If basketball isn’t your thing, there are some other interesting ways to join in on the March Madness craze this year. Pittsburgh artists and author, Matthew Buchholz, has been sharing monsters through his creative cards and prints which you may have spotted around town. Buchholz is bringing the big monsters to the bracket with March Monster Madness, a daily match-up of famous monsters and zombies face off each day to see who will move to the next round. Each weekday you can vote for the winner of each battle on the Alternate Histories website. Share your thoughts on your pick… Read the rest
Back in March, a group of Pittsburgh bloggers organized a March Madness bracket challenge – we all agreed that each blog would write a post about the winning bloggers favorite nonprofit organization.
Kate Stoltzfus (aka the brains behind the blog Yinzpiration) had the winning bracket and her nonprofit of choice is PULSE. I am more than happy to write about PULSE as I think this is one nonprofit that has been quietly making a big impact on some Pittsburgh neighborhoods and is well positioned to continue to do more for the city.
PULSE stands for Pittsburgh Urban Leadership Service Experience. … Read the rest
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… Read the rest
Back again for 2010 is the IheartPGH bracket challenge – this year we are moving the challenge over to Facebook. Join the IheartPGH Group on CBS Sports, fill out your brackets and compete against your fellow pgh friends and bloggers.
Click here to join the group – http://apps.facebook.com/cbssports/groups/group/204654
Fill out your bracket by 12:00 PM ET on Thursday, March 18… Read the rest
Image by protoflux via Flickr
I just realized that I had not yet made any picks for March madness! I did pick a winner in last years basketball pool, so I decided there is still time for a pool in 2009. If the president can make some bracket picks, you can too. Make your picks by NOON on Thursday March 19.
I set up a group on the CBS sports website – http://pghlove.mayhem.cbssports.com/e?referrer=MKTG_BM_INVITE
Click the link above
If you don’t have an account with CBS sports you will have to create one
log-in to the IheartPGH group and set up… Read the rest