It's not very often that a Steelers season ends with a last-second playoff loss and most fans are satisfied.
03/03/2016 - 19:00
Tony DeFazio
Last Sunday morning, just hours after one of the wildest playoff wins in team history, Steelers fans were at their pretentious best.
01/10/2016 - 09:52
Tony DeFazio
Neil Walker is, by all accounts, a hell of a guy. He's a very good baseball player too. And now he'll play for the New York Mets. And that’s not a big deal. It's not a reason to feel bad for Neil. It's certainly not a tragedy.
12/10/2015 - 13:05
Tony DeFazio
The 2015 Pitt Panthers were an improved football team, but hardly a great one. Much of the praise heaped upon Pat Narduzzi and his staff for Pitt’s 8-4 regular season comes in light of extremely low expectations given the program's recent past.
12/02/2015 - 22:15
Tony DeFazio
Neil Walker’s contract expires after the 2016 season. The Pirates second baseman is due for a big raise in arbitration this offseason, likely to $10 million.
11/13/2015 - 10:20
Tony DeFazio
The Backyard Brawl is back, even if it’s not for another seven years. When the West Virginia Mountaineers take the field in Pittsburgh in the fall of 2022, the players that will be freshmen on those teams are mere sixth-graders now.
11/09/2015 - 17:16
Tony DeFazio
Conversations about the Pittsburgh Pirates are very different nowadays.
09/15/2015 - 09:48
Tony DeFazio
The Steelers started the offseason by signing franchise quarterback Ben Roethlisberger to a significant contact extension. A day before training camp opened, they capped the offseason by extending the contract of general manger Kevin Colbert.
08/02/2015 - 20:17
Tony DeFazio
After a slow start to the recruiting season, things have picked up for new Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi.
07/15/2015 - 09:33
Tony DeFazio
Imagine this potentially disastrous scenario for the Pirates pitching staff: Veteran A.J. Burnett starts pitching like he's 38-years-old. That's it. That's the entire scenario.
06/12/2015 - 13:16
Tony DeFazio
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