With the first pick in the NFL draft, the Cleveland Browns ...Will probably blow the pick.Not many football teams are sitting as pretty as the Browns are for tonight’s draft in Dallas.The worst organization in the history of professional sports holds the No. 1 and 4 picks, and will determine ...
It is the unofficial midpoint of the college football season and Washington & Jefferson is charging toward a postseason berth, California University has apparently crashed and burned and Waynesburg is still looking for its first win.What lies ahead?Well, let’s take a look at each ...
A long time ago in a land I called home, dreams of becoming a pro athlete filled my brain. Later on in life, I would find it might have been the result of a concussion from playing football.Like many kids in my town, I played football, never accepting my limitations.“Hey,” I would tell ...
The Dodgers got Yu Darvish.The Cubs got Jose Quintana.The Yankees got Sonny Gray.The Pirates?Well, the Nutting family waved the white flag at the Major League Baseball trade deadline Monday.Nothing says, ‘We aren’t going to win the division,’ like having your most important trade being ...
With the ceremonial halfway point of the Major League Baseball season here, one has to ask this question of the Pittsburgh Pirates: What in the world is going on with this team?The Pirates came into the season with a solid starting pitching staff, a bullpen that was strong at the back end and a ...
There are bad breaks in life, then there is the bad break suffered by Norris Vactor.Vactor, who died Sunday – Father’s Day – at 71, suffered the cruelest blow, an intentional hit on the football field that left him paralyzed and destroyed an opportunity to make it into the pros.The first ...
