Captains named for 2025 season
NFL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By CHRIS ADAMSKI TribLive 
September 2, 2025
Reflecting the veteran nature of the roster, the men sharing captaincy for the 2025 Pittsburgh Steelers aren’t lacking in experience. The four players announced Monday as those voted by their peers to...
MLB, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By KEVIN GORMAN TribLive 
September 2, 2025
When Ben Cherington revealed on his weekly radio show that the Pittsburgh Pirates were adding a player to their taxi squad, the general manager was anticipating that they could need an extra player fo...
NCAA, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By JUSTIN GUERRIERO TribLive 
September 2, 2025
In the aftermath of Pitt’s season-opening 61-9 win over Duquesne on Saturday, coach Pat Narduzzi had little reason to be dissatisfied. His Panthers won and did so convincingly, pounding their Football...
Pitt rebounds to beat TCU at PPG Paints Arena
NCAA, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By JOSH RIZZO TribLive 
September 2, 2025
The Pitt women’s volleyball team is working on recapturing its ruthless nature that took the Panthers to the national semifinals of the previous four NCAA Division I tournaments. Redshirt junior middl...
NFL, Pittsburgh, Sports
August 30, 2025
Pittsburgh Steelers Last season: 10-8 Expectations The quarterbacks seem to change in Pittsburgh at an alarming rate, but the expectations do not. The Steelers opted not to retain Russell Wilson or Ju...
NFL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By CHRIS ADAMSKI TribLive 
August 30, 2025
A reasonable case can be made that T.J. Watt is the NFL’s best edge defender of his era. A similarly rational argument could be posited that Watt and Alex Highsmith form the NFL’s best tandem of pass ...
Pirates using competition for young pitchers
MLB, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By KEVIN GORMAN TribLive 
August 30, 2025
By treating every outing as an opportunity to earn a start, the Pittsburgh Pirates have gone from using creativity with their young pitchers into creating competition for the starting rotation. Whethe...
Panthers hope to test depth against Duquesne
NCAA, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By GREG MACAFEE TribLive 
August 30, 2025
Coach Pat Narduzzi and the Pitt Panthers won’t be taking Duquesne lightly when the two square off at noon Saturday at Acrisure Stadium in the first City Game since 1939, but they are still looking to ...
Late homer gives Cards series split
MLB, Pittsburgh, Sports
August 29, 2025
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Thomas Saggese hit a go-ahead RBI double and Jordan Walker homered in a three-run seventh inning to help the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-1 on Thursday. Miles Mik...
RMU ready for all challengers, starting with WVU
NCAA, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By ANTONIO ROSETTI TribLive 
August 29, 2025
Robert Morris returned to the Northeast Conference to reestablish itself amongst rivals. The Colonials were in the conference from 1996 to 2019 and went 4-2 in the NEC last season for a 7-5 overall re...
Pham’s 2-run single leads Pirates to season-series win over Cards
MLB, Pittsburgh, Sports
August 28, 2025
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Tommy Pham hit a two-run single in the sixth inning to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 2-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday night. The highly-touted Bubba Chandler (...
Quarterbacks give AFC North a new look
NFL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer 
August 28, 2025
Two years after the entire AFC North finished with a winning record, the division’s depth looks a lot more shaky. The explanation is simple: Two teams have top-tier quarterbacks, one very clearly does...
Pirates will begin 2026 season in New York
MLB, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By JUSTIN GUERRIERO TribLive 
August 28, 2025
The Pittsburgh Pirates released their 2026 schedule Tuesday afternoon, which will begin with a three-game series on the road vs. the New York Mets from March 26-29. March 26 is the earliest start date...
Panthers see benefits in opening with Duquesne
NCAA, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By TIM BENZ TribLive 
August 28, 2025
The countdown clock in the Pitt practice facility hit exactly four days, zero minutes, zero seconds, just a few moments before linebacker Kyle Louis walked in for his interview session with local repo...
NFL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By JOE RUTTER TribLive 
August 28, 2025
A day after the Pittsburgh Steelers unveiled their initial 53-man roster, players on the proverbial bubble expressed emotions that varied about as much as their skill sets. For seventh-round draft pic...
Steelers keep four quarterbacks on the roster
NFL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By JOE RUTTER TribLive 
August 27, 2025
In the end, the Pittsburgh Steelers didn’t choose between Skylar Thompson and Will Howard as the final quarterback on the 53-man roster. They kept both, giving them four players at the position on the...
Penguins will relaunch franchise Hall of Fame
NHL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
August 27, 2025
The past dozen years or so have been eventful for the Pittsburgh Penguins. There have been a pair of Stanley Cup championships, a gaggle of blockbuster trades, a handful of general managers and even a...
Skenes focused on performance, not Cy Young
MLB, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By KEVIN GORMAN TribLive 
August 26, 2025
Paul Skenes is willing to give everything he has to be the best pitcher in baseball while simultaneously expending as little energy as possible thinking about winning the National League Cy Young Awar...
‘Weathered’ Dukes embrace challenge of Pitt at Acrisure
NCAA, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By TIM BENZ TribLive 
August 26, 2025
A number of Mon Valley graduates will take the field for Duquesne when they play Pitt Saturday. Duquesne defensive lineman A.J. Ackerman remembers the first time we spoke about the topic. What’s the l...
Pirates blow 4-0 lead, fall on walk-off homer
MLB, Pittsburgh, Sports
August 26, 2025
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Alec Burleson hit a game-ending solo homer with two out in the ninth inning, lifting the St. Louis Cardinals to a 7-6 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday. Burleson drove an ...