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there you go.... you'll get to watch all the 3rd stringers and draft picks trying to make the team.... hehe..
OH YUMMMMMYYYYYY Wifey off first two weeks of August I wonder if I could conveniently book our trip the second week to Tronner
Steelers 2008 schedule announced
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
By Ed Bouchette, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Not only do the Steelers have the toughest schedule in the league, the NFL issued them one in which they won't have the chance to feel comfortable with any one kickoff time.
The Steelers play at night in three of their first five games and have only two scheduled 1 p.m. kickoffs in their first 13 games in 2008.
Their schedule, released by the NFL this afternoon, contains the maximum of five night games -- two on Sunday, two on Monday and one Thursday.
The Steelers open at Heinz Field Sept. 7 against the Houston Texans and then go right into the teeth of their AFC North Division competition at Cleveland Sept. 14, an 8:15 p.m. start. The Browns and Steelers are virtual co-favorites in the AFC North, according to early odds.
The date for the Steelers' preseason opener also has been set, for Aug. 8 against Philadelphia at Heinz Field.
PRESEASON
AUGUST
8 -- Philadelphia, 7:30
14 -- vs. Buffalo in Toronto, 7:30 p.m.
23 -- at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
28 -- Carolina, 7:30 p.m.
REGULAR SEASON
SEPTEMBER
7 -- Houston, 1 p.m.
14 -- at Cleveland, 8:15 p.m.
21 -- at Philadelphia, 4:15 p.m.
29 -- Baltimore, 8:30 p.m.
OCTOBER
5 -- at Jacksonville, 8:15 p.m.
12 -- Off
19 -- at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.
26 -- New York Giants, 4:15 p.m.
NOVEMBER
3 -- at Washington, 8:30 p.m.
9 -- Indianapolis, 4:15 p.m.
16 -- San Diego, 4:15 p.m.
20 -- Cincinnati, 8:15 p.m.
30 -- at New England, 4:15 p.m.
DECEMBER
7 -- Dallas, 4:15 p.m.
14 -- at Baltimore, 1 p.m.
21 -- at Tennessee, 1 p.m.
28 -- Cleveland, 1 p.m.
First published on April 15, 2008 at 1:59 pm
IM home now so I can watch some hockey LOL.. georgia not a hockey hotbed only could wacth highlights. I have a PITT calgary final
Man, what a game.... 54 shots.... Malone with the game winner...
man had supper at bar watched GOLF back at hotel bar - Naddda thing - watching scores on internet -
sittin, on the couch with the game on, a beer in one hand, laptop in the other..lol
hopefully I can find a bar down here with the game on ye all LOL. georgia nopt exactly a hockey mecca
yeah, have yahoo gamechannel on.... amazing..lol
Nice game today after the 3rd inning!
yep alfredson will be missed. Im a liitel worried about mtl beating bruins all season. Murphy's law always in play.
they got some key injuries, PENS should take them
penguins probably didnt want sens in first round.
lol.... frickin' flyers.... and Crosby was a healthy scratch.
Penguins wobble to 2nd in conference. GO HABS GO
Yes! and over the Flyers to!!
Double Yes!!
Penguins clinch title, beat Flyers, 4-2
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
By Shelly Anderson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Penguins clinched the Atlantic Division title by beating the Philadelphia Flyers, 4-2, tonight at Mellon Arena
It's their first division title since 1997-98 and their sixth overall.
The Penguins have earned at least one point in 11 consecutive home games and in 16 of their past 17.
Scott Hartnell gave the Flyers a 1-0 lead at 8:58 of the first period with a shot from near the bottom of the right circle.
The Penguins tied the score, 1-1, 1:26 later on Sergei Gonchar's shot from the right point during a power play, but Philadelphia regained the lead, 2-1, at 13:13 of the first period when Jeff Carter banged the puck past goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury from the top of the crease.
The second period belonged to the Penguins, who forged a 3-2 lead on Sidney Crosby's blistering slap shot for a power-play goal at 6:26 and Evgeni Malkin's power-play goal at 14:33.
