The Steelers will open the 2025-26 season on the road against the New York Jets on Sunday, September 7th. This will be the ninth time in the past ten years that they begin the season away from the North Shore. In those previous nine games, the Steelers have gone 6-2-1, including a 18-10 win last Read more

For the first time since the beginning of the 2020-2021 Premier League season, Manchester City entered the weekend without the label of “reigning champions”. In fact, last year was their first without winning any silverware in eight years. By all accounts, it was City’s worst season in the Pep Guardiola era, which is impressive considering Read more

I have always been a big fan of Cameron Heyward, going back to when the Steelers drafted him with the 31st overall pick in 2011 out of Ohio State. Not only has he represented the franchise from the perspective of a Pittsburgher (he was born in the city), but he has done so with the Read more

Warning: reader discretion is advised due to strong language Have you ever braced yourself for immeasurable disappointment, only to somehow be awestruck by the level of incompetence taking place before your very eyes? Welcome to being a fan of the Pittsburgh Pirates, where the impossibly bad is now possible, if not probable.  Let’s face it—we Read more

I have been hammering this point home for the past few months, but nothing has changed—it is unacceptable for Ben Cherington to still be general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates. In his sixth year in that role, the Pirates are currently 44-62, 18.5 games out of the lead in the NL Central division and 13 Read more

There was a period of twenty years during which the Pittsburgh Pirates did not record a winning percentage of .500 or better. This dark age began after Sid Bream and Francisco Cabrera teamed up to break the hearts of Pirates’ fans in the 1992 National League Championship Series, and mercifully ended in 2013, when the Read more

Pictured: Manchester City’s Bernardo Silva (left) and Liverpool’s late Diogo Jota (right). The two were teammates for the Portuguese national team. Before I dive into today’s topic–the Pirates’ role in the 2025 MLB trade deadline–I want to discuss something that happened early Friday morning. I awoke to a text message from my father. It was Read more

When I woke up this morning and pondered today’s topic, the Steelers were not on my mind. The NHL draft occurred over the weekend and free agency starts tomorrow. The Pirates swept the Mets, outscoring a team with a $300+ million payroll by a 30-4 margin. They forced the Mets to hold a players-only meeting Read more

I simply cannot write about the Pirates’ ineptitude for another consecutive week. Re-hashing the same talking points does neither you nor me no good. If you would like your fix of anti-regime rhetoric, read this excellent column from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Jason Mackey: https://t.co/Jb7ifm6OAk.  This week, I am going to expand beyond the city limits Read more

It is not often that, at this point in my life, I get angry at the Pittsburgh Pirates—I know what to expect from them. Now, I get frustrated, I get annoyed, and I get sad.  However, watching the Pirates’ offense this season has actually angered me, especially given the quality of the pitching provided by Read more