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Baseball trivia book for super fans to be released

It won’t be too long before a whole lot of Pittsburgh Pirates equipment will be loaded onto a groaning truck and begin its 1,067-mile trip to Pirate City in Bradenton. The yearly phrase, “Pitchers (naturally with a focus on sensation Paul Skenes) and catchers report,” follows as does (eventually) pleasant weather back up in Pittsburgh. Until then, action is limited for fans to the good old, but imaginary, Hot Stove League. There, the activity consists of shooting the baseball breeze. Today’s topic Is trivia with all of the questions plucked from my upcoming Skyhorse ...

Guest column: On start times, pricing and betting

As the year winds down, a few thoughts that I would like to see: - Starting games at times where people with real jobs who have to get up at a decent hour can actually see the endings once in a while. - Coaches stop blaming themselves for everything that goes wrong as a protective mechanism. Full disclosure, this doesn’t work at home. My wife agrees, yes I did screw up. - When starting lineups are announced for college hoops and football games, their salaries are also listed next to their position. - Eliminate at least one-two timeouts for all games. There are a million TV and ...

Pitching in to help out Santa Claus

Eager to lighten Santa’s load this Christmas, but lacking access to a sleigh and reindeer, this handy vehicle is a satisfactory substitute for the disbursement of a few stocking stuffers across the athletic plains: n Great debate surrounded what to give Travis Kelce, a guy who seemingly has everything. How about the good sense not to embarrass yourself at the Super Bowl by bumping your head coach off balance during a sideline meltdown for all the world to see? n Perpetually athletic-appareled VP for Intercollegiate Athletics Pat Kraft is gifted the honorary title of assistant coach ...

PSU audio leaker should pay high price

To borrow and paraphrase a remark from President Gerard Ford: At long last, the great Penn State nightmare (2.0) is over. However, what still upsets me is the betrayal by the player who leaked the tape of the closed-door team meeting with team leaders. In the athletic world, that’s a sacrilege. If identified, he should be thrown off the team ASAP — preferably by the team leaders. And I would hope that each player at that meeting would let Kraft know it wasn’t him. I know it would be hard for the players to turn on a teammate, but this was also a betrayal to them and ...

Army vs. Navy about more than football

Take the military academies out of the college football equation and what remains is a host of systemic challenges that threaten the game’s integrity and long-term stability. NIL money defines the business of the game that has transformed recruiting into a financial arms race for players ...

Mailbag: Campbell should restore Penn State program

Due to the dismissal of James Franklin as the head football coach at Penn State, almost all of the 2026 recruits have deserted Penn State and gone to other schools. Most notably, many of them will join Franklin, the new head coach at Virginia Tech. I think they are making a big mistake by ...