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Pens Game Day: Bar Specials Around Town

With all the trouble and conflict of interest in drinking Samuel Adams in this Eastern Conference Finals match-up against the Boston Bruins, I thought it’d be a good idea to provide some possible options of places to watch the Pens game for tonight, Friday night’s game, and future game nights (Pens in 6, of course).

Samuel Adams BanSo here’s a quick list of some good places and where they’re located that have some great specials for game nights:

Primanti Bros– All Suburban Location Primanti Bros offer $1.00 drafts and $1.00 pizza slices for dine-in customers during all Penguin games. Plus there’s also the chance to get some free cheese fries through their twitter promotion, “Twitter Fries.” So if you haven’t already follow Primanti Bros and get your hands on some free fries.

Buckhead Saloon in Station Square is offering private Pens parties to watch the game on one of their four large projectors or multiple flat screen televisions. Reservations guarantee a free Miller Lite pitcher plus $2 20 oz. Miller Lite drafts (4 person minimum). You can register for a reservation here.

The Blind Pig Tavern- 2210 East Carson Street in the South Side is offering 16 oz. Labatt Blue during the games for only $2.50.

Carson City Saloon-1401 East Carson Street also in the South Side offers a rooftop deck along with “the best game time specials in the ‘Burgh.”

Smiling Moose- Another South Side bar offering drink specials for the game (surprised?), the Smiling Moose is starting a $2 Labatt Blue pint special along with special food offers when the puck drops on their 180″ projector screen. Reservations are also available.

James Street Gastropub and Speakeasy  on 422 Foreland St. is also offering a projector screen for live game action along with $2 Labatts.

Red Beard’s Bar and Grill- There are two locations for this place, the original at 201 Shiloh Street (Mt. Washington), and the new location Downtown on Sixth Street. They’re both offering pretty much the same special for the games which is $2 Off any Starter & $2 Miller Lite Bottles. However the Downtown location offers $3 Miller Lite drafts instead of $2 bottles.

Hough’s Taproom and Brewpub at 563 Greenfield Ave. will also offer a $3 20 oz. Labatt Blue offer with wing specials as well.

I’m sure there are tons of other specials that I missed so if you know of any others feel free to comment here or share on our twitter or facebook page. But for now if you’re thirsty (particularly for Miller Lite or Labatt Blue in the South Side)  and looking to head somewhere to watch the Pens game tonight give one of these places a shot. Hopefully there will be plenty of reasons to have a celebratory drink tonight unlike the first two games in this series. Let’s Go Pens!

IheartPGH Bracket Challenge – You Still Have Time to Enter

It’s basketball time again!  In years past we have put together a IheartPGH Bracket Group.  By popular request, we are using Yahoo’s bracket manager again this year.

You still have time to submit your bracket!  Here are the details from Yahoo:

  • The First Four games are not counted in Tourney Pick’em.
  • Deadline to submit your bracket is 12:15pm EDT on Thursday, March 21.
  • Click-to-advance, or drag-and-drop a team name to advance that team.
  • Be sure to select a champion and enter your tie breaker prediction.

We’ll be tweeting about this during March Madness with the hashtag #PghMadness.  If you are on Twitter you might want to add your twitter name to the name of your bracket.

IheartPGH Bracket Challenge – click here to make your picks

Are you a Pittsburgh Blogger?

Some of the Pittsburgh Bloggers are participating in a bracket challenge – the rest of the group has agreed to write a blog post about the winner’s favorite Pittsburgh nonprofit organization.  If you are willing to write a blog post at the end of the tournament – join the Pittsburgh Blogger’s Bracket Challenge.

Know of other Pittsburgh March Madness events?  Please let us know in the comments.

June 16 – Pittsburgh Pucas vs. Allentown Hibernians

English: Gaelic football and Hurling positions

English: Gaelic football and Hurling positions (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Pittsburgh Pucas? Yes, you read that correctly – The Pittsburgh Pucas are Pittsburgh Hurling Team.

Hurling is like the best of all of Pittsburgh sports rolled into one – basebal, hockey and football – throw in some soccer and you have the ancient irish sport of hurling.

You can learn everything you need to know about Hurling here.  You might want to check out the video series What is Hurling on YouTube here.

The Pittsburgh Pucas vs Allentown Hiberians
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Noon
J.C. Stone Field, Lakeshore Dr. Wildwood, Pa 15091
Facebook Event – http://www.facebook.com/events/315086435245586/

Join the Club: The Pittsburgh Hurling Club is always looking for a few good members

Regular practices are held weekly and all are welcome to attend.

  • Tuesday at 5:30pm in Frick Park
  • Sunday at 12:30pm at the McKinney Sports Complex in North Park, Wexford
More information is available here.

 

 

Buccin’ the Trend: Pirates experiencing early ups and downs

[note] Say hello to Andy Barlow – he is just finishing up his Master’s degree at Point Park and he will be blogging about the Buccos for us this summer. [/note]

Every April, the Pittsburgh Pirates pack their bags and leave Bradenton, FL for the friendly confines of PNC Park.  A new season always brings hope for the fans, much like myself, who have suffered through 19 consecutive losing seasons.  Manager Clint Hurdle, all-star outfielder Andrew McCutchen, and our beloved Buccos began their quest for 81 wins and beyond on April 5th.  A record crowd of nearly 40,000 watched the cross-state rival Philadelphia Phillies defeat the Pirates, 1-0.  However, the Pirates took the next two games to win the series, both in dramatic fashion!

PNC Park

PNC Park (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

After a tough road trip out west (to Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Arizona), the team returned home to host the 2011 World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals and Hurdle’s former team, the Colorado Rockies.  The Rockies are led currently by former Pirates manager Jim Tracy.  After losing two of three to St. Louis over the weekend, the first game of the series with Colorado was rained out for Monday evening.  After a Tuesday win, the ensuing doubleheader was split, resulting in a big home series win for Pittsburgh.

The Pirates finished April with a four-game series split in Atlanta and entered May on the road in St. Louis.  They set a major league record…one that is a tribute to the pitching staff and the defense, but perhaps a detriment to the offense.  For the first 18 games of the season, they did not allow more than five runs and, subsequently, did not score more than five runs…in any game!  It was the longest streak of its kind in baseball history.

The Pirates are currently 10-14 and in fifth place in the NL Central division.

IheartPGH March Madness Bracket Challenge

If you would like to compete against fellow IheartPGH readers and basketball lovers – please enter your bracket in to the 2012 IheartPGH bracket challenge.  We moved over to Yahoo sports this year – the Yahoo site seems to be much easier to use.

March Madness kicks off right here in Pittsburgh this year with some of the games being held at the Consol Energy Center.  Tickets for these games are sold out but you can watch online.  Wednesday practices are free to attend.  A detailed schedule of practices and parking info is available here.

Round 2: Thursday, March 15 @ Consol Energy Center

Session 1, Game 1 – 12:40 PM: (truTV)
#8 K-State vs. #9 Southern Miss

Session 1, Game 2 – 30 mins following Game 1: (truTV)
#1 Syracuse vs. #16 UNC Asheville

Session 2, Game 1 – 7:20 PM: (TNT)
#7 Gonzaga vs. #10 West Virginia

Session 2, Game 2 – 30 mins following Game 1: (TNT)
#2 Ohio State vs. #15 Loyola (MD)

Click here to enter your bracket in the IheartPGH Challenge 

  • all brackets must be submitted by tip-off on Thursday, March 15, 2012
  • you may enter up to 3 brackets
  • if you want to tweet about it – please include your twitter name in your bracket