I was running on the treadmill at the gym last Friday when I saw it on the ESPN bottom-line: Pitt extends Coach Dave Wannstedt. My first, oh, 10 or so thoughts afterward were four-letter words. My knee-jerk reaction was, well, not a knee-jerk reaction at all. In 2005, Wannstedt inherited a team [...]
Over the last couple months, there’s been speculation that unless the Yankees win a title this year, Alex Rodriguez, baseball’s prodigal son, will find himself in a different uniform next year. The Los Angeles Angels have been the first team mentioned, and when discussing this with Adam, he estimated what he felt it would take: [...]
Today, I pondered the best way to exemplify how comically bad the Pirates franchise has been, particularly since the start of the new millenium. Of course, I could just point to the standings, but I decided instead to be creative and test my post-2000 Pirates knowledge. I decided to guess the 10 players [...]
When I had been dead set against Jamie Dixon becoming Ben Howland’s replacement. The reason being: I thought Pitt had a better option in Wake Forest Coach Skip Prosser. Prosser, a native Pittsburgher, died today at the relatively young age of 56.
Most of the time, when a celebrity or sports figure dies, [...]
I understand that the Steelers are the apple of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area’s eye. I know that life just about ceases to exist when they play, and that TV watchers are more interested in watching Alan Faneca’s wife cooking than actual news (I’m not kidding there. I saw it on KDKA last year.).
But [...]
[Ed. Welcome a new writer to the Be Like Tike staff, Michael Sklar]
Just when I was starting to get a little disconcerting feeling in my gut of “my god, perhaps the Pirates organization isn’t putting me first,” I found the religion of Bucco Baseball again last night. First, I was greeted by the [...]
