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Yes, I spelled Chiefs incorrectly on purpose. If it's good enough for the Bungles. . . . A few pregame notes: * Expect Willie Parker to play more today. Of course, Bruce Arians planned to play his -- dare we say this now -- No. 2 halfback more often, on every third series, the past two games. Situations worked out differently. But today the Chiefs
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By Chuck Finder | 5:05 p.m. Friday Facing a midnight deadline tonight to set their 40-man roster, the Pirates late this afternoon announced that they cut loose starter-reliever Jeff Karstens and officially added hard-throwing reliever Ramon Aguero, outfielder Gorkys Hernandez plus starters Brad Lincoln and Bryan Morris to that roster, thus protecting
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By Chuck Finder | 5:18 p.m. Tuesday Steve Williams, 45, left his Kansas City Royals post as assistant director of scouting after three years to become a major-league scout with the Pirates, the club announced this evening. He will assume much the same duties held by special assistants to general manager Neal Huntington, who announced his hiring in a
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By Chuck Finder | 10:50 p.m. Monday While Florida leadoff hitter Chris Coghlan won the National League Rookie of the Year -- and, if anyone cares, Oakland closer Andrew Bailey on the American League side -- a pair of Pirates became the fifth tandem in club history to finish among the top 10 for the NL honor. Pirates center fielder Andrew McCutchen finished
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(Last time they met, Cincinnati fans emailed that we were all offended by the "Bungles" references. Hey, lighten up, people, it's a Pittsburgh thing. It's a Cope thing. At least I didn't call them the Wicky-Wackys. . . ) 12:59 p.m.: Tamara Tunie of "Law & Order SVU", also of McKeesport and Carnegie Mellon, sang the
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11:35 a.m.: INACTIVES include FB Carey Davis (hamstring), starting DE Travis Kirschke (calf), CB Keiwan Ratliff, G Kraig Urbik, OT Tony Hills, DE Sunny Harris, WR Shaun McDonald with Dennis Dixon as the No. 3 quarterback. All of which means: WR Limas Sweed is active again. We'll see if the one thing he can grab is an opponent's jersey for the
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The Major League Baseball Players Association's official list was announced late last night (sorry to interrupt morning talk, but it has been a point of discussion here): Closer Matt Capps Shortstop Ronny Cedeno Starting pitcher Zach Duke Swingman Jeff Karstens
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By Chuck Finder | 7:16 p.m. Thursday Nothing earth-shattering, but club officials -- without yet putting them on their Web site -- announced today that they'll play at PNC Park in 2010 at the regularly scheduled 7:05 p.m. time, for the most part. Oh, there will be five 12:35 p.m. weekday starts, including April 8 (Dodgers) on the opening homestand
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By Chuck Finder | 12:18 p.m. Wednesday So spring training ends on the other side of the Commonwealth the first weekend of April? Brrr. Six games with the 2008 world-champion Phillies -- including two in Citizens Bank Park April 2-3 -- and four with the Tampa Bay Rays dot the 33-game Pirates' spring schedule, the club announced today. This is the
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8:36 p.m .: Jake Plummer with a beard looked like a rugged outdoorsman, mountain-man cool and dashing. Kyle Orton looks. . . like a wanted poster. From 1879. Hey, it's no more of a random reference than a pregame show. "Hey," Stuart Scott shouted, "Big Ben, come over here." Oh, yeah, like that wasn't scripted. 8:38 p.m.: