Baseball season begins today. Hope springs eternal they say, except in Pittsburgh, where grumbling about owner Bob Nutting’s thriftiness has become the de rigueur social take. The Pirates will start the season with a $73 million payroll, or about $150 million or so less than the world champion Boston Red Sox. And it will go down significantly in late July
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I dropped off of Facebook on Nov. 1, in part because of security concerns, a little because I spent entirely too much time with it but largely because it was making me miserable. Imagine waking up each day and checking out the internet with the morning coffee and reading on Facebook that some other user — theoretically, a friend —
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The two words to say to a Vegas Golden Knights’ player which are guaranteed to draw a blank stare are “last year.” The Knights made an incredible run to the Stanley Cup Final in their first season in the NHL, and it’s hard to forget that. But players like William Karlsson, Jonathan Marchessault and Reilly Smith, who shocked the hockey
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It was just over a year ago, a January day in 2018 that the Pirates traded Andrew McCutchen to the San Francisco Giants, that I swore I was done being a Pirates fan. I ranted, raved and vented, and said I’d become a fan of a new team. Eventually, I said I was going to become a fan of the
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I was on my next-to-last hole of a painfully slow round of golf on Sunday, waiting to hit my tee shot, when the twosome playing behind me finished and got to the tee, as well. I invited them to join me for the last two holes, which they did. It was, of course, a mistake, or I wouldn’t be writing
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Somehow, it seems kind of appropriate that I learned of my friend Royce Feour’s death on Boxing Day. As a journalist who covered boxing for nearly 40 years in Nevada, Feour became synonymous with the sport in his beloved home state. In the cutthroat world that is professional boxing, everybody has an enemy or someone who is out to get
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I love technology, but I love it most when it solves problems for me. And so, somewhat sheepishly, I have to admit that I love Sam’s Club’s “Scan & Go” app that I have on my iPhone. It is simply a great use of technology, but the primary benefit is that you can bypass the checkout lines when you’re done
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There are people like Lee Samuels in most companies. They’re the ones who keep the trains on time, so to speak, and who play an oversized albeit frequently unnoticed role in their company’s success. Sadly, their contributions to the overall success aren’t recognized or celebrated publicly. They’re like the gears inside of a watch; without them, the hands won’t move
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I got my first computer in the mid-1980s. My first cell phone arrived in the early 1990s, perhaps 1991, and was larger and heavier than my size 13 EEE dress shoes. I once subscribed to the Prodigy internet service and would marvel in wonder as the green letters slowly — and I mean S-L-O-W-L-Y — filled the screen to deliver
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In 1990, an all-sports newspaper called “The National” made its debut, and it featured some of the greatest sports writers of the day. It was a great idea at the wrong time and it last 18 months despite an excellent product. One of its problems was distribution and in Las Vegas, it was very hard to find. I’d drive for
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