When my college friends get together, Steve Huether likes to tell the story of the first time he met the rest of Finnegan 4-West during move-in day freshman year. He likes to set the scene like it’s a low budget Hype Williams music video. As he strolls in slow-motion around the corner of the contorted [...]
The NFL lockout is over. Well, according to U.S. District Judge Susan Nelson, it is – for now. I was too busy digging through my sofa cushions for spare gas money to notice. In this balking contest between the have-a-lots and have-a-lot-mores in our American society, I have found it impossible to care. Throwing any [...]
Tiger Woods can you, uh, please start golfing again like it’s the year 2002? Pretty please? With a cherry on top? If the PGA Tour wants any chance of me sending one of my Nielsen ratings its way, Woods’ name better be at the top of the leaderboard come Sunday. But as badly as I [...]
Typical Pirates. All the negative Nancies couldn’t move their fingers fast enough to eke out this short, belittling statement as their Facebook status after the Pittsburgh Pirates gave up a three-run lead in the eighth inning of Saturday’s game. Boy, even people from The City of Champions are quick to slash the sails on the [...]
My knees were on the ground, my hands were on my head and my eyes were closed. No, this wasn’t Gannon’s latest fire drill – it was how I watched the University of Pittsburgh basketball team break my heart – again. As Butler forward Matt Howard was busy earning his Academy Award, I was busy [...]
The Butler Bulldogs were my dirty little secret until last season. After watching Gordon Hayward and company drop a tough NCAA opening round game against the LSU Tigers in the 2008-09 season, I vowed that one day – when the team matured – that I would take a chance on them in my bracket. Enter [...]
My life was changed by an anonymous person I never met. In fact, I couldn’t even describe the features on his makeup-laden face. The only thing I can actually remember is his snotty voice – a voice that my brain has replayed each day for the past few years. The summer day was a beautiful [...]
Well, we have a nice view. And a sweet doorbell. Other than giving us those high-life perks, Harborview 402 has been as gracious a host as Norman Bates. I mean, at least Bates’ hotel showers drained. We thought we were moving into the lap of luxury when Gannon told us that it was tearing down [...]
Move over Trent Dilfer. After the Packers’ 31-25 victory over the Steelers Sunday, there’s a new most-overrated-Super-Bowl-winning quarterback. And he wasn’t the one hoisting Lombardi’s trophy high into the Arlington air. Super Bowl XLV kindly proved what I’ve been saying all along – Ben Roethlisberger is not that good. He’ll break a couple tackles from [...]
Gannon University’s back-to-back basketball defeats at the hands of the evil Erie college – Mercyhurst –rubbed me as wrong as a jockstrap lathered in Icy Hot… and it wasn’t because of the scores. The choke-job by the men’s team and the women’s never-really-that-close defeat didn’t disappoint as much as the lack of student support. More [...]