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Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff, dies at 88
Opener vs. Todd Haley’s Bandits highlight Pittsburgh Maulers’ 10-game schedule
A primetime opener against a team coached by former Pittsburgh Steelers offensive coordinator Todd Haley highlights the schedule for the Pittsburgh Maulers’ inaugural season in the re-launched USFL. The Maulers will play Haley’s Tampa Bay Bandits in an 8 p.m. kickoff April 17, the final game of the opening weekend...
9 Penn State, 6 Pitt wrestlers qualify for NCAAs after conference tournaments
Through performances at their respective conference tournaments, Pitt and Penn State combined to qualify 15 wrestlers for the NCAA championships to be held later this month. Nine Nittany Lions and six Panthers assured themselves participation in the event March 17-19, in Detroit. Among Pitt’s six qualifiers from this past weekend’s...
Steelers neurosurgeon Dr. Joseph Maroon recognized with research award
Dr. Joseph Maroon can add a prestigious research award to a résumé that includes 38 years as a neurosurgeon for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Maroon was given the Arthur C. Rettig Award for Academic Excellence, it was announced Friday, in recognition of research he presented at the NFL Physicians Society meeting...
Mason Rudolph expects Steelers offense to change in 2022 to better suit his style 
The Pittsburgh Steelers’ offense will feature more under-center, play-action and downfield passing in Year 2 under coordinator Matt Canada, quarterback Mason Rudolph said on a national radio show Friday. “There were some concepts that Ben (Roethlisberger) had ran and Ben had been comfortable with for 10 years,” Rudolph said of...
Penguins notes: Penalty kill settling down after worst stretch of season
Through the first 50 games, the Pittsburgh Penguins hadn’t allowed as many as four opponent power-play goals over any six-game stretch all season. So when Toronto, Carolina and New Jersey combined for four power-play goals over a recent three-game span, coach Mike Sullivan took notice. “We went through a rough...
Penguins’ Kris Letang not focused on pending free agency, rumors of departure
Kris Letang didn’t deny he is aware of it. But to him, it’s nothing new. The veteran defenseman’s eight-year contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins expires this summer, leading to plenty of “noise” in the form of rumors his tenure with the team will, too. “I mean, that noise has been...
Call it a ‘measuring stick’ or not, Penguins prep for tough stretch vs. NHL’s top teams
Perhaps it was an ESPN “power ranking” published a few hours earlier that pegged the Pittsburgh Penguins as the sixth-best team in the Eastern Conference. Or maybe Kris Letang recently had been informed sportsbooks are giving the Tampa Bay Lightning and Florida Panthers at least twice as good of odds...
In playing at Pitt, Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski recalls family ties to Western Pa.
There’s plenty to hold Mike Krzyzewski’s attention these days. The ACC regular-season title that the Duke team he coaches just won. The looming end of a 47-year Hall of Fame career. The upcoming conference and NCAA tournaments. An emotional final game at Cameron Indoor Stadium against rival North Carolina on...
Family of member of Pitt’s 1974 Elite 8 team Tom Richards donates $5 million to Pitt athletics
The grand lobby at the entrance to the Petersen Events Center has been renamed the Thomas E. Richards Family lobby in honor of the member of Pitt’s 1974 Elite Eight team who later became chair of the university’s board of trustees. Richards died in October, and his wife, Mary Beth,...
Pitt, coach Jeff Capel honor Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski with gift, video tribute 
In the minutes before his team began figuratively pounding Pitt into submission, Mike Krzyzewski was presented with a literal iron fist. True to form for a man whose soft-spoken and unobtrusive demeanor belies his status as a colossal basketball icon, Krzyzewski appeared choked up by the gesture. Tuesday night’s game...
Emotion of final home game can wait for Duke’s Coach K, who won’t look past Pitt
Mike Krzyzewski has spent more than 800 weeks as a college basketball head coach, logging 1,560 games on the sidelines. It was posited to him Monday that none of those prior weeks will be as emotional for him than this one. Nor that any previous game might pull at his...
Strong play down stretch makes Steelers’ decision tougher for free agent Ahkello Witherspoon
Unless he re-signs with the Pittsburgh Steelers, it’s possible Ahkello Witherspoon by the end of March will join a fourth NFL team over a 13-month span. The five-year NFL veteran cornerback was asked last month about his interest in putting down some roots with the Steelers. “I think I enjoyed...
