COLUMBUS — Rick Bowness was enjoying time on his boat in Florida when he received a call from Don Waddell on Monday afternoon. Bowness thought the call from the Columbus Blue Jackets president of hockey operations and general manager was about a player Bowness once coached. It turned out ...
COLUMBUS — Boone Jenner scored with 1:34 remaining, Charlie Coyle had two goals and an assist, and Rick Bowness won his debut as Columbus’ coach as the Blue Jackets defeated the Calgary Flames 5-3 on Tuesday night. Jenner, Columbus’ captain, ripped a snap shot from the left faceoff ...
PITTSBURGH — Nikita Kucherov scored the deciding goal in the shootout and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 2-1 on Tuesday night for their 11th straight win. J.J. Moser scored in regulation and Andrei Vasilevskiy had 26 saves for the Lightning, who have not lost a 2-1 ...
Former Pirate Dave Giusti, 86, dies PITTSBURGH — Dave Giusti, a reliable reliever who spent 15 years in the majors and helped the Pittsburgh Pirates win the 1971 World Series title, has died. He was 86. The club, citing Giusti’s family, said he died on Sunday. The right-hander went ...
PITTSBURGH — Mike Tomlin was an unknown when the Pittsburgh Steelers plucked him from obscurity in 2007 and handed the young and charismatic Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator one of the most stable jobs in sports. Over the next 19 seasons, Tomlin wrote his own chapter with one of the ...
BROOKFIELD – The Brookfield girls basketball team didn’t have any answers for Ava Bucey and Addison Rhodes on Monday night. The veteran duo powered Crestview to an 83-37, thanks to a dominant first half at Brookfield High School. Rhodes scored 16 of her game-high 39 points in the first ...