Frostburg State knocks Cal (Pa.) out of NCAA Division II playoffs
Harrison Fritz capped a 15-play fourth-quarter drive with the go-ahead 20-yard field goal with 4:06 to play, giving Frostburg State a 23-21 victory over Cal (Pa.) in the second round of the NCAA Division II playoffs Saturday. Harry Radcliffe missed a 45-yard field goal attempt with 1:38 to go for...
No. 1 Ohio State beats No. 15 Michigan 27-9, sets up game with No. 2 Indiana for B10 title
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Julian Sayin threw three touchdown passes, including a 35-yarder to Jeremiah Smith on a fourth down in the second quarter, and No. 1 Ohio State beat No. 15 Michigan, 27-9, in a dominant performance Saturday. The defending national champion Buckeyes (12-0, 9-0 Big Ten, No. 1...
Morton throws for 3 TDs, LB Rodriguez scores on offense again and Texas Tech whips WVU 49-0
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Behren Morton threw for 310 yards and three touchdowns, linebacker Jacob Rodriguez scored his second offensive TD in as many games and No. 7 Texas Tech beat West Virginia, 49-0, on Saturday in the Red Raiders’ final tuneup before the Big 12 championship game. Texas Tech (11-1,...
Steelers left tackle Broderick Jones placed on injured reserve with neck injury
Until this weekend, Pittsburgh Steelers left tackle Broderick Jones had never missed an NFL game because of injury. On Saturday, it was revealed that he won’t play at least for the next month. The Steelers placed Jones on injured reserve with a neck injury, meaning he must sit out the...
No. 13 Miami beats Pitt handily in finale to spoil Panthers’ ACC title game hopes
The desired outcome of Pitt’s regular-season finale Saturday versus Miami would have seen the Panthers intently watching results around the ACC well into the evening. That’s because a win by Pitt against the 13th-ranked Hurricanes, coupled with a loss by either Virginia or SMU, constituted the Panthers’ route to the...
With stretch run approaching and Buffalo looming, Steelers want to ‘plant a flag’ in AFC North race
As December approaches, with one test remaining this month on the NFL calendar, the Pittsburgh Steelers are at a crossroads. With a 6-5 record, they sit atop the mediocre AFC North, a half-game ahead of the Baltimore Ravens. They resided in familiar territory a year ago only to have their...
Mark Madden’s Hot Take: Trading George Pickens was still the right move for Steelers
As the Pittsburgh Steelers stay embedded in the mushy middle with no escape in sight, the new blame-game sidebar is the trade of wideout George Pickens to the Dallas Cowboys for two draft picks this past offseason, that the Steelers shouldn’t have done it. Pickens is having a great year...
Desmond Reid, Trey Butkowski active for Pitt vs. Miami; Panthers announce Senior Day participants
Pitt’s final player availability report ahead of kickoff Saturday vs. No. 13 Miami contained several pieces of good news for the 24th-ranked Panthers. Carrying no injury designations were tailback Desmond Reid, kicker Trey Butkowski, offensive guard Ryan Carretta and defensive tackle Francis Brewus. Defensive tackle Sean FitzSimmons was listed as...
Steelers 4 Downs: Aaron Rodgers throwing short, shorter, shortest — and not downfield
1. No depth While much of the blame for the Pittsburgh Steelers’ defeat in Chicago last weekend has fallen at the feet of backup quarterback Mason Rudolph and his throw-short attack, the Steelers have been playing it safe in the passing game all season. No quarterback in the NFL has...
Scouting the Bills: Steelers opponent ranks among top 5 in NFL in points, yards
SCOUTING THE BILLS Last meeting Bills beat Steelers, 31-17, on Jan. 15, 2024, in Buffalo (playoffs). Key matchup Steelers ILBs vs. Bills QB Josh Allen Josh Allen figures to take over as the NFL’s leading rusher among quarterbacks with 13 yards Sunday. He would pass the recently benched Justin Fields...
Minor league report: Penguins’, Nailers’ winning streaks reach 3Video
A pair of goals by forward Rafael Harvey-Pinard led the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins to a 4-1 win against the rival Lehigh Valley Phantoms at Mohegan Arena in Wilkes-Barre on Friday. The result extended a winning streak to three games. Forward Philip Tomasino recorded two assists for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (15-4-1-0) while forwards Gabe...
Penguins win first overtime game this season, defeating Blue Jackets
The Pittsburgh Penguins won their first game beyond the bounds of regulation this season on Friday, defeating the Columbus Blue Jackets, 4-3, in overtime, at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. Entering the day, the Penguins were 0-2 in overtime and 0-3 in shootouts. On Friday, defenseman Kris Letang’s second goal...
