What Sidney Crosby has been doing this season is Lemieux-esque.Going into Saturday night’s game, he had 16 goals in 18 games. NHL goals are a lot harder to come by than they were back in the late 1980s and early ’90s when Mario Lemieux and Wayne Gretzky were scoring 60 to 70 goals a season. ...
“Lots of enthusiasm. Not much of an arm. Suggest he goes into another business.”That’s a quote attributed to Major League Baseball scout Harry Callahan, and it was allegedly his evaluation of a young Cuban pitcher named Fidel Castro.As the story goes, Castro had tryouts with two or three ...
Bob Palko for Coach of the Year.How about coach of the decade, if not the century?Palko’s West Allegheny High School team had scored a touchdown in overtime to get within one point of McKeesport Friday night in the WPIAL Class 5-A championship game at Heinz Field.He could have used one of the ...
Could defenses be catching on to Le’Veon Bell?Bell is averaging 4.5 yards per carry and you can’t expect much more from a running back, but he averaged eight yards per carry in his first game back after the suspension - 18 carries for 144 yards.Since then he has 232 yards on 65 carries. ...
To play or not to play?That was the question for Ben Roethlisberger for about 10 minutes after the Steelers’ bye week was over. It became pretty obvious that, as long as he wasn’t noticeably limping, he was going to start today against the Baltimore Ravens after missing only one game ...
Most of the guys who played for the last Pitt football team to win a mythical national championship are grandpas.It was 40 years ago.Tony Dorsett is 62 years old.There hasn’t been a Pitt football team with less than three losses in a season since 1981. Thirty-five years ago, coach Jackie ...
