American Dash

Cutting to the chase of world affairs since 2002

Monday, January 12, 2026

The Steelers Crap Game Win, and Anthony Davis, Seriously?

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 Before the Pittsburgh Steelers host Houston in their first home playoff game in six years at whatever they are calling Heinz Field these ...
Monday, December 15, 2025

Mid-December with the Warriors, Niners, Steelers, Etc.

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The Golden State Warriors managed to survive the worst part of their schedule, the first 24 games or so, with numerous back-to-backs and roa...
Wednesday, November 05, 2025

Starting the Long Season

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  The Golden State Warriors have a hellish schedule to start the season: several back to backs, several three games in four nights, and no...
Sunday, October 19, 2025

Ohtani Inflation

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  I'm not a Dodgers fan.  When the Pittsburgh Pirates beat them three straight games, shutting them out twice, I was elated.  I made sur...
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Heroic Fever, Curry Brothers United and Other News

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  First the Indiana Fever lost their generational star Caitlin Clark to injuries, eventually ruled out for the rest of the season.  But the...
Tuesday, September 09, 2025

The Women of September

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  The first expansion team I remember was the New York Mets.  I turned 16 the summer they started playing in 1962.  They were terrible. They...
Sunday, August 10, 2025

Hurting (with update)

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  Injuries are part of sports, they always say.  But do injuries have to be such a large part? In professional basketball, for instance.  In...
Friday, July 04, 2025

RIP Dave Parker, All Hail Bobby Bonilla Day

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  Two Pittsburgh Pirates greats who I saw play in their prime were in the news this week.  One of them gave me a memorable baseball thrill, ...
Saturday, May 17, 2025

It's Over, It's Begun

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The Golden State Warriors overcame injuries to Gary Payton II and Jimmy Butler to win their first round playoff series against second seed H...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Redemption, for Now

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  The Golden State Warriors lost that "must-win" final game of the season to the Clippers, but it turned out not to be doomsday.  ...
Saturday, April 12, 2025

The Season in One Game

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The entire Golden State Warriors season comes down to the 82nd and final game.  If they defeat the Los Angeles Clippers at home on Sunday th...
Saturday, April 05, 2025

Warriors For Real

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  The Steph-less Warriors lost their first two games on a crucial road trip to lesser opponents, but with Steph back they won the final four...
Saturday, March 29, 2025

Warriors Worriers

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  The key to this NBA season is more and more obvious: it is health.  It is the strain of all those games.  Almost every team is missing its...
Thursday, March 20, 2025

Warriors Reality Check

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  The NBA season is into the home stretch.  The Golden State Warriors have just 13 games left.  The good news is that 9 of them are against ...
Monday, March 10, 2025

Cheated

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  Not long ago Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr lambasted the NBA for not caring about the health of its players, in insisting on sche...
Monday, February 24, 2025

Trade Winds in Their Sails

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  In the two games played so far after the All Star break, the Golden State Warriors defeated two rivals for playoff spots, the Sacramento K...
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Tale of Two Upsets and New Look Warriors

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I recall watching the first championship game ever officially called the Super Bowl in 1969.  It was then still a game between that season...
Thursday, February 06, 2025

Impatience

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 Not nearly as consequential as the blitzkrieg in Washington the past two weeks, there was a sudden and extensive shakeup in the NBA, especi...
Sunday, January 26, 2025

Patience

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  Within a season of such desultory results, the Golden State Warriors and those who follow them closely seem to be watching for smaller sig...
Friday, January 17, 2025

Win It For the Draft Money

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 What a lousy year for the teams I support and write about here: the Warriors, the 49ners, the Steelers, Giants, Pirates...and now everyone ...
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