Headline writing on the sports desk was pretty simple this week, simply needing the combination of win, celebrate and championship.The Pittsburgh Penguins opened the week by “winning” the Stanley Cup “championship” for the second season in a row.The afternoon before the Pens’ ...
PITTSBURGH — It looked like someone was lugging in a keg.What with the Pittsburgh Steelers wrapping up minicamp, apparently the five-week party was underway.But this was no keg. This was the Stanley Cup being lugged in by injured Pittsburgh Penguins cult hero Nick Bonino.The Penguins on ...
Hockey players can be a very superstitious bunch, from playoff beards to when to and not to touch a conference trophy to goalies talking to goal posts.Their fans can be just as obsessed as to what causes good luck and bad luck.Of course, it's all in people's heads. We all know nothing like that ...
I’ve been around a while.I was an adult and well aware of what I was witnessing in 1971, when Roberto Clemente showed the world what everybody in Western Pennsylvania had known for years — that he had always been a superstar worthy of being mentioned in the same breath with Mays, Mantle ...
PITTSBURGH — June arrives this week, and an NHL season that started with September training camps is still at least three games away from ending.To say it’s a grind would be inadequate.This has become an endurance contest, as it often does. If Pittsburgh wins, this won’t be the best ...
If you’re giving the Nashville Predators very little chance of beating the Penguins in the Stanley Cup Final, you might be interested to know that they started the season as a 30-1 shot to win the Cup.And you might have noticed that a team that doesn’t have anything close to the star power ...
