Rookie pitcher Tyler Glasnow started for the Altoona Curve last night.  Glasnow has been sidelined with shoulder discomfort.  It was his second start for the AA Curve.  His battery mate was Chris Stewart. Stewart has been out with left knee discomfort.  Glasnow left after three innings . He had reached his 65 pitch count.  As for Stewart he is 2-for-11 with four walks in five rehab starts.

The Pittsburgh Pirates will try to break their 3 game losing streak tonight at PNC Park. Click on the play button below as Pirates Broadcaster Greg Brown has a preview of tonight’s game on Beaver County Radio

 

Speedo is the first major company to drop its sponsorship of swimmer Ryan Lochte.The swimsuit maker owned by PVH in New York says that it doesn’t condone behavior that is counter to its values.Lochte fabricated a tale that he was robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro during the Olympics. He later apologized.Speedo says it is donating $50,000 from Lochte’s sponsorship fee to the global charity Save the Children for children in Brazil.

Kevin Harvick passed Denny Hamlin for the lead with 70 laps to go and stayed in front until he saw the checkered flag at Bristol Motor Speedway. Harvick led 128 laps for his second Sprint Cup victory of the season and his second at the high-banked, half-mile concrete bullring. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. was second, followed by Denny Hamlin, Austin Dillon and Chris Buescher. Kyle Busch led 256 laps, but was knocked out in a crash on lap 373.

The race was finished a day behind schedule following bad weather on Saturday night.

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The Pirates lost a lead late in the game to the Miami Marlins last night.  Click on the play button below. Greg Brown has a recap of all the action.

 

 

NASCAR has been switching around on the NBC family of networks due to the Olympics the last couple of weeks and this week is no different . Below is a listing on where you can get your racing fix for the weekend.

1-2:25 p.m.: NASCAR XFinity Series first practice, NBC Sports App 

3:30-4:25 p.m.: NASCAR XFinity Series final practice, NBC Sports App
FRIDAY, AUG. 19:

10-11:25 a.m.: NASCAR Sprint Cup  Series first practice, NBC Sports App

12:30-1:55 p.m.: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series final practice, NBC Sports App & USA Network

3:15 p.m.: NASCAR XFinity Series Coors Light Pole Qualifying, NBC Sports App

5:45 p.m.: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coors Light Pole Qualifying, USA Network

7:30 p.m.: NASCAR XFinity Series Food City 300 (300 laps, 159.9 miles), USA Network

SATURDAY, AUG. 20: 

8 p.m.: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race (500 laps, 266.5 miles), NBC Sports Network

The Pittsburgh Penguins re-signed forward Matt Cullen to a one-year, $1 million contract Wednesday for his 20th NHL season. The 39-year-old Cullen helped the Penguins win the Stanley Cup last season.  Are all the pieces of the puzzle back together for another run at the Stanley Cup?? Tune into WBVP/WMBA  Saturday morning from 8 am to 10 am to the Saturday Sports Slam as Frank and Greg will discuss the chance of a repeat and also take calls with your opinions.

 Ben Kennedy took the lead from William Byron with 20 laps to go in Wednesday night’s UNOH 200 and later withstood an intense six-lap shootout withBrett Moffitt to earn his first career NASCAR Camping World Truck Series victory at Bristol Motor Speedway last night.

With two laps to go, Moffitt, driving the No. 11 Toyota Tundra — the truck piloted earlier this season by Kennedy — gave the Daytona Beach, Florida, native a shot in the bumper, but Kennedy refused to be rattled and stretched his lead to 0.274 seconds at the checkered flag.

Moffitt, who earned a career-best second-place finish, didn’t have quite enough for Kennedy’s No. 33 Chevrolet Silverado when it counted most.

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