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All the fun that's fit to print (Sunday, 02 December 2007 10:33 PM ): To help you plan your week, here are the key events on my schedule. Please join me when you can: Wednesday, December 5: The 74th anniversary of the Repeal of Prohibition. I'll post recommended beverages on Wednesday. For now, if...

Month Impossible: Day Twenty-six, Let's get it on (Monday, 26 November 2007 11:59 PM ): Steelers win. Worst ever Monday Night Football game, and possibly worst ever NFL game. But we won, and it counts. Starting my NaNoWriMo writing for the day ... now. Yeah, it sucks. Even my mom thinks I'm not going...

Month Impossible: Day Eleven (Sunday, 11 November 2007 11:55 PM ): Boot Originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey I said yesterday that weekends are when I catch up. I'm reminded today, though, that Sundays in the fall are when I get very little done, due to football. I'm in two fantasy football...

Month Impossible: Day Six (Tuesday, 06 November 2007 11:07 PM ): A strange kind of irony has taken hold of my life. I've been busy these past months, to the point that I thought my workload was as heavy as it could get. And then as soon as I started this...

Month Impossible: Day Five (Monday, 05 November 2007 04:58 PM ): I'm on my way to meet friends and then head to Heinz Field, for Monday Night Football with the Steelers hosting the Baltimore Ravens. It's raining, it's cold. It's going to be fun. When I return: a sketch of the...

Month Impossible: Day Four (Sunday, 04 November 2007 11:44 PM ): Tomato from my yard Originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey Two steps forward, one back. I created two drawings today while watching football, meaning that I caught up a little on DrawMo but am still one day behind. I also wrote...

Fantasy Football Week 3 Wrap-Up, Week 4 Agony (Monday, 01 October 2007 12:54 PM ): That's the way the squib kick bounces. Sometimes it bounces your way, sometimes it's helping out the other guy. As you may know, Lush Life is my team in the Pittsburgh Bloggers Fantasy Football League. Last week they pulled their...

Fantasy football 2007: Week 2 wrap (Sunday, 23 September 2007 12:25 AM ): Football and fantasy football are back in session, much to my glee. In past years as a fantasy football manager, I spent many, many hours pouring over player and NFL team stats, adding and dropping players, changing my lineup several...

First and ten (Sunday, 09 September 2007 03:20 PM ): I'm in two fantasy football leagues this year. After taking last year off from the fantasy football world -- and as a result from football as a whole -- I feel like I'm coming out of a football deep freeze....

It's drafty in here (Friday, 10 August 2007 05:37 PM ): Tonight the Pittsburgh Celebrity Fantasy Football League holds its draft, which means I'm heading to meet up with fellow team owners, lists of favored players in hand. I didn't field a team in any league last year, and because I...

The Steelers new mascot looks really familiar... (Friday, 27 April 2007 03:08 PM ): Does the Steelers new mascot remind you of anyone? The Steelers organization will invite fans to help name the new mascot. My suggestion for a name: The Chin. UPDATE: My brother Anthony thought the mascot would look good wearing that...

Miracle at the Hard Rock Cafe (Wednesday, 14 June 2006 10:43 PM ): The most amazing thing happened to me this evening. I attended a business event in Pittsburgh, at the Hard Rock Cafe in Station Square. It was a networking happy hour, hosted by the local chapter of the American Marketing Association...

Bug Ben (Monday, 12 June 2006 09:02 PM ): The highly stylish item you see to the left is my own personal motorcycle helmet. Pretty, ain't it? I can't think of any reason not to wear a helmet while riding. A helmet is most useful when traveling at the...

Going to Disney World! (Monday, 06 February 2006 09:16 PM ): Yo, Hines Ward! You and the Pittsburgh Steelers just won the Super Bowl -- what are you going to do next?...

Filling the time until kickoff (Sunday, 05 February 2006 11:58 AM ): To help you while away the final hours until Super Bowl XL finally gets underway, some reading material: Ben Roethlisberger has been updating his blog regularly all week, showing the media blitz and hype from the perspective of the other...

Drink of the Super Bowl: No. 43 Trophy Cup (aka The Polamalu) (Friday, 03 February 2006 07:02 PM ): My official drink of Super Bowl XL.

The very best Steelers song EVER (Tuesday, 24 January 2006 01:31 PM ): Do do de oo do.

First and goal to go (Friday, 20 January 2006 05:33 PM ): I have full confidence in the Steelers winning at Mile High Stadium this weekend. Or rather, I did until I read the championship picks from Bill Simmons, The Sports Guy on ESPN.com. He's taking the Steelers over the Broncos (scroll...

Waa hey! (Monday, 15 August 2005 05:06 PM ): It seemed to be touch and go there for weeks, but I will be able to watch Steelers football this season after all: the Post-Gazette is saying that Hines Ward has ended his holdout. Press conference at 6:45....

"We tried everything to give that game away, but they darn well wouldn't take it" (Sunday, 16 January 2005 12:34 PM ): Things I lost at the Steelers game against the Jets last night: 1. My Terrible Towel 2. My voice 3. My sense of the inevitability of Steeler wins The towel was no big loss. I bought it at the Pittsburgh...

So hard to overrate (Sunday, 02 January 2005 11:00 PM ): "With nothing to play for, Steelers show they have everything" "This game says a lot about our team," said Ward. "We really didn't have that much to play for, and they had everything to play for. We started with...

Winning's a habit, not only a dream (Tuesday, 09 November 2004 12:26 AM ): Recently, Dan Marino interviewed Ben Roethlisberger and gave the rookie a hard time for not knowing the "Steelers Fight Song," from back in the 70s. Which I thought was funny -- until I realized I didn't remember it myself. Oh,...

Big Ben's blog (Monday, 18 October 2004 01:02 PM ): Ooh! ooh! More Steelers goodness! Ben Roethlisberger has a blog: I never wanted to play at the expense of someone getting hurt, especially when he is as great of a guy as Tommy is. But I knew I had to...

Football's version of the Zapruder film (Monday, 18 October 2004 11:19 AM ): After yesterday's exciting win over Dallas, with rookie quarterback Ben Roethlisberger becoming the first Steelers QB to win in Dallas since 1982, it would seem Steelers fans couldn't be happier. But the good news keeps coming. Physics shows that...

The toughest receiver in football (Friday, 28 May 2004 10:22 AM ): Yeah, it's a fluff piece, but this article about Hines Ward at the Steelers training camp still makes me happy. Look at that smile! So best....

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