The News

The Steelers beat the Eagles, 27-13, in their final Heinz Field tuneup of the preseason. Only a Thursday-nighter at Carolina remains. The performance of the offense was intriguing, but not as intriguing as the story that fans were turned away from Heinz Field restrooms last night. Do we have any witnesses out there who can describe that undoubtedly ugly scene?

As for the actual game action, the play of Charlie Batch inspired the postgame KDKA Sports Showdown crew to debate whether or not there could be a QB controversy at some point this season. If that was thrown out there strictly to generate blogger buzz, consider their mission accomplished.

I also need to throw congratulations out to Willie Reid, for exactly replicating the 2006 performance of Ricardo Colclough while returning punts. Fielding them inside the 10, fumbling them (inside the 10)...now if only Reid would go down for the season with a phantom injury like Colclough did...

--Who was that chunky masked man that beat the Pirates yesterday? Does the name Ty Wigginton ring a bell?

--Cracked.com ranks 9 Baseball Moments More Wretched Than Steroids. And two of the nine are Pirate-related.

--Greg Mottola, director of "Superbad", is filming his next movie, "Adventureland", in the Hollywood hotbed known as Pittsburgh.

--Forbes.com unveiled their "most eligible bachelors and bachelorettes" lists for invidivual cities, and ours were Big Ben and 54-year-old ad exec Michele Fabrizi. I'm going to guess that their love paths won't cross.

--Speaking of Large Benjamin, his hometown of Findlay, Ohio, suffered its worst flood in 100 years. Ben speaks on the floods here.

--Sign of the apolcaplyse: an autographed football from high schooler Terrelle Pryor, offered on eBay for $100.

--The Buccos are the hot team to bet on, thanks to their recent offensive outburst. No, they haven't scored 30 in a game (that would usually take about 10 games), but they're making some big winners among gamblers.

--Not a good evening on Sunday: Owen Wilson apparently tried to kill himself last night, and Hulk Hogan's son Nick almost died in a car wreck.