My last attempt at swaying Nash

Good enough for the Rooneys, good enough for all of us!

Trendsetters

I don't care what anybody says, Sean, Sean and I started this trend with our Boston adventure ...

Mancations: Guys get away to make memories, sustain friendships

Guns a gray area for McCain, Obama

For my boy Nash ...

BOSTON (AP) — John McCain supports background checks for buyers at gun shows and has his name on a law restricting special-interest group advertising, two positions strongly opposed by the National Rifle Association.

So how'd he end up with the group's presidential endorsement? By running against Barack Obama, whom NRA leaders accuse of wanting to put the firearms industry out of business.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iws_NUP4CywbKPEd1Czf0PY8NWVAD93QQH6G0

Sacked by the Market

OK, this left an empty feeling in my stomach ...

An adviser says Dan and Art Rooney are making progress. But even if they do manage to cobble together a deal, hurdles remain. Three-quarters of the league’s 32 teams would have to approve a transaction. While every owner admires the Rooneys, not every one is likely to back a highly leveraged sale of a Rust Belt franchise in the teeth of a recession in advance of an expected labor showdown in 2011.

So the Steelers and the league are left attempting, in the words of one lawyer involved, “a high-wire act in an alternative universe.” There are the N.F.L.’s rules. There’s the economy. There’s the powerful history. And there’s the family itself. The five Rooney brothers have 29 children to account for, not to mention an identity wrapped up in the franchise. For proof, try lifting “Ruanaidh” (Gaelic for Rooney), a family memoir that Art Jr. self-published earlier this year. The book runs 483 pages, or some 400,000 words.

“Your emotions are, You never want to get out of the Steelers,” Art Jr. told me a few weeks after the September conference call. “But you know the facts. The grim reaper is right down the street.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/sports/playmagazine/112colbiz.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=sports&pagewanted=all

Joe? Where are you Joe?

A perfect microcosm of the utter FAIL of McCain's campaign ...

It's time!

Tonight at 7 p.m. If you can't catch it then ...

UCA in the NYT ... unfortunately

Two killed on my old college stomping grounds ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/us/28arkansas.html

Ah, geez, don't get my hopes up

On Thursday, an ESPN.com writer who covers the AFC North has picked Pittsburgh to make the Super Bowl this season ...

Big Ben-led Steelers won't be stopped in weakened AFC

Don't they know I'll have a newborn in the house by then? I can't be yelling and screaming during a Super Bowl this year!

Ultimate proof Palin is not smart

How else do you explain a Republican VP candidate wearing a "Vote Democrat" scarf at a campaign event?

Remind me not to defend Arkansas in the future

The next time I hear somebody talking about the hicks and hillbillies living in Arkansas, I'm afraid I'll have to shrug my shoulders and STFU.

That's because a University of Arkansas poll revealed a whopping 20 percent of Arkies believe Obama is actually a Muslim.

But, on the bright side, 55 percent oppose Act 1. Originally touted as a way to keep gay couples from adopting children, it's been written to prohibit unmarried heteros who live together and single heteros from adopting as well. That means, God forbid, anything happens to me and Jen and this passes, then my mother wouldn't be able to adopt her granddaughter.

http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/2008/10/poll_watching.aspx