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Homecomings becoming real

PITTSBURGH — The vibes for Mike McCarthy and Eli Heidenreich over the last few months have been immaculate. How could they not be? The chance for McCarthy to lead his hometown team brought the first-year Pittsburgh Steelers coach to tears when he was hired in January. The image last ...

Rodgers wishes tonight’s game was in Green Bay

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers has one regret about starting his final NFL season with an exhibition game against the team that drafted him. He would have preferred today's matchup with the Packers take place in Green Bay rather than Pittsburgh. Rodgers wanted to have one ...

Scheffler begins chase for FedEx Cup title

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The PGA Tour postseason starts with a $20 million tournament, with only a 69-man field, and with a sense of urgency for only about half of the players at the FedEx St. Jude Championship. Scottie Scheffler is the No. 1 seed and bracing for three straight postseason tournaments, even though his chances of winning the FedEx Cup for the second time depend solely on how he performs at East Lake for the season-ending Tour Championship. "I have three tournaments, three good starts to kind of end the year. Definitely excited to get this week going," Scheffler said. He ...

Summer season filled with political reruns

When I was younger, so much younger than today (credit The Beatles for that lyric from "Help"), television networks would rerun programs that had originally been broadcast the previous fall and spring. A few still do, like "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy," but those are syndicated shows. Still, it can be fun to watch programs you missed, or even ones you have seen, especially if you can impress someone with "Jeopardy" answers because you know them. Reruns that always annoy are the political ads, which start before primaries and continue until the day before the November election. Only ...

No winning formulas with the closed primaries

How could Donald Trump with bottom-scraping approval ratings decide who would represent the Republican Party in the upcoming Texas senatorial race? The primary system offers an explanation. A simple open primary system would have let the broader public choose -- and, ironically, save ...