Fans express anger at Pirates’ home opener
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By By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports 
April 7, 2025
Here’s a little food for thought after an Opening Day and Final Four weekend: • Seriously, how many of you expected the Pirate fans to roundly boo manager Derek Shelton like they did when he was annou...
Loss at Chicago ends Penguins’ playoff hopes
NHL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
April 7, 2025
Richard Rakell scored Pittsburgh’s only goal in a 3-1 defeat. The Pittsburgh Penguins will miss the playoffs for a third consecutive year. But unlike the previous two campaigns, their fate as it relat...
Former Steeler Ray Seals dies at 59
NFL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By JOE RUTTER TribLive 
April 7, 2025
Seals was part of the Super Bowl XXX team and reached the NFL without playing in college. Ray Seals, a standout defensive lineman who played for the Pittsburgh Steelers team that reached Super Bowl XX...
Keller can’t silence Yankees’ bats in home opener
MLB, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By JERRY DIPAOLA Trib Total Media 
April 5, 2025
Ke’Bryan Hayes and Bryan Reynolds homered for the Pirates in 9-4 loss. Mitch Keller’s shoulders remain strong in his seventh big-league season, but they don’t need to carry all the weight of the Pitts...
As fan angst boils, Pirates trying to stay the course
MLB, Pittsburgh, Sports
April 5, 2025
Boos were prevalent as Pittsburgh hosted the Yankees in Friday’s home opener. PITTSBURGH (AP) — Andrew McCutchen jogged out to the Clemente Wall in right field at PNC Park and tipped his cap to the fa...
Pitt’s Jaland Lowe enters transfer portal
NCAA, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By JERRY DIPAOLA TribLive 
April 5, 2025
A bad piece of offseason news struck Pitt basketball Tuesday morning when sophomore point guard Jaland Lowe announced his intention to enter the NCAA transfer portal, a source told Trib-Live. If he le...
Pirates shake up roster before home opener
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By By KEVIN GORMAN TribLive 
April 4, 2025
Newly acquired outfielder Alexander Canario was added to the 26-man roster, while Ji Hwan Bae was sent to the minors and Jason Delay was traded. The Pittsburgh Pirates made multiple roster moves ahead...
Steelers lighten schedule for spring practice
NFL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By CHRIS ADAMSKI TribLive 
April 4, 2025
The mostly non-mandatory sessions will begin April 21. The announcement of the offseason workout schedule was a little bit lighter this year for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Via an NFL release, the Steele...
Penguins drop overtime decision at St. Louis
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By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
April 4, 2025
Robert Thomas’ power play goal was the gamewinner as the Blues won their 11th straight. Of their limited accomplishments this season, the Pittsburgh Penguins can boast they are the last team to have d...
Penguins have no shortage of goaltending prospects
NHL, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
April 4, 2025
Joel Blomqvist is probably the most accomplished goaltender the Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton Penguins have on their roster. At least at the American Hockey League level. An All-Star during the 2023-24 seaso...
Can Pirates torpedo Yankees’ record-setting blasts with new bats?
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By By KEVIN GORMAN TribLive 
April 4, 2025
Torpedo bats are the talk of baseball, thanks to the number of New York Yankees using them while smashing records in the opening weekend. The Yankees hit nine home runs against the Milwaukee Brewers i...
Steelers announce partnership with German soccer club
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By By CHRIS ADAMSKI TribLive 
April 4, 2025
Black and gold are uniting from across the pond. The Pittsburgh Steelers and German soccer club Borussia Dortmund announced a partnership Thursday that binds two prominent, blackand- gold wearing “foo...
Skenes helps Pirates snap 4-game losing skid
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By By KEVIN GORMAN TribLive 
April 3, 2025
Paul Skenes threw seven strong innings as Pittsburgh beat Tampa Bay, 4-2. Looking to snap a four-game losing streak, the Pittsburgh Pirates needed Paul Skenes to stand tall and serve as the stopper. T...
Jarry wants to remain in the Penguins’ picture
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By By SETH RORABAUGH TribLive 
April 3, 2025
Monday was picture day for the Pittsburgh Penguins. Members of the roster and employees of the franchise lumbered onto the ice at PPG Paints Arena. Some stood on top of risers while others sat in fold...
One pre-draft goal should exist for Omar Khan
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By By TIM BENZ TribLive 
April 2, 2025
Pittsburgh Steelers general manager Omar Khan said so little in his media Q&A at the NFL league meetings in Florida on Monday that he made Mike Tomlin’s comments on Sunday read like a State of the Uni...
Despite gaffes, Pirates lead MLB in stolen bases
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By By JUSTIN GUERRIERO TribLive 
April 2, 2025
The 2025 Pittsburgh Pirates are not off to a hot start. Following Monday evening’s 6-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays, the Pirates are 1-4, having dropped three of four contests in their season-opening se...
Pitt hopefuls grind in Pro Day
NCAA, Pittsburgh, Sports
By By JERRY DIPAOLA TribLive 
March 28, 2025
Former Pitt safety P.J. O’Brien started playing football at the age of 3 in a league called Super Pee Wee in Pompano Beach, Fla. And there he was Wednesday — 19 years later — still chasing footballs, ...
Pitt players, coaches carry on after Alexander’s death
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By By JERRY DIPAOLA TribLive 
March 12, 2025
Pat Narduzzi opened practice Tuesday in the same manner that marked his 10 previous spring sessions as Pitt’s head football coach. There were the usual calisthentics, drills and meetings on and off th...
Hayes says he’s nearly pain free after back injury cost him 2024
MLB, Pittsburgh, Sports
February 13, 2025
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — Ke’Bryan Hayes is not entirely pain free. The Pittsburgh Pirates third baseman knows he may never be. Yet the doubt that crept into the former Gold Glove winner last fall as he ...
Fields, not Wilson, is greatest source of intrigue from Steelers QB reports
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By By TIM BENZ Trib Total Media 
February 13, 2025
When Fox’s Jay Glazer threw a log on the fire of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ offseason quarterback conversation last week, I got the impression a lot of us were talking about the wrong part of what he sa...