Better Bell than Brown or Ben
Just Watch the Game LE’Veon Bell deserved to be the Steelers MVP. The players voted for him but, of the three MVPs on the offense, he is the easiest to replace. The QB is always the most valuable...
View ArticleClemente’s Basement
Just Watch the Game I think it was 1987. I went to San Juan Puerto Rico to do an installment of “Pirates Treasures” for the Pirates pregame show. I knocked on the door of the last house that Roeberto...
View ArticleI APOLOGIZE
Just Watch the Game I owe lots of people an apology. For the past few months I have been making an effort to get the Just Watch The Game blog back to where it was before I shut it down a couple of...
View Article1972
Just Watch the Game If you weren’t alive in 1972 it’s impossible for you to have had a year as a Pittsburgh sports can compare to that year. The Pirates had what might have been their best team ever...
View ArticleWHAT WERE 2014’S TOP SPORTS STORIES?
Just Watch the Game Remember when big sports stories took place on fields, courts, rinks, tracks, courses and inside rings? Have you seen the lists of the top sports stories for 2014? According to a...
View ArticleA STEROID IS A STERIOD IS A STEROID
Just Watch the Game You can’t do a story on the Baseball Hall of Fame balloting without mentioning steroids. There was – and will be for a long time – as much if not more discussion about who was not...
View ArticleCardale Should Have Gone For The Cash
Just Watch the Game Cardale Jones should have gone pro. After quarterbacking Ohio State to the NCAA’s most recent version of the Mythical National Championship Monday night, he had until Thursday to...
View ArticleWHAT ABOUT ANDREW LUCK’S BALLS?
Just Watch the Game J. Steigerwald column for 1.24/25.14 Had enough of Deflategate? It couldn’t happen to a more deserving organization. The New England Patriots are known cheaters. Everybody remembers...
View ArticleALL SPORTS RADIO IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Just Watch the Game A suggestion for 93.7 The Fan. Lose the sports updates. If you’re telling me the details of last night’s Penguins game and last night’s Pitt basketball game at 10:00 in the morning,...
View ArticleJUST PLAY THE GAME
Just Watch the Game J. Steigerwald column for 1.31/2.01.14 Let’s hope that Richard Sherman’s about-to-be born son is as disciplined as Sherman expects him to be. Earlier this week, Sherman was asked...
View ArticleTOM BRADY BEST EVER (IN THE DINK AND DUNK ERA)
Just Watch the Game I’ve always had a hard time accepting Tom Brady’s greatness. But then I also question the greatness of Jerry Rice. Believe me, I know that both are great players, but I always...
View ArticleSteigerWorld Podcast | Ep. 1
Just Watch the Game Welcome to the world of John Steigerwald My first podcast with the “Pittsburgh Podcast Network” has arrived. We will be doing this on a weekly basis every Wednesday. The podcast is...
View ArticleHorses Escape, Obama Closes the Barn Door
Just Watch the Game Our president is about 30 years too late. In his latest budget proposal, Barack Obama will call on Congress to put an end to tax exempt funds to finance stadiums. This would have...
View ArticleSteigerWorld Podcast | Ep. 2
Just Watch the Game They had me back. I guess the first episode wasn’t a complete disaster. The podcast is still Gluten Free and this week I touch on the news, boy baseball and man baseball, the local...
View ArticleCHEATERS NEVER WIN BUT SOMETIMES THEY WHINE
Just Watch the Game Little League International hit the daily double this week. It was accused of racism and bullying. In case you hadn’t heard, last summer’s feel good story of the summer’s not...
View ArticleLET’S RIP SIDNEY CROSBY
Just Watch the Game The Twittersphere and talk radio was a-twitter today with people claiming that Sidney Crosby has been getting a free pass compared to other superstars in town. My question is who...
View ArticleSteigerWorld Podcast | Ep. 3
Just Watch the Game Welcome to the world of John Steigerwald John Steigerwald brings his 40 years of sports and worldly knowledge to the online podcast world with “SteigerWorld.” The show is a weekly...
View ArticleMLB WASTING TIME TRYING TO SAVE TIME
Just Watch the Game The Idiots Who Run Baseball strike again. The new commissioner, Rob Manfred, Players Association Executive Director Tony Clark, John Scherholtz, Atlanta Braves President and...
View ArticleFIGHT TEAM FIGHT. OR NOT
Just Watch the Game “Fight Golden Knights Fight for the Green and the Gold Fight to win this game.” Those are the first three lines of my high school’s fight song. The nickname has since been changed...
View ArticleSteigerWorld Podcast | Ep. 4
Just Watch the Game Welcome to the world of John Steigerwald John Steigerwald brings his 40 years of sports and worldly knowledge to the online podcast world with “SteigerWorld.” The show is a weekly...
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