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PITTSBURGH — The New York Mets' opening-day payroll this season is projected to be $345.1 million, according to Cot's Baseball Contracts. That is $74 million more than the New York Yankees will spend as the next-highest-paying team. The Mets also are expected to pay nearly $100 million in luxury tax,…

PITTSBURGH — When he was head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Bruce Arians created the most diverse coaching staff in the NFL. He had 12 assistants, including all four coordinators, who were Black. He had the only staff that included two females as full-time coaches. If there were ever…

Mason Rudolph hasn't closed the door on a return to Pittsburgh.

PITTSBURGH — After being catapulted into the viral metaverse of TikTok, what began as a "slapdash initial document" transformed into a multipronged database encouraging citizen science in East Palestine, Ohio.

Three days after Valentine's Day, a Pittsburgh couple added a potential new member to the family.

DENVER — Avalanche coach Jared Bednar is comfortable with how the team has handled the health of Cale Makar after the defenseman, on two separate occasions this month, was cleared to return to games in which he sustained head injuries that later turned out to be related concussions.

PITTSBURGH — For Donald Walko Jr., the landmark law that he championed to fight the ravages of blight across the state began in one of Pittsburgh's legendary restaurants.

PITTSBURGH – There’s no sugarcoating how injury-depleted the Islanders are as they played the first of what will be many games without top-line playmaker Mathew Barzal.

PITTSBURGH — Two weeks after a catastrophic train derailment unleashed toxic materials on a small village near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, the attention being showered on East Palestine by politicians and activists is reaching a fever pitch.