Slippery Rock 42, #7 IUP 16 SLIPPERY ROCK, PA – The top-ranked IUP defense gave up 676 total yards to Slippery Rock as the seventh-ranked Crimson Hawks dropped a 42-16 decision to their rival on Saturday afternoon at Mihalik-Thompson Stadium. The loss was the first for IUP, which falls to 5-1 overall on the season and 2-1 in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Western Division. Slippery Rock improves to an identical 5-1, 2-1 record. Slippery Rock got out to a 28-3 first ... Read More
Penguin of the Week: Sidney Crosby
Its hockey season and the Penguins have started out strong. So far on the season they're 4-1. This past week, they won three of their four games and it goes without saying that captain Sidney Crosby has come to play. In the Pens 4-1 win over Buffalo last Saturday, Crosby provided a goal for his team. The next two games, he provided help even though he didn't score. In the two games, Crosby added three assists. The Pens won Tuesday 5-2 but lost Friday 6-3 despite Crosby's two assists. Crosby ... Read More
Pirate Broadcaster Kent Tekulve To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award
The Pittsburgh chapter of Rotary International has announced that former Pittsburgh Pirate relief pitcher Kent Tekulve has been selected to receive of the 2013 Chuck Tanner “Lifetime Achievement Award.” Tekulve’s selection is part of the seventh annual Chuck Tanner Major League Baseball Manager of the Year Awards event, named in honor of the former Pirate manager and favorite son of western Pennsylvania. Tekulve and this year’s Major League Baseball Manager of the Year, Clint Hurdle, will be ... Read More
Hurdle Earns Chuck Tanner MLB Manager Of The Year Award
The Rotary Club of Pittsburgh has announced Clint Hurdle is the winner of its 7th Annual Chuck Tanner Major League Baseball Manager of the Year Award. Each year, the Pittsburgh Rotary Club holds its Chuck Tanner MLB Baseball Manger of the Year Awards Banquet in Pittsburgh. The highlight of the event is the presentation of the Chuck Tanner MLB Manager of the Year Award as selected by a distinguished group of baseball professionals from around the country. Previous winners of the Chuck Tanner MLB ... Read More
Penn State upsets Michigan in 4th OT
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Happy Valley was a cacophony of bells and songs and cheers that echoed all the way to Mount Nittany. It sure beat the alternative for Bill Belton. On fourth-and-1 and with an upset on the line, Belton dived ahead for 3 yards. Three plays later, he was in the end zone, and Penn State's party was on. "If I don't get the yard," Belton said, "I'm going to hear it the rest of the time I'm here." Bill O'Brien celebrates arguably his biggest win as coach of Penn State ... Read More
Crosby shocks Bolts with eighth career hat trick
Sidney Crosby scored three times for Pittsburgh as they rebounded from a disappointing loss to the Florida Panthers the previous night. Crosby scored his third of the night mid way through the third period which set up Matt Niskanen's last minute power play goal to give the Penguins a 5-4 edge over the Tampa Bay Lightning. Valtteri Filpulla opened the scoring 13:25 into the first period for his fourth of the season. Filpulla won the offensive zone faceoff then went to the net and deflected a ... Read More
Buechel leads Duquesne to 34-7 win over Wagner
PITTSBURGH - Duquesne scored 24 points in the fourth quarter, including its first punt return for a score in 16 years, to put away Wagner, 34-7 in a Northeast Conference match up on Rooney Field. The win was the second in a row for the Dukes (3-2, 1-0), while Wagner, the defending NEC champion, fell to 2-5 overall and 1-2 in the NEC. Duquesne led 10-7 before putting together a 64-yard drive capped by a two-yard Ryan Ho touchdown run that made it 17-7 just over one minute into the fourth ... Read More
Steelers vs. Jets preview
A rested and, hopefully, revitalized and refocused Pittsburgh Steelers team visits the Meadowlands and East Rutherford, NJ on Sunday to play the New York Jets for the second consecutive season. In 2012, Pittsburgh won at home in Week 2, 27-10. This year, in Week 6, the Steelers enter the game 0-4 coming off of a loss to Minnesota in London and their bye week, while the Jets (3-2) are coming off a road win at Atlanta. The Jets, not expected by many to be successful in 2013, especially with a ... Read More
Panthers sacked by Hokies in ACC Clash
Despite riding a three-game win streak entering Saturday’s big ACC Coastal Division showdown against No. 24 Virginia Tech, we still didn’t know a whole lot about this Pitt football team. We found out more Saturday afternoon in Blacksburg and it wasn’t pretty, at least not for Panthers’ quarterback Tom Savage. Savage was sacked eight times by a dominant Virginia Tech defense and was pressured almost every time he dropped back as the Hokies defense made it tough for the Pitt offense to do ... Read More
Haley in legal trouble after breaking housing lease and not paying dog sitter
Todd Haley has been in the news quite a bit more as of late, and for reasons outside of his offensive (please use both meanings of that word) playbook. It seems as if the legal community is catching up with Todd and his wife for some of their indiscretions that stemmed from their move to Pittsburgh. The widely publicized housing snafu in which the Haleys allegedly trashed a home that they reneged on buying, including removing some major appliances, has led to the coming forward of an Oakdale ... Read More