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Pittsburgh loving its NCAA basketball

PITTSBURGH -- There always seems to be a debate raging about if Pittsburgh is a basketball town or not.It might not be an NBA basketball town, but it surely is a college basketball town, which it has shown several times by hosting NCAA men's tournament games five different years now.The NCAA ...

One man’s view of March Madness

It may have been a Pitt-thetic college basketball season for the Panthers, but Pittsburgh will have plenty of talent coming to town this week from outside the area when March Madness returns to PPG Paints arena with an eight-team pod that includes powerhouses Duke and Villanova.Is there a ...

Only one thing left for Pats

I'm convinced at this point that the NFL Gods clearly are looking over these Patriots nowadays, especially in the Big Game. Last year I called for the dramatic rally because that was one of the few ways they hadn't won a Super Bowl. Check. So what's left? Well, I said immediately after last ...

Patriots are coming but Bengals game bigger

Mike Tomlin mentioned it weeks in advance, Steeler Nation knows it's coming and surely the players are peeking ahead to it as well if the coach already has done so.Pittsburgh welcomes the New England Patriots to Heinz Field on Dec. 17.You've heard all the talk. Basically, the thought is if the ...

Sometimes when you say or type a phase or a word, people will take it a number of different ways, and perhaps not the way it was intended.Unfortunately, thatÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ the case quite often in this day and age.When Doug Conroy, coach of the Ringgold-based Little Rams Wrestling Program, posted on ...

Hockey players can be a very superstitious bunch, from playoff beards to when to and not to touch a conference trophy to goalies talking to goal posts.Their fans can be just as obsessed as to what causes good luck and bad luck.Of course, it's all in people's heads. We all know nothing like that ...