Browns’ Myles Garrett thinking about when, not if, he will break sack record
Myles Garrett is not thinking about if he can break the NFL’s single-season sack record. The Cleveland Browns All-Pro pass rusher is convinced it’s a matter of when. Garrett leads the league with 18 sacks and needs five in Cleveland’s final six games to surpass the 22 1/2 by Pro...
Pitt hits late 3 to defeat Ohio State as time expires
“Polo! Polo!” The chants were loud, the cheers were real for Pitt’s Damarco Minor, the proud-talking fifth-year point guard they call “Polo,” who’s in his first season with the Panthers. Well, “Polo” just made a shot heard ’round Oakland. In just Minor’s eighth game at Pitt after spending a year...
Bears’ dominant rushing attack leads to their 5th straight win, 24-15 over reeling Eagles
PHILADELPHIA — Kyle Monangai rushed for 130 yards and a touchdown, D’Andre Swift ran for 125 yards and a score, and the Chicago Bears finished with 281 yards on the ground to win their fifth straight game, 24-15 over the reeling Philadelphia Eagles on Friday night. Led by rookie coach...
Cal (Pa.) football team returns home for 2nd round of playoffs
Cal (Pa.) will try to extend its postseason run Saturday when it hosts No. 24 Frostburg State in the second round of the NCAA Division II playoffs at noon at Adamson Stadium. The matchup marks the teams’ second meeting in four weeks and follows a dramatic opening-round win for the...
After fast start, Robert Morris holds off Southern Utah rally for victory in Urban-Bennett Classic
Robert Morris held off a second-half surge Friday to secure a 61-54 win over Southern Utah as part of the Urban-Bennett Invitational at UPMC Events Center. The Colonials’ first-half defense and quick start gave them enough of a cushion to earn the victory. RMU led the entire game, entering halftime...
Veteran Andrus Peat the surprise choice to start at left tackle for Steelers
He’s making his first start of the season in only his second game of 2025, and he’s doing so at a position he hasn’t started at during a regular-season game for almost two full years. And he’s doing it all while tasked with protecting the blind side of an injury-compromised...
Steelers injury report: Alex Highsmith returns; DK Metcalf, Joey Porter Jr. to play vs. Bills
Aaron Rodgers isn’t the only prominent Pittsburgh Steelers starter set to return to the lineup this week. After a two-game absence because of a pectoral injury, outside linebacker Alex Highsmith on Friday was given the green light to play in Sunday’s game against the Buffalo Bills. “It feels great to...
‘All systems go’: Steelers QB Aaron Rodgers will start Sunday vs. Bills
“All systems go.” Using that phrase, Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin announced Aaron Rodgers will start Sunday’s game against the Buffalo Bills. The four-time NFL MVP quarterback was a full participant at Friday’s practice, Tomlin said, and will carry no injury designation on the status report for Sunday’s crucial AFC...
Mark Madden: What should the Penguins do with Tristan Jarry?
Tristan Jarry has provided grounds for buyer’s remorse since signing a five-year, $26.875 million contract in July 2023. The Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender played poorly and cleared waivers last season, doing two stints with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton farm club. The Penguins got goalie Arturs Silovs this past offseason. Their system is chock-full of...
Pitt’s outgoing players prepare for emotions of Senior Day
The landscape of college sports facilitates more movement by student-athletes through the transfer portal than ever before. As a result, far fewer players begin and finish their careers at the same institution, but those cases do exist. Pitt’s select few outgoing seniors who have been with the program since their...
Rutgers’ Greg Schiano offers thoughts on Penn State ties, Terry Smith ahead of matchup
Anyone who wants to know about Terry Smith’s Penn State playing career could ask Rutgers coach Greg Schiano. If you want to know what Smith was like when he directed the Gateway football program from 2001-12, well, you could ask Schiano about that, too. Schiano, whose Rutgers team faces Smith’s...
No. 7 Texas Tech focused on matchup at West Virginia and not what lies beyond
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A berth in the Big 12 championship game and a chance to win its first league title. A spot in the College Football Playoff. National title aspirations. All of those possibilities are still ahead for Texas Tech. And those dreams could start going sideways if the Red...
Football Footnotes: The most surprising stat of Steelers-Bills reveals a lot about Mike Tomlin’s team
The most amazing stat heading into the Steelers-Bills game Sunday at Acrisure Stadium is 30:0. Thirty is the number of questions that were asked at head coach Mike Tomlin’s press conference Tuesday. Zero is the number of questions that had to do with the Steelers’ opponent, the Buffalo Bills. Those...
