The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review did their part to remind us that off-season NFL news is nothing short of spectacular (and by spectacular we mean vapid and inane)  If you have a few minutes and no real life, you can read about Benny and the Steelers new found courage in the face of the sack here– Paper or Plastic .  Crazy talk from a man who got battered 47 times behind the line of scrimmage last season.  If we got sacked 47 times in a season, we’d be packing it in.  Packing it in.  Get it?  Get it?  Never mind.

The next chapter of Carlton Haselrig’s newfound mixed martial arts career will be May 31 when he fights Carlos Moreno (5-2) at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.In the month following Haselrig’s first professional bout, a first-round knockout of MMA veteran Shane Ott (4-3) on April 19, the former Pittsburgh Steelers All-Pro and six-time NCAA national champion wrestler at Pitt-Johnstown has dissolved his relationship with his promoters, had his opponent changed five times, and earned enough respect to be included on the undercard of the first MMA event to be carried in prime time by CBS.   Trib-Review story