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Konnor Griffin’s debut was today, and he walked up to the plate in the second inning of his, and he hit a double to center field. First at-bat. Kyle Bradish on the mound, a legitimate starter on a real big league staff, and Griffin ripped one to the gap like he’d been doing this for...

NFL owners wrapped up three days of meetings in Phoenix this week, voted on five rule changes, and congratulated themselves on a productive offseason. Three of those five changes were about the kickoff. Again. This is the third straight year they have fiddled with the onside kick rules, and the big new addition is a...

Oneil Cruz went 5-for-13 with three home runs and six RBIs across three games in Cincinnati, and the Pirates beat the Reds in two of them by the exact same score both times. Pittsburgh came into this series at 1-2 after getting embarrassed by the Mets on Opening Day and left at 3-3 with their...

On Monday and Tuesday, the Penguins in the thick of a playoff run had two huge games against teams in the thick of the race with them. The Penguins rifled in a total of 13 goals and largely dominated both the Islanders and Red Wings. Dubas had his hands all over the blueprint of those...

The Pirates offense finally looked like what this roster was built to be. Four home runs, eight runs, an 8-3 final in Cincinnati the night after getting shutout by Chase Burns and looking like they would never score again. Bryan Reynolds and Oneil Cruz both went deep, and when those two are in the home...

MLB rule changes work. More than half of ABS challenges this year are getting overturned, which means umpires were wrong more than half the time somebody pushed back on a call. The pitch clock cut 25 minutes off the average game. ABS is working on day one of its first real season. There are four...

Sorry I’m a little late on this one. I was busy watching a team that actually wins. Penguins business. But I’m back now, and apparently I didn’t miss a damn thing worth celebrating, because the Pittsburgh Pirates offense just got shut out at one of the most hitter-friendly ballparks in baseball. Four games into a...

Six months ago, every single fan of the flightless birds would have been jumping up and down to have an extremely meaningful game on March 30th. Fast forward to that very date and Penguins fans are more puckered up than a child trying their first warhead. Huge is not nearly meaningful enough to describe the...

The Pittsburgh Pirates avoid sweep of the opening series, win their first game of 2026, and get out of New York with something to build on. Final score 4-3 in ten innings at Citi Field on Sunday. Carmen Mlodzinski was the best Pirate on the field, Brandon Lowe hit another home run, and a relay...

I have been watching bad umpires get away with murder for my entire life as a sports fan and I have never once seen any of them face a real consequence. That changed three days into the 2026 MLB season. ABS umpire accountability is not a theory anymore. CB Bucknor went behind the plate for...

I said it all winter and nobody wanted to hear it. The Pittsburgh Pirates season is two games old, they are 0-2, they just got walked off by Luis Robert Jr. in the 11th inning on a three-run shot off Hunter Barco, and every single person who spent the last three months telling me this...

Every single game feel like must-wins right now. Doubly so if the teams around you in the standings are winning. Even more so when you’re playing a team that’s in the race with you. The Penguins were given the opportunity to kick a team down a peg last night when they traveled to Ottawa. It...

The Pirates Opening Day loss was 11-5 and if you watched that first inning, you already know the season is going to require a lot of patience. We were told this was a different team. We were told the pitching was the foundation that would carry them. What we actually watched was Paul Skenes get...

Its time for the Penguins to make the call to Murashov. In 2016, the Penguins had a number 81 on their third line. They had a couple of kids playing throughout the lineup. Sid and Geno were steering the ship. They also had a rookie goalie whose last name started with an M come in,...

PNC Park food 2026 is exactly what you’d expect from a franchise that has finished under .500 six years running. While parks around the league are doing Kobe beef hot dogs with Luke’s Lobster, two-pound burgers stacked with braised short rib, and machete-sized quesadillas, the Pirates looked at Pittsburgh’s food culture and came back with…...

The Dodgers are going to win the World Series again, and most of the baseball world already knows it. They were the two-time defending champions before Opening Day even started, and then they went out and signed Kyle Tucker for $240 million and Edwin Diaz to close games. Nobody is stopping this team. But let...

A set of back-to-backs and in a great position to solidify a playoff opportunity was largely squandered by Pittsburgh this weekend. On the surface, the Penguins did fine to get 2 of 4 points and losing against a fresh Carolina isn’t too worrisome. However, the Penguins overall play is beginning to become startling. The Penguins...

The NIL March Madness Cinderella isn’t dead. She’s just been priced out of the building. This year’s tournament has been genuinely fun to watch. Good games, wild finishes, chaos in spots. But if you’ve been waiting for that one team, the one with the funny mascot and the coach nobody’s heard of and the six...