Crosby put it away with a brilliant redirect between his legs of a Gonchar shot for a power-play goal at 18:26 of the third period.
The teams play again Sunday in Philadelphia, the regular-season finale for both.
NFL game in Toronto may involve Bills and Steelers in August
All done! No problem! MSU will be a tougher game!
Pens tonight!!
seriously.... cedric the morontainer..
What is with these moron Steelers? Beating there girlfriends! Bar fights!!
I don't get it, are we now in Ohio??
Big game today!! Go Pitt!!
Steelers reach agreement with center
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
By Ed Bouchette, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Steelers today came to a contract agreement with another free agent, Justin Hartwig, with the idea he will become their starting center.
Hartwig agreed to a two-year contract for almost $4 million, according to ESPN. He was released by the Carolina Panthers, where he was working on a five-year, $17 million contract.
Last year, the Steelers' biggest signing in free agency was center Sean Mahan of Tampa Bay. Mahan, like Hartwig, also can play guard and may either compete with Chris Kemoeatu at that position or become the swing man as a backup to both guard and center.
First published on March 18, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Pitt Wins!! Beat those evil Hoyas!
What is a Hoya anyways? LOL
Pitt finishing off Marquette here.... Georgetown tomorrow...
just saw that.. wohoo!
Pitt beats Louisville!!
Go Pitt!!
yepper and two of my buddies on spec had snagged flights and tickets - flew down just for the game. Some people have more money than brains
This is icing on the cake! Sweet !!
yeah, was only supposed to be for a week or so.. should have him and Roberts back very soon.
Sweet!! Only gets better! Too bad the new guy got hurt though!
Crosby to return to Penguins lineup tonight in Tampa
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
By Shelly Anderson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
TAMPA, Fla. -- Penguins captain Sidney Crosby said this morning he expects to return to the lineup and play tonight against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Crosby has missed 21 games because of a right high ankle sprain.
"It's been a while, so I'm looking forward to it," Crosby said after participating in the Penguins' morning skate at the St. Pete Times Forum.
Crosby was leading the NHL in scoring with 63 points when he was injured Jan. 18 as his foot bent awkwardly as he slid into the boards during a game with tonight's opponent, Tampa Bay.
The Penguins have gone 11-6-4 without Crosby and remain in strong contention for the Atlantic Division and Eastern Conference titles.
Crosby said his ankle began to feel noticeably better last week when he skated in Pittsburgh while the team was on the road. He approached coach Michel Therrien yesterday about possibly playing tonight after skating in Pittsburgh and flying here with the team, then sealed his return when he felt good during today's morning skate.
"I feel pretty strong right now," he said. "That's what I based my decision on -- how much strength I had and whether I was able to do things out there that I normally could do. I think I've made sure of that."
Crosby, 20, won the NHL scoring title and MVP award last season.
Hundreds join Terrible Towel wave in memory of Cope
Friday, February 29, 2008
By Moriah Balingit, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, left, and Allegheny County Chief Executive Dan Onorato wave their Terrible Towels in honor of Myron Cope at a rally at the City-County Building today.Around 350 members of the Steeler Nation with nearly as many Terrible Towels braved heavy snowfall to remember famed broadcaster and native Pittsburgher Myron Cope in front of the City-County Building at noon today.
Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and Steelers owner Dan Rooney spoke during a heavy snowfall, intermittenly interrupted by sporadic cheers of Mr. Cope's trademark "double yoi!" and Terrible Towel swirling.
The ceremony concluded with one minute of silent towel waving.
Mr. Cope died Wednesday at 79.
Remembering Myron Cope: He spoke for Steelers Nation in a language all his own
1929 - 2008
Thursday, February 28, 2008
By Gene Collier, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Myron Cope at the radio microphone in 1995.Myron Cope was the much-decorated master of the written word, the ever-celebrated sand-blaster of the spoken word, and a pre-eminent Pittsburgh symbol not only of our selves but also of our hopes and our innate joyfulness.
