Category Archives: Local Sports

HOT PIRATES KNOCK OFF BURNES, BREWERS
The Pirates continued their hot streak last night, winning for the sixth time in their last seven games in the opener of their series with Milwaukee. Joe Block recaps the action. Andrew McCutch...
Hometown1 Sep 05, 2023

PRACTICES BEGIN FOR SUNDAY'S SEASON OPENER
Steelers players reported to the South Side yesterday after four days off, focusing on Sunday's season opener against the San Francisco 49ers, and with the team still unsettled in the defensive backfi...
Hometown1 Sep 05, 2023

PANTHERS WILL HAVE TOUGHER TEST AGAINST BEARCATS
This week's Pitt game promises to be much more difficult for the Panthers than last week's. After running over Wofford, 45-7, Pitt will welcome Cincinnati, a 66-13 winner of Eastern Kentucky in their ...
Hometown1 Sep 05, 2023

BUCS STUMBLE IN ROAD TRIP FINALE
The Pirates had a chance to sweep through Missouri, but their five-game winning streak came to an end yesterday in St. Louis. Here's Joe Block. Coming off a complete game two-hit shutout in his...
Hometown1 Sep 04, 2023

TOMLIN'S TROOPS RETURN TO WORK TODAY
After a league-wide mandatory four-day break, the Steelers return to practice today to prepare for the season opener against the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday afternoon at Acrisure Stadium. The team's...
Hometown1 Sep 04, 2023

NARDUZZI, PANTHERS READY TO TACKLE BEARCATS
Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi was ready to start thinking about this week's game against Cincinnati almost as soon as the 45-7 Saturday win over Wofford was completed. Narduzzi said the Panthers were solid ...
Hometown1 Sep 04, 2023

FORMER PENGUIN HAGELIN RETIRES
Former Penguins forward Carl Hagelin has retired from hockey because of an eye injury suffered in March of 2022. The 35-year-old Hagelin made his NHL debut in 2011 with the New York Rangers after they...
Hometown1 Sep 04, 2023

PALACIOS A HERO AGAIN FOR PIRATES IN COMEBACK WIN
Joshua Palacios hit a two-run pinch hit home run in the ninth inning to complete a Pirates comeback for a 7-6 win over the Cardinals. It was the Pirates' fifth straight win on their Missouri road trip...
Hometown1 Sep 03, 2023

PITT, PENN STATE BOTH WIN OPENERS
The Pitt Panthers easily handled Wofford, 45-7, in their season opener yesterday while Penn State dispatched West Virginia, 38-15. Phil Jurkovec's first start at quarterback for Pitt was cut to only t...
Hometown1 Sep 03, 2023

ACC ACCEPTS CALIFORNIA, STANFORD AND SMU TO CONFERENCE
In College Football News, the ACC voted on Friday to expand across the country and add Stanford, California and SMU to the league next year. The additions will make the ACC the latest conference to ex...
Hometown2 Sep 02, 2023

US MILITARY ACTION IN IRAN
Do you approve or disapprove of US military action against Iran?
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Voting Ends: Mar 17, 2026 | 12:00 PM











