Entries from December 2007

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

Pirates in the Mitchell Report

As we all know, the Mitchell Report, released Thursday, had seven former Pirates in it. These guys ranged from Kevin Young to Denny Neagle, covering a wide spectrum of talent levels and types of player. This post is an effort to summarize the players’ use of steroids so that you do not have [...]

Friday, December 14th, 2007

Giving who the business?

 By now, I am sure that pretty much all of you have seen this classic penalty call.  It is still worth watching, however, due to the complete inanity of the whole thing . . .
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And because it was not even the first of its kind, with the original coming during a pro game involving the [...]

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

Initial reaction to the Mitchell Report

The long-awaited results of the Mitchell Report finally came out today in a 409 page tome that is the result of gathering a bunch of journalism majors together and giving them a hot topic to research under the guidance of George Mitchell. The report included some surprising names (Andy Pettite) and some not so [...]

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Pitt recruiting follow-up and other notes

There have been some new developments in Pitt football since my post on Monday, some major and some small.

Prized Cincinnati Bearcat quarterback recruit Domonick Britt has decommitted and is said to be looking at Pitt, West Virginia, and Missouri. As Pitt has at least six quarterbacks expected to be on the roster next season, I [...]

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Dany Sabourin better be good

In searching for images of Dany Sabourin purposes, I discovered that there are about three of him in a Penguin uniform. That appears as if it is about to change, as Sabourin will be having his pictures taken on a consistent basis while he is the team’s starting goalie for the starting goalie for [...]

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

Notes of the day

There are a ton of small stories today that do not really deserve their own post, so I’m just going to run through them here and give brief analysis. Included in here are Pitt basketball, Penguin hockey, Pirate baseball, Steeler football and some other random stuff.