When the Frontier League season begins in May, the independent baseball league will have a very different look. With the addition of five former Can-Am League teams, and the disbanding of the 2019 champion River City Rascals, the league has expanded to 14 teams in two countries.
PITTSBURGH – Pittsburgh running back James Conner’s aching right shoulder will keep him out of the lineup for a third straight game when the surging Steelers visit the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday.
While Tom Brady and Drew Brees pursue Peyton Manning, Devlin Hodges is chasing Ed Rubbert.
PITTSBURGH – Derek Shelton’s garage is clean, the byproduct of the Pittsburgh Pirates’ drawn out managerial hiring process, one that took extended after the club fired general manager Neal Huntington in late October.
PITTSBURGH – Maurkice Pouncey is free to get back to work. The Pittsburgh Steelers center is also free of regrets.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Stefan Noesen celebrated his return to the NHL with his first goal of the season and the banged up Pittsburgh Penguins handed the St. Louis Blues their first regulation road loss since before Halloween with a 3-0 victory on Wednesday night.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The Ron Rivera era has come to an abrupt end in Carolina.
BEREA, Ohio – Cleveland Browns coach Freddie Kitchens swears he’s not anxious about his fashion choices or future.
PITTSBURGH – James Washington knew what was coming. It’s why the Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver didn’t hesitate when he saw the Cleveland Browns jump offside early in the second quarter on Sunday.
Marc-Andre Fleury plays when he’s told.
PITTSBURGH – No fighting. No helmet swinging. Barely any trash talking. Just football.
Andy Dalton returned from his three-week exile Sunday and got a long-awaited win for the coach who benched him, throwing a touchdown pass during a 22-6 victory over the New York Jets that ended the longest losing streak in Cincinnati Bengals history.
The Steelers and Cleveland Browns meet again, this time at Heinz Field with playoff implications on the line.
ST. LOUIS – Justin Faulk and Nathan Walker each scored for the first time with the Blues, and St. Louis beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-2 on Saturday night.
James Conner will likely miss his fourth game in the past five when the Steelers host the Browns today. And even in the game in which he played during that stretch, he lasted less than a quarter before tapping out.
PITTSBURGH – Soon after walking into the Pittsburgh Steelers’ locker room after an abbreviated and earlier-than-usual practice Thursday, Mason Rudolph joked with teammates about their plans for Thanksgiving dinner.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Gustav Nyquist scored three times to help the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-2 on Friday night.
Bill Peters resigned as coach of the Calgary Flames on Friday after allegedly making racist slurs at a Nigerian-born player in the minors and kicking and punching players behind the bench during his time with Carolina.
BEREA, Ohio – Once among the NFL’s most heated rivalries, Browns vs. Steelers has grown considerably warmer, stoked by a now infamous benches-clearing brawl earlier this month.
DETROIT – Mitchell Trubisky started and closed strong to overcome some shaky decisions and plays in between to keep the Chicago Bears in the NFC playoff picture.
PITTSBURGH — Kris Letang capped a wild comeback, scoring the deciding goal with 3:06 to play, and the Pittsburgh Penguins rallied with six goals in the third period to beat the Vancouver Canucks 8-6 on Wednesday night.
PITTSBURGH – Devlin Hodges in. Mason Rudolph out.
CLEVELAND (AP) – Browns defensive tackle Larry Ogunjobi is back on the active roster after serving a one-game suspension for his involvement in the recent brawl with the Steelers.
PITTSBURGH – Mason Rudolph has the pedigree and the pressure. Devlin Hodges has the charisma and the confidence.
CINCINNATI – Devlin “Duck” Hodges took over for struggling Mason Rudolph and threw a 79-yard touchdown pass Sunday, sparking the depleted Pittsburgh Steelers to a 16-10 victory that kept the Cincinnati Bengals the only winless team in the NFL.
Dale Lolley covers the Steelers for DKPittsburghSports.com and writes a Sunday column for the Observer-Reporter.
BEREA, Ohio – Cleveland Browns wide receiver Jarvis Landry called the NFL for two penalties – false start and illegal procedure in its handling of Myles Garrett’s suspension.
CLEVELAND – Myles Garrett’s goal was to be NFL’s top defensive player this season. He won’t finish it.
Former Minnesota Vikings kicker Fred Cox, a Monongahela native and one of the last straight-on placekickers died Wednesday. He was 80.
