The Pittsburgh Penguins have allowed 32 goals in their last six games. That is not a typo. They are allowing, on average, 5.33 goals per game over their last six contests. In those six games, they have amassed one win—a comeback win, during which they fell behind 3-0 within the first 27.5 minutes and goaltender… Read more

Pitt football began their 2024-25 season 7-0 before losing five-consecutive regular season games and their bowl game to finish 7-6. The Steelers began their 2024-25 season 10-3 before losing their remaining four regular season games and exiting in the first round of the postseason. The Pirates were 55-52 in 2024 before finishing the season ten… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more

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,… Read more

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.… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more