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that's an incredible shot, PigBoy... the golden sky/water... the Citgo sign in full colour... the silhouettes of the gondola and the buildings...

50% of the Big East is in the AP's Top 25 this week... that's up from 0% in the preseason ranking... 25% of the Big East is in the Top 8! GO PITT!

very creepy

4th St. in Steubenville has a really impressive collection of late 19th / early 20th century commercial structures... and a residential "Millionaire's Row"!

an interview with R.J. Umberger http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/Puck-Daddy-chats-with-Jackets-R-J-Umberger-abo;_ylt=AiFuMw_EZ1Xa.L82dMKX0MN7vLYF?urn=nhl,199290

Metro Pittsburgh lost 11,000 USAir jobs in the years following PIT's de-hubbing. You can probably assume thousands of other jobs that depended on those 11,000 USAir jobs were lost too. This single corporate decision has been the biggest drag on employment growth in Metro PGH over the past decade. It took Metro Pittsburgh an extra 3 years to exit the 2001/2002 recession due to this. Losing the hub was a massive blow to the Pittsburgh region in terms of job loss and a drastic reduction in flight capacity and connectivity. You can't get anywhere from PIT anymore... and that hurts business. There have been two positives... though neither comes close to losing 11,000 jobs, 500 flights and dozens of destinations... 1) more competition... several airlines who would've never gone up against USAir's monopoly here have entered the market... most notably Southwest... though the pace of growth has been underwhelming. 2) airfares have fallen from amongst the highest (Cincy's hub airport knows this pain) to one of the lowest. O&D traffic has steadily grown in recent years, and PIT now attracts value-conscious travelers from nearby territories like Ohio. Thankfully, Delta has re-established European access and United has stepped up with daily West Coast flights. USAir has cut down to the bone and eliminated almost every vestige of the hub operation here. It appears Cincy's hub is getting down-scaled... if a PIT-style ravaging takes place... expect lots of pain for years. I believe Cleveland's hub operation is much smaller than CKY or PIT's former hub... so a de-hubbing there probably wouldn't have as drastic an impact. Pittsburgh's economy has been resilient despite the de-hubbing of PIT... but I can't help but imagine how much more progress could've been made if PIT would've been favored instead of CLT. Who knows what locational decisions Pittsburgh might've lost out on due to the declining air service here? The airport was massively overbuilt when it opened in 1990... as it was designed specifically for USAir's hub operation... (it was one of those post-steel economic "silver bullets" that never panned out) but I think today the market is under-served... one can't get to any Pennsylvania airport other than Philly from PIT, for example. Several of Pittsburgh's top 30 business markets remain unconnected.

definitely not... Wheeling is less of a college town than Wooster... which I believe also falls short of the "college town" classification...

Agreed... great shots, Col! You did a great job capturing the topographic city.

This is one of the most "quintessentially Cleveland" photo threads I've ever seen! I love it! It really brings across the "sense of place" of Cleveland's neighborhoods... distinctive Cleveland housing vernacular... ethnic totems... commercial enterprises of yesteryear and today... Bravo, Clueless, Ohio!

this is a cute shirt source: flickr via postgazette.com

This... is a sharp uniform. Football is the sport of autumn... and no uniform is more autumnal. Just beautiful. source: sportsattic2.com

I thought the brown pants were awkward too. The Browns classic uniforms were awesome. Bring them back! I wouldn't mind seeing the Kardiac Kids unis make a comeback: source: wikipedia ... The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ran an article about Pittsburgh Browns Backers today: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09292/1006616-455.stm Long-suffering Browns fans assemble in a black-gold world Monday, October 19, 2009 By Kaitlynn Riely, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Michael Henninger / Post-Gazette Browns fan Carrie Doyle, of Allegheny West but originally from Youngstown, Ohio, watches a Steelers scoring drive during the 10th annual indoor tailgate party of the Pittsburgh Browns Backers at Peter's Pub in Oakland yesterday. Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09292/1006616-455.stm#ixzz0UOORCqOu

I would've built it in Berea next to the staph-infected practice facility.

OSU wouldn't cut it in the Big East... they'd be middle-of-the-pack... they can coast through the overrated creampuff-laden Big Ten every year... with their only blights being the every-other-year loss to Penn State and the usual non-conference loss to USC or Texas