Your daily regional sports update.
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- Hockey was so easy for Josh Archibald and Jake Guentzel at Nebraska-Omaha.
- For the next four games, the Steelers will readjust to life without right tackle Marcus Gilbert while he serves a four-game suspension for violating the NFL’s policy against performance-enhancing drugs.
- Strong-willed and focused, Brian O’Neill has plenty to worry about while preparing to face No. 2 Miami on Friday. One of his targets: Hurricanes defensive end Joseph Jackson, a 6-foot-5 sophomore, with 5 1?2 sacks and six quarterback hurries in only 10 games.
- Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association agreed Tuesday on a new posting system that will allow two-way star Shohei Ohtani to leave Japan and sign with an MLB team for the 2018 season.
- Ben Roethlisberger is taking notice of critics who think he doesn’t care anymore in light of his flirtation with retirement in the offseason.