In declining health since even before his 2005 retirement after a record 35 raucous years in the Steelers broadcast booth, Mr. Cope died yesterday of respiratory failure at Covenant at South Hills nursing home in Mt. Lebanon. He was 79.
One of the last of the great sports characters, a genuine oasis in a sea of ever homogenizing media-ocrity, Mr. Cope's life and career were nothing less than book-worthy, even if he had to write it himself. Twice.
"Double Yoi" it was called both times, the second an updated version of the original 2002 volume, the title immortalizing one of Mr. Cope's signature exclamations, which, along with "Okle-dokle," "Dumbkopf!", and "How do?", became go-to standards of a singular TV and radio language that often seemed entangled in an impossible dichotomy: it was uniquely Cope and yet it was intrinsically Pittsburgh.
"Donair, huh?" an acquaintance once asked of Mr. Cope. "I'll have to check that out; I'm not familiar with a Dallas restaurant named Donair."
Mr. Cope looked confused, perhaps because he himself was the source of the confusion.
"Oh Dallas, yeah," he'd just finishing telling the acquaintance. "We went to the great restaurant dahn 'ere!"
National writers and broadcasters all but outdid themselves trying to describe not only his voice and dialect but Mr. Cope's wit, wisdom, and everyman genius, and not even their best attempts delivered the reliable magic of whatever it was Mr. Cope was delivering at the time.
"I've lost the most creative person I've ever known, a loyal and generous friend, and joy to be with," said Joe Gordon, the retired Steelers executive. "His accomplishments were just incredible. The characteristic that I most admired was his intensity to get things done, his durability to hang in there with his book, the DVD, the piece that he did for the City Paper; he really had to labor for those. He was such a perfectionist. I'd say to him, 'Myron, all you're doing is changing one sentence and it's taken four days.' "
He was best known as the squawking talisman of Steelers football, and had the good fortune of arriving on the scene just as the ballclub was escaping some four decades of losing. Mr. Cope hit the glory road sprinting in 1970 and never lost momentum for the next 30 years.
"He was a good and dear friend and such a great supporter of the Steelers," said Hall of Fame coach Chuck Noll. "We have lots and lots of wonderful memories."
Locally, his celebrity dwarfed many of the players, even those of Super Bowl pedigree, and was surpassed by only a very few.
"He was a true celebrity," said Roy McHugh, the former columnist and sports editor of the Pittsburgh Press. "In the '70s, he and I went to closed circuit telecasts of big fights at the Civic Arena. One night as we were leaving we fell in step with [former world light-heavyweight champion] Billy Conn. We couldn't get three or four paces without people wanting Cope's autograph. Conn they ignored."
Regardless of the ever-more-corporate imaged NFL he'd walked into, Mr. Cope remained a wag and raconteur of a sporting era from the other side of that transition. Though he was riding the new Pittsburgh wave of Dan and Art Rooney Jr.'s strictly business acumen and seasoned football calculations, he still had both feet in the smoke-filled rooms and occasional "toddy's" of Art Rooney Sr.'s world, which thrived on seat-of-the-pants adventurism.
"I'll tell you, losing Myron is a sad thing, because he was really involved in our team," Steelers chairman Dan Rooney said yesterday. "Not only did he do the broadcasts and travel with us and everything, he was so enthusiastic about everything he did and it was so infectious that he got that enthusiasm to the team.
"When we had Frenchy Fuqua, Myron would get the players involved with these dress-offs to see who could out-do Frenchy. Myron would be the evaluator. He really made a big thing of it. They all got such a kick out of it and that kind of thing was important to having a successful team. Frenchy was like that and Myron just grabbed him up right away to do things and it was so great, because you needed someone who could bring humor to things."
