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The NCAA denied Pitt forward Mike Cook's appeal for a medical hardship waiver, which would have given him a 6th year of eligibility. Cook blew his ACL last year in a December 20th OT win against Duke. The NCAA rule states that a player cannot have played in excess of 30% of a team's games to get a waiver. Pitt played 37 games last year, however, six of those were in the ...
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My pick for this week, The White Stripes - Icky Thump
And Fu’s pick, the fine and indestructable Keith Richards doing Before They Make Me Run
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The Pirates signed first round pick Pedro Alvarez at 11:59pm on Friday, one minute before the deadline. The Pirates ponied up with a $6 million dollar signing bonus plus paying his college tuition. Who says the Bucs aren't pro-education?
Seriously, I didn't think for a second that the Pirates had a chance of signing him. Under the Dave Littlefield regime, they wouldn't ...
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At Thursday's groundbreaking ceremony for the new Pens arena, your boy Mario Lemieux stated that the Pens were never serious about leaving Pittsburgh. To quote, presumably in that crazy French-Canadian accent:
We had to do a few things to put pressure on the city and the state, but our goal was to remain here in Pittsburgh all the way. Those trips to Kansas City and Vegas and other ...
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Awesome commercial with Lance Armstrong, LeBron, Johnny Mac, and more. Set to the fine Killer’s tune, All These Things That I’ve Done.
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The only thing that could make this better would be if a bus was running him over. Don't get me wrong, I don't wish the guy any harm or anything (except for the bus thing), but Ward's whining is starting to reach epic proportions. Antho Smith, a guy who seems to be only mildly interested in glancing at your jersey color before he hits you, drills Hines in practice last week, ...
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My pick this week, a pretty cool live version of TrustCompany’s Downfall (from Conan O’Brien?).
And what better way to celebrate the Olympics than with Fu’s pick, Kid Rock - American Bad Ass. Take that Frenchies!
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As you've undoubtedly heard by now, Steelers' backup QB and resident boy scout, Charlie Batch, broke his collarbone in Friday's preseason opener against Philly. The prognosis on Batch has been anywhere from 4 to 10 weeks, depending on which unreliable non-medical source you choose to believe. This does not bode well for the team, as the only other QBs in camp backing up Ben ...
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The Steelers start their 2008 campaign with a preseason game tonight at Heinz Field against the Eagles. Is there any other day that elicits such excitement, yet is sure to drive you to an early bed time (or into having that 12th Troegenator to dull the pain)?
True Yinzers will enjoy watching Gary Russell run 13 consecutive dive plays into the back of the left guard and Dennis Dixon ...
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via the foxy, Aubrey Sabala
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My pick for this week’s DPT, The Cure - Homesick, live in 2002 from Berlin. One of my favorite tracks from a band that I like more and more as I get older.
And Fu’s pick, equally 80s but totally in the other direction, Motley Crue - Kickstart My Heart.
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Celebrating Morgan Freeman’s cheating of death this week…
See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor .
via Digg
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Every time the Steelers blow a fourth round pick on a punter, something bad happens. Oh, right. First time that ever happened.
Anyway, the dreamy Daniel Sepulveda, who's name I *love* to mispronounce, annoying nearby Yinzers, blew the ACL in his non-kicking leg and is going on IR for the season. The Steelers claimed Paul Ernster off of waivers from Detroit to ...
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My pick this week, thanks to those wizards of algorithmic listening patterns over at Last.Fm - Local H's Bound For The Floor. Love that two man band.
And Fu’s pick - Bruce Springsteen’s Rosalita, Live From the Meadowlands in 2003.
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Hampton goes on the PUP list, thanks to only finishing 5 of the required 8 100-yard dashes put in place by coach Mike Tomlin Think Bill Cowher would have done that? Mmmyeah, no.
No word on how long Hampton will be held out of practice, but I'm guessing he won't be taking advantage of that extra Big Mac deal for 59 cents anytime soon.
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The Pirates shipped The X and arguably their most effective reliever to the Yankees on Friday night for 4 minor league players, Daniel McCutcheon, Jeff Karstens, Russ Ohlendorf, and Jose Tabata. The first three are pitchers, Tabata is an OF.
I'm having a hard time finding anyone that's really jazzed about this deal though it's not exactly the worst thing we've seen from the ...
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Another return to form, my weekly dump of links from the week.
Full size T-Rex for $100k - Boing Boing If I'm ever ultra rich, I'd like to think I would have at least one of these
Video: How to get your hand out of an Anaconda's mouth - National Geographic Handy info if you're ever with Jennifer Lopez and Ice Cube.
The Worst Car Color Combinations Ever - Jalopnik ...
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Normally, I do not condone anything having to do with ESPN or Sportscenter. It's become an overly commercialized, bastardized Cowboys/Yankees/USC fest and only vaguely resembles the awesome, pop culture phenom it once was. Still, as one Yinz Team member recently told me, "I like the ticker down the side in the HD version."
Anyway, go vote for Pittsburgh in this ...
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He’s no Sam the Eagle, but he’ll do.
See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor .
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Spy shot photos of Ben Roethlisberger's new pool, complete with gaudy #7 on the floor. I call it gaudy, but let's face it, you'd do the same thing if you had a number of your own.
A Yinzer treasure trove of photos available over at Sean's Ramblings .
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