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The Pitt athletic department offered vouchers worth the face value of the ticket which could be put towards the price of one of the discounted season-ticket packages to all of those fans who bought a single-game ticket to Saturday’s opener versus Bow...
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Techman: Are you truly a tech geek? Take this quiz to find out
Sunday, August 31, 2008
By Ced Kurtz, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Welcome to TechMan's infrequent Tech News Quiz. Answer the questions
below about current technology news and see your Geek Ranki...
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Chuck Finder | Gameday
8:53 p.m.: In the end, Patrick White tossed a Mountaineer Field-record and lifetime-best five touchdowns, and eighth-ranked West Virginia tried to show East Carolina and the rest of college football that you can't always crowd the l...
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The Senators traded the rights of restricted free agent
defenseman Andrej Meszaros to the Tampa Bay Lightning in exchange for defensemen Filip Kuba, Alex Picard and a 2009 first-round draft
pick originally obtained from the Sharks earlier this offseaso...
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Mike White | 1:42 a.m. Sat., Aug. 30
Notes and anecdotes after the first night of the high school football season.
* Gateway was
impressive in its 45-17 victory against Penn Hills Friday. But what
makes Gateway’s offensive performance a little more impr...
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Give yourselves a well-earned pat on the back, Steelers fans. ESPN made "official" what the rest of us already knew: the Steelers have the best football fans in America, which puts them high in the running for best fans worldwide. No surprise here.
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The second beta of Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft's browser, is out. You can get it at Microsoft.com. Although this is not the final version, Microsoft has said it is suitable for non-developers to use. But apparently it still has some problems rendering ...
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There's an effort to compile a list of the top popular science books. Here is a link to a start. I've read a few of these. You can contribute your own...
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Regular readers of my column -- and I am indebted to all half dozen of you -- will know that I play cricket during the summer in my role as a chronic eccentric. In fact, I am one of the founding members of the Pittsburgh Cricket Association.
This weekend,...
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Oh no! Not someone else that pronounces nuclear as nucular as Dear Leader George W. Bush does. Do our ears deceive us? No, that pronunciation did seem to come from the lips of Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska as she introduced herself to the nation at large tod...
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Before the impatient national eye turns from Denver to John McCain's VP pick, a quick wrap-up of the Democratic National Convention.
Wildly adoring crowds always make me nervous, but Barack Obama was in great form in accepting his party presidential nomin...
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Chuck FInder | 8:58 a.m. Aug. 29
Davis Babb, the man who was the Virginia Military Institute athletic director responsible for firing him almost a dozen years ago, maintains that he'll be rooting for his former employee when Bill Stewart's second go-round...
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Without question, the Penguins' most successful decade on the ice was the 1990s. It saw two Stanley Cup wins, a
Presidents' Trophy win, a streak of playoff appearances that began in 1991 and
extended until 2001, Peter Ahola, and numerous personal accompli...
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The Fumbler sent the following to me and asked that I post this for him on Varsity Blog. Thanks for reading. - Colin Dunlap
By THE FUMBLER | 1:25 a.m. Aug. 29, 2008
Welcome to the wild world of The Fumbler. For the first time ever, this year, I am ...
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Your turn.
The preseason is in the books, and the final cuts will be made soon. Weigh in and tell us what you think. Who should stay? Who needs to go? What do the Steelers need to do between now and when Houston comes to town on Sept. 7? What are you wor...
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PREGAME
It ends tonight. Thank merciful God, it ends tonight. We speak not of political conventions -- there will still be another of those next week (and nothing screams excitement like Republicans in Minnesota!) -- but rather the Steelers preseason, the...
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Former Penguins forward Stu Barnes ended his 16-year NHL career today as he announced his retirement. He will become an assistant coach with the Dallas Stars, a team he has played for since the 2002-03 season. Barnes had dealt with concussion problems...
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Colin Dunlap | 4:33 p.m. Thurs., Aug. 28
Could former Aliquippa basketball star Herb Pope be headed for the Big East Conference, touching down at Seton Hall?
Well, this much is known --- According to this story yesterday in the Newark Star-Ledger by Coli...
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It seems all the influx of foreigners into the country for the Olympics did not make the Chinese completely culturally sensitive. The BBC reports that an amateur bagpiper was nearly arrested for playing near the "Birds nest" stadium when his pipes were mi...
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Barden's former spokesman, Bob Oltmanns, makes the case:
From my front-row seat to the Pittsburgh casino saga, I can say without reservation that Don Barden is a good and decent man. He's the kind of guy Pittsburgh used to embrace, yet from Day One he wa...
