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Winners and losers from Pittsburgh Steelers' win over Washington Commanders
LANDOVER, Md. — The Pittsburgh Steelers went on the road to face the Washington Commanders and came out with an impressive 28-27 win over a 7-2 team. However, the team went through ups and downs in the game, so who came out of it a winner, and who is going to the losers list?
Winner: George Pickens
Try to find someone who makes as many insane, impactful plays each week as George Pickens does for the Steelers. It is tough to find a wide receiver with Pickens’s skill set, and he has upgraded considerably in the route running and yards after catch departments since last season.
Yet, the amazing body control is still there. How else will he make an absurd twirling grab for the game’s opening touchdown? He would not have, and the fact is that Pickens is demanding WR1 attention.
Consistently throughout the game, the Commanders would roll a player over the top of him to essentially double team him. On his huge 34-yard slant route, it did not matter because Pickens split that double team anyway. He keeps playing well, and Pickens is ascending into the next tier of wide receivers.
Loser: Joey Porter Jr.
It was a tough day for Joey Porter Jr. at the office. He had three penalties called against him and consistently struggled to hold Terry McLaurin at bay. Some of the penalties that Porter committed did not need to happen.
Porter is an immensely talented player who has great flashes of games, but he has inconsistency throughout his tape that raises enough concern to be worried, especially with Donte Jackson down with an injury.
Winner: Patrick Queen
Queen played with his hair on fire. This is probably the best pure linebacker tape that Queen has put out throughout his inaugural season with the Steelers. He flew from sideline to sideline, called the defense extremely well, and made impact plays in a downhill scheme.
The Steelers sent five or more rushers on 19 plays this week, their highest of the season by far. Queen looked right at home in the downhill, attacking style of defense.
Loser: James Pierre
This was a really tough day for James Pierre. His drop on the fake punt, which was an excellent call, is the first step towards making the day go downhill. However, Pierre struggled mightily once he replaced Jackson. While he is back and had just a limited role in sub-packages, if Jackson can not play, it would not be crazy to consider Cam Sutton there as a player.
Cory Trice is fitting to come back and could start upon return. Either way, this was not good enough at any stage for Pierre.
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Sidney Crosby leaves Penguins-Senators game, will not return
Sidney Crosby left the Pittsburgh Penguins’ game against the Ottawa Senators at the Canadian Tire Centre on Thursday and did not return.
The team initially did not disclose why Crosby was ruled out of the game, but coach Dan Muse told reporters postgame that Crosby has a lower-body injury. Crosby left the ice and went to the locker room early in the second period. The Penguins went on to beat the Senators in a shootout, 4-3.
Pittsburgh also played Thursday’s game without Evgeni Malkin, who has missed the last two games with an upper-body injury. It remains unclear how long he will be out, with the team only saying Malkin is “day-to-day,” according to a post on X from March 24.
Crosby returned to Pittsburgh’s lineup on March 18 against the Carolina Hurricanes after missing four weeks due to a lower-body injury suffered during the Olympic tournament. Crosby was injured during Team Canada’s quarterfinal win over Team Czechia after a hit by Anaheim Ducks defenseman Radko Gudas.
Crosby was placed on injured reserve and missed 11 games. In the five games since returning to the lineup, Crosby has tallied five points. This season, the 38-year-old star for the Penguins has a team-high 28 goals, and he is third on the team with 36 assists.
With 10 games remaining in the regular season, Pittsburgh (36-20-16) sits in second place in the Eastern Conference’s Metropolitan Division with 88 points. The Columbus Blue Jackets and New York Islanders both have 87 points.
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$1.5 million-winning Pennsylvania Lottery ticket sold at Pittsburgh hospital
A Pittsburgh hospital will be getting a big bonus for selling a $1.5 million-winning Pennsylvania Lottery scratch-off ticket.
UPMC Magee-Women’s Hospital sold the Cash Spectacular ticket, and, as a result, will get a $10,000 bonus.
According to the Pennsylvania Lottery, the Cash Spectacular is a $30 game that offers the top prize of $1.5 million.
As they often do when a big winner such as this one happens, the Pennsylvania Lottery is reminding players that scratch-off prizes are valid for one year from the game’s end-sale date, which can be found on their website.
The Pennsylvania Lottery also said that scratch-offs are distributed at random, so neither the lottery nor the retailers know where winning tickets will be sold.
Pittsburgh area million-dollar winners
Since the calendar flipped to 2026, the Pittsburgh area has been one lucky place, with multiple million-dollar or more winning tickets sold since January.
The first came on January 8 when a $1 million scratch-off was sold at a North Huntingdon Township Walmart. The $20 Jackpot Scratch-Off yielded the top prize of $1 million.
Just a week later, again in Westmoreland County, a Match 6 Lotto ticket was sold at the North Huntingdon Sheetz, giving someone a $1.4 million prize.
One of the biggest jackpots of the year came earlier this month in Armstrong County, when one lucky player won $1 million for year for life.
That ticket was sold at a BP gas station on Buffalo Street in Freeport Borough. As a result, the BP got a $100,000 bonus.
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