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Old Nets think Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving can succeed where they didn’tVideo
NEW YORK — Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving gave the Brooklyn Nets two big victories in one night. “They hit the Mega Millions and the Powerball,” former NBA star Charles Oakley said. In the first hours of free agency, the Nets added two of the best players available to a...
Paul Spadafora recalls training with world champion boxer Pernell Whitaker
Paul Spadafora couldn’t stop crying when he heard the news that Pernell Whitaker had died, a loss of not only one of his boxing idols but his former trainer. The Hall of Fame fighter known as Sweet Pea won a gold medal at the 1984 Olympic Games and who was...
Ryan Switzer working to perfect role as slot receiver for Steelers
Last season ended with New England’s Julian Edelman carrying his Super Bowl MVP trophy to Disney World. When free agency opened, teams were quick to sign players such as Golden Tate, Adam Humphries, Jamison Crowder and Danny Amendola to lucrative, multi-year contracts. The evidence has piled up for years. The...
District 31 American Legion league announces all-stars
League finalists Bushy Run and Hempfield East were well-represented when District 31 American Legion baseball announced its all-district teams Monday. The all-stars were selected through voting done by coaches from the Westmoreland County league. First team Pitchers Matt Henderson, Latrobe Maclean Maund, Bushy Run Cole Novak, Unity Max Pici, Bushy...
Pernell Whitaker, boxing champ and ex-trainer of McKees Rocks’ Paul Spadafora, fatally struck by car
Pernell Whitaker, an Olympic gold medalist and four division champion who was regarded as one of the greatest defensive fighters ever, has died after being hit by a car in Virginia. He was 55. Police in Virginia Beach said the former fighter was hit by a car Sunday night. The...
Are Pirates’ pennant hopes gone? Here’s why they are, and why there’s hope
There is an argument to be made that the Pittsburgh Pirates’ playoff hopes disappeared during the three-game sweep by the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. The Pirates never have been more than five games over .500 this season, and that was April 20. Even after winning eight of 12 leading...
Belle Vernon grad Josh Hoffman claims MVP honors in Ohio summer baseball league
Incoming Youngstown State freshman baseball player Josh Hoffman has had a strong summer in preparation for his first college season. He has some hardware to prove it. Hoffman, a Belle Vernon graduate and Tribune-Review all-star, was named the Your Sports Network/Baird Brothers Player of the Year in the Youngstown Class...
‘Huddle Up with Gus’: Dave Hanson goes behind the scenes of filming ‘Slap Shot’
Dave Hanson of “Slap Shot” fame wasn’t a shoo-in to play hockey. “I thought I was moving on to play collegiate football,” Hanson told Gus Frerotte and Dave Hager during this week’s “Huddle Up with Gus” podcast. “I had a couple opportunities to go on and play collegiate football.” An...
Vegas sours on Penguins after last season’s struggles
After a 100-point season followed by a first-round playoff exit, Las Vegas doesn’t like the Pittsburgh Penguins quite as much as they used to. The Penguins are a 10-1 choice to win the Eastern Conference in odds released by BetOnline.ag on Monday. They were a 6-1 pick to win the...
Former Steeler Merril Hoge thinks team will be better than last year
Golfing at a charity event last week, former Pittsburgh Steelers running back Merril Hoge shared some thoughts about his former team and said he thinks they might be better this season than last. “I think the key word here is team. Teams win championships,” Hoge said to PennLive on Wednesday...
Former Penguins center’s dog hits charts with rendition of ‘Old Town Road’
There’s a good chance Josh Jooris’ dog is about to become more famous than he is. Last Thursday, the former Penguins center posted a video on Instagram of his Australian Shepherd, Charlie, singing along when the Lil Nas X hit “Old Town Road” starts playing. The video went viral. View...
First Call: Antonio Brown mad at Madden video game; competitive-eating scandal
In Monday’s “First Call,” Antonio Brown doing what Antonio Brown does. Perhaps the most impressive point Wimbledon has ever seen. Ranking the Steelers offensive trio. And a competitive-eating scandal. A.B. on brand This is right from the Mr. Big Chest playbook. Antonio Brown is mad that he didn’t get a...
Steelers 2-a-days: Eli Rogers in the slot? Mason Rudolph No. 2 QB?
