PITTSBURGH (AP) — Before Paul Skenes. Before Konnor Griffin. Before Bubba Chandler. Before Henry Davis, there was Endy Rodriguez. An athlete behind the plate who hit 25 homers as a 22-year-old in the minors, Rodriguez was one of the foundational pieces the Pittsburgh Pirates planned to ...
MORGANTOWN — It's been almost a month since West Virginia football's Gold-Blue Spring Festival, or spring game. That means it's been a month since Rich Rodriguez talked in front of the local media. However, Rodriguez has done some national media appearances and recently sat down for a Q&A with ESPN's Pete Thamel. With Thamel, Rodriguez discussed multiple topics, including quarterback, the roster turnover, freshman Matt Sieg and the new-look defense. But what really stood out, and what Rodriguez brought up a couple of times, was the financial situation WVU is in compared to the rest ...
NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. (AP) — Not many players imagined Aronimink Golf Club and its wild, wavy greens would be so tough on scoring at the PGA Championship. Even fewer would have predicted Alex Smalley and Maverick McNealy to be atop the leaderboard Friday. What to expect the rest of the weekend? Pretty much anything. "Anyone who makes the cut, they've got to feel they have a shot in the tournament," said Rory McIlroy, who found himself only five shots behind with 29 players — including Scottie Scheffler and six other major champions — ahead of him. Two long days at Aronimink ...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Katherine Legge hopes to become the first woman to attempt "The Double" in racing — even if she's reluctant to claim the title. She's not terribly interested in being the first non-American to try it, either. Just hours after her NASCAR team, BRANDed Management, announced that the 45-year-old British driver had added the Coca-Cola 600 to a May 24 schedule that already included the Indianapolis 500, Legge told reporters she welcomed the opportunity more than the milestone. "I don't want to be like the first woman because at the end of the day, I always say I ...
Team bus drivers might conjure up images of buttoned-up men and women who stay at arm's length from players and coaches and kill time on the bus or in their hotel rooms during games. That's not Jackie McCloud, Courtney Ellis or Larry Thurman. When the Kentucky baseball team wins, McCloud celebrates with the Wildcats and belly-bumps them at the end of the handshake line. He even was in the dogpile a couple years ago when they clinched a spot in the College World Series. Ellis gives pep talks and leads cheers in the Delta State dugout. He is even on the greeting committee when ...
GRANVILLE – That thud you may have heard coming out of Kendrick Family Ballpark on Friday night was WVU’s chances of winning a Big 12 championship hitting a brick wall. The pinging noise you heard was the reason why. TCU’s Preston Gamster, Kyuss Gargett and Noah Franco all hit solo home runs – a total of 1,191 feet of them – and Horned Frogs starter Lance Davis hurled a complete-game shutout in a 4-0 victory. The loss – just the second time the ninth-ranked Mountaineers (36-13, 20-9 Big 12) have been held scoreless this season – put a severe clamp on WVU’s chances ...
