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The greatest day of the year for college football fans is here! THe heck with your New Year's resoluations, today is all about laying around, stuffing your face and watching game after game of glorious gridiron action.
In our ongoing bowl poll, Ron Musse...
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Mike Emrick, one of the few enjoyable aspects of NBC's hockey coverage, will not be able to do tomorrow's Winter Classic due to laryngitis.
Not cool (lame pun not intended).
Emrick's call of the shootout at last season's game:
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Play along at home with the new NFL board game, Fuggedabout Carmen Sandiego, Where In The World Will Bill Cowher Go?
Scratch red Ohio and the red-faced Browns. The heck with dark-blue New York and the green-with-envy Jets. Oakland? Mwahhhhhhhahahahah. T...
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These were my favorite concerts in Pittsburgh in 2008.
To see the descriptions, click here.
Now let's see your lists or comments:
1. The Swell Season (Byham, Sept. 21)2. The Foo Fighters (Petersen Events Center, July 26)
3. North American Music Union F...
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So, I posted my Best of 2008 list, now let's see yours.
Here's a place where you can post your list or make of, complain about, or praise my own.
To review, here are my picks.
Best CDs of 2008 (with shortened descriptions)
1. TV on the Radio, "Dear Sci...
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In honor of our 100th Blog 'n' Golden posting -- should we sing "Auld Lang Syne"
for that? -- we here at One of America's Great Newspapers, Web Sites and Bottle
Shops attempt to be interactive and fan-friendly by turning over this cyberspace
to one of ...
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Reports are that "Spider-man: The Musical" is coming along fine, but so far there's no Spidey.
Director Julie Taymor and Evan Rachel Wood, who will play Mary Jane, workshopped the musical with their "Across the Universe" collaborator Jim Sturgess in the...
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Mario Lemieux scored five goals five different ways against the Devils.
(Kudos to Going Five Hole for the big heads up.)...
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EN commenter "War Penguin" took in some Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins action this weekend -Saturday against Bridgeport and Sunday against Binghamton - and was kind enough to send some pictures our way:
-This is a name for one of the team stores at Wachov...
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Penguins
-Dave Molinari's game recap from last night. A players-only meeting was held by the Penguins after the game.
-The Boston Globe's recap. A switch-up in line combinations led to a win for the Bruins.
-The Associated Press' recap. Boston hasn't won ...
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Central Division
-Two days before the meet in the Winter Classic, Ty Conklin made 36 saves for the Red Wings in a 4-0 shutout of the rival Blackhawks.
Fire Ray Shero. Johan Franzen (two goals), Pavel Datsyuk (one goal, one
assist), Niklas Kronwall (two as...
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When a dozen movies open in the course of a week, it can be tricky to keep track of them all. Here's the skinny:
"Marley & Me" -- Dogs don't live forever. Bring Kleenex.
"Bedtime Stories" -- Not very good but not offensive or terribly long, either.
"Va...
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Computer networking giant Cisco is reported to be ready to release a digital stereo system in January. I guess this shouldn't be surprising since a big push in media right now is to make content available everywhere....
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The famous Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's concert will include Haydn's "Farewell" Symphony (at least the last movement), apparently the first Haydn work ever to make it on the famous concert's program. Seems odd to me that it took so long, but it works...
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Wow ... what a difference a few days makes. Ron Musselman, who at the start of the week was 1-7 with his bowl picks has rolled off nine straight correct prognostications. Chuck Finder, also a 1-7 cellar dweller at week's start is just behind him going 8-1...
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PREGAME
Greetings from a pleasant but chilly day in Pittsburgh.
-There's something very tranquil about watching a single Zamboni machine clean the ice to the Smashing Pumpkins' "1979."
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As we are still technically in the season of chestnuts roasting on an open fire, let us pluck out one of these chestnuts and examine it more closely.
Herewith is an e-mail I received after my Dec. 17 column titled "The Baghdad Shoes Fly in Our Face, Too."...
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The Penguins demoted forward Paul Bissonnette (right) to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the AHL.
He has played in eight games this season with the NHL Penguins recording no points, 10 minutes and is a minus-1. In 16 games with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton he has six ...
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A preview of the Bruins.
Record: 27-5-4
Leading Scorer: Marc Savard 43 points (11 goals, 32 assists).
Last Game: 2-1 win at Atlanta, Sunday. Manny Fernandez made 32 saves in Boston's eighth consecutive win.
Last Game against the Penguins: 2-1 home shooto...
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Penguins
-Is Dany Sabourin an adequate backup goaltender?
-Ryan Whitney hit the million vote mark in All-Star Lame Game balloting.
-The Sweater Ted picked out the 10 biggest Penguins moments of 2008.
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