NFL postpones Steelers-Titans until later in season
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The NFL has postponed Sunday’s Pittsburgh Steelers game at Tennessee until later in the season after one additional Titans player and one personnel member tested positive for COVID-19. The announcement Thursday comes one day after the league said it hoped to play the game on Monday or Tuesday. The NFL said a new game date would be announced “shortly.”
Virus outbreak pushes Steelers-Titans to Monday or Tuesday
By TERESA M. WALKER AP Pro Football Writer
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The NFL says the Pittsburgh-Tennessee game originally scheduled for Sunday will be played either Monday or Tuesday due to positive coronavirus tests among the Titans. The NFL announced the switch Wednesday. The previous day, the NFL said three Titans players and five team personnel had tested positive for COVID-19. The Titans have closed their facility at least through Friday and will not be able to practice in any fashion together until Saturday at the earliest. The NFL says a new date and time will be announced as soon as possible and that the postponement will allow additional time for further testing.
Johnstone, 2-time WS champ and popular prankster, dies at 74
By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jay Johnstone, who won World Series championships as a versatile outfielder with the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers while being baseball’s merry prankster, has died. He was 74. His daughter, Mary Jayne Sarah Johnstone, says her father died last weekend of complications from COVID-19 and he also had suffered from dementia in recent years. In the 1981 World Series, Johnstone had a pinch-hit, two-run homer in Game 4 that rallied the Dodgers to an 8-7 win over the Yankees.
Indians rally for 8-6 win over Pirates, could host playoffs
By BRIAN DULIK Associated Press
CLEVELAND (AP) — The Cleveland Indians could be staying home for the first round of the postseason. Carlos Santana had four RBIs and delivered a go-ahead, two-run double in the seventh inning as the Indians rallied for an 8-6 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates to put themselves in position to gain home-field advantage for their AL wild-card series. The Indians need the Chicago White Sox to lose to the Cubs to move into second place in the AL Central and fourth in the AL on the final day of the regular season. The Pirates held a 6-2 lead in the bottom of the sixth, when Franmil Reyes belted a three-run homer that chased starter JT Brubaker and began the comeback.
Steelers stay perfect, keep Texans winless in 28-21 victory
By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer
PITTSBURGH (AP) — James Conner ran for 109 yards and the go-ahead touchdown midway through the fourth quarter as the Pittsburgh Steelers stayed perfect by rallying past the Houston Texans 28-21. The Steelers improved to 3-0 for the first time in a decade by putting the clamps on the Texans in the second half. Houston managed just 51 yards and two first downs after halftime as an early 11-point lead vanished. The Texans dropped to 0-3. Steelers linebacker T.J. Watt collected a sack to win bragging rights over older brother J.J., a star defensive end for the Texans.
Neshannok traveled to Freedom tonight for a game between the Lancers and the Bulldogs. The Lancers got points on the board early with two touchdowns early in the game. On their next drive however, the bulldogs began to fight back, managing to secure an interception. Neshannok managed to stick Freedom to 4th down, but as the Lancers were expecting a punt, the Bulldogs pulled off a fake punt and got themselves a first down. Freedom scored on the next play setting the score to 13 – 7 in favor of the Lancers. Unfortunately for the Bulldogs, Neshannok came back with another score to put their lead at 20 – 7 at halftime. Freedom started the 4th quarter strong with a 73 yard touchdown pass to tighten the score to a single possession game. Unfortunately for the Bulldogs, Neshannok was not willing to give up their fight. The Lancers managed to spend the rest of the game putting more points on the board. The game ended with a score of 54 – 20, in favor of Neshannok.
Friday, September 25, 2020:
| WBVP , 99.3 FM, 1460 WMBA and beavercountyradio.com
Neshannock- Cam’ron Owens |
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Neshannock
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54 20 Final |
| WPIAL Class 2A Mid-Western Athletic Conference | |
| New Brighton Mohawk |
27 14 Final |
| Laurel Riverside |
41 13 Final |
| Beaver Falls Ellwood City |
54 26 Final |
| WPIAL Class 1A Big Seven Conference | |
| Northgate Union |
14 34 Final |
| Rochester Burgettstown |
29 7 Final |
| OLSH Fort Cherry |
35 13 Final |
| Shenango Cornell |
68 14 Final |
| Non-Conference | |
| Ambridge Blackhawk |
7 38 Final |
| Avonworth South Side |
19 16 Final |
| Cental Valley New Castle |
49 21 Final |
| Chartiers Valley Hopewell |
39 19 Final |
| Fox Chapel Moon |
13 35 Final |
| Quaker Valley Aliquippa |
0 73 Final |
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1230 WBVP, 99.3 FM, 1460 WMBA and beavercountyradio.com’s Bob Barrickman and Tom Hays have the call from Freedom High School of this WPIAL Class 2A Midwestern Athletic Conference high school football game as the Bulldogs battle the Lancers.
Pre-game is at 7 PM and Kick-Off is slated for 7:30 PM
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Point Park’s varsity esports program to kick off first season
in newly renovated space with state-of-the-art equipment
PITTSBURGH, PA – Point Park University’s varsity esports program will make its debut at the end of September in a newly renovated space using state-of-the-art equipment.
Chris Gaul, Esports Director and Head Coach, will have an 18-person team competing in the National Association of Collegiate Esports Rocket League Fall Season, as well as League of Legends, in a 1,450-square-foot-space in the University’s Student Center. The room is equipped with 16 gaming stations and three large-screen televisions mounted on the wall to highlight the action at any of the terminals. To comply with COVID-related precautions, alternate gaming stations will be used to prevent athletes from sitting next to one another, and each station will be cleaned and disinfected after use.
The University’s Physical Plant remodeled the space — which used to be a yoga/pilates studio – and worked with Point Park’s Media Services and IT departments, as well as outside vendors Extron and RPC Video. A new high-speed data network was installed and configured, and multimedia lines were supplied.
“We have been given an exceptional facility to service our esports program,” Gaul said. “The installation was seamless, and the system assists in coaching and recruiting while positioning our athletes to succeed right out of the gate.”
In the first phase of the project, the University’s Media Services department worked with RPC Video – the AV contractor – and Extron to design and price out a system. The end result allows video from any of the 16 systems to appear on the wall-mounted televisions; an Extron touch panel was integrated, which allows Gaul to easily route audio and video to any display in the room. An Extron SMP 111 streaming and recording device was integrated to allow matches to be streamed live on platforms such as Twitch and YouTube.
Steve Obenreder from RPC Video began discussions with Fred Angiolieri, Senior Director of Media Services at Point Park, in fall 2019. Once they worked out a plan for the space, they began to look at manufacturers for the equipment.
“The manufacturer that took the most active interest was Extron. They offered advice on how their product would fit into our plan,” Obenreder said.
In fact, Extron worked out a deal with Point Park to use its XTP signal routing approach, which would offer the University the kind of system performance Extron felt was necessary for a seamless competitive gaming experience.
Angiolieri and his Media Services team did some of the general installation work before handing off the rest of the installation to RPC Video. Extron provided a system design engineer onsite who worked along with RPC Video to commission the AV system, ensuring it was fully optimized.
“Preparing our varsity esports program for competition this fall was a monumental task, and we could not have done without Chris Gaul leading the program,” said John Ashaolu, Point Park’s Director of Athletics. “But getting the program to this point also was made possible by the extraordinary work by dedicated professionals at Point Park, and through RPC Video and Extron. This was a team effort on a grand scale.”
The varsity esports program kicks off competition in the NACE Rocket League at 8 p.m. Sept. 29 against Penn College Rocket League. The team’s League of Legends season starts Oct. 19.
