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When the air downtown felt electric, fireworks blew over the Allegheny, and black and gold wasn’t just a color. It was a damn identity. You could feel it in your chest. The Super Bowl was expected. The Cup was realistic. The city moved different. 2009, 2016, 2017. We were alive. That’s gone. Long gone. Now...

Derrick Henry isn’t getting an Adam Sandler cameo this year. Let’s just be real about it. Sandler said he’d put the King in one of his movies if he ran for 2,000 yards this season. It was funny, it was cool, it gave everyone something to root for. But unless Henry goes full Madden-glitch for...

Let’s just get right to it. The Baltimore Ravens got absolutely embarrassed today. The Texans walked into their house, kicked their feet up on the couch, raided the fridge, and beat them 44 to 10. That wasn’t football. That was a public undressing. It looked like a varsity squad scrimmaging against the local JV team....

Watching Penn State get steamrolled by UCLA today and then remembering last week’s collapse to Oregon, you can’t help but think this program is addicted to a very specific kind of denial. When you ask a Penn State fan an actual question about what’s going wrong, half the time the reply is some glazed, tribal...

You knew this clip was coming. Shedeur Sanders went on ESPN Cleveland and said, “If you see the quarterback play in the league right now, I know I’m capable of doing better than that.” People are already sharpening their takes, ready to dunk on him for being confident, for being Deion’s kid, for being a...