NCAA, Pittsburgh, Sports
November 29, 2025
By JUSTIN GUERRIERO TribLive As Pitt reached its critical end-of-season juncture, closing out the year against three straight ranked opponents, it began without the steady services of kicker Trey Butk...
Steelers preparing for NFL’s ‘superhero’
NFL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By JOE RUTTER TribLive 
November 28, 2025
Controlling Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen will be the priority in Sunday’s gameplan. The defending NFL MVP is visiting Acrisure Stadium on Sunday and, for once, it’s not Lamar Jackson or even Patrick...
Rodgers returns to practice as full participant
NFL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By JOE RUTTER TribLive 
November 28, 2025
He wore a wrap on his broken left wrist and hopes to play Sunday vs. Buffalo. Sporting a new black wrap on his fractured left wrist, Aaron Rodgers was a full participant in practice Thursday for the P...
Penguins get back on winning track with festive but imperfect victory over Sabres
NHL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
November 28, 2025
Goaltender Tristan Jarry was “awesome” with 29 saves in the 4-2 victory. The Pittsburgh Penguins enjoyed one of their most buoyant crowds of the season at PPG Paints Arena on Wednesday as they hosted ...
NCAA, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By JUSTIN GUERRIERO TribLive 
November 28, 2025
As Pitt reached its critical end-of-season juncture, closing out the year against three straight ranked opponents, it began without the steady services of kicker Trey Butkowski. Butkowski, a true fres...
Kindel sits as part of a development plan for rookie
NHL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
November 28, 2025
Of the league-leading nine rookies the Pittsburgh Penguins have played this season, forward Ben Kindel leads the pack with 18 games. At all of 18 years of age, Kindel isn’t exactly the graybeard of th...
Bucs have ‘resources to add aggressively’
MLB, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By KEVIN GORMAN TribLive 
November 26, 2025
Travis Williams smiled in the face of a steady rain before distributing Thanksgiving dinners Tuesday outside PNC Park, reiterating that the Pittsburgh Pirates have changed neither their expectations n...
Hines Ward reaches semifinalist round
NFL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By JOE RUTTER TribLive 
November 26, 2025
Hines Ward again has reached the semifinal round in Pro Football Hall of Fame balloting. Other eligible members of the Pittsburgh Steelers weren’t as fortunate. Maurkice Pouncey, James Harrison and Ga...
Turner’s potential only beginning to show
NCAA, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By JUSTIN GUERRIERO TribLive 
November 26, 2025
A few weeks ago, Mason Heintschel didn’t fully know how to respond when asked why no Power Four programs, save for Pitt, offered him a scholarship as a high school recruit. Seven starts into his colle...
Skenes receives record $3.4M in bonus pool
MLB, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer 
November 26, 2025
Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes will receive a record $3,436,343 from this year’s pre-arbitration bonus pool, raising his two-year total to $5,588,400 under the initiative to direct more money ...
Tomlin has ‘optimism’ Rodgers will return for Bills
NFL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By JOE RUTTER TribLive 
November 26, 2025
Aaron Rodgers will begin the week as a limited practice participant, but coach Mike Tomlin is expecting the 41-year-old quarterback to be ready Sunday when the Pittsburgh Steelers play the Buffalo Bil...
Lovelace shows he can play with the best linebackers
NCAA, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By JUSTIN GUERRIERO TribLive 
November 26, 2025
Braylan Lovelace entered this season already having proven himself as a valuable contributor at Pitt. In 2024, the Leechburg grad thrived as a rotational member of the Panthers’ linebacking corps, pos...
For sagging Steelers, devil is in the details
NFL, Pittsburgh, Sports
November 25, 2025
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mike Tomlin thrives living on the margins. The Pittsburgh Steelers coach loves it when things get “thick,” to borrow one of his favorite words. Things have rarely been murkier during...
Anderson ready if Broderick Jones can’t go
NFL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By CHRIS ADAMSKI AP 
November 25, 2025
TribLive For the first time in five years, Calvin Anderson began the 2024 regular season not on an NFL roster. He ended the season as the Steelers left tackle in a playoff game. A six-year NFL veteran...
With Aaron Rodgers sidelined, Mason Rudolph and Steelers fall short
NFL, Pittsburgh, Sports
November 25, 2025
CHICAGO (AP) — On this trip to Chicago, Aaron Rodgers was just a spectator at Soldier Field. Mason Rudolph tried to rally Pittsburgh to a late win, but it didn’t work out. Rodgers might own the Bears,...
Steelers stay positive after losing AFC North lead
NFL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By CHRIS ADAMSKI TribLive 
November 25, 2025
Last season as he celebrated Thanksgiving, Brandin Echols was playing for a 3-9 football team. The year before that, a Black Friday defeat dropped his team to 4-7. As a rookie in 2021, if Echols, like...
Pitt upset by hot-shooting Quinnipiac
NCAA, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By JUSTIN GUERRIERO TribLive 
November 25, 2025
Pitt’s two games against Power Five opponents this season — West Virginia and Central Florida — resulted in double-digit losses. However disappointing those defeats were, the Panthers were at least ha...
Penguins’ McGroarty happy to be healthy and playing
NHL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
November 25, 2025
Sure, getting a goal has its obvious appeal. But for Rutger McGroarty, there was a much more basic, primal reason to celebrate. He was simply playing hockey again. One of the top prospects in the Pitt...
Bears still ‘bad news’
High school, NFL, Pittsburgh, ...
SPORTLIGHT
By By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports 
November 24, 2025
Clairton has won so often and in such dominating fashion over the years, that sometimes when they win, it can feel like a loss. The Bears, who have been “Bad News” for the opposition for over two deca...
Williams throws for 3TDs as Bears beat Rudolph, Steelers
NFL, Pittsburgh, Sports
November 24, 2025
CHICAGO (AP) — Caleb Williams threw for three touchdowns, and the Bears beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 31-28 in a matchup of division leaders on Sunday with Chicago’s old nemesis Aaron Rodgers sidelined...