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‘Huge Issue’: Former Player Slams Steelers, Russell Wilson
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PITTSBURGH — A day after Russell Wilson was announced as the Pittsburgh Steelers’ offensive captain this season, a national analyst raised some confusion towards the decision.
Fox Sports 1’s Emmanuel Acho, who is a part of the network’s new show titled The Facility, is of the opinion that the Steelers should have shied away from awarding a captain patch to Wilson because he is at risk of losing his starting quarterback job.
“I got a huge issue with it,” Acho said. “Here’s my issue with it. Russell Wilson, I believe, is one of the greatest men I have ever met in my life. We came into the National Football League together. Russell Wilson is probably one of the best leaders of men in society. My issue is this: Don’t name a captain you might bench.”
It is customary for NFL teams to impart captaincy upon their quarterback, and for good reason. Players at the position assume large responsibilities both on and off the field and essentially hold the weight of the team in their hands, so it’s only right that they are officially recognized for their leadership.
Whether it’s coaches or players voting on captains, rallying around an organization’s signal caller can also generate some additional camaraderie, which becomes easier when they have that patch on their jersey and are a figurehead in the locker room.
Wilson has been a captain since his sophomore campaign in 2013 and is also one of the more experienced and accomplished quarterbacks in the entire league. Pittsburgh has put a premium on his intangibles and believes in his ability to turn the offense’s fortunes around, likely making its decision an easy one.
There is some precedent for this choice when looking at prior seasons, as Kenny Pickett and Mitch Trubisky were named captains after winning the starting job despite not having a firm grip on that role. Both players were eventually benched, so the Steelers are no strangers to working through the exact scenario Acho cautioned about.
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Pro-Palestinian rally and vigil for Israeli hostages killed held separately in Pittsburgh
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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A pro-Palestinian rally and a vigil for Israeli hostages killed in Gaza were held a couple of miles from each other in Pittsburgh on Tuesday.
Student groups demonstrating near the University of Pittsburgh’s campus showed their support for people in Gaza and ending the war between Israel and Hamas. And a couple of hours later, a vigil at the Jewish Community Center in Squirrel Hill paid tribute to six people who were kidnapped, held hostage and then killed.
Just down the street from one another stood gatherings representing both sides of the Israel-Hamas war.
There was a pro-Palestinian group of Pitt students at Schenley Plaza.
“It’s not just grief,” Karim Safieddine, a third-year PhD student at Pitt, said. “To people there, this is an end-of-their-world scenario.”
There was a pro-Israel group in Squirrel Hill.
“We stand here together with our non-Jewish allies and friends to unite in grief, in sorrow and in mourning,” said Julie Paris, the Mid-Atlantic regional director of StandWithUs.
Both groups are grieving.
“Every single person in Gaza awaits death,” Safieddine said.
“I’m feeling absolutely heartbroken that there is still a genocide after almost a year,” Pitt senior Cameryn Gray said. “I think it’s absolutely shameful.”
Schenley Park held host to chants, while the Jewish Community Center played host to songs focusing on the deaths of the six Hamas-held hostages found over the weekend.
“We come together tonight to feel each other’s pain,” Congregation Poale Zedeck Rabbi Daniel Yalkut said.
The faces of the hostages flashed across the screen as a community looked on. The names of those who were lost were read. Once face, Hersh Goldberg Polin, was familiar to Yalkut.
“He just came from a family of such incredible warmth and faith and good humor,” he said.
Sen. John Fetterman told KDKA-TV why he attended.
“Those six innocent civilians were executed on Oct. 7 and we’re now coming upon the first anniversary,” Fetterman, a Democrat, said.
The vigil and rally came days after two Jewish students were attacked on Pitt’s campus
“It is that responsibility that makes us release a statement condemning the vicious attack on Jewish students in the Cathedral of Learning,” Safieddine said.
He says they must reject antisemitism in their name
“Grief, death and violence will proceed and will continue to dominate everything that’s happening as long as these structures prevail,” Safieddine said.
There was a small group of pro-Israel protesters at the rally for Gaza, which agitated the pro-Palestinian demonstrators. Despite some tension there, everything remained peaceful
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Pittsburgh’s housing market is now neutral, data shows
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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — New data from home selling stats shows the Southwest Pennsylvania housing market is cooling.
The data shows it’s taking longer to sell homes in Southwestern Pennsylvania. So, does that put the area in a seller’s or buyer’s market?
It actually might be a neutral market. Now might be a good time to learn about it because according to the experts, a neutral market is what Southwestern Pennsylvania is.
Buyer’s and seller’s markets are determined by how long the average house takes to sell. If it takes more than 90 days, it’s a buyer’s market. If it takes less than 90 days, it’s a seller’s market. Right in the middle at around 90 days for the average house to sell is a neutral market.
Zillow and other data put Southwestern Pennsylvania at neutral, a change from the area’s previous place of a seller’s market.
“I still think that here in the western suburbs, like here in Moon, it’s still a seller’s market,” Berkshire Hathaway realtor Laurie Kelly said. “It might be slowing a little, but there’s not enough inventory here to substantiate even a neutral market.”
What does this mean for buyers or sellers? For buyers, continue shopping for your home. You are dependent on the sellers. But what about sellers? Kelly, a 17-year real estate veteran, said the days of highballing your listing are gone.
“They have to be very conservative now,” Kelly said. “If it’s going to shift, you don’t want to be behind the eight ball. You want to price it correctly.”
Some additional information for anyone thinking of listing now. Once school starts, we begin the slow season in real estate. The peak season is July through the mid-summer.
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Pittsburgh Steelers, Cam Heyward agree to new three-year contract extension
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The Pittsburgh Steelers and defensive lineman Cam Heyward have agreed to a new three-year, $45 million extension, sources told PennLive. Jeremy Fowler of ESPN first reported the news.
As a result, Pittsburgh keeps their star defensive lineman in the fold, and he remains a Steeler for the rest of his career.
In the deal, Heyward will get $16 million guaranteed, and the team has added $29 million in new money to the deal. However, that means that Heyward’s first year, which will be the 2024 season, is almost all guaranteed. He is under contract with the Steelers through the 2026 season when he will be 37 years old.
Heyward stated that he hopes to play two or three more seasons, and the deal allows him to accomplish that goal while Pittsburgh still has a stalwart in the middle of their defensive line. The Steelers seemed tentative to give Heyward the deal after coming off a season where Heyward suffered a significant groin injury. Heyward will have a signing bonus of $15 million.
With the signing, Heyward’s cap charge for the 2024 season drops significantly, and his base salary will likely increase in both 2025 and 2026. The Steelers can turn that into a signing bonus, or they could easily move on from Heyward with little guarantees left on the deal.
Over his career, Heyward has 80.5 sacks, three First-Team All-Pro nods, and six Pro Bowl selections. He was named the Walter Payton Man of the Year in 2023. Heyward, the Steelers’ first-round pick out of Ohio State in 2011, is the team’s defensive captain and is the lifeblood of the Steelers locker room. Now, he gets to finish his career with the Steelers.
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