Steaming hot from the melting pot

Time for a few thoughts that should clean up some things that had been clogging the inbox.
Many other blogs use Random Ramblings,which I just stumbled over,so I'll be looking for some new names for these segments...

Fox Sports Pittsburgh sure makes it tough to cover the team at this time of year.
Next to no coverage of the visit to Dodger Stadium and one thing that it does make me think about.
Will FSP be in big trouble the year that the Pirates do contend and they show 2 games a week?

Not that the Pirates have been worth watching as they are 2-8 over their last 10 games.
Thanks to a moderate winning run by Kansas City over the same period of time,the Pirates sped by the Royals and into second place in the Bryce Harper derby.
The Pirates still trail Washington by 5 and a half games and time is running out,but I wouldn't rule catching Washington out quite yet....

Showtime starts their awaited five part series on the American Football League tonight entitled Full Color Football.
It is produced by NFL Films and anything that the Sabol gang works on is usually tremendous.

Showtime also was able to get their way on their boxing card last Saturday night as both Mikkel Kessler and Andre Ward won their respective bouts and avoided any type of injuries,so their November first round battle in the Super Six is on as scheduled.
Kessler stopped Gusmyr Perdomo in the fourth to keep his WBA crown and Ward battered Shelby Pudwill into a third round knockout.
The series starts next month with WBC champ Carl Froch defending against Andre Dirrell and Arthur Abraham moving up from 160 pounds to wage war against Jermaine Taylor.

ESPN and promoter Top Rank are finally discussing working together again after years of differences.
Long time (or Old) fans will remember that boxing on ESPN for years was called Top Rank Boxing as the weekly show only had Top Rank promoted fighters on it,while non Top Rank fights were called Boxing Specials.
Nice to see the two talking again at least.

Still no word on Versus and Direct Tv coming to an agreement.
Direct TV still hasn't given Versus' channel assignment to anyone,so that is good news,but little seems to be happening on any upcoming deal....

Ohio State lost to USC,but they did accomplish one thing as the game was the most watched in ESPN history as 10.6 million viewers watched the game.
Usually the game would have been on ABC,due to the networks commitment to NASCAR (sigh) the game was shifted to ESPN.

The New Jersey Devils start exhibition play tonight at the Rock against the Rangers.
The game is on MSG,so we will have some coverage here tomorrow....

Back tomorrow with whatever strikes me to write about...

Photo Credits
Dutch Oven:DeltaBlues.net
Kessler-Perdomo:Jesper Sorensen-AP Photo