Once at halftime in Cleveland, Mr. Cope found his intermission routine interrupted by an occupied restroom on old Municipal Stadium's roof, which is where the radio booths were situated. His long-standing para-military ritual of urinate, get a hot dog, and get back to the action now jeopardized, he improvised. Without being too graphic, let's just say that anyone walking by Municipal Stadium near that portion of the roof in the ensuing minutes had to wonder from where that sudden shower had come.
Born Myron Kopelman in Pittsburgh on Jan. 23, 1929, Mr. Cope lived all but seven months of his life here, the short period in 1951 when he took his first job after graduating from Pitt at the Erie Times, where an editor changed his byline to Cope. His next job was at the Post-Gazette, where his immense writing abilities soon dwarfed his salary, however, and Mr. Cope quickly got the idea that he could do better himself as a freelancer in the burgeoning sports magazine industry.
"Kid, you'll starve," an editor told him. "You'll be back in six months."
Mr. Cope's magazine writing took its inevitable place among the nation's very best. In 1963, he won the E.P. Dutton Prize for "Best Magazine Sportswriting in the Nation" for his portrayal of Muhammad Ali, then Cassius Clay.
"Cope's columns in the Post-Gazette were in contrast to what had ever been in the paper; they were dazzling," said Mr. McHugh, himself a writer of immense skills. "In the '60s, there was a certain type of magazine style that no one was ever better at than Myron. He could talk to someone and extract all the humor possible from that person."
In 1987, on the occasion of the Hearst Corporation's 100th anniversary, Mr. Cope was named as a noted literary achiever, among them Mark Twain, Jack London, Frederick Remington, Walter Winchell, and Sidney Sheldon.
His style, simultaneously elegant, robust, and humored, landed him on the original full-time staff of Sports Illustrated, which, with the Saturday Evening Post, became the primary conduits of his work. At its 50th anniversary, Sports Illustrated cited Mr. Cope's profile of Howard Cosell as one of its 50 all-time classic articles. Only Mr. Cope and George Plimpton held the title of special contributor at that magazine when Mr. Cope left due to the demands of his burgeoning radio career, and in no small part due to health insurance concerns as they related to his son, Danny.
Mr. Cope's legendary charitable work, which ultimately led to his being awarded the American Institute for Public Service's Jefferson Award in January 1999, began with his son's enrollment at the Allegheny Valley School, an institution for the profoundly mentally and physically disabled. He served for many years on the board of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Autism Society of America and the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix, the charity auto race he co-founded, along with the Myron Cope/Foge Fazio Golf Tournament for Autistic Children.
The Terrible Towel, long since a worldwide symbol of Steelers passion and often the Steelers artifact with which Mr. Cope is most identified, is now a trademark that benefits the Allegheny Valley School.
"He was always concerned that his legacy would be the Terrible Towel rather than his writing," said Gordon, "but his legacy is the joy and pleasure he brought to thousands and thousands of people for 35 years. My brother was dying of cancer in 1977, in really bad shape; that was when Myron had his talk show for only an hour each night. The only thing that would bring a smile to my brother's face or brighten his days was that hour with Myron, and that was still relatively early in his broadcast career."
Though his literary skills were muscular and his broadcast aptitudes somewhat initially debatable at best, Pittsburgh grew to know Mr. Cope far more through the airwaves than from his pristine prose. His WTAE talk show aired for more than 20 years, dominating its time slot. When the Steelers added his voice to their game broadcasts, Mr. Cope thought the only issue was whether he'd have the latitude to be an objective observer, but the only real question was whether there was a frequency that could deliver his signature irascible rasp, gentle and shrill, squeaky and yelpy, often in high emotion fueled by sometimes illogical bursts of excitability.
"He's a horse; he can fly!"
Pegasus?
Mr. Cope wound up broadcasting five Super Bowls, and was the only broadcaster appointed to the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Board of Selectors, which he served for 10 years.
"He did a great job when we had all those players eligible for the Hall," Mr. Rooney said. "I know other guys among the selectors would get mad at him that he would come on so strong for Joe Greene and Terry Bradshaw, but they belonged and he let them know it, with so many of our other guys, too. They're in there in part as a result of Myron."
