>>>You can’t call them the Steagles, but the Eagles and the Steelers have announced a joint effort to fight child obesity, in which students earn points for doing shit like push-ups and jumping jacks that we remember doing just for the sheer hell of it as kids because the alternative was a bad grade in gym class. And a bad grade in gym class meant you just lost an easy A, and you never truly heal from something like that. [Metro]
>>>Philly’s image makeover continues, not that she even looks that bad compared to Pittsburgh. We believe Sienna Miller said it best. Either way, both us and them are on the receiving end of extra aid from the PA Tourism Office. The 11 % increase in funding could get us a new…half of a fountain? [CBS]
>>> Oh, and nothing but nothing could keep the desperate and the talentless from here and yonder to line up for American Idol auditions here in Philly. In this photo, Cyndi Lauper confides to a pal that after all this time, she really is finally trying to escape from the shadow of Lou Albano, who always was kind of the Ike to her Tina. [Inky]

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