Category Archives: Local Sports

Despite an hour and 46 minute rain delay in the sixth inning, the Pirates and Braxton Ashcraft snapped a four-game losing streak with a 4-1 win over Cincinnati. Joe Block has the recap. The Pirates al...

Steelers coach Mike McCarthy led his team through the final acclimation workout of training camp on Saturday. The team is off today and the first practice in pads is scheduled for Monday. The Steelers...

Altoona had a season-high seventeen hits, including an inside-the-park home run by Will Taylor, but the Curve gave up two runs in the top of the ninth inning and lost to Chesapeake, 9-8. Titus Dumitru...

The Pirates woes continue as Paul Skenes looked ineffective again last night, one key Pirates player was injured, and they dropped another close one to the Cincinnati Reds. Joe Block reports. Ryan O'H...

The Altoona Curve picked up their second win in a row on with a 4-1 victory over the Chesapeake Baysox. Altoona starter Matt Ager was lights-out, going six innings and striking out five and allowing n...

Steelers training camp yesterday was a lighter practice as the players went without helmets on its third acclimation day. Head coach Mike McCarthy said that yesterday's session could be described as a...

The Penguins have signed Tommy Novak to a three-year contract extension. The deal starts with the 2027-28 season, and will carry a salary cap hit of $4.65 million. Novak would have been entering the f...

A tough week continues for the Pirates, who lost their third straight game last night in the opener of an eight-game, two-city road trip. Joe Block recaps a walk-off loss in Cincinnati. Nick Gonzalez ...

It was another high-energy practice yesterday for the Steelers at St. Vincent, with coach Mike McCarthy sarcastically noting that they have to be fast-paced because of the practice-length rules agreed...

Altoona's hitters came to play last night and they were needed, as their pitchers were battered again in a 14-10 Curve win over Chesapeake. Catcher Easton Carmichael slugged two of the Curve's five ho...