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`` Pittsburgh definitely is the team to beat '', Mauch said here the other day.
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Pittsburgh and is
The music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg, has molded his group into a prominent musical organization, which is his life.
Skorich, who is 39 years old, played football at Cincinnati University and then had a three-year professional career as a lineman under Jock Sutherland with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
G. David Thompson is one of those names known to the stewards of transatlantic jetliners and to doormen in Europe's best hotels, but he is somewhat of an enigma to most people in his own home town of Pittsburgh.
The original fossil skeleton is assembled and stands in the Hall of Dinosaurs at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
He is now Metropolitan Savas ( Zembillas ) of Pittsburgh in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.
Former Pittsburgh Pirate manager Lloyd McClendon is jokingly referred to as having " stolen first " in a June 26, 2001 game – after disputing a call at first base, he yanked the base out of the ground and left the field with it, delaying the game.
Blackridge is a community in eastern Allegheny County and is a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Clarke was born Katherine Anne Clarke in Pittsburgh, the oldest of five sisters, the youngest of whom is Victoria Clarke.
There is also an annual dachshund run in Kennywood, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, called the Wiener 100, and in Huntington, West Virginia called the Dachshund Dash.
* 1965 – The Kecksburg UFO incident: a fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania ; witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh.
Conversely, the digraph ⟨ gh ⟩ is never pronounced in syllable onsets and is almost never pronounced in syllable codas ( the proper name Pittsburgh is an exception ).
* 1940 – Basketball is televised for the first time ( Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden ).
Geneva College is a Christian liberal arts college in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, United States, north of Pittsburgh.
To persuade him not to retire, Pittsburgh made Greenberg the first baseball player to earn over $ 80, 000 ($ today ) in a season as pure salary ( though the exact amount is a matter of some dispute ).
The H. J. Heinz Company (), commonly known as Heinz and famous for its " 57 Varieties " slogan and its ketchup, is a U. S Consumer packaged goods company with world headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The company's world headquarters are in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where the company has been located since 1890, and the company's " keystone " logo is based on that of Pennsylvania, the " keystone state ".
* 1936 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
* 1877 – After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.
An IT room and a scholarship are named after him at Bristol Grammar School, as is a supercomputer at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.
Lycos is a university spin-off that began as a research project by Michael Loren Mauldin of Carnegie Mellon University's main Pittsburgh campus in 1994.
Pittsburgh and team
One team has yet to play in an NL division series, the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Boston was a dominant team in the new league, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first World Series in and winning four more championships by.
After previous failed attempts to bring the Major League Baseball to Colorado ( most notably the Pittsburgh Pirates nearly relocating to Denver following the Pittsburgh drug trials in 1985 ), by the late 1980s a team seemed to be a possibility in Denver.
Pittsburgh defeated the Red Wings in seven games, Detroit becoming only the second NHL team to lose the Cup at home in Game 7.
The team started off 2 – 0, defeating the Dallas Cowboys earning the NFL's highest winning percentage on opening days at. 750 with a record of 9 – 3 ), and shutting out the defending champs Pittsburgh Steelers.
To celebrate the successful 1982 Milwaukee Brewers team, the franchise decided to have the 2007 season be named as the " 25th Anniversary of ' 82 ", with more fan giveaways than any other Major League Baseball team except the Pittsburgh Pirates, and more discounts and deals than any other time in Brewers ' history.
In 1943, when manpower shortages stemming from World War II made it impossible to fill the roster, the team merged with the Pittsburgh Steelers forming the " Phil-Pitt Eagles " and were known as the " Steagles.
* Pittsburgh Phantoms ( NPSL ), a soccer team
* Pittsburgh Phantoms ( ABA ), a basketball team
* Pittsburgh Phantoms ( RHI ), a roller hockey team
Several pro, minor, college and high school sport teams have named themselves after the species, with the Pittsburgh Penguins team in the National Hockey League and the Youngstown State Penguins being the most recognizable.
The Seahawks wore their home blue jerseys during Super Bowl XL despite being designated as the visitor, since the Pittsburgh Steelers, the designated home team, elected to wear their white jerseys.
A trip to Pittsburgh proved to be the tonic the team needed.
The team finished off a 63 – 99 season on September 28 with a 10 – 6 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates, finishing 5th in the NL West, 21 games behind the division leader Los Angeles Dodgers.
The designated home team was first allowed its choice of jersey color for Super Bowl XIII, allowing the Cowboys to wear white vs. the Pittsburgh Steelers.
While the 1972 team faced no competition that possessed a better record than 8-6 in the regular season, the 1973 team played a much tougher schedule that included games against the Oakland Raiders, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Dallas Cowboys ( all playoff teams ), plus two games against a resurgent Buffalo Bills squad that featured 2, 000-yard rusher O. J.
Pittsburgh advanced to their first Super Bowl and were playing for a league championship for the first time in team history.
At the end of the show, Mary Tyler Moore announced the following over the credits: " If the Pittsburgh Steelers win the actual Super Bowl tomorrow, we want to apologize to the Pittsburgh team and their fans for this purely fictional story.
