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Some sporting thoughts before sunrise … >> My Friday column is off Pitt’s rather thorough hind-end-kicking of South Florida at Heinz Field, and I mean in all facets. Ray Graham was just relentless with the ball, left, right, up the middle, catching it … he’s starting to look like something special. The defense was far [...]

Looking ahead to kickoff … Game: Pitt (2-2) vs. South Florida (4-0) Time: 8:05 p.m. Site: Heinz Field TV, radio: ESPN, 93.7 The Fan Weather: 62 degrees, beautiful Here is the official live summary, and here are news updates on our Pitt page. Feel free, as always, to use this as a discussion forum.

Some sporting thoughts before sunrise … >> Amid the breathless hyperbole late last night that Major League Baseball had “its greatest night ever,” as the national types fairly shouted, let me throw out that these are a lot of the same “purists” who deride the wild card. They also deride Bud Selig’s stated goal of [...]

Looking ahead to first pitch … Game: Pirates (72-89) vs. Milwaukee Brewers (95-66) Time: 8:10 p.m. Site: House of Horrors TV, radio: Root Sports, News Talk 104.7 FM Weather: 55 degrees, overcast Here is the official live box score, and here are lineups … Pirates: Xavier Paul, LF Neil Walker, 2B Andrew McCutchen, CF Derrek Lee, [...]

Some sporting thoughts before sunrise … >> Much of the reaction yesterday to Todd Graham’s very public, very firm mea culpa centered on whether or not he was sincere. I don’t see why that matters much in this case. The end result is the same. Look at it this way: Graham is in his first [...]

Looking ahead to first pitch … Game: Pirates (72-88) vs. Milwaukee Brewers (94-66) Time: 8:10 p.m. Site: Former House of Horrors TV, radio: Root Sports, News Talk 104.7 FM Weather: 61 degrees, overcast Here is the official live box score, and here are lineups … Pirates: Alex Presley, LF Josh Harrison, 3B Andrew McCutchen, CF Derrek [...]

Some sporting thoughts before sunrise … >> The Israelis and Palestinians reach accord, forest fires break out in Antarctica, reality TV drops to the bottom of the Nielsen ratings, and the Pirates win in Milwaukee. Well, at least one of those actually happened yesterday. And far be it from me to diminish it. >> This [...]

Looking ahead to first pitch … Game: Pirates (71-88) vs. Milwaukee Brewers (94-65) Time: 8:10 p.m. Site: House of Horrors TV, radio: Root Sports, News Talk 104.7 FM Weather: 53 degrees, rain, roof closed Here is the official live box score, and here are lineups … Pirates: Alex Presley, LF Neil Walker, 2B Andrew McCutchen, CF [...]

INDIANAPOLIS – Some sporting thoughts before sunrise … >> My Monday column is, of course, off the game here last night. The running game, that is. The line is going to take a lot of the heat over this, and they should. But let’s not exempt Rashard Mendenhall. I had an astronaut’s view of the [...]

INDIANAPOLIS – Looking ahead to kickoff … Game: Steelers (1-1) vs. Indianapolis Colts (0-2) Time: 8:20 p.m. Site: Lucas Oil Stadium TV, radio: NBC, WDVE-FM, ESPN Radio 970 Weather: 58 degrees, rain, but there’s a very large roof Here is the official live summary, and here are news updates on our Steelers page. Feel free, as [...]