Pittsburgh Steelers Opponents for the 2018 season released Monday !!!

The Pittsburgh Steelers schedule for the 2018 season was released by the NFL Monday January 1, 2018. The Steelers opponents and home and away games were released. The only thing still to do is put times and dates to the games.   Below is the list:

Home: Baltimore Ravens, Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, Atlanta Falcons, Carolina Panthers, Kansas City Chiefs, Los Angeles Chargers, New England Patriots
Away: Baltimore Ravens, Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, Denver Broncos, Jacksonville Jaguars, New Orleans Saints, Oakland Raiders, Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Arizona Cardinals Head Coach Bruce Arians Retires!!!!

The Arizona Cardinals  head coach Bruce Arians  announced his retirement from coaching during a tearful, emotional news conference Monday. “The tears you see are really tears of joy, peace,” Arians said. “I’ll miss the players. I’ll miss coming out of the locker room, hearing the national anthem because it still gets me …

Arians said that he truly didn’t know that he was going to retire until the outcome of Sundays game.   Arians leaves the team with a 49-30-1 mark after a five-year run that included a pair of playoff appearances. Beginning his coaching career as a graduate assistant with Virginia Tech in 1975, the 65-year-old Arians steadily evolved into one of pro football’s finest play-callers during coordinator stints with the Browns (2001-2003), Steelers (2004-2011) and Colts(2012). Arians is credited with molding Pittsburgh Steelers  quaterback Ben Roethlisberger into a future hall of famer.   Arians battled health issues over the past two seasons, a factor that clearly played into his decision to walk away.

Winds of Change in the NFL!!!! The hammer has fallen on big name coaches

The NFL will have a plentiful amount of new head coaches next season as the hammer has dropped and a handful of coaches have already been handed their walking papers. Mostly recently John Fox of the  Chicago Bears being given a New Years day present of a pink slip. The regular season ended yesterday and so did the tenure of coaches such a Jack Del Rio from the Oakland Raiders,  Jim Caldwell from the Detroit Lions,  and what has to be one of the biggest surprises the Indianapolis Colts firing of Chuck Pagano.  Who will be the next to be handed walking papers in the coming days?

Stay tuned to Beaver County radio for more and tune into the sports report every morning during  A.M. Beaver County with Matt Drzik from 6:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. . You can also hear Matt’s daily sports report on the noon day report with Pat Septak.

Happy New Year

Revelers around the world have welcomed the new year with tight security, prayers, fireworks and a crystal ball. Some Californians rang in 2018 by smoking marijuana, minutes after the state joined the list of places allowing recreational pot. In New York, as the glittering crystal ball dropped in Times Square, a crowd of about one million rang in the new year. Earlier, spectacular fireworks lit up the skies in Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand.

President Trump Holds New Year’s Party

President Donald Trump welcomed in the new year with a lavish party at his private club in South Florida. Joining friends at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Trump told reporters that he expects the new year to be tremendous and predicted the stock market would continue to gain ground and that companies return to the U-S at a rapid clip.

Beaver County Commissioners Considering Legal Options.

Beaver County Commissioners are considering their legal options after Judges John McBride and Dale Fouse ordered a reassessment of all county property by mid June of 2020. Commissioners met Friday afternoon with solicitor Garen Fedeles and his assistant Nate Morgan but came up with no course of action regarding the court ruling. County property has not been assessed since 1982 and the court order stipulates that the county must have a contract with an outside firm to do the assessment by mid June of this year.

Pot Goes On Sale Today In California

More than six dozen marijuana retailers have been licensed to start selling recreational pot in California today. The start of legal retail marijuana sales comes more than two decades after California paved the way for legal weed by passing the first medical marijuana law in the U-S. Alex Traverso, a spokesman for the state’s bureau of cannabis control, says the agency worked thru the weekend to process as many licenses as possible.

Costa Rican Air Crash Kills 10 Americans

Costa Rican investigators are looking into what caused a charter aircraft to crash in woods in the country’s northwest soon after takeoff, killing 10 U-S citizens and two local crew members. A relative and a rabbi identified five of the dead as a family from a New York City suburb who were in Costa Rica on vacation. The pilot was a cousin of a former Costa Rican president.

Lincoln Park and Butler Top CJ Betters Tournament

CJ Betters High School Basketball Tournament: (December 30, 2017).

Blue Division Championship: Butler 59, Central Valley 47. CCBC Player’s of the Game: Tarik Taoufik (Butler); Josh Kline (Central Valley).

Gray Division Championship: Penn Hills 58, Lincoln Park 51. CCBC Player’s of the Game: Corey Fulton (Penn Hills); Casey Oliver (Lincoln Park)..