American Dash

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

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...

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

  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...

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

  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...

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

  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, ...

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

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

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...

  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...

  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...

  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 ...

  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...

  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...

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

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

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

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