During the course of my sports broadcasting career, when people ask me what my favorite sport is to cover, I always give the same answer: high school football. The reason why: John Fedko. For the past 29 years he brought the best of western Pennsylvania high school football to WPXI-TV and created a level of […]

With the Cardinals’ 5-3 win in Arizona against the Diamondbacks Monday night, the Pittsburgh Pirates now have a record of 75-48, putting them 3.5 games behind St. Louis for first place in the National League Central Division. The good news for the Pirates is the Cardinals still have six games remaining in a 10-game West […]

Ken Laird talks to Steelers Guard Ramon Foster about the Pouncey injury, the offensive line without him and his replacement Cody Wallace.

Jordan Spieth just turned 22. Rory McIlroy is 26. Jason Day is 27. Those three young men arecurrently ranked 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, respectively, in the Official World Golf Ranking. The OWGR is nearly impossible to untangle without at least a semester of post-grad mathematics, but, right now, they’ve got it right. Spieth won the […]

Forasmuch as we have learned so far from this baseball season about what the Pittsburgh Pirates are as a potential playoff team, more attention has been paid recently to what they are not, and it’s easy to understand on the most basic of levels. But to provide perspective, I invoke the lyrics of Kanye West, […]

http://sportstalk.triblive.com/download/817ROSSI15.mp3 Rob Rossi on Gonchar and the Penguins, the US Soccer team at Heinz Field and Pittsburgh Steelers Preseason football.

Here is an update of our TribLIVE Radio Jagoff of the Week winners so far in 2015, with Pirates General Manager the latest “victor” this week. Jan 7 – Jagoff of the Year Voting ROGER GOODELL for the Ray Rice fiasco w/ a 2 game suspension, then the TMZ video, then indefinite suspension, denials they […]

http://sportstalk.triblive.com/download/630IKE15.mp3 The Ike Taylor Show is brought to you by Dunkin Donuts, the Preferred Coffee of the Ike Taylor Show. Mike Mitchell needs to step up and help the corners out for the Steelers this year. Andy Benoit of Sports Illustrated joins the show to talk about the Steelers defense and goes around the NFL […]