Honest Wagner

After further thought, it boils down to one thing for me: the season is much too damn long. It has to end at least three weeks earlier. They...

So MLB has gone and made a schedule and a playoff schedule that results in an 83-win team taking the championship. I've long argued that...

Barring another injury on the trip to Oakland, Ben will start on Sunday, Dulac reports. Hampton will join Duce on the sideline, but Haggans...

Also from Dulac's notebook is this Dan Marino quote from this week's edition of HBO's "Inside the NFL": "The Pi...

Dan Rooney doesn't care . But Rooney apparently had no qualms about speaking out, or about suffering the consequences that came down Fri...

For going 9-4 to bring home the Week 7 HW NFL pick 'em pool shout-out. Do Rowdy and I just suck this year? Or are we getting unlucky? O...

Carnell Lake, Dermontti Dawson, Kevin Greene, and Donnie Shell nominated.

Gerry Dulac has Hines quotes: "I'm the only receiver since I've been here to take a skinny route all the way and I've done...

Cowher will wait til Sunday morning to announce if Ben or Batch is starting. Off the field, Ben has had a busy week, getting teased by the ...

Yes we are rooting for him and the other ex-Pirates .

Ed Bouchette and Florida's Steve Harrod gripe about the OT rules . I say make them tie. Draws are cool.

Yeah man, I definitely hate the celebrations . It's beyond the day when there was a valid way of defending them. Score the touchdown, dr...

And Slate's Stefan Fatsis explains why a bad player set this record .

Ed Eagle reports . No surprise here. Burnitz gets 700K to just go away. Now DL wants to look at anybody else: "When we originally signe...

Ed Bouchette gets silly in today's chat . Ed relates that Ben might practice tomorrow, James Harrison will miss Sunday's game, and T...

Ben's agent thinks Ben seems fine, otherwise Ben would've stayed in Atlanta or not waited a full day to see the UPMC neurosurgery ex...

Concussions are like timeouts--you can't have many in a short period of time. Get well, Ben .

I disagree with Bones on this one. The Steelers lost that game fair and square. The Steelers have no business pointing fingers at the offici...

Of course the fumbles had more to do with the loss than the officiating, but the zebras were suspect enough to make Dan Rooney call them out...

Mondesi's house has some questions for coach Cowher.