Editor’s note: From now until the first practice of training camp at Saint Vincent, the Trib will be running through the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 90-man roster, assessing each player’s outlook for the 2019 season. The breakdown will go through the roster in mostly alphabetical order, (at least) two per day, between...
Tim Benz, Mark Madden discuss Pirates disaster vs. Cubs, Penguins chemistry, NFL schedule
In this week’s “Madden Monday” podcast, Tim Benz and Mark Madden take a look at what went wrong with the Pirates during their disastrous series in Chicago to start the second half of the season. Not only did the Pirates come out of the All-Star break cold, they helped the...
Tim Benz: The potential issues that make NFL’s 18-game plan terrible
In recent days. there has been increased discussion over the prospect of an 18-16 split for the NFL regular season. In other words, every team would play 18 games. But individual players would be forced to sit out two of them. The hope is that the league could increase revenue...
Tim Benz: Penguins going younger, faster to mask issues on defense
This is the third of our five posts examining the “money quotes” from Mike Sullivan’s interview on 105.9 the X with Mark Madden last week. This entry looks at an admission from Sullivan about his team. Two, actually. Frankly, neither is groundbreaking. More or less, both corroborate opinions that many...
Simon Pagenaud wins IndyCar race in Toronto, his third victory of season
TORONTO — Simon Pagenaud won his third race of the season, and Alexander Rossi tightened the championship race with Josef Newgarden in IndyCar’s Sunday race through the streets of Toronto. The win on the streets around Exhibition Place is the first for Pagenaud this year away from Indianapolis Motor Speedway....
NFL opens academy in London, Steelers’ JuJu Smith-Schuster helps
LONDON — For the past three years, the only way Sergei Starodoubtsev experienced the NFL was by watching highlights of JuJu Smith-Schuster and other players on Instagram. That the 17-year-old found himself sharing a field with the Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver — he was the one in workout clothes, not...
Former NFL QB Ryan Leaf heading to ESPN broadcast booth
Ryan Leaf has been hired by ESPN to be a college football analyst, another step in the remarkable comeback of the former Washington State star who has battled drug addiction and served time in prison. Leaf will be paired with play-by-play announcer Clay Matvick and mostly will call games on...
South Korea’s Sei Young Kim wins LPGA Marathon Classic
SYLVANIA, Ohio — Sei Young Kim won the Marathon Classic on Sunday for her second LPGA Tour victory of the season, making five straight birdies in a mid-round burst and shooting a 6-under-par 65 for a two-stroke victory over Lexi Thompson. Kim began the birdie run on No. 7 and...
Retief Goosen wins Bridgestone Senior Players for 1st Champions title
AKRON, Ohio — Retief Goosen birdied the final two holes to win the Bridgestone Senior Players Championship on Sunday at Firestone Country Club for his first PGA Tour Champions title. The 50-year-old Hall of Famer from South Africa broke a tie for the lead with a 15-foot putt on the...
Dylan Frittelli earns 1st PGA win at John Deere Classic
SILVIS, Ill. — While the rest of the leaders faltered, Dylan Frittelli surged to his first PGA Tour title. Frittelli won the John Deere Classic on Sunday, closing with a 7-under-par 64 for a two-stroke victory over Russell Henley. The South African earned a spot next week in the British...
Mark Goetz breezes to first Westmoreland County Amateur golf title
Mark Goetz began Sunday’s final round of the 52nd annual Westmoreland County Amateur with a seemingly comfortable five-shot lead. But a problem on the third hole at Totteridge Golf Course near Hannastown gave hope for the rest of the field. Goetz, a Greensburg native and rising junior at West Virginia,...
After a Tour de France on TV, Thibaut Pinot looms large in picture
BRIOUDE, France — Like a lost love, the Tour de France gains in value for riders who can’t race in it. That was the lesson Thibaut Pinot learned last year when the French rider, who’d fallen sick at the Giro d’Italia in May, then missed the Tour and watched on...
Lewis Hamilton wins record 6th British GP, extends F1 leadVideo
SILVERSTONE, England — A day of dramatic English sporting glory began with a far more fortuitous — but still record-breaking — victory for Lewis Hamilton on the nation’s Formula One track. A sixth British Grand Prix success was sealed not with a thrilling overtaking move but by a canny pit...
