One offensive metric to rule them all?Sometimes I wonder if there are too many baseball statistics.That thought has nothing to do with sabermetrics. One can look at the back of any baseball card from older eras of the game and see a stat-line as long as the card. Those cards and those ...
PITTSBURGH 鈥� Penguins coach Mike Sullivan called his goaltender choice for Game 4 an incredibly difficult decision.Was it really?Sullivan believes in Matt Murray. He stuck with him in the playoffs last season long after Marc-Andre Fleury was available. He installed him as the No. 1 goalie ...
PITTSBURGH 鈥� There蘑菇视频 a TV cooking show that gives chefs an assortment of ingredients and challenges them to make a meal of the random mix.They might get chicken thighs, artichokes, peanut butter, bananas and bamboo shoots. The impossible task is to take those items and create a meal that ...
Fans of the old American Football League remember Jack Kemp as an All-Pro quarterback who later went on to be a successful politician 鈥� he even ran for the office of Vice President on the same ticket with Bob Dole in 1996. Well, local football fans also remember another signal caller named ...
Who was it that said that the best trades are often the ones that you don鈥檛 make? Whoever said it could have been thinking of the trade that Penguins General Manager Jim Rutherford didn鈥檛 make for Marc-Andre Fleury.Pirates GM Neal Huntington might disagree but more on that in a ...
Since the last time we spoke in this space, the Pittsburgh Pirates have seen their season begin to slip away.At the time of this writing, they find themselves at 14-20, losers of four straight and occupying the National League Central cellar.The reasons for their current nadir are many and ...
