When the average NFL team is suffering through a pedestrian, occasionally embarrassing 5-7 season, they often have no business making league headlines week after week. The Pittsburgh Steelers are, apparently, hardly average. For a franchise that has experienced so much success in the Super Bowl era and, more recently, in the past decade, the Steelers are certainly going through a strange and difficult time. It began with four losses to start the season. Then, after appearing to right the ... Read More
Is winning a bad thing?
The Penguins have won four straight, are 19-9-1 and have the game’s best two players. It's no mystery why the Pittsburgh Penguins are currently the odds-on favorite to win the Stanley Cup, paying 7-1. They’re an astounding 3-1 favorite to win the Eastern Conference. These Penguins are winners, right? I wouldn’t touch that bet. Not a single dollar. For these Pittsburgh Penguins, winning is not curing all ills; it is masking them. The Penguins are not winning because they’re a ... Read More
Ten realistic targets for the Steelers in the NFL Draft
Roughly 20 seconds after the whistle sounded on any realistic Pittsburgh Steelers playoff hopes on Thanksgiving night, the scramble began. Grown men and women throughout Steeler Nation called on the last little bit of their energy that had not been affected by mass amounts of Tryptophan and pumpkin pie, hopped up from their favorite chair and began their online search for the next great Pittsburgh Steelers first round draft pick. With just four more weeks left in the regular season – and ... Read More
Top five best & worst Steelers draft picks of all time
The Pittsburgh Steelers live and die by the NFL draft. An organization that rarely plunges into the free agent market prides itself on developing and molding players into greatness. In this article, we look back at the five best and five worst draft selections in in Steelers' History. Furthermore, I want to be clear about my list for the five best as you won't see the five best players in Steelers' history, but the five best draft selections. You also won't see players like Terry Bradshaw, ... Read More
Panthers scratch and claw their way to victory over Penn State
It wasn't as easy as Pitt head coach Jamie Dixon may have liked, but eventually the size and depth of the Panthers wore down visiting Penn State as Pitt improved to 8-0 on the season with a 78-69 victory in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. But the Panthers had their hands full with the Nittany Lions all night long. Penn State took a 30-28 lead at the half thanks to the fact that the Panthers could not buy a bucket. "Not a good first half," said Dixon. "I spent halftime emphasizing the amount ... Read More
Simply the Best: Crosby, Malkin combine to defeat Isles in overtime
There's a battle brewing between two players vying for best player in the NHL and, unfortunately to the 29 other teams, the Pittsburgh Penguins have both players. Tuesday night, at Nassau Coliseum both players made their cases as the Penguins defeated the Islanders 3-2 in overtime. After falling into a 2-0 hole, Evgeni Malkin setup James Neal for the first goal. Sidney Crosby scored a power play goal to tie the game in the third setting up his heroics in overtime with an unbelievable ... Read More
Zatkoff is proving his worth for Pens
A few months ago, I wrote an article saying that the Penguins would be searching for answers in net. During the preseason, Tomas Vokoun was lost to a blood clot in his pelvis. The veteran netminder, coming off a strong 2013 playoff stint with a .933 save percentage and a stout 2.01 GAA, looked to be pushing Marc-Andre Fleury for the starting netminder coming into the 2013-14 season. In the wake of Vokoun's absence, Fleury, to this point, has regained his form and claimed his role as the starting ... Read More
Pitt’s Cameron Wright poised for breakout season
One of the big keys to success coming into the season for Jamie Dixon's Pitt Panthers was whether or not junior guard Cameron Wright could handle the increased role as a starter. After averaging only 3.3 points per game off the Panthers bench during the first two years of his career, Wright has done his best to answer any questions about whether or not he was up to the challenge as the Panthers are off to a 7-0 start to the season. Coming off the best game of his career in which Wright scored ... Read More
PSAC West Hardwood Moment: IUP, Slippery Rock creating distance
Another week has come and gone in the PSAC West on the hardwood. IUP and Slippery Rock are slowly edging out in front of the pack. IUP is 6-0 and 2-0 in the PSAC while Slippery Rock is 6-1 and 2-0 in the PSAC. Here's the rundown. As of the November 26th NCAA.com D2 rankings, IUP sat at #10 in the coaches poll and IUP added two of their six wins this past week. They beat Shaw 74-57 and University of the Sciences (Phil.) 72-59. Big man Marcel Souberbielle led the way with 20 points and 4 ... Read More
Panther of the Week: Lamar Patterson
The Pittsburgh Panthers are off to a hot start in their new basketball conference this season. The Panthers have a 7-0 record early on and three of the those wins came this past week. In each of those wins, Pitt was led by senior guard Lamar Patterson. In the first game of the week, a 76-53 victory over Texas Tech in the Legends Classic tournament, Patterson scored 23 points to lead the way. The 6-foot-5 guard hit 8 of 13 shots (.615 %) while adding 3 rebounds, 4 assists and 5 steals. He was ... Read More