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The Looney Rule
Category: Sports Written by Aubrey Bruce
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.
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Inside Conditions...Rest and recuperation
Category: Sports Written by Aubrey Bruce
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.
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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.
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Revenge of the Confederacy
Category: Sports Written by Aubrey Bruce
Super Bowl XLV brought back eerie reminders of Super Bowl XXX, the first loss for the Pittsburgh Steelers. That was the first Super Bowl that Pittsburgh participated in, post “steel curtain” era. That was also the game that seriously questioned the optometrist of Neil O’Donnell, the ex-Steelers quarterback who believed in the art of gift giving.
Well darned if we did not hit rewind baby. O’Donnell threw two interceptions to Dallas Cowboys cornerback Larry Brown in Super Bowl XXX to set up short touchdown drives in the second half.
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Steelers fumble away chance for ‘Seven’
Category: Sports Written by Ulish Carter
Three critical turnovers and penalties at critical times led to the Steelers losing their second Super Bowl in eight tries 31-25 as they handed the Green Bay Packers 21 of their 31 points via two interceptions and a fumble.
Take away the turnovers and its 25-10, a blowout. With 25 players with Super Bowl experience, most felt the Packers would struggle early but it was the Steelers who choked, handing the Packers a 21-3 halftime lead.
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| COMEBACK FALLS SHORT—Steelers’ running backs Isaac Redman (33) and Rashard Mendenhall walk off the field after the NFL Super Bowl XLV Feb. 6, in Arlington, Texas. Green Bay won 31-25. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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No. 4 Pitt holds off No. 25 West Virginia
Category: Sports Written by Associated Press
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP)—Pittsburgh had a solid Plan B for West Virginia in the absence of injured guard Ashton Gibbs—spread the ball around inside to the Panthers' other playmakers.
The fourth-ranked Panthers overcame an awful start by shooting 61 percent from the field in the second half and beat No. 25 West Virginia 71-66 on Monday night.
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| COMING UP BIG—Pittsburgh's Nasir Robinson (35) shoots over West Virginia's Dalton Pepper (32) during the second half, Feb. 7, in Morgantown, W.Va. Robinson had 15 points to lead the Panthers. (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner)
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