http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/columnists/ Sports columnist Gene Collier en-us Copyright 2010, post-gazette.com. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:40:49 -0400 15 http://www.post-gazette.com/includes/2007design/images/150x30pg_now_logo.gif http://www.post-gazette.com/ 144 39 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10210/1076134-63.stm?cmpid=collier.xml By the time you read this, the number of Major League Baseball players with 600 home runs might have swollen to seven, but it'll be an ugly swelling, marked by the telltale needle marks of guilt and suspicion. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10209/1075743-61.stm?cmpid=collier.xml Ever have that dream where you are in Heinz Field -- I mean right down on the field -- but the Steelers aren't there and the place is empty except for some guys in suits and Sidney Crosby, who's trying to shoot the puck between the uprights from, like, 70 yards away? Me neither. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:44:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10206/1075281-150.stm?cmpid=collier.xml Just two summers ago, these San Diego Padres, the team that has been stiff-arming the new look Pirates all weekend on the North Side, were on their way to exactly 63 wins, a decidedly inglorious figure particularly if you consider that it was four fewer than would be managed by the utterly forgettable 2008 Pirates. Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:45:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10203/1074511-142.stm?cmpid=collier.xml Jabaal Sheard's preliminary hearing isn't until July 28, so until then and perhaps even beyond, it's unlikely we'll have the full story of how Pitt's fine defensive end came to be pummeling, allegedly, another individual on the floor of a South Side art gallery after midnight Sunday. Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10202/1074125-66.stm?cmpid=collier.xml Before the end of next week, the Steelers will have convened in earnest for the real work, the work for which they are famous and celebrated and often dominant in the consciousness of their innumerable disciples. Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:48:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10199/1073540-150.stm?cmpid=collier.xml A world where the Rooneys owned the Yankees was not always purely fantasy Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10185/1070320-66.stm?cmpid=collier.xml Sing, Goddess, of the rage of Peleus' son Achilles The accursed rage, which brought pain to thousands of the Achaeans. Sun, 4 Jul 2010 02:12:00 -0400