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Alex Kiger June 12th, 2021This Team Could Have Been So Much More: The 2020-2021 Pittsburgh Penguins Season, In Review

s the final seconds ran off the clock at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, New York Islanders fans cheered as their hometown team had defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins

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Omri Raz September 25th, 2019Girls Tennis Team Aims For Playoff Spot

The Allderdice Girls Tennis team is fighting for their first playoff spot since joining WPIAL.

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Donovan Shanley January 2nd, 2025Relief Pitchers and the Cy Young Award

Every year, each MLB league awards their best pitcher with the fabled Cy Young award.

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Jordan Sampson January 10th, 2025Steelers Lose, We Riot

The Pittsburgh Steelers ended their season 10-7. Another winning season, but who cares anymore?

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Gabe Seldin September 12th, 2024Week One Fantasy Football Booms and Dooms

The start of September means that another NFL season is upon us.

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Shane Birkenfeld January 13th, 2025Louisville Edges Pitt in an ACC Thriller, Handing Pitt Their Second Straight Loss

On Saturday, January 11th, the Pitt Panthers fell to the Louisville Cardinals at the Petersen Events Center in a “three-pointer-filled affair.”

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Naomi Segel November 15th, 2021Female Athletes Continue to Face the Effects of Systemic Sexism

Look at high school gym classes, Instagram posts including female athletes, or the gender pay gap in professional sports, and sexist behavior is not hard to come by.

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Jack Malen December 29th, 2024Where the NBA Stands at the New Year

On October 22, the reigning champion Boston Celtics tipped off the 2024-25 NBA season in front of a packed TD Garden.

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Alex Kiger April 14th, 2021Penguins Acquire Jeff Carter From The Los Angeles Kings At The NHL Trade Deadline

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania--In the early hours of April 12th, the trade deadline day for the NHL, the Pittsburgh Penguins announced they had acquired forward Jeff Carter

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Shane Birkenfeld September 9th, 2024College Football Roundup: What We Know So Far

The first weeks of the 2024-25 College Football Season have been nothing short of entertaining.

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Abigail Segel October 29th, 2019Simone Biles Continues To Be The Best At The Gymnastics World Championship

During the 2019 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships, American Simone Biles, 22, officially became the most decorated female gymnast in history.

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Shane Birkenfeld December 23rd, 2024Allderdice Baseball Dynamic Duo Sign Letters Of Intent

On December 19, Allderdice Baseball standouts Zack Shook and Landon Blank each signed their letters of intent to continue their academic and athletic careers in college.

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Kareena Katsman October 12th, 2020Allderdice Alumni Sports Rewind

Taylor Allderdice High school is a school not only with high academic quality but also hosts some of the best city league sports teams.

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Donovan Shanley November 22nd, 2024Piast Gliwice: The Greatest and Least Known Sports Story

We know tons of underdog stories in soccer, such as the rise of Leicester City and Blackburn Rovers.

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Dillon Javid January 17th, 2023What Damar Hamlin Gave Back on His Path to Stardom

Damar Hamlin, safety for the Buffalo Bills, routinely lined up in the secondary as he had since his peewee football days in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania.

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Alex Kiger October 23rd, 2021Examining The Additions And Subtractions Of The Pittsburgh Penguins Off-Season

It was a crazy off-season for the National Hockey League (NHL). Marc-Andre Fleury is now in Chicago.

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Gabe Seldin December 23rd, 2024Pitt sees five players reach double-digit points in a balanced attack beatdown of Sam Houston State.

On Saturday afternoon, Pitt Basketball defeated the visiting Sam Houston State Bearkats 110-78 to win its third straight game and improve to 10-2 on the season.

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NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly (right) presents Tampa Bay Lightning captain Steven Stamkos (left) with the Presidents Trophy. Photo Credit: Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times
Alex Kiger March 16th, 2023Is The Presidents Trophy Curse Real?

With the Boston Bruins having a historically dominant season in the NHL and almost assuredly winning the Presidents Trophy as the best regular season team.

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Eli Coffey December 10th, 2024Who should be the 2024 Heisman Winner?

The Heisman Trophy is annually awarded to the most outstanding college football player.

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Gabe Seldin December 12th, 2024Brandin Cummings Runs the Show in Pitt’s Win Over Eastern Kentucky

On Wednesday night Pittsburgh Panthers basketball advanced to 9-2 after winning 96-56 over the Eastern Kentucky Colonels.

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Gabe Seldin and Sam Stavchansky January 2nd, 2025Pitt opens the new year with a comeback victory over California

Pitt men’s basketball recorded its second conference win on Wednesday, defeating ACC newcomer University of California 86-74.

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Christan Medeiros October 19th, 2020Steelers QB Roethlisberger’s Elbow Looks Good, But Something Don’t Look Right

Before entering the 2020 NFL season, Steelers fans were divided on how well Big Ben would perform this year.

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Emma Brown September 25th, 2019The Equal Pay Debate in US Soccer, Fully Explained!

On March 8, 2016, the US Women’s National Team sued US Soccer for gender discrimination.

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Christan Medeiros March 14th, 2021Steelers Get Eliminated Early Once Again

Heading into the playoffs as the AFC North Division champions and with an 11-5 record the Steelers will host the Cleveland Browns on Wild Card Weekend Sunday Night Football.

