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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe they disagreed on taxes, land management, and government, but they loved the Braves. Everyone celebrated when Sid Bream slid home safely in Game 7 of the NLCS to send the Pirates back to Pittsburgh. My middle school even incorporated a "Braves spirit" theme day and canceled classes on the day of the Braves parade downtown, even though the parade took place after the Braves lost Game 7 of the World Series (due to Lonnie Smith's baserunning slip, I might...

Author: By Amy E. Ooten, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Why Baseball, Exactly? | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

...Mean" Josie Greene Let's face it. No one in Atlanta will be watching football this weekend, and since the Pirates haven't even made the playoffs since the ever-annoying Braves eliminated them in 1992, there won't be much competition for fans' attention in Pittsburgh. Just a little crowd support. That's all the STEELERS need to cover, so give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NFL: On Top of the Covers | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

...Redskins are my new Eagles. Which means that I am going to pick them every week, even if they never, ever win. And picking them is particularly easy this week, since they are playing that Pittsburgh arch-enemy, the COWBOYS. I like the 'Skins plus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NFL: On Top of the Covers | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

...1950s, when the hard sell was hard to avoid, Stan Freberg came along to show Madison Avenue that the commercial could be a miniature work of art--and sometimes of daring. Freberg pitched Meadowgold milk in the style of Gilbert and Sullivan, hawked Pittsburgh paints with a takeoff on Moby Dick, and decked out Ann Miller with a Busby Berkeley chorus line to trumpet Heinz's Great American Soups. He produced radio ads for the McGovern-Hatfield amendment to end the Vietnam War and, perhaps even gutsier, persuaded Pacific Airlines to let him do a series of ads poking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maestro of The Mike | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...Mean" Josie Greene All right, people. It's time for the Steelers to pull themselves together. And if Kordell would just focus ? FOCUS, KORDELL ? and throw the ball to someone on his team, this might be a good week for Pittsburgh. At any rate, take 5 against the BENGALS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Top of the Covers | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

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