He's the number 3 prospect in all of minor league baseball according to Baseball Prospectus. Baseball America ranks him as their 7th overall and 4th highest prospect pitcher, in addition to their 14th ranked 2013 big league rookie in terms of expected impact. Keith Law of ESPN and Scouts Inc. ranks his likely Major League […]

Welcome to Bradenton, Florida for Pirates Spring Training 2013. Next up in my series of reports from my time spent here in Bucco camp: the battle for the team's 5th starting spot. The Pirates starting rotation has four of their five season opening spots about locked up, mostly due to Francisco Liriano's bizarre offseason injury […]

Welcome to Bradenton, Florida for Pirates Spring Training 2013. I've been checking out the newest edition of the Bucs for the past week and conducting numerous interviews; Ill be posting a series of notes and observations from what I've seen and heard around the team coming up here in the next few days. First topic […]

The Pitt men's basketball team won their third straight Big East game on Tuesday with a hard-fought 58-54 win over Providence. After the game Friars' head coach Ed Cooley took the podium and took a shot at the officiating in the contest while only grudgingly giving the Panthers credit for the victory. Here is the […]

Steelers GM Kevin Colbert was a guest on Trib Live Radio today with me and Guy Junker. Here is a transcript of that chat: What are you and the staff doing now? "There's really four phases of where you are. The first phase is a season review. You've got to look at your [salary] cap […]

PLAXICO BURRESS TD ICES GAME… HOW ABOUT HIS FUTURE WITH PITTSBURGH? "We'll see how it goes," Burress said after the game when asked about his future with Pittsburgh. "I'm pretty sure I'll sit down with Kevin [Colbert] and Coach [Tomlin], and we'll see what happens. I understand this is a business but for myself I'm […]

MOOD OF THE LOCKER ROOM Ramon Foster: "We're just moving on because we control our own destiny still. We have nothing to be down about. We want to redeem those losses that we gave but we can't be down about it. If we go in the tank right now we'll be sitting at home in […]

Picking 24th back in April's 2012 NFL Draft, the Pittsburgh Steelers made a pick that team management felt could have been made while wearing a mask. Stanford's right guard road-grater David DeCastro, he of the 39 Pac-12 starts and 96.88 senior year blocking consistency mark, dropped to Pittsburgh in the draft's first round and had […]