The Grandstander

The Steelers season came to a merciful end with that 28-10 shellacking that the Ravens junior varsity laid on Rooney U yesterday aftern...

Random thoughts on the Steelers woeful loss yesterday to the Woeful Jets...... That loss effectively ended the Steelers hopes of making...

The Grandstander Power Rankings (GPR) if the NFL Did It Like College Football for Week 15: Ravens Saints Chiefs Seahawks Kno...

In professional sports, all wins and losses count the same in the standings, statistically speaking.  Emotionally, however, it's a diff...

Not quite 48 hours have passed since the that El Stinko of a Steelers loss to the Browns on Thursday night.  The game itself and its res...

The Steelers beat the Los Angeles Rams (you know, the team that played in the Super Bowl last year) yesterday, 17-12.  The win was attri...

What a few days it has been on the Pittsburgh sports scene, and where do I even begin?   Let's start with last night's Steelers...

The Grandstander is about to take a brief hiatus and will be off the grid for a couple of weeks, but before I take this leave of absence, a...

Real Life Stuff has kept me away from the keyboard this past week, but before another sports weekend commences, I feel compelled to comment...

A familiar sight -  Donte Moncrief flat on the ground  after failing to catch yet another pass  against New England last night. ...

Pitt gets into the win column with a (as Myron Cope used to put it) desultory 20-10 win over Ohio University.  A win is a win, and Pitt sur...

With a baseball season that has been the dumper, Pittsburgh-wise, for over six weeks, and after a weekend that force fed us college footbal...