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--And these are what real morons look like.

--Kennywood is sold to a Spanish company. As emailer William points out, this is like the Rooneys selling the Steelers to a European soccer team.

--It's the Ruutu Song!

--The top WPIAL recruits are lining up to play for Wannstache. Except for Terrelle Pryor.

--A letter to the editor tries to rain on Pitt's parade.

--It's groundbreaking day on Don Barden's casino! At this rate, get ready to gamble downtown in 2018.

--Lester Munson analyzes the Michael Vick sentencing. Know what a good idea would be? To sit around and talk endlessly about if and when Vick will play again, not knowing what the next two years of incarceration will bring. Wait, that was done on Mike and Mike today.

--American Frontrunning Champion Randy Moss likens the Steelers to the Ravens.

--The Sporting News calls out Phil Simms for his horrible announcing in Sunday's Steeler-Patriot game, pointing out how Phil praised Tom Brady at the expense of Big Ben.

--Jeff "Tony Soprano" Fisher says no hit was ordered on Shawne Merriman.

--It's time for Puttin on the Foil, the best NHL weekly recap in all of the land.

--The Pirates will probably keep John Grabow and Damaso Marte. So your telling me I should order my playoff tickets now?

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8/20/2007

The News

Some good news...my 2007 Steelers Preview on Deadspin is scheduled to run today, August 20. There's a good chance that I'll be in a meeting when it goes live, but you can go to http://www.deadspin.com/, probably in the early PM, to check it out. I must warn you: it's a lengthy read. UPDATE: Word from Deadspin HQ is that it will in fact run on Wednesday. We had to do a little revision concerning one Mr. Steely McBeam.
Some more good news: Michael Vick will plead guilty to federal dogfighting charges. ESPN's Lester Munson does an excellent job of breaking down the case as it stands now.
Two WVU Mountaineers are charged with stealing a computer, presumably to track themselves in Power Rankings and polls each week.
ESPN describes Pitt freshman OL Chris Jacobson like this: "The 6-foot-3, 285-pound Jacobson, a left guard from Pittsburgh's Keystone Oaks High School, was considered one of Pitt's top recruits. He was challenging for a starting job, a rarity for a freshman lineman." Sounds great, right? Not so fast. Jacobson dislocated his kneecap on Saturday, and it looks like he'll probably miss the entire season. Between this and the Pat Bostick drama, I'm guessing Dave Wannstedt has had more than a few sleepless nights lately.
Hey, look! A Michael Vick dog chew toy!
More Michael Vick: is he going to Hollywood?
Post Game Heroes breaks down the Steelers' O-Line play against the Redskins unlike any website has ever done.
It's Little League World Series time, so you know what that means...a vintage retrospective on LLWS Hero Lloyd McClendon.
Any Browns fans plan on attending the Babe Ruth Museum's "Celebration of Art Modell"?
Here's a hot piece of memorabilia: the dual-signed Darryl Strawberry and Jason Giambi "Everyone Deserves a Second Chance" baseball.
Pittsburgh represents itself well as #11 on Forbes.com's list of America's Most Unhealthy Communities.
Ever seen the Donkey Kong "Kill Screen"? Neither have I. Why not? Because it's only happened four times. Ever. And here's video.