Posted by pittgirl on 23 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Random
Bill Peduto announced his official running for the Mayor yesterday.
“Bill Peduto, even though he’s relatively young, has significant experience — probably, it can be argued, as significant experience as the mayor does,” said John Brabender, a South Side-based political consultant.
“The strangest part has been going from the fresh young voice in city government to its [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 21 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Mike Tomlin, Steelers
Keeping with their history of hiring thirty-somethings, the Rooney’s chose 34-year-old Mike Tomlin as their head coach today, despite what my little lying ass birdie told me previously.
However, my little birdie did say that the Steelers weren’t hiring Grimm because they wanted a complete overhaul of Steelers football. Looks like they’ll get that with Tomlin.
I’m [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 19 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Mayor Ravenstahl
“Myself and other individuals in the front were really not even in control of ourselves,” he said. “We couldn’t control ourselves because of the force from behind.”
Then Officer Hoehn, the mayor said, “went charging into the crowd, a crowd that included men, women and children, at which time he was very aggressive and authoritative.”
“At which [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 18 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Ben Roethlisberger, Mayor Ravenstahl, Steelers, Troy Polamalu
Holy hell. Russ Grimm had his second interview with the Steelers and it lasted for six hours.
Six. Hours.
Six.
The longest interview PittGirl ever had lasted for three hours and by the time I met with the fourth interviewer, I’d pretty much had it. Of course I wasn’t interviewing to be the coach of the bestest [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 18 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Mayor Ravenstahl
Two nights ago (I would have posted this sooner, but I was afflicted with the 24 hour flu — either that or it was the regular flu and I just kicked its ass so bad that it gave up after 24 hours), I was walking through my living room while WTAE news was on and [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 17 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Eye rolls
So much for keggers at the University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown.
The school plans to implement tough new rules to cut down on alcohol at parties. Students packed a meeting of the Student Senate yesterday to protest.
The most awesome thing in this awesome article? The student that said this in front of the media:
“What I want is an [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 15 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Annoying Burghers, Eye rolls
Scanning the PG today, I noticed that the local hip-hop awards were given out at an awards ceremony at the Hilton last night. Lots of people I’ve never heard of got awards, and one dude I have heard of got an award:
Best Graffiti Artist: Mook.
W.T.F?
Best graffiti artist?!?! For real?
Not only am I annoyed that [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 15 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Local media, Steelers
A report on Ken Whisenhunt’s departure, paraphrased, because I was laughing too hard to remember the exact words:
Female news reporter on WTAE: We went to Ken Whisenhunt’s home this evening to find it locked tight and with congratulatory balloons lying deflated near the mailbox, perhaps from the weather, perhaps from the tears of Steelers fans.
Who [...]
Posted by pittgirl on 15 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Random
My father, as well as reader Amy, emailed me a link to this quiz to determine how much of a Burgher you are.
Being that my name is PittGirl and that I love the Burgh more than my new awesome shoes, I scored 100%.
It’s a fun quiz to take on a rainy day such as this.
Posted by pittgirl on 15 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Steelers
Not cool, Ken. Not cool at all.
The man that the majority of Burghers (according to unscientific KDKA polls) wanted to be the next punching bag decided to head to the sunny skies, hot days and cool nights of Arizona in a four year contract that probably pays him about 2.5 mil a year (according [...]