Author Bio & Stories

Diana Moskovitz

Diana Moskovitz is a freelance writer and lifelong follower of Pittsburgh sports. She's on Twitter at @DianaMoskovitz and displays a Jerome Bettis bobblehead in her home.

  • May 22, 2013
    The Pirate Diary: 15 Losses and Change — The Clog

    May has not historically been a happy time to be a Pirates fan, even by Pirates fan standards.  There is one number, ungainly and unsightly and decimal-pointed, that proves it.

  • April 26, 2013
    The Pirate Diary: Don't Look Down, Don't Look Up — The Clog

    It's generally wise and healthy not to read too much into April baseball. It's also more or less impossible.

  • April 2, 2013
    The Pirate Diary: Opening and Closing — The Clog

    On Opening Day, there's hope and promise and all kinds of other good things. Even for Pirates fans, if only for a little while. The first in a periodic series of diaries on following the 2013 Pittsburgh Pirates.

  • February 1, 2013
    The Lost Scrolls of Dr. Z

    Sports Illustrated Presents Dr. Z's Greatest Moments in Super Bowl History should be the most famous piece of sportswriting about football, period. So how come you’ve almost certainly never heard of it?

  • October 25, 2012
    Will Someone Sue The Pirates Already? — The Clog

    Further revelations of ridiculous and ill-advised Navy SEAL-style training practices haven't made the Pirates look any less sad, bad and unintentionall comic. But there is a positive side, in that these practices might get the Pirates sued someday. We can hope.

  • October 3, 2012
    The Pittsburgh Pirates, and Hope After Hope

    It has now been 20 years since the Pittsburgh Pirates last finished above .500, and the season that mercifully ends today was one of the most wrenching in those two dark decades. How could any group of fans survive this? The same way fans survive everything.