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Jordan Sampson November 12th, 2024Sign of What's To Come: Pitt Steamrolls Radford

On Monday, the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) men’s basketball team opened their 2024-25 season with a dominant 40-point win.

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Alex Kiger November 20th, 2021What Went Right and What Went Wrong for the Penguins (So Far)

Things are not going well. After a few defying reality games, injuries and COVID-19 outbreaks have taken their toll on the Penguins' on-ice play.

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Gabe Seldin January 19th, 2025Marcus Freeman’s Historic Ride to the National Championship

The University of Notre Dame football team will play in the national championship game on January 20th after defeating James Franklin’s Penn State in the Orange Bowl on Thursday night.

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Gabe Seldin November 12th, 2024Pitt vs Gardner Webb Recap

Pitt Basketball improved to 3-0 with a dominant 83-64 win over Gardner-Webb on Monday night.

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Alex Kiger January 6th, 2022Ben Roethlisberger Victorious In Likely His Final Game At Heinz Field

In what was likely his final game at Heinz Field, veteran Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback ended it with a win, as Pittsburgh knocked off the Cleveland Browns, 26-14.

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Jordan Sampson January 7th, 2025A Look Back On This Year In Pittsburgh Sports

With the holiday season upon us and the new year right around the corner, now is the time to reflect on the year we have had in Pittsburgh sports.

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Alex Kiger March 19th, 2021Evaluating The Pittsburgh Penguins Season Roughly Halfway Through

With a shortened 2021 season that only has 56 games, the midway point of the season has certainly crept in on us a lot faster than normal.

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Abigail Segel September 27th, 2019Carli Lloyd and Molly Virtue: Women in Football

At the end of August, Olympian and two-time World Cup champion Carli Lloyd visited a Philadelphia Eagles practice.

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Dillon Javid October 25th, 2022Why Allderdice Rowers Should Choose Three Rivers Rowing Association

On October 1st and 2nd, 2022, 60 rowing clubs gathered on the Allegheny River for one of the country’s largest annual regattas, Head of the Ohio (HOTO).

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Alex Kiger December 3rd, 2021Fenway Sports Group To Buy Controlling Stake In Pittsburgh Penguins

On Monday, the Pittsburgh Penguins announced that Boston-based Fenway Sports Group is set to become the new majority owners of the Pittsburgh Penguins.

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Shane Birkenfeld January 2nd, 2025Duquense tips off A10 opener with a win

On New Year's Eve, the Duquesne Dukes defeated the Rhode Island Rams in the Atlantic-10 Conference Opener, 67-55.

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The Pittsburgh Pipers 1968 winning team. Photo Credit: Heinz History Center
Alex Kiger March 15th, 2023Ghosts Of Pittsburgh Sports Past: The ABA’s Pittsburgh Pipers/Condors

Pro basketball hasn’t had a home in Pittsburgh for many decades, but for the short time it did, it certainly carries some unique tales.

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Satyan Chickering October 24th, 2024What Happened to the National League Central?

On October 7th, 2015, 40,889 fans packed into PNC Park to watch two of the top three teams in the National League face off

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Aidan Birkenfeld March 14th, 2021March Madness is Back!

After a disappointing end in 2020, when sports and NCAA’s March Madness tournament were abruptly canceled for the pandemic, college basketball is back in full swing.

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Sam Stavchansky January 7th, 2025Pitt Basketball Crushes Stanford to Extend Win Streak

Pitt men’s basketball held onto their perfect conference record with their 83-63 win over Stanford on Saturday night. Pitt advances to 12-2, while Stanford drops to 10-5 and 1-2 in conference play.

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Christan Medeiros November 13th, 2020A Recap of the Penguins’ Puzzling Offseason

The beginning of free agency is always a great day for sports fans of any league.

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Madeline King September 28th, 2019Allderdice Girls Soccer is Working Hard in a "Rebuilding Year."

With school back in session, fall sports are in full swing and many of them have already had pre-seasons to prepare for the first matches of the season.

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Eli Coffey October 1st, 2024Olympic Track Recap

The Paris Olympics were the premiere event of the summer, showcasing the best athletes from all over the world competing for their country in a global competition.

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Christan Medeiros December 23rd, 2020Steelers’ 2020 Success Fueled by Unanticipated Player

The 2020 season has been hands down the best season the Steelers have ever had, and that’s saying a lot for a team that has six Super Bowl titles to its name.

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Satyan Chickering January 7th, 2025Recapping Paul Skenes’s Historic Rookie Season

On Monday, November 18, Paul Skenes was announced as the Jackie Robinson Rookie of the Year Award (ROY) winner.

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Gabe Seldin January 9th, 2025Duquesne beats Saint Joseph’s in an in-state overtime thriller to win their first game of the year

In an overtime battle, the Duquesne Dukes beat the Saint Joseph’s University Hawks on Wednesday night at the UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse, 85-81.

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Alex Kiger February 3rd, 2022What Is The Future Of The Quarterback Position For The Pittsburgh Steelers?

On Thursday, legendary Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger announced his retirement after eighteen NFL seasons.

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