The Steelers Nation is one of the most-widely recognized examples of rabid team loyalty in all of sports. So it should come as little surprise that the city the Steelers have called home for 81 years claims the ranking as the best pro football sports town among the Pittsburgh Today benchmark cities when franchise support,... More
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Sports Town Index
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Sports Town Bragging Rights
The Steelers Nation is one of the most-widely recognized examples of rabid team loyalty in all of sports. So it should come as little surprise that the city the Steelers have called home for 81 years claims the ranking as the best pro football sports town among the Pittsburgh Today benchmark cities when franchise support,... More
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Positivity Update
The Twittersphere has been kind to Pittsburgh, but not kind enough for it claim the most positive tweets among the 15 Pittsburgh Today benchmark cities. More
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Tale of Three Cities
Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Chicago rewrote baseball history Sunday. The National League Central Division rivals ended the season with the three best records in the major leagues. But how do these best-in-baseball cities compare off the field? More
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7 Reasons for Pittsburghers to be Thankful
As southwestern Pennsylvanians, we have plenty to be thankful for on Thursday when we gather with family and friends over a meal and reflect on what makes life good. Here are a few reasons to appreciate the region in which we live that we might otherwise overlook. More
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Best-Case Scenario
Ranking places as "most livable" or the "best" for anything may be a suspect exercise using methods that wilt under scrutiny, but for the winners, they're a marketing coup. More
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Trending Negative
Twitter conversations related to the recent death of a 25-year-old African American man in Baltimore injured while in police custody demonstrate once again how social media can turn on a city where injustice is perceived. More
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Play Ball
With the Pirates playing their home opener today against the Detroit Tigers, we thought we'd compare the two regions across a few statistical indicators not found in the box scores. More
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Ringing in 2015
With a new year comes resolutions. Here are a few we at PittsburghTODAY feel are important for southwestern Pennsylvania as a region and people in 2015. They’re tough. But if they were easy, we would’ve achieved them by now. More