Keep ’em? Let ’em walk? Making a case for each of the Steelers’ pending free agents
The Pittsburgh Steelers are in a much better spot with the salary cap now than they were a year ago when they lost five starters to free agency. Ben Roethlisberger’s salary is off the books, and the league-wide cap is bloated as the revenue-sapping effects of covid diminish. The Steelers...
Steelers confirm 4 more candidates interviewed for GM job
Add four names to the list of candidates interviewed by the Pittsburgh Steelers to be the organization’s next general manager. The team’s verified Twitter account revealed Friday evening that Green Bay Packers co-director of player personnel John Wojciechowski, Indianapolis Colts college scouting director Morocco Brown, Carolina Panthers assistant GM Dan...
After near-historic rookie season, Steelers TE Pat Freiermuth vows improvement in Year 2
Before taking the field of the Hall of Fame Game in August, Pat Freiermuth had been limited to four live football games over the previous 20 months. He would play in 21 over the ensuing 23 weeks. That’s almost as many as he played throughout the entirety of his career...
USFL reveals Pittsburgh Maulers uniforms
The rebooted Pittsburgh Maulers have their updated, modern-style fashion uniforms. One of eight teams in the United States Football League’s return this spring, the Maulers share a name and purple-and-orange color scheme with their forerunners who played one season as part of the original USFL in 1984. But the new...
Steelers name Pat Meyer as new offensive line coach
For the second time in a week, the Pittsburgh Steelers filled an open position on their offensive coaching staff with a former Carolina Panthers assistant. On Tuesday, the Steelers announced the hiring of Pat Meyer as offensive line coach. On Feb. 8, the Steelers named Frisman Jackson their wide receivers...
Cameron Sutton evolved into every-down leader for Steelers in ‘21
Throughout his NFL career, Cameron Sutton has been the man who could do everything for the Pittsburgh Steelers. It wasn’t until Year 5, though, when Sutton did do everything for them, and on a full-time basis. Only one Steelers player (Terrell Edmunds) was on the field more often during the...
The longshot Steelers? Only 7 teams have worse odds to win next year’s Super Bowl
The end of the Super Bowl means the NFL world is already looking forward to next year’s championship. Locally, they might not like what they see. The odds for who will win Super Bowl LVII are out — and they aren’t kind to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Only seven of the...
Ben Roethlisberger’s career highlights span more than 2 decades
1997-2000 Benjamin Todd Roethlisberger stars in three sports at Findlay High School in his native northwest Ohio hometown. He did not start at quarterback until his senior season, after the head coach’s son had graduated. 2000-03 In part because of his limited high school game exposure, big-time college programs bypass...
The ‘other’ veteran leader who might’ve played his last game for the Steelers: Joe Haden
Last month, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ oldest, most veteran NFL player got plenty of attention while playing his final games. But what about the team’s second-oldest and second-most tenured NFL player who was still active at the end of the 2021 season? His Steelers career also very well could have come...
Was Trai Turner’s first season with the Steelers also his last?
Trai Turner joined the Pittsburgh Steelers in June. Was he done with them by January? Turner during the 2021 season dutifully filled his designated role as starting right guard and steadying veteran presence for a young offensive line. But he played under a one-year contract which, by its nature, suggests...
Steelers president Art Rooney II addresses progress, shortcomings with Rooney Rule
For all of the philanthropic efforts Dan Rooney was involved in over a lifetime of roles with the Pittsburgh Steelers, perhaps no part of the late Steelers patriarch’s legacy will endure more than the NFL rule that bears his name. But nowadays, despite being regarded as having the best of...
With Mike Munchak on the market, interim Steelers OL coach Chris Morgan leaves for Bears
The Pittsburgh Steelers soon will have their fifth offensive line coach since January 2019. Or maybe could it, perhaps, be an old name to fill the newest incarnation of the job’s opening? Chris Morgan, the Steelers’ assistant O-line coach in 2021 who filled in as the top position coach late...
Diontae Johnson is their No. 1 WR, but will Steelers give him an extension like one?
Through Christmas Day, the Pittsburgh Steelers had to be feeling merry about the future of the top of their wide receivers corps. Diontae Johnson had established himself as a legitimate NFL No. 1 WR, and at the perfect time, too, seeing as how he was due for a contract extension...


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