The new wave is here. Like Moses parting the Red Sea, the time has come to make room for the new generation of football players. The football universe has become diverse, and the 2011 Eastbay Football University Youth All-American Bowl game showcases the newest, most exciting, and the most promising football talent in the country.

DALLAS FRAZIER

Much like the U.S. Army All-American Bowl has become the “can’t miss” game for football fans across the country looking for a preview of the nation’s top prep football talent, the Youth All-American Bowl was launched to highlight the next generation of prep stars.

Pitting the nation’s top 8th graders against one another in an all-star format, the bowl brings together the top youth talent in the nation.

May Day, May Day, red phone ringin’, red phone singin’, head coach going down, no head coach gone down. No, folks this is not one of the scenes from the Black cinema classic, “Pootytang” that I happened to steal from the cutting room floor a few years ago.

This is some reality TV type craziness. Pitt hired Mike Haywood, who led Miami (Ohio) to the MAC championship during the 2010 season after Dave Wannestedt resigned as the Panthers head football coach under duress. Now less than a month after he was hired as the first African-American head men’s football coach in the history of the university, Haywood has been unceremoniously dismissed as a result of some serious “felonious” domestic battery charges levied against him.

Some of the area’s best high school basketball talent including South Fayette (2010 PIAA Class AA Champion), Lincoln Park (2010 PIAA Class A Semi-Finalist), Rochester (2010 WPIAL Class AA Runner-up), and Aliquippa (2010 WPIAL Class AA Sweet 16) was on display at the C.J. Betters RBA Classic Dec. 28 and 29 at The Golden Dome on the campus of the Community College of Beaver County, Monaca, Pa.

Rounding out the field of eight boys teams were Ambridge, Central Valley, Hopewell and Kennedy Catholic. The girls bracket featured Aliquippa, Central Valley, New Brighton, and Quaker Valley.

The Pittsburgh Steelers annihilated the Cleveland Browns Sunday with the score of 41-9. The debacle disguised as an NFL game, played at “the mistake by the lake” insured the Steelers Nation that their squad would have a week “bye” to lick their wounds and to get healthy and prepare for their next opponent. It also gave the boys’ from Cleveland a few hours “bye” in order to fire their head coach, Eric Man­gini barely before the players cleaned out their lockers for the season.

The Steelers are now the No. 2 seed in the AFC, after winning the AFC North crown. The New England Patriots are the No. 1 seed and have been for what seems to be almost the entire NFL 2010 season. As far as the Patriots go; they appear to be very, very, frightening. No team, absolutely no team should have a desire to travel to Foxboro to face the Patriots under any weather conditions rain, snow, sleet or shine.