If you go to see the movie “Concussion,” chances are pretty good that your opinion about football will change forever.Especially NFL football.Will Smith should be nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the former Allegheny County pathologist, who, after his ...
How about not buying a ticket?The talk shows and the Twittersphere were buzzing this week with aggravated Pirates fans, who are enraged with the Nutting family for not spending more money.Neal Walker, Pedro Alvarez and Charlie Morton are gone, all to some degree because of money.Signing utility ...
Who didn’t see that coming?No, not the Charlie Morton trade. The Mike Johnston firing. I don’t think you have to be an expert in hockey Xs and Os to have known that something just wasn’t right with the Penguins.When 120 players have more goals than Sidney Crosby and 70 have more than Phil ...
In the NFL, 400 is the new 300. Maybe 40 is the new 30.There was a time, not too long ago, when an NFL quarterback throwing for 300 yards in a game was a big deal. Now, it’s almost expected. Until recently, 400 yards was an almost unheard of accomplishment. Now, it happens regularly.There ...
“Better here than in Philadelphia.”Legend has it that the great comic actor of the 1930s and ’40s, W. C. Fields, had that written on his tombstone. Unfortunately, the legend is false. His tombstone reads. “W.C. Fields 1880-1946.”I don’t know if W.C. was a sports fan, but if he was, ...
Let the stupidity begin.If you’ve been paying attention to the news lately, maybe you’ve come to believe what I believe about college campuses – that more stupidity per square inch exists there than anywhere else on the planet.There are plenty of examples but, since this is a sports ...
