Zach’s Stadium
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Get Rid of All-Star Games
It did not take long for the most highly-anticipated international hockey game in years to come to a head–nine seconds, in fact. After those nine seconds, the penalty boxes at the Bell Centre in Montréal, Canada were filled to the brim. The United States’ box featured the Tkachuk brothers–Brady and Matthew–along with J.T. Miller, while…
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The (Cheap-Ass) Battlin’ Buccos
Well, football season is finally over. It ended as unceremoniously for NFL fans across the globe as it did for fans of the Steelers—the Philadelphia Eagles absolutely dominated the Kansas City Chiefs, with the score reaching a margin of 40-6 (before ultimately ending 40-22)—in one of the more lopsided Super Bowls in recent memory. The…
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Rodri, Come Back!
Disclaimer: If you have no interest in soccer, “Move along, Betty”. It would be inaccurate to say anything else: this is Manchester City’s worst season since Pep Guardiola was hired as their manager in the summer of 2016. I acknowledge that that is an extremely high bar. City became the first club in history to…
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The (Death) March of the Penguins
After yesterday’s games, I have zero desire to discuss football. I am certainly not looking forward to the Super Bowl in thirteen days between the perennial winners (often aided by the zebras—as one could see in last night’s Chiefs-Bills contest) and the most disgusting city in the union (Philadelphia). Will I watch the game? Yes,…
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City of Mediocrity
My apologies for the later entry today—to be perfectly honest, I completely forgot that it was Monday until I remembered I have to go to work tomorrow. Much like how I will feel tomorrow morning when I wake up, the state of Pittsburgh sports has been absolutely miserable of late. That is not an exaggeration.…
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Special Sunday Edition – Rated R for Language
Yesterday got off to a bad enough start when Pitt’s men’s basketball team dropped its second-consecutive game in conference play, falling 82-78 at home to Louisville. That loss occurred, in large part, due to a complete inability to grab defensive rebounds, as the Cardinals grabbed 14 offensive boards, many of them timely, allowing them to…
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You Stupid Idiots!
With the game being Saturday night, I thought having an extra day to process the outcome—and how the Steelers arrived at such a mind-numbing result—would help me see things in a more objective, perhaps even more positive light. To say that that is not the case would be a colossal understatement. I do not think…
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Same Old, Same Old
I do not think that there was a better microcosm of the Steelers’ performance over their previous three games than their committing of an illegal shift infraction with two seconds remaining in the game, down 29-10 to the Kansas City Chiefs at home on Christmas Day, from the Chiefs’ 8 yard-line, and electing to let…
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Happy Festivus!
In the span of six days, the Steelers have gone from 10-3 to 10-5. They lost games to the Philadelphia Eagles and Baltimore Ravens on the road, the latter of which was a chance to clinch the AFC North and a home playoff game. Now, to win the North, Pittsburgh’s likeliest path is to beat…
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“Ugly” Does Not Begin to Describe It
21 plays. 88 yards. Ten minutes and twenty-nine seconds. That is how the Steelers-Eagles game ended yesterday evening after the Steelers opted to punt the ball to the Eagles on a 4th-and-7 from their own 46. Philadelphia, starting from their own three, would utilize the entire clock, never to relinquish the ball back to Pittsburgh,…