Movie Review: "Glory Road"  This past weekend is the one I call
"Sports Interregnum Weekend".  The NFL is on its silly extra-
week-break before the Super Bowl. And speaking of that hype,
check out this silly statement by John Mullin of the Tribune, in
regard to the Pittsburgh Steelers' fan support:  ... by 11 a.m.
Monday after the Steelers' AFC championship victory over the
Denver Broncos, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette already had had 1.1
million hits on its Web site.  Just western Pennsylvania mania?
Uh, no. The population of Pittsburgh is 334,563. So unless every
man, woman and child in the city went to the paper's site three
times each before noon, the Steelers have quite a few fans
around the country.  So what this is saying is that once you
cross the Pittsburgh city line, there aren't any Steelers fans?
The US Census website says that the population of metropolitan
Pittsburgh as of 2000 was 2,358,695... so it appears that only
half of them clicked onto the Post-Gazette's website the day
after the AFC champi