Entries from October 2007

Friday, October 26th, 2007

News Break: Darnell Dodson is a Moron

Whats with Pitt teams losing players just before the season starts?
Freshman guard Darnell Dodson has been ruled ineligible and plans to transfer to Miami Dade College.  Though this loss is not as harmful to the basketball squad as Derek Kinder’s was for the football team, Dodson had a very high ceiling and was supposed to [...]

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Trying to Figure Out Which NBA Team to Follow - Bulls Edition

I’ve always had a little bit more than a passing interest in basketball, but Pittsburgh’s lack of a team has prevented me from having a natural group of players to follow. This season, however, I am trying to follow a sport that I don’t understand nearly as well as the other three of the [...]

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

You Mean They Play Winning Hockey in Pittsburgh?

Marc-Andre Fleury sparkled again Monday night, leading the Penguins to a 1-0 win over the New York Rangers that neither team seemed to really want. Fleury built off of his performance in Washington Saturday, stopping 36 shots and not losing focus to help his team gain two valuable points over its divisional foes.

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Next Time on . . .

So my cross country season is finally ending tomorrow and I will have at least a little more time to write daily, meaning that filler should begin to be seen less and less on this site.
In the meantime, though (meaning this week, not necessarily Monday), here’s what’s probably coming up:

A recap of that Steelers loss [...]

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

MAF Owns You.

A bragger is always annoying, so I’m going to consent first. I was wrong. Marc-Andre Fleury did need some motivation. Whether this came in the form of a Michel Therrien tongue lashing or from the false, or so Ray Shero claims, rumors that the Penguins were considering looking for another goalie as [...]

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Pens May Trade for Goalie Help? Why?

Tsn.ca is reporting that Penguin GM Ray Shero is on the hunt for another goalie to complement Marc-Andre Fleury. The names bandied about in the article are Curtis Joseph, Ilya Bryzgalov, Andrew Raycroft, Jaroslav Halak, and Martin Gerber. The issue is that Fleury has obviously not played up to his talent level, but [...]