0 comments by Bam on 7/20/2011
Our Bloguin brother Nate from the Colts blog 18to88 just wrote an excellent post comparing Ben Roethlisberger and Peyton Manning. He focus on sack rate and the money line is: “Roethlisberger has taken more sacks in his career than Manning has in his, despite the fact that Manning has thrown TWICE as many passes.” Nate […]
0 comments by Bam on 7/19/2011
If you are a Pittsburgh fan and you haven’t been following the Pirates this season, you are missing out. And if you are all of the above and not reading WHYGAVS, Bucs Dugout and Pirates Prospects on a daily basis then I don’t know what to tell you. Michael McKenry’s home run a few weeks […]
0 comments by Bam on 7/18/2011
I’m still refusing to write about the NFL lockout, but from tweets and stories I’ve been reading the past few days, it definitely sounds like some progress is being made. I’m very much ready to stop talking about: …and to start talking about: http://youtube.com/watch?v= 2m0Yioo3WlM[/youtube] http://youtube.com/watch?v= IPBcph8k5lw[/youtube] http://youtube.com/watch?v= 6DyzASDVpwU[/youtube] http://youtube.com/watch?v= X96XH_giZW4[/youtube]
0 comments by Bam on 7/14/2011
Since it was announced a few months ago that the next Batman movie “The Dark Knight Rises” would be filmed in Pittsburgh, it has been fun to try and figure out what locations the filmmakers would choose. Would the Cathedral of Learning make an appearance? Would they blow up Mellon Arena? While filming is still […]
0 comments by Bam on 7/13/2011
Every Steelers offseason is turning into a daytime soap opera and this one is certainly no exception. Just days after Hines Ward’s DUI arrest, LB James Harrison is saying all kinds of crazy things in a feature article for Men’s Journal. The juiciest quotes are going to appear in the print edition, but here are […]
0 comments by Bam on 7/12/2011
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 […]
0 comments by Bam on 7/9/2011
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 […]
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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 […]
0 comments by Bam on 7/7/2011
I’m a huge football fan in general, but I’ve always had an especially big interest in high school ball. You can probably blame it on growing up in western Pennsylvania. I know I’m not the only one that still watches the WPIAL and PIAA championship games on TV despite graduating high school a while ago. […]
0 comments by Bam on 7/6/2011
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 […]
0 comments by Bam on 7/4/2011
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 […]
0 comments by Bam on 6/30/2011
-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 […]
0 comments by Bam on 6/28/2011
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 […]
0 comments by Bam on 6/19/2011
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 […]
0 comments by Bam on 6/9/2011
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