Sunday Night Football Preview, Analysis, and Prediction: San Diego Chargers at Pittsburgh Steelers

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The Steelers are finding out how hard it is to be considered the defending champs.

This past Sunday, the Steelers suffered a jaw-dropping loss to the Cincinnati Bengals, as the Bengals dropped 14 on Pittsburgh in the 4th Quarter, led by stellar play from QB Carson Palmer, while leaving the Steelers out to dry with zero points of their own.

As a matter of fact, the Steelers proved recently that they can struggle with defending their title, considering the fact that the Steelers of ’06 also started the season with a 1-2 record, which was the same season they last missed out on the playoffs with a dead even 8-8 record.

Is history already doomed to repeat itself this season? Or can the contemporary “Steel Curtain” help itself in the W category and get things turned around week against San Diego?

Here is what you need to know about Sunday night’s Chargers-Steelers tilt:

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More Week 4 Picks: Colts-Seahawks and Browns-Bengals

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Attention sportsbook aficionados, office poolies and pure football fans. We have more NFL week 4 picks up our sleeve for you. Try these on for size.

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Media Days Mark the Start of Another NBA Season

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Well, this whole week the media can actually annoy the NBA stars all they want.

They can take as many pics of them as they want (even if they have a Manny Ramirez wig, or power outages in Cleveland). Yes, if you haven’t guessed it, this whole week NBA teams are hosting their Media Days.

Even though the week isn’t even over yet, we have had a wonderous slur of magical moments so far. Like…

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Blogging Fitness: Kick Your Workouts Up a Notch with Kickboxing

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[Editor's note: I am very happy this morning to introduce a new regular health and fitness feature here at Midwest Sports Fans: Blogging Fitness, written by our newest contributor, fitness instructor and enthusiast Kimberly Westphall.

Learn more about Kimberly in the About the Author section at the bottom of this post.]

We all have our own motives for fitness — whether we are trying to trim down or tone up. Fitness gurus can argue for hours about the best fitness regime for your body. I have tried many of these regimes, ranging from Pilates and Yoga to rock climbing.

The common denominator I must have in all of these workouts is breaking a sweat.

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Fascinating Video: Joe Mauer Tipping Pitches From Second Base

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Just made my morning jaunt over to Deadspin and caught a fascinating video that shows Joe Mauer blatantly tipping pitches to Jason Kubel during the Twins-Tigers series.

Mauer is on second base with Justin Verlander pitching. The cat and mouse game, exquisitely captioned by whoever created the video, is a rare glimpse into the game-within-the-game that can be so often overlooked when watching a baseball game.

For some reason, all I can think about right now is how much I would love to hear Hawk Harrelson announcing this sequence.

Video after the jump.

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