I’ve been around a while.I was an adult and well aware of what I was witnessing in 1971, when Roberto Clemente showed the world what everybody in Western Pennsylvania had known for years – that he had always been a superstar worthy of being mentioned in the same breath with Mays, Mantle and ...
Here we are watching hockey in June.One year ago, the Penguins were playing in Northern California and now they’re in Tennessee. As I pointed out in this space last year, only a hockey fan whose team is in the Stanley Cup Final will be going out of his way to watch hockey on a sunny day in ...
I would have started Fleury.Maybe that’s why I’m not the Penguins’ head coach and Mike Sullivan is. Matt Murray stood strong and made some big saves, especially late, to help the Penguins beat the Ottawa Senators 3-2 Friday night and even the Eastern Conference Final at two games apiece.I ...
Who was it that said that the best trades are often the ones that you don’t make? Whoever said it could have been thinking of the trade that Penguins general manager Jim Rutherford didn’t make for Marc-Andre Fleury.Pirates GM Neal Huntingon might disagree, but more on that in a ...
April was not a good month for the Nutting familyThe Pirates did a really good job of convincing fans and PNC customers, who call themselves fans but are actually there for the view and the food, that they are going nowhere. And the conversation that had been mostly about baseball for the last ...
How many times have you seen Bill Mazeroski’s home run that beat the New York Yankees in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series?The number depends on how old you are because it’s safe to say every person reading this has seen it multiple times.I saw it live on television because I’m old.It’s ...
