Former Pirate Adam LaRoche knocked in four runs to lead the Washington Nationals over the Pirates 7-4 on Wednesday night. Andrew McCutchen and Josh Harrison each had two hits for the Pirates.

The Pirates selected UCLA’s Gerrit Cole with the first overall pick in Major League Baseball’s amateur draft last year, and the hard-throwing righty is off to an excellent start in his professional career, with a 2-1 record and 3.18 ERA at Single-A Bredenton.

Hines Ward, Aaron Smith and James Farrior are just three of several veteran players that the Steelers will be without this coming season. In their absence, young players like Isaac Redman will need to step up and take on more important roles. PSR identifies three to watch.

When Ron Everhart took over the Duquesne basketball program in 2006, the Dukes were coming off a 3-24 season. They had just two winning seasons over the past quarter century.

Last weekend, the Steelers hosted 40 rookies and first-year players—draft picks, free agents and selected players trying out on a wing and a prayer—at their South Side facility for the 2012 rookie mini-camp. The team will continue to get together for OTAs and mini-camps throughout the summer, but the first look at the new additions started here.

Twelve. That’s the number of playoff wins the Penguins—just a few short weeks ago, the team that was the Vegas favorite to win the 2012 Stanley Cup—have collected over the past three seasons.