Who will be called the greatest Super Bowl coach during Super Bowl 100 week in 2066?Will Chuck Noll hold on to the title he earned from the Pro Football Hall of Fame voters this week as the coach of the Super Bowl 50 Golden Team?Noll鈥檚 Steelers won four in six years.What will it take to knock ...
Even though 2016 is almost a month old and its biggest story is Winter Storm Jonas, I am unusually optimistic about the potential for the next 11-plus months when it comes to the sports world.Here are a few reasons why 鈥 With pitchers and catchers reporting to sunny Bradenton, Fla., on ...
Three thoughts on the Pirates:1. McCutchen鈥檚 long-term futureThis can be placed in the clip-and-save file or, to be more modern, the take-a-screenshot file.In a USA TODAY story this past week, Pirates owner Bob Nutting said this to Bob Nightengale, the newspaper鈥檚 baseball columnist, about ...
The Pirates have cost certainty with spring training on the horizon, which is important to a low-budget franchise that counts every penny.Barring a significant addition to the roster through either free agency or a trade, the Pirates鈥� projected opening day payroll will be approximately $98 ...
One of my guiltiest pleasures is the 鈥渂old prediction鈥� made by columnists both in print and online about upcoming seasons or calendar years. I am going to give into temptation and make my own bold predictions for 2016. Feel free to call me out on the majority of these, upon which I am sure ...
If it was a slugging left-handed hitting first baseman that Pirates鈥� fans were hoping to find under the Christmas tree 鈥� well, sorry about that.The Pittsburgh Pirates signed free agent John Jaso to a two-year, $8 million contract as a free agent Wednesday. His nickname is not Dr. ...
