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Pittsburgh Sports News and Rumors

’76 Pittsburgh Pirates yearbook predicted Phil Garner acquisition a year before it happened

David Brown, yahoo.com

Earlier on Tuesday, The Stew passed along the info that the Pittsburgh Pirates were asking focus groups to help them re-design their logo. But did you know that another iconic mustachioed character was once the Bucs symbol? Back in 1976, in the middle o…

ESPN.com news services, ESPN.com

Russell Martin is not frightened by the Pittsburgh Pirates' streak of 20 consecutive losing seasons.

Darin Gantt, profootballtalk.com

James Harrison is willing to work with the Steelers to lower his salary cap number, but he’s not willing to take a pay cut just to stay with the team that drafted him and developed him. Harrison’s agent, Bill Parise, told John Harris of the Pittsburgh…

Tom Singer, MLB.com

A year ago, he was working on saving his career. Now Jason Grilli is working toward saving games. At 36, the right-handed reliever is in Pirates camp as a first-time closer, the chance of a long baseball lifetime he has long wanted and feels he now dese…

David Brown, yahoo.com

In addition to running on a treadmill Monday for the first time since ankle surgery, Derek Jeter took about 80 grounders at shortstop during a workout at the New York Yankees training facility in Tampa. By design, Jeter didn't move much laterally and he…