With August now upon us, there are several ways to look at the near future.For school students and teachers, their school years are right around the corner.As for the travelers who love hitting the beaches before the weather starts changing, their windows are closing.But for those who love ...
It’s training camp week.The Steelers report to St. Vincent College in Latrobe on Wednesday and the Ravens and Bears are already in camp. They’ll play the first NFL exhibition game in 10 days. And do you know what everybody is talking about?The National Anthem.No matter what happens on the ...
PITTSBURGH — It’s a lonely feeling, being one of the few people in America not emotionally moved by the video of the high school pitcher rushing to embrace the batter he just struck out.It was all over TV last week. In a Minnesota high school game, the pitcher struck out the batter to end ...
PITTSBURGH — Mike Tomlin used to joke that Landry Jones consistently broke records for preseason snaps.Jones did, after all, lead the NFL in attempts, completions and yardage during the 2015 preseason.Over the last five preseasons, he’s thrown 51 percent of the Steelers’ passes. It goes ...
The NFL owners chickened out.They have had two options since the first time Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the playing of the National Anthem. Actually, the San Francisco 49ers, Kaepernick’s employer, could have put an early end to what has become a major fiasco by telling Kaepernick he ...
PITTSBURGH — Alejandro Villanueva dismissed a mob of reporters and a phalanx of TV cameras Thursday with an “I’m not here for clickbait” comment as he walked on down the hall.The large group of reporters attended the Steelers’ third OTA practice of the spring but came mainly to hear ...
