The Grandstander

Here you go, short and sweet, predictions for the Division Series: Yankees over Tigers Rangers over Rays Phillies over Cardinals Brewers ove...

Well, the Pirates season went out with both a bang (six of them, actually - the number of HR's hit by the Brewers in the last two games)...

Some quick thoughts on a Friday night.... The Pirates start the weekend with a record of 69-87 and have six games remaining. As each misera...

Regular readers are aware of the fact that I have been on a Billy Wilder kick in recent weeks after reading a biography of him during the su...

Last week, Marilyn and I took off for a brief trip to North Carolina (and, apropos to the title of this post, we actually did cross the Jame...

So, back in 2003, Boston College, Miami, and Virginia Tech left (abandoned?) the Big East to join the Atlantic Coast Conference. At the time...

As it happened, today was the Stonebrook Village picnic. Because of that, I knew that I was not going to be able to watch the Steelers-Rave...