Meanwhile, the Broncos earned their first ever trip to the Super Bowl in team history by defeating the two previous league champions: the Pittsburgh Steelers, 34-21, and the Oakland Raiders, 20-17, in the playoffs.
Dallas was the only NFC team to win the Super Bowl in the 1970s ( although both Baltimore and Pittsburgh were pre-merger NFL teams ).
Pittsburgh and beat
After winning their division, they were easily defeated in the League Championship Series by the Pittsburgh Pirates and Roberto Clemente, who then went on to beat the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series.
Hill beat Donnie Shell in single-coverage and scored the only first quarter touchdown surrendered by Pittsburgh all season ( In Super Bowl X, the Cowboys also scored a first quarter touchdown against a Steeler team that hadn't permitted one all year ).
However, in the season's final game, the Flyers needed a win or a tie against the second-year Buffalo Sabres to beat out Pittsburgh for the final playoff spot.
* December 23-In the first Pittsburgh Steelers playoff game in 25 years ( and the franchises first playoff win ), rookie Franco Harris salvages and converts into a touchdown a final seconds Terry Bradshaw incomplete pass in what has been called the greatest play in NFL history -- The Immaculate Reception -- to beat the Oakland Raiders 13-7.
But the season ultimately ended with success, as the team beat their newest rival, the Pittsburgh Power, to clinch the American Conference East Division and guarantee a spot in the playoffs.
Just a few weeks later, on December 26, Brodeur beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 3 – 0 to record his 85th career shutout, moving him past Glenn Hall for 3rd place on that all-time list and 1st place among all active goalies.
The 2008 Sun Bowl set the record for fewest points scored, when the Oregon State Beavers beat the Pittsburgh Panthers by a score of 3 – 0.
Picked to finish towards the bottom of the Big East Conference again, Pitino led them to a second-place finish, 12 – 4 ( tied with the University of Pittsburgh, but Louisville beat them earlier in the season ) in the conference standings and a first round bye in the conference tournament.
On May 9, 1921, under manager George ( Mooney ) Gibson, the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the London Tecumsehs 8-7 at Tecumseh Park before 3, 500 people in an exhibition baseball game.
On June 23, 1919, Harry " The Pittsburgh Windmill " Greb — the only boxer to beat Gene Tunney — defeated Mike Gibbons in a ten round bout at Forbes Field.
In the famous " beat " novel On the Road by Jack Kerouac, protagonist Sal Paradise actually considers hitchhiking on US 6 to Nevada, but is told by a driver that " there's no traffic passes through 6 " and that he'd be better off going via Pittsburgh ( the Pennsylvania Turnpike ).
In the 2004-05 season, the Tigers earned an at-large bid as an 8 seed in the NCAA Tournament and beat 9 seeded Pittsburgh in the first round.
Three days later, he had five RBIs again and hit his first career grand slam ( a game-winner against Omar Olivares ) as the Cardinals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 9 – 5.
Leading up to Super Bowl IX against the Pittsburgh Steelers and Minnesota Vikings the media asked the always humble Anderson for his thoughts since he was the last quarterback to beat the Steelers that year.
* In sports, Pittsburgh Pirates announcer Bob Prince coined the term " hidden vigorish " to describe an underdog's ability to beat the odds in a given situation.
In the last game of the 1971 – 72 regular season, the Flyers needed a win or a tie against the Sabres to beat out the Pittsburgh Penguins for the final playoff spot.
The Beavers went into the Civil War with a chance to reach the Rose Bowl as Pac-10 champions but were defeated by Oregon, 65 – 38, and instead accepted another invitation to the third place Sun Bowl, where they beat Pittsburgh in a defensive struggle, 3 – 0.
The 1977 season was the most successful in franchise history to that point ; the Broncos had one of the NFL's best defenses, went 12 – 2 and then beat Pittsburgh Steelers and Oakland Raiders, the team with which he would later star, in the playoffs to reach Super Bowl XII.
His Chargers beat the Indianapolis Colts for the second year in a row in the playoffs, but fell short to the eventual Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers in the Divisional Round game where his star running back LaDainian Tomlinson was out with a groin injury.
In the 1976 AFC championship game of the 1976 – 77 NFL playoffs, the Raiders beat the Pittsburgh Steelers, rushing for 157 yards and passing for 88 yards.
The second seed Montreal Maroons beat the third seed Pittsburgh Pirates and then went on to beat first place Ottawa Senators two goals to one in a two-game total goals series, thus capturing the O ' Brien Cup, Prince of Wales Trophy and the right to play the Victoria Cougars for the Stanley Cup.
* The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Oakland Raiders 13 – 7, on a last second play that became known as " The Immaculate Reception ".
As a result, he received his second Jack Adams Award nomination and beat out Lindy Ruff of the Buffalo Sabres and Michel Therrien of the Pittsburgh Penguins in voting to win the coach of the year on June 14, 2007.
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