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Pitt continues to ignore Hyatt’s legacy

On this Memorial Day holiday weekend I thought I would clean out some items from my Memory Lane notebook:1. Pitt continues to ignore Hyatt legacyIt is a mystery why The University of Pittsburgh continues to turn a blind eye to the greatest basketball player in the history of the school. That ...

CWS gets underway

While the majority of college sports fans focus on the relatively new football playoff or the cash cow that is the March Madness basketball tournament, they may actually take a backseat to baseball and softball when it comes to doing the postseason right.The college football playoff is still in ...

WWE reaches billion-dollar deal with Fox

In last weekÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ column, we looked at a potential list of suitors for WWEÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Smackdown Live show since NBC Universal told the company to shop it elsewhere.It didn’t take long for a deal to be reached.Early Monday afternoon, ESPN Senior Writer Darren Rovell broke the news that WWE and Fox ...

A peek ahead at summer

It was a long winter with cold temperatures and snow lasting well into late April. March and April temperatures averaged some seven degrees below normal. May did a quick change with temperatures rebounding and so far running 7 degrees above normal. The constant in the weather this year, though, ...

How will NCAA handle Supreme Court ruling?

The Supreme Court of the United States voted 6-3 last Monday to overturn the ban on sports gambling.The court ruled in favor of the state of New Jersey, which had filed a lawsuit attempting to get sports betting legalized.Prior to Monday, Nevada was the only state with legalized sports gambling ...

Is a new WWE TV deal close?

In last weekÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ column, we looked at how WWE was going to have a big presence at NBC UniversalÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ upfront presentation last week at Radio City Music Hall in New York City for the fall season.While a new WWE deal has not been announced, rumors of the prospective situation sent WWEÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ stock to ...