Tonight is the MLB All-Star Game and we’re smack in the middle of baseball season (with no football news to boot!). I’m a huge baseball fan and a huge stats fan so, naturally, I spend a ton of time reading FanGraphs and other statistically minded baseball blogs. WAR is one of my the most definite […]

I love Steeler fans, I really do. They are second-to-none when it comes to passion, knowledge of the game and supporting their team. Steeler fans I’ve met on the street, in bars, at games have all been like brothers to me. It’s an awesome bond.  But at the same time, they have frustrated me to […]

Every time an email arrives from TMZ in our inbox, I have come to realize that shit is about to hit the fan. Sadly, it has happened a few times in recent years with Jeff Reed, Santonio Holmes and Ben Roethlisberger. Add Hines Ward to that list as of this morning.  Ward was arrested for […]

Aside from playing lots of wiffle ball and eating my weight in hamburgers over the 4th of July weekend, I also finished reading one of the must-read sports books of the summer — Those Guys Have All The Fun: Inside the World of ESPN by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales. It is a great […]

The NFL Network aired the finale of their top 100 players of 2011 series last night. Steelers SS Troy Polamalu finished 6th in the players-only voting. Those ahead of Polamalu were as follows:  5. Ed Reed 4. Ray Lewis 3. Adrian Peterson 2. Peyton Manning 1. Tom Brady I have a few thoughts on this […]

-B- TribeLive Radio had a good 30 minute interview with Ike Taylor, who is set to become an unrestricted free agent once the lockout ends. The interview was pretty wide ranging and covered a lot of topics. Some of the more interesting ones: – Taylor only took a week off after the Super Bowl before […]

This post comes totally from out in left field, as the NFL’s current divisional structure seems to work fine, but with heated talks of realignment in both the MLB and NHL, it is an idea that keeps popping into my head.  Travel is much less of an issue in the NFL than in the NHL […]

Only three running back in the NFL had more carries than Rashard Mendenhall in 2010 — Michael Turner, Steven Jackson and Arian Foster. Mendenhall’s 324 carries are the most for a Steeler back in one season since Willie Parker’s 337 in 2006 and the second most since 2000, when Jerome Bettis carried the ball a […]

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Five or six times over the past few months, I’ve sat down and tried to pen my thoughts on the latest news about the NFL lockout. Every time I’ve failed. It’s not that I wouldn’t be upset if there is no 2011 season or that I don’t pay attention to the news. I would be […]

While the NFL Network’s ongoing series profiling the top 100 NFL players of today has been interesting to follow, I’ve been equally curious on Peter King’s top 100 list. The SI writer his been delivering his picks each week in his column. King gets a lot of criticism from people — some of it deserved […]

Every year, EA Sports adds a few different things into Madden, their NFL franchise. This year the big thing is Dynamic Player Performance. It’s a pretty radical update to the traditional attributes used in the Madden franchise. In the past, players in the game are given scores on things like agility, speed, throwing power, etc. […]

Plaxico Burress will be released from prison on June 6th. He’ll also be reinstated into the NFL by Roger Goodell and will be a free agent.  Burress will be 34 years old and hasn’t played a snap of football since the 2008 season. Plenty of teams will still be interested in him. Should the Steelers […]

I didn’t watch the show a single time (including the finale). I also vowed not to post anything about it on the blog, but since Hines won the whole thing we at least owe him this much.  He’s come a long way. http://youtube.com/watch?v= 02f809wc8Oc[/youtube] Congrats Hines!  EDIT: Always amusing, here are Chad Ochocinco’s thoughts on […]