1. Big Ben, QB of the Steelers, is on a 4-6 game suspension for questionable behavior in a bar with a girl. He must have been tutored by Tiger Woods. Now they can go to treatment together.
2. The Pittsburgh Marathon sold out, at 16,000 runners, an increase of 6,000 over last year! It must be the influence of our Sal's group deciding to participate that made other runners think this is the race to be at.
3. The first annual Flower City Challenge 13.1 mile race doubles its' predicted number of entrants, with over 1,200 registered! This is going to be so cool. The race course is really nice and the support of Mayor Duffy is a huge help.
4. The NFL draft goes to a 3 day format and at least the first round is on prime time tv. This is a sign the apocalypse is upon us. How many of these draft choices really make it in the league for more than a couple of years? Experts spend weeks, no months, looking at game film, giving physical and psychological tests to the athletes, and still many of the players have no impact on their team.
5. The price of an Ironman race has increased to $550, yet most of them still sell out within an hour or so. Why didn't I think of this as a business venture?
6. You can enter an Iron Distance race for about half that cost. Everything is the same except for naming rights. I guess you couldn't get an IM tattoo either? Oh, and you wouldn't be eligible for qualifying for the Hawaii IM race. Would you still tell people you did an Ironman? I say yes, normal people wouldn't know the difference anyhow.
7. The Bills will draft a lineman, pay him lots of money, develop him for three years, then not re-sign him and he will become all-pro on another team.
8. The NBA bores me. I've been a Celtics fan since the late 1960's and I can't even watch a complete one of their games anymore.
9. A big congratulations to the Sal's finishers at the Boston Marathon; Roger O'Dell, Mike May, Lance Calvert and Andy Arnold.
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