Kessel to PPG Paints Arena. The two-time Penguins Stanley Cup champion takes to Pittsburgh ice for the first time since leaving for the Arizona Coyotes in a summer trade. Before Thursday night, Kessel had been struggling. The...
Tim Benz: Steelers contained Baker Mayfield, but Cardinals’ Kyler Murray presents new challenge

Here’s something you’ve probably heard a thousand times this week as the Steelers get ready to visit the Arizona Cardinals. “Don’t sleep on the Cardinals. They can score some points.” OK. But do they really? The 3-8-1 Cardinals average 21.2 points per game. That’s good for just 20th in football....
Late-season squirrel hunting tips for the winter sportsman

This is not the game you might think it is. Mention squirrels to the average hunter, and he or she probably recalls early October days afield, likely as a young hunter, spent sitting under an oak with dad’s old hand-me-down shotgun. Memories of warm sun, bright leaves and almost foolishly...
Micthell Trubisky helps Bears get home win vs. reeling CowboysVideo

CHICAGO — Mitchell Trubisky threw three touchdown passes and ran for a score in the Chicago Bears’ 31-24 victory over Dak Prescott and the slumping Dallas Cowboys on Thursday night. In a matchup between disappointing teams that made the playoffs last season, the Bears (7-6) came away with their fourth...
North Allegheny grad, Carnegie Mellon diver Mianzo continues to improve

North Allegheny graduate Maddie Mianzo had a productive month as a junior diver on the Carnegie Mellon women’s swimming and diving team. Mianzo, 20, of Franklin Park, was named University Athletic Association Athlete of the Week for Nov. 18 after earning her first NCAA Division III regional qualifying marks of...
Former Latrobe golfer Brady Pevarnik leaving Penn State

Brady Pevarnik has changed clubs before to combat a stiff wind or to negotiate a tight pin placement. But now the former Latrobe star golfer is changing colleges. Pevarnik is leaving Penn State and will transfer to the College of Charleston (S.C.) for the spring semester. “It just wasn’t the...
Odell Beckham vague about future with Browns amid ‘bad’ seasonVideo

BEREA, Ohio — Odell Beckham Jr.’s disappointing first season with the Browns isn’t over, and the star wide receiver is already making predictions about the next one. “2020’s going to be my year,” he said. He didn’t say if it would be in Cleveland. Beckham was vague about his future...
Giants’ Saquon Barkley hoping to break 100-yard drought vs. EaglesVideo

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The combination of playing the Philadelphia Eagles and Eli Manning returning at quarterback for the New York Giants might be what gets Saquon Barkley a much-desired 100-yard game rushing. The NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year last season, Barkley has not rushed for 100 yards since...
Pine-Richland, South Fayette join 5A football as PIAA officially draws up new classifications in all sports

Claiming a Class 5A title in WPIAL football will be that much more difficult next season, according to enrollment numbers released by the PIAA Thursday. Pine-Richland, a Class 6A finalist this season, will drop to 5A for the new two-year cycle that begins in the fall. The Rams will now...
All eyes on No. 5 Utah in Pac-12 title game against OregonVideo

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The Pac-12 championship game largely has been an afterthought for the rest of the country the past two seasons with the conference mostly out of contention when it comes to the all-important College Football Playoff. That will be far from the case this year when there...
Thomas Jefferson dominates Dallas, celebrates 4th PIAA titleVideo

HERSHEY — Thomas Jefferson’s Bill Cherpak had coached 24 seasons, won seven WPIAL titles and celebrated three state championships before this year. Needless to say, Cherpak has some fond memories. But as TJ marched toward Hershey, he insisted for weeks that this season was the most fun he’d ever had...
Oklahoma QB Jalen Hurts, Baylor QB Charlie Brewer create havoc as runnersVideo

NORMAN, Okla. — Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley never imagined having his quarterback run the ball so much. He also has never had one quite like Jalen Hurts. The graduate transfer has rushed for 1,217 yards and 18 touchdowns this season and is nearing the school record for rushing yards in...
Phil Kessel’s return to face Penguins ‘will be weird’

When Phil Kessel takes the ice Friday at PPG Paints Arena, things will be very different. First, he’ll be wearing the brick red, desert sand and black uniform (per the team’s media guide) of the Arizona Coyotes. Second, he might not recognize many of the faces in the black and...
Patrick Reed builds 3-shot lead in Hero World ChallengeVideo

NASSAU, Bahamas — A tropical breeze replaced the raging wind and made golf a lot easier for Patrick Reed, Tiger Woods and just about everyone else Thursday in the Hero World Challenge. Reed took advantage of the back nine at Albany Golf Club for the second straight day. He was...
Ohio State QB Justin Fields will go ’60 minutes’ in Big Ten championship gameVideo

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The first real hero moment for Justin Fields came in the third quarter last Saturday, a display of toughness destined to live in the lore of the Ohio State-Michigan game. The first-year starter who had led the Buckeyes to a perfect record went down and couldn’t get...

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