He became the first pro football announcer elected to the National Radio Hall of Fame, which he considered his greatest broadcast honor, as its honorees include Bob Hope, Edward R. Murrow, Orson Welles, and Vin Scully. At the enshrinement dinner in November 2005, he was presented by Steelers Hall of Famer Franco Harris.
It was his broadcasting that opened the many facets of his persona to what grew to be an adoring public. His one-of-a-kind creations, songs and skits and admittedly goofy promotional gimmicks played as though Mr. Cope were Rodney Dangerfield in the late comedy great's Manhattan club. Mr. Cope's annual Christmas Carol, written around the year's general Steelers story line to the tune of Deck the Halls, included unforgettable passages such as "Deck the Broncos; they're just Yonkos," and "Pete Rostoski show 'em who's bosski," all followed with the beloved and routinely inexplicable, "Fug-a-gah-gah-gah, Guh-ga-ga-gah!"
"Another thing about him was his modesty," Mr. Gordon said. "It was unbelievable for a guy as popular and successful as he was, the way he related to people. He always had time for people, always was patient."
For all of this sometimes spastic public theater, Mr. Cope kept his journalist's eye and social critic's perspective on his experience and ours. His beloved wife Mildred, who died in 1994, once asked him after a Steelers playoff loss in Oakland if it was all just too depressing sometimes.
"No," he said. "It's just the way it goes. By the way, what did the vet say about the dog?"
"Gonna need surgery," she reported. "Probably cost $700."
"Now that's depressing," he said.
Mr. Cope's final months depressed many of his friends. He'd overcome some misdiagnosed back trouble a few years ago and was able to extend his Steelers career, but his health began failing in stages not long after he retired. Until his final weeks, most of which were spent in intensive care, it was confidently said of Myron Cope that he enjoyed life immensely and had little patience for those who didn't.
In its collective ear today, Pittsburgh can virtually hear his signature sign-off.
"Bye now!"
Mr. Cope is survived by his daughter Elizabeth, his son Danny, and three sisters, Violet Grodsky and Shirley Meyers of Pittsburgh and Marie Joseph of Buffalo. A second daughter, Martha Ann, is deceased.
Funeral arrangements are private.
was listening to all the tribute calls on kdka and wtae on the way into work today.. the man was an original.
Yes, sad day for the Steeler nation!
YOIIII!! Legendary broadcaster Myron Cope dies at 79
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
By Gene Collier, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Myron Cope, colorful sports broadcaster and reporter whose Terrible Towel remains the banner of the Steelers nation, has died.
In declining health since even before his 2005 retirement after a record 35 years of Steelers broadcasts, Mr. Cope died this morning of respiratory failure.
He was 79.
One of the last of the great sports characters, Mr. Cope's life and career were nothing less than book-worthy, even if he had to write it himself. Twice.
"Double Yoi" it was called both times, the second an updated version of the original 2002 volume, the title immortalizing one of Mr. Cope's signature exclamations, which, along with "Okle-dokle," "Dumbkopf!", and "How do?", became so familiar to his radio and TV audiences.
Still a young fantastic team that will win a cup but getting a rental player for this year - Sorry this is not the year - IT might be but next year was the one I had my eyes on them winning it all.
yep, Malkin has stepped it up, conklin been playing out of his mind... well, at least they kept Staal... people been talkin on the talkshows about trading him.... that woulda been crazy, imho..
Team was really playing well even withoutthe KID. This one will be second guessed
well, guess we see what happens..
exactly - I do not like the trade on any level
you get pascal dupuis also
Colby and Crosby are best buds.... chemistry problems now?
TRADE REPORT: TSN of Canada reports Marian Hossa has been traded to the Penguins for Colby Armstrong, Erik Christensen and Angelo Esposito and a pick.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=3265147
Ahhhgh! I didn't see it was for Colby and Christensen... there goes the shootout specialist... dang.
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