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The recent mass shootings have terrified the nation. It’s not just the ferocity of the attacks. It’s the randomness of the victims, whether elementary school children or elderly women shopping at the neighborhood supermarket. People doing normal things, the things all of us do, find themselves attacked by a heavily…

PITTSBURGH — Among the more unlikely pairings to emerge in the last decade is the meeting of a British power-pop icon with a masked American surf-rock band.

PITTSBURGH — Cal Mitchell rounded first base and pumped his fist, the emotion of the moment evident. The 23-year-old outfielder emphatically clapped his hands as he crossed home plate. In the dugout, good friend, former roommate and Saturday’s hero, Jack Suwinski, was there waiting for Mitchell after his first MLB…

PITTSBURGH — Some Steelers draft classes have been better than others. The 1974 class of future Hall of Famers Lynn Swann, Jack Lambert, John Stallworth and Mike Webster, along with future Hall of Fame free agent Donnie Shell, is regarded as the best in NFL history.