PITTSBURGH – The on-field fight between Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph and Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett has turned into a war of words off it, with Rudolph denying an anonymous report alleging he used a racial slur shortly before their now infamous confrontatio…
CINCINNATI – Andy Dalton could barely protect himself as the Steelers poured through the line, sacking him eight times at Heinz Field in September – one of the quarterback’s worst moments in a nine-year career.
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. – Le’Veon Bell is throwing a flag on the NFL’s drug testing policy.
PITTSBURGH – Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph wanted to get away from Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett.
Myles Garrett looked composed and casual, a stark contrast to the last time he was seen in public.
PITTSBURGH – Steelers coach Mike Tomlin accepted his team’s role in the now-infamous fight last Thursday night that ended with Cleveland defensive end Myles Garrett hitting Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph in the head with Rudolph’s own helmet.
PITTSBURGH – The chaotic ending will live on in infamy. The carnage that came before it, however, could have just as significant an impact on the Pittsburgh Steelers’ season.
PITTSBURGH – Ben Cherington earned three World Series rings with the Boston Red Sox, the last as general manager of the 2013 club that raced from worst to first.
BEREA, Ohio – On a shelf in his locker just below where Myles Garrett keeps his collection of miniature model dinosaurs, his orange helmet sat unused.
HOMESTEAD, Fla. – Kyle Busch casually collected the championship flag from his team and did a slow, subdued celebratory lap. The most polarizing driver in NASCAR had just won his second Cup title and wanted to soak in the moment with his true fans.
The Minnesota Vikings erased a 20-0 halftime deficit with touchdowns on each of their four drives in the second half, fending off the Denver Broncos by forcing three straight incomplete passes in the end zone over the final 10 seconds to preserve a 27-23 victory on Sunday.
CLEVELAND – Myles Garrett will soon learn when he can play again.
PITTSBURGH – Dominik Kahun scored two goals and the Pittsburgh Penguins routed the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-1 on Saturday night.
Maybe it’s time to break up the AFC North.
CLEVELAND – Myles Garrett is done playing for the Cleveland Browns this season. The NFL isn’t saying when the star defensive end will play again.
PITTSBURGH – Penguins star Sidney Crosby will be out at least six weeks after what the team said was a successful core muscle injury repair Thursday.
CLEVELAND – Separated by roughly 130 miles and six Super Bowl titles, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns have a hostile, historic rivalry resuscitated from being heavily one-sided to much more competitive the past few years.
NEW YORK – Justin Verlander has a second AL Cy Young Award – and a clear path paved toward Cooperstown.
PITTSBURGH – The ball left Jared Goff’s hands and fluttered to the ground. And for a split second, everyone around Minkah Fitzpatrick eased up. Not Fitzpatrick. Easing up isn’t really his thing.
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby will miss Tuesday night’s game against the Rangers because of an undisclosed injury.
PITTSBURGH – The Steelers defense spoiled Aaron Donald’s homecoming and derailed the Los Angeles Rams’ momentum in the process.
AVONDALE, Ariz. – Denny Hamlin adamantly insisted ‘it’s not over” after a critical mistake last week put the Daytona 500 winner on the verge of elimination from NASCAR’s championship race.
Ryan Tannehill threw a 23-yard touchdown to Adam Humphries with 23 seconds left, and the Tennessee Titans blocked a last-second field goal attempt to beat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-32 to spoil the return of NFL MVP Patrick Mahomes.
DENVER – Von Miller swears he has seen the future of football in Lamar Jackson , who is revolutionizing the quarterback position in the NFL’s 100th season.
NEW YORK – Bryan Rust scored his second goal of the game in overtime and the Pittsburgh Penguins rallied past the Islanders 4-3 on Thursday night in Brooklyn to end New York’s 10-game winning streak.
PITTSBURGH – The trappings of success have not changed Aaron Donald. Not the millions he’s made. Not the honors he’s won. Not the endless Southern California sunshine or the potentially intoxicating celebrity that comes with making it big in Los Angeles.
PITTSBURGH – For years, Bud Dupree and Cam Heyward would talk about getting together to train during the offseason. The discussion was always vague. No specifics or firm commitments. Then the months would pass, January would become April would become June and the chance for the longtime Pitt…
How’s that Minkah Fitzpatrick trade looking now?
