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Kevin Gorman: From Kobe Bryant to Super Bowl, sports world a roller coaster ride of tears, cheers

Chuck Franciscus was 5 years old when he became a Los Angeles Lakers fan for life, watching in awe as Magic Johnson went from throwing no-look, behind-the-back passes to playing center and scoring 42 points in winning Game 6 of the 1980 NBA Finals to clinch the world championship. Franciscus...
Kevin Gorman: A ‘Dream Outfield’ deferred, Pirates turn to Gregory Polanco for productionVideo

Now that the Pittsburgh Pirates have traded two-thirds of the so-called Dream Outfield, we finally can wake up to this reality: It was more of a fantasy. The idea of fielding an outfield of All-Stars Andrew McCutchen, Starling Marte and Gregory Polanco in the same fashion as the early 1990s...
Kevin Gorman: Kobe Bryant’s death brings back Pittsburgh memories of his ‘Mamba Mentality’Video

Rick Bell is a hoops junkie, so he was watching the Maryland-Indiana college basketball game when he received a text message from his son, RJ, a junior guard at Geneva. Did you hear about Kobe? No, Bell replied, asking what happened. He was killed in a helicopter crash. That was...
Kevin Gorman: Josh Bell is face of the Pirates, who hope his bubble won’t burstVideo

Josh Bell makes it a point to practice in game-like conditions so he always pops in a mouthful of bubble gum for batting practice, mimicking his motions for facing major-league pitching. When he left the batting cages for a photo shoot Thursday to promote the Pittsburgh Pirates’ new road jerseys,...
Kevin Gorman: Trading Starling Marte might force the Pirates to finally use the R-wordVideo

The Pittsburgh Pirates touted their unveiling of new road jerseys at PiratesFest on Friday at PNC Park as “rewriting the script,” which is one way to use an R-word without using the R-word. Refresh. Recalibrate. Rewrite. Anything but rebuild. The Pirates have a new management team attempting to create a...
Kevin Gorman: Make no mistake, Matt Murray and Jack Johnson push Penguins past BruinsVideo

Perhaps no Pittsburgh Penguins have served as lightning rods for the fan base more than goalie Matt Murray and defenseman Jack Johnson, and both were being blamed for a three-goal, first-period deficit against the Boston Bruins. Murray and Johnson took their share of abuse in the first five minutes Sunday...
Kevin Gorman: Jeff Capel gets cutthroat against Carolina, as Pitt gets sweep to savorVideo

Jeff Capel wasn’t aware of the last time the Pitt Panthers pulled off a regular-season sweep in conference play, claiming he hadn’t studied the program’s history well enough to know. What the Pitt coach does know — perhaps better than any of his players could ever imagine — is the...
Kevin Gorman: Why Bill Cowher calls this Mike Tomlin’s best coaching job for the Steelers

As Bill Cowher reminisced about winning Super Bowl XL, he recalled how he was corrected after calling his Pittsburgh Steelers underdogs before playing the Seattle Seahawks. “Someone said, ‘I think you guys are favored,’ ” Cowher said of the four-point odds. “I said, ‘Nope, we’re underdogs. I’m not going to...
Kevin Gorman: After Hall call, Bill Cowher can’t wait for a lights-out Steelers conversation

We watched Bill Cowher’s famous jaw drop Saturday night upon learning of his selection to the Pro Football Hall of Fame and saw his chin quivering Sunday when his daughter’s social media post was read aloud. Now that the live reactions to his induction in August in the 20-member Centennial...
Kevin Gorman: Sidney Crosby’s comeback game was perfectly Pittsburgh for PenguinsVideo

It was a Pittsburgh Theme Night for the Penguins, and they pulled out all the stops in celebrating the colloquialisms and idiosyncrasies for which the city is famous. Nothing screams that it’s a Hockey Night in Pittsburgh more than hearing Penguins captain Sidney Crosby’s name announced in the starting lineup...
Kevin Gorman: A Pitt, Penn State or WVU national football title unlikely, not impossible

LSU’s decisive 42-25 victory over Clemson in the national championship game Monday night had analysts gushing about how it might be the best team in college football history. Not only did the Tigers beat seven top-10 teams, including the top four in the AP preseason poll, but they also ended...
Kevin Gorman: Pitt needs dynamic duo to trust in each other, teammatesVideo

Xavier Johnson was trying to make a play in the final seconds, with Pitt trailing by a point. What transpired left Jeff Capel fuming and frustrated, trying to make a point about how to play. It wasn’t just because Johnson picked up his dribble at the right elbow or because...
Kevin Gorman: Wrapping a bow on season of adversity for Mike Tomlin’s SteelersVideo

Mike Tomlin was standing before us on New Year’s Eve with an 8-8 record and a second consecutive season of the Pittsburgh Steelers on the outside looking in on the NFL playoffs. The Steelers coach wasn’t ready to wrap a bow on 2019. Nor was he willing to wallow in...
Kevin Gorman: Steelers can’t bank on Roethlisberger’s return meaning success

If this season taught the Pittsburgh Steelers anything, it should be that nothing is guaranteed. Not a winning record. Not the playoffs. Not even strong quarterback play, which was the one thing the Steelers could count on for the previous 15 seasons. The Steelers learned how hard it is to...
Kevin Gorman: Stunned Steelers have no excuses (or answers) for missing the playoffsVideo

BALTIMORE — A Pittsburgh Steelers season that began with a blowout at the reigning Super Bowl champion ended with another lopsided loss at the hands of the NFL’s top team. The Baltimore Ravens might have rested seven starters, but their backups were brutal in beating the Steelers, 28-10, amid a...
Kevin Gorman’s Take 5: Ravens’ backups better than Steelers’ starters in season finale

BALTIMORE — For a team in a must-win situation in the season finale to qualify for the postseason, the Pittsburgh Steelers looked like they wanted no part of the Baltimore Ravens. Or the playoffs. Not that the Steelers got the outside help they needed anyway. The first five AFC seeds...

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