You can’t do a story on the National Baseball Hall of Fame balloting without mentioning steroids. There was – and will be for a long time – as much, if not more, discussion about who was not elected to Cooperstown as there was about the four players, John Smoltz, Craig Biggio, Pedro ...
Remember when big sports stories took place on fields, courts, rinks, tracks, courses and inside rings? Have you seen the lists of the top sports stories for 2014?According to a poll of 94 Associated Press sports editors, the biggest sports story of the year took place in an elevator.Yep. Ray ...
Good luck to Pat Narduzzi.He’s going to need it.Narduzzi is Pitt’s fifth head football coach since 2010. He comes with a great résumé. If you’re going to hire somebody else’s assistant to be your head coach, you might as well hire the best assistant in the country. Narduzzi laid claim ...
“It’s all about the kids.”I love it when college football and basketball coaches say that right after they make a move that’s all about themselves. That’s what Paul Chryst did Wednesday night when he became Pitt’s most recent former football coach.At the news conference to introduce ...
Make a list of every person living within a 50-mile radius of Pitt’s Cathedral of Learning. Put the name Steve Pederson at the bottom of the list.Everyone, in the order in which they appear on the list, should be given the chance to hire Pitt’s next football coach before Pederson. Pederson, ...
ESPN and the other sports networks are missing the boat.Somebody’s asleep at the network switch. Commercializing and televising results of the stupid weekly College Football Rankings according to Condoleeza Rice and 11 other people should make ESPN a few extra bucks, but imagine if it could ...
