Chad Kuhl had a very memorable major league debut last Sunday.The Pirates right-hander beat Los Angeles Dodgers ace and three-time National League Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw in a nationally televised game on ESPN. Kuhl worked five innings and gave up three runs and four ...
Hockey has never been my sport of choice but I will watch if Mike 鈥淒oc鈥 Emrick is calling the game.Part of it has to do with the fact that Emrick is connected to two institutions near and dear to my heart. He was a professor at Geneva College and a part-time hockey writer at the Beaver ...
What鈥檚 going on in Cleveland?You probably know that the Cavaliers recently became the first major pro team from the town known as the Mistake on the Lake (Even though it shares the Lake Erie shoreline with Buffalo) to win a championship since 1964.Would winning an NBA Championship and a World ...
I have been an Andrew McCutchen fan since Day One!I was a fan when he got drafted out of Fort Meade High School. I was a fan when I watched him in Altoona with the Curve and when he won the National League MVP in 2013.And, yes, I鈥檓 still a fan of McCutchen despite a really bad and unexpected ...
PITTSBURGH 鈥 Clint Hurdle could certainly write an interesting book about his career. Or maybe two.One could be about the Pirates manager鈥檚 playing career. He was a can鈥檛-miss phenom with the Kansas City Royals who did miss because he enjoyed partying more than hitting.The second volume ...
PITTSBURGH 鈥 It didn鈥檛 take long for the feelings about Andrew McCutchen to change radically.In April, people were imploring the Pirates to extend his contract, which currently runs through the 2018 season.Now it鈥檚 the end of June, and people are recommending the Pirates trade him, ...