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Sports briefs

4 min read

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Steelers hire Brown as secondary coach

The Pittsburgh Steelers have hired Grady Brown as their new secondary coach.

The team made the announcement Tuesday. Brown replaces Tom Bradley, whose contract was not renewed at the end of last season. This is the first NFL job for Brown. He takes over a veteran unit that includes cornerbacks Joe Haden and Steven Nelson along with All-Pro safety Minkah Fitzpatrick and Terrell Edmunds.

Brown’s decision to join the Steelers came less than a week after the University of Houston hired Brown as its cornerbacks coach.

Brown’s previous coaching stops include South Carolina, LSU, Southern Miss, McNeese State and Old Dominion.

The hiring means the Steelers’ coaching staff should be set going into 2021. Pittsburgh split with several assistants – including offensive coordinator Randy Fichtner and offensive line coach Shaun Sarrett – following a 12-4 season in 2020 that ended with a first-round playoff loss to Cleveland.

Pirates nearing deal with lefty Anderson

The Pittsburgh Pirates are closing in on a one-year deal with left-handed pitcher Tyler Anderson.

The deal, which won’t be complete until Anderson passes a physical, would be worth $2.5 million.

The 31-year-old Anderson went 4-3 with a 4.37 ERA last season while pitching for San Francisco. Anderson, who spent the first four years of his career with Colorado, is 22-27 with a 4.65 ERA in 82 starts and four relief appearances with the Rockies and the Giants.

Pittsburgh is in need of depth in the pitching rotation after trading Jameson Taillon and Joe Musgrove in the offseason and the departure of Derek Holland go in free agency.

In the NBA

The San Antonio Spurs are dealing with a coronavirus outbreak among four players, the NBA said Tuesday, meaning the team will not play until the middle of next week at the earliest.

Meanwhile, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms – whose city was picked to play host to the NBA All-Star Game and skills competitions on March 7 – raised major concerns about the notion of fans coming to the city for the events.

“People should not travel to Atlanta to party,” she said.

The NBA on Tuesday postponed five more games: the next three for the Spurs – at Cleveland on Wednesday, at New York on Saturday and at Indiana on Monday – as well as the next two for the Charlotte Hornets while contact tracing is completed.

  • Jaylen Brown had 27 points and eight assists to help the Boston Celtics withstand a 43-point night from Nikola Jokic and beat the Denver Nuggets 112-99 on Tuesday.

Jayson Tatum added 21 points and eight assists to help Boston bounce back following two anemic performances in back-to-back losses to Detroit and Washington – the Eastern Conference’s bottom two teams.

It was Jokic’s third 40-point game of the season. Jamal Murray added 25 points but Denver had its three-game winning streak snapped.

In the NHL

Ilya Sorokin stopped 20 shots to earn his first NHL win, and the New York Islanders defeated the Sabres 3-0 to complete a two-game sweep of Buffalo on Tuesday night.

  • The Dallas Stars postponed a second consecutive game against the Nashville Predators on Tuesday after further consultation with city officials over widespread power outages attributed to extreme winter weather.

The club made the latest decision almost 12 hours before the scheduled game, as opposed to the Monday night postponement that was announced less than an hour before puck drop.

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