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By GENE COLLIER, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Tapping into Bud Selig's thoughts
By GENE COLLIER, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
We now present our own experimental media invasion, Thought Thieving Thursday, in which we secretly tap into the brains of baseball executives in evident states of agitation.
Don't ask how we've done it. All I can say is it involves a cell phone, three to five outed CIA operatives, a Slinky, and some Tabasco.
Sticky anniversary for Yankee Stadium
By GENE COLLIER, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
As the summer of love for doomed Yankee Stadium climaxes Tuesday night with the All-Star Game, don't think that you've somehow extracted yourself from the old yard's dense multi-layered history.
Soon enough, you'll be reminded that for all its baseball, football, boxing and even papal significance, Yankee Stadium is also where the cure for hemorrhoids was discovered.
Sports stars' surgery always goes perfectly
By GENE COLLIER, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Two of the most prominent forces in all of sports, exalted mystic golfmaster Tiger Woods and baseball postseason legend Curt Schilling had surgery last week, and in both cases, their procedures were deemed highly successful.
Stunning, I know.
Yankees-Pirates series a money mismatch
By GENE COLLIER, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Whether you consider the essential separation between the Pittsburgh Pirates and New York Yankees to be 375 miles of hard road or 375 light years of jagged baseball politics, there is no ambivalence that what begins at PNC Park Tuesday night is the highlight of the sporting summer around here.
Reputations falling as fast as Penguins
By GENE COLLIER, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
DETROIT -- Sidney Crosby hasn't scored a goal since Mother's Day.
Evgeni Malkin skates in quicksand.
Ryan Malone can't function unless he's under the world's largest formerly retractable stainless steel roof.
And that Marian Hossa trade so widely hailed? Did it really happen? I mean, is he here?
It's sinking in that Penguins are for real
By GENE COLLIER, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
PHILADELPHIA -- Philadelphia Flyers goalie Martin Biron sank into Game 3 like a septuagenarian descending the steps of the Broad Street Subway at midnight.
He was cautious. He was creaky. He was, in those first minutes, more than just a little pathetic.
Malkin breaks out Garden party for Penguins
By GENE COLLIER, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
NEW YORK -- Among the lesser-known incongruities rattling around the National Hockey League's exhaustive arithmetic, at least as the puck got dropped for Game 3 of these Eastern Conference semifinals, was the Pittsburgh Penguins Evgeni Malkin's total career goals at Madison Square Garden.
Zero.
Seven career games, two assists, no goals.
That couldn't last.
NFL schedule mixes food for thought with geography
By GENE COLLIER, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Perhaps you noticed this week that two different sports networks spent two hours of live television examining the just-released NFL schedule, which begins just 4.6 months from tonight when the Super Bowl Champion New York Football Giants entertain the Not Even Close to Super Bowl Champion Washington Football Redskins.
At East Rutherford, N.J.
NFL always happy with meek tweaks
By GENE COLLIER, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The National Football League has just wrapped up its annual Tweak Week, during which it convenes executives from all 32 clubs to tweak a few rules, consider new policies that are subject to further tweaking and emerge in the same traditional profile it has had lo these many years.


