by Malik Vincent

The Pittsburgh City League is ready to pick up competition in the 2010 season with some much needed improvement to its home, Cupples Stadium on the South Side. With that should come some much-warranted improvements with certain teams around the league.

DEANDRE BLACK and MANNY REED

“We expect to win every game this season,” Allderdice coach Jerry Haslett said. “Whether those expectations are real or not, that’s what we expect to accomplish. Nothing less.”

Haslett and his Dragons posted a 1-9 record in 2009, but feel they have weapons at the skill positions that will help them make a turnaround this season.

Pittsburgh is rivaling the rest of the country as the hot spot for City of Championship Supremacy. Former world champion Monty Meza-Clay, (29-3), fighting in front of the “City of Champions” crowd, needed less than three rounds to stop Allen “American Boy” Litzau, (13-6), of Minnesota, at the Rivers Casino Amphitheatre last Saturday night.

FIGHT FANS COME OUT—A large crowd and boaters on the Ohio River watch the live boxing action at the “Rumble on the River” at the Rivers Casino Amphitheatre.

Meza-Clay got the sellout crowd hyped before the fight by doing the Rankin “Electric Slide” and shadowboxing in front of a big glass overlooking the amphitheatre.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP)—Michael Jordan and his Bobcats NBA team donated $250,000 to middle-school athletics programs in Charlotte, North Carolina’s largest city.

The Charlotte Observer says the NBA hall-of-famer and North Carolina native announced the gift Monday.

Jordan, who made a fortune playing in the NBA and marketing his image as one of the world’s best-known athletes, talked about being a contributor to the Charlotte community when he bought the Bobcats this spring.

That was it. Yeah, that’s the ticket. It was the thin air. It was jet lag. We had trouble breathing. There are mountains of excuses that could be used to justify the less than stellar performance of the Steelers third, second, fourth, or possibly first string quarterback Dennis Dixon and possibly the odd man out, Charlie Batch.

Let’s deal with first things first. Denver beat Pittsburgh, 34-17. The sirens are wailing and mouths are flailing. Here are a few of the things that are burning up the wire. “Dennis Dixon is not ready. He is nothing more than a third-string quarterback, whose legs are far more equipped than his arm or his brain.” Some of these folks seem to be as Aretha Franklin would so aptly point out card carrying members of “the chain of fools.” Why do I have to keep beating my prognosticator, “Kemosabe” drum?