http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/columnists/ Sports columnist Gene Collier en-us Copyright 2009, post-gazette.com. Sat, 7 Nov 2009 22:28:20 -0500 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/09309/1010973-66.stm?cmpid=collier.xml Nothing will match for compelling NFL video the 15 stunning seconds of New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez eating a hot dog on the sideline the week before last. Thu, 5 Nov 2009 11:34:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09308/1010618-63.stm?cmpid=collier.xml Rank the following three things, three things that are very plainly just not right, in order of their general creepiness, starting with the worst. Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09305/1009630-150.stm?cmpid=collier.xml There is something profound about the flipping of that calendar from October to November, an inescapable melancholia linked suspiciously, I think, to a passage from Thoreau: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09302/1009181-150.stm?cmpid=collier.xml Were all of the still-to-be-determined ingredients of still another highly ridiculous college football season mashed into a colossal metaphorical meatball, and were that colossal metaphorical Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09298/1008191-66.stm?cmpid=collier.xml When Mike Tomlin vaulted from the freshly ascended platform of Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator to head coach of the Steelers ... sports commentary by Gene Collier Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09295/1007434-150.stm?cmpid=collier.xml The suddenly topical difference between Jeff Reed's situation and Santonio Holmes' situation is apparently pretty complicated, but in terms of carpeting, it's only about five feet. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09292/1006677-66.stm?cmpid=collier.xml Sometimes you can't really appreciate how incompetent the Browns are until you see them in the flesh, and though the semi-annual Steelers appointment yesterday proved reliably that Cleveland's NFL Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:06:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09291/1006468-150.stm?cmpid=collier.xml UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Not that the question should slide in there among life's great imponderables, at least not in the top 100, but when an autumn passes without the emergence of even one decent Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:16:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09290/1006310-150.stm?cmpid=collier.xml PISCATAWAY, N.J. Searching the dank North Jersey night for some shelter from his own sordid history against Rutgers, Dave Wannstedt found it last night in the stark memory of an old strategical Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:36:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09285/1004853-150.stm?cmpid=collier.xml DETROIT -- Judging from the early cyberspace dispatches, no shortfall of stunningly goofy developments befell the National Football League in Weak 5, but on a day when the Cincinnati Bengals climbed to the top of the AFC North Division and the Cleveland Browns not only won a game, but a game in which the quarterback completed 2 of 17 passes, Goof Central was still Motown's cavernous Ford Field. Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09284/1004380-150.stm?cmpid=collier.xml Don't think for a Detroit minute that the Steelers are looking past the Lions, because that's not the danger today ... Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09281/1003912-150.stm?cmpid=collier.xml Baseball's earnestly anticipated postseason ended before it began this week when the Minnesota Twins and the Detroit Tigers wrestled through four hours and 37 minutes of deliciously overwrought Thu, 8 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400