Joe Starkey stories
Joe Starkey: What the national media won’t talk about regarding Mike Tomlin’s Steelers tenure
A few years ago, the great Peter King joined my radio show for his usual spot, and we talked about Mike Tomlin. At that point, Tomlin’s playoff-win drought had reached six years or so. We agreed it was a major concern, but King opined that Tomlin always seemed to overachieve...
Joe Starkey: What a long, strange Trib it’s been
I was working at the Valley News Dispatch one night in 1992 when the sports editor, Kevin Smith, walked through shaking his head. The two big Pittsburgh newspapers had just gone dark. One of them — the Pittsburgh Press — would never return. Their best writers were calling the Valley...
