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In case you needed a reminder: Billionaire Mark Cuban is not buying his hometown Pittsburgh Pirates. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not ever. The topic came, yet again, Wednesday after the Pirates collapsed in epic fashion, blowing a 10-3 lead to the Chicago Cubs en route to a 14-10 loss. Pittsburgh...

Robert Morris finished its last football season in the Big South with a 2-4 record and a 4-7 mark overall. The Colonials will look for better results this season as they return to the NEC, a conference they helped start in 1996. The Colonials finished 6-1 in the NEC in...

Half of the allotted 16 practice squad spots were filled Thursday by the Pittsburgh Steelers when they brought back eight players who were on their roster in training camp and the preseason. Returning to the organization are three defensive backs: Thomas Graham Jr., who competed for the starting slot corner...

In the past two NFL Draft classes, the Pittsburgh Steelers have used five of 14 picks to address the offensive line. When the regular season opens Sept. 8 in Atlanta, all five of those prospects could be starting or playing supporting roles. The Steelers surely didn’t script it that way...

Redshirt freshman Eli Holstein will be the starting quarterback for the first snaps of Pitt’s football season when the Panthers meet Kent State at noon Saturday, coach Pat Narduzzi said Thursday. The Alabama transfer was named Pitt’s starting quarterback, though incumbent Nate Yarnell also will play, Narduzzi said. That division...

Drew Allar remembers Penn State football’s highly-rated 2022 recruiting class being a “super-tight group” from the very beginning. Allar, the five-star quarterback and headliner of the class, verbally committed three years ago, back in March 2021. He and the rest of the commits formed a “close connection,” one they used...

Today’s “On Sports” highlights a list of the NHL’s top players, which has a lack of Pittsburgh Penguins, as well as practice squad news from around the NFL, but not with the Steelers. Lacking Penguins After consecutive non-playoff seasons, maybe the problem with the Pittsburgh Penguins isn’t special teams or...

There was a stunned silence in the home clubhouse as Pittsburgh Pirates players packed their equipment into travel bags Wednesday afternoon following a shellacking of a sweep by the Chicago Cubs. The Cubs didn’t just win a three-game series at PNC Park. They poured it on in every way imaginable,...

Two Pittsburgh topics dominated my social media interactions and my inbox this week: • Concern over the Steelers 0-3 preseason. • Oneil Cruz’s move to center field. I assume Penguins fans will start fretting about Sidney Crosby’s lack of a contract extension soon enough. But today is not that day....

INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 62-63) swept a doubleheader from Louisville (Reds), winning both games by a 2-1 score. In the first game, RHP Bubba Chandler (2-0, 1.17) started and went five innings, allowing one unearned run on three hits with two walks and five strikeouts. RHP Isaac Mattson (3.14) worked two perfect...

Pitt athletic director Heather Lyke was one of three candidates to become the next AD at Northwestern, but ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported Wednesday night that Villanova’s Mark Jackson has emerged from a field of three candidates. A deal between Jackson and Northwestern could be finalized soon, Thamel reported. The Chicago...

Last year, only two teams sat atop the Trib 10 power rankings throughout the season. Central Catholic was No. 1 from Week Zero through Week 6, and then Aliquippa took over the top spot and remained there the rest of the 2023 campaign. It’s a new season, but the Quips...

Duquesne’s football team is getting an early start on the season as it prepares to defend its Northeast Conference title. The Dukes open the 2024 campaign with a nonconference game at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Toledo. Led by two returning all-conference players and 11 starters overall, the Dukes again are...

The Pittsburgh Steelers’ first-round pick will be available for their first practice day of the regular season. Offensive tackle Troy Fautanu has been gradually ramping back up during practices this week, he confirmed Wednesday, as the training staff preps his injured left knee to allow Fautanu to practice fully after...

If you believe the old dictum that if you have two quarterbacks you really have none, perhaps you think Pat Narduzzi is wrong to take his two-headed quarterback derby into the season. After all, scrimmages are finished, experimentation is for training camp and game outcomes will matter starting Saturday when...

The Pittsburgh Pirates hit a new low — one they are hoping is rock bottom — by blowing a seven-run lead over the final three innings against the Chicago Cubs. Their decision to make a late-August position switch by moving Oneil Cruz to center field backfired when Christian Bethancourt hit...