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Pitt tries replacing Donald

PITTSBURGH — A year ago, the defensive game plan for Pittsburgh was pretty simple: let all-everything defensive lineman Aaron Donald go to work and try not to get in his...

August 13, 2014 Sports

Franklin era now under way

STATE COLLEGE — James Franklin slams on the brakes of his speeding golf cart, which comes to a screeching, skidding stop, and causes a few of the people in the small cro...

August 13, 2014 Sports

Selig's successor to be named shortly

BALTIMORE — Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig is looking forward to writing a book, teaching history and taking it easy when he retires this winter. Before th...

August 13, 2014 Professional

Porter adjusts to coaching role

LATROBE — Joey Porter hasn’t had much trouble adjusting to coaching. Porter, in his first year as a defensive assistant with the Pittsburgh Steelers, is three years remo...

August 13, 2014 Professional

Cashing in

PITTSBURGH — Clint Hurdle did his best to ignore the doubters when the Pittsburgh Pirates took a $5 million flier on Edinson Volquez. “That’s why they call it noise,” Hu...

August 13, 2014 Professional

Good 'ole days

BUFFALO TWP — Anybody can be fast on a dirt track these days — if they're willing to pay the price. Old-time drivers shared that viewpoint during Nostalgia Night last Fr...

August 13, 2014 Sports

Quartet victorious at Ukrainian Open

CENTER TWP — Steve Zanicky, John Hutchison, John Zanicky and Fr. Doug Lorance shot 14-under-par to win the annual Ukrainian Open best-ball golf event recently at Stought...

August 13, 2014 Sports

YOUTH SPORTS

Santino Sloboda, 7, of Butler won all three of his matches at the Battle of the Burgh “Line ‘em up” wrestling tournament Saturday at Seneca Valley. ...

August 13, 2014 Youth Sports

Prep gridder back on field after serving time for rape

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — A former Ohio high school football player found guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl after an alcohol-fueled party two years ago returned to the fiel...

August 13, 2014 Sports

LeGrand, Taliaferro honorary captains

PISCATWAY, N.J. — Former Rutgers football player Eric LeGrand and former Penn State player Adam Taliaferro will be the honorary captains when the Scarlet Knights play th...

August 13, 2014 Sports

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