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On ice Malkins return to practice causes Game 2 lineup guessing C3

Steelers dealt rare triple holiday play schedule

by MARK KAbOLy
Chalk it up to luck of the draw.
Thats how the NFL described the
Steelers becoming only the second
team in the leagues almost 100-year
history to play on Thanksgiving,
Christmas and New Years Day in the
same season.
The Christmas Day 4:30 p.m. game
against the AFC North rival Balti-
more Ravens will be played at Heinz
Field and will be the first time the
Steelers have played on the holiday
Reaction mixed, especially for Christmas
in their 82-year history. The Steelers
will play at the Indianapolis Colts on
Thanksgiving night and play host to
the Cleveland Browns at 1 p.m. Jan. 1.
The Steelers have played on Thanks-
giving and New Years before, but not
Christmas.
It just happened to be how it came
out, said NFL Director of Broadcast
unfair to the players and the season
ticket holders.
Sandra Marr, who lives in the North
Hills, is torn about the holiday home
Michael North, one of four people Ashley Bole-Seifert of Crafton said games.
who spent three months going over her family has had season tickets for Im a religious person, but I
the 500,000 schedule possibilities cre- 46 years. She said attending the holi- think its great, Marr said. And
the reason I think its great is that
ated by more than 130 computers. It day games may be difficult.
was luck of the draw, honestly, of the We want to enjoy those holidays at most people have all their families
Steelers playing on Thanksgiving, home or traveling to see family, Bole- home for the holidays, and theyll
Christmas and New Years. Seifert said. Trying to find friends or be able to go. Other types of week-
ends, families live far away, but they
The question will be how fans and family that might take these (tickets)
workers respond. from us will be hard. It seems a little STEELERS A6

ICA board
SOMBER DAY RECAST

gives boot
to director
Citys fiscal watchdog
vows reforms after Trib
investigation reveals
shoddy record keeping
by CARL PRINE
Henry V. Sciortino, the man
who oversaw more than a
decade of budget battles be-
tween state fiscal overseers
and Pittsburgh officials, is
losing his contract with a
board that vows to clean up
the watchdog agency.
The Pittsburgh Intergovern-
mental Cooperation Authority
board unanimously voted at a
special meeting Friday to let
Sciortinos month-to-month
AP work contract expire, effec-
Jeff Bauman (center), a survivor of the Boston Marathon bombing, steps over the marathon finish line on the tively terminating his em-
third anniversary of the attack. Seeking to present the day in a new light, the city has declared that April 15 will be ployment. His last day is May
celebrated as One Boston Day, a day to encourage people to perform random acts of kindness. Story, A5 31. The board unanimously
agreed to find an interim re-
placement, but named no one
to the post.
The action occurs in the wake
for city retirees.
Sciortino, who has been
undergoing medical treat-
ment near his West Chester
home, was not present at the
meeting in council chambers
at the City-County Building
and did not return messages
seeking comment. White col-
lar criminal defense attorney
Tom Farrell said that he is
representing Sciortino. When
asked if he would like to say
something positive about
Sciortinos 11-year tenure at
ICA, he said that he had a
lot of nice things to say about
him, but not
to you.
Reading
from a pre-
pared state-
ment and
refusing to
discuss the
The Trib decision with
reported that r e p o r t e r s ,
Sciortino newly elect-
ed ICA board
sought
personal Chairwoman

Egyptians protest island transfers

Crowd seeks Sisis
ouster over action
with Saudi Arabia
by bETSy HIEL
CAIRO Thousands of
Egyptians condemned the
transfer of two Red Sea is-
lands to Saudi Arabia dur-
ing rare street demonstra-
tions Friday.
Anger has mounted since
President Abdel Fattah al-Si-
sis government announced
its decision on Sanafir and
Tiran islands last week.
I am here because Sisi
sold our land without ask-
ing the people, said Rania
Rifaat, 28, a lawyer. He sold
the land like it is his moth-
ers land.
We paid for this land in
blood, she said.
The islands are in the
Straits of Tiran, a narrow
passage between Egypt and
Saudi Arabia that separates
the Gulf of Aqaba from the
Red Sea. Egyptian officials
say Saudi Arabia trans-
ferred them to Egypts con-
trol in 1950, to prevent Israel
from seizing them.
In 1967, Egypt closed the
straits to Israeli ships; Israel
attacked Egypt and occupied
the islands and Egypts Sinai
Peninsula.
Israel ended its occupation
EGYPT A6
BJ Leber
of a Tribune-Review investi- federal promised re-
gative series detailing what bankruptcy forms.
appears to be shoddy record protection There is a
keeping at the agency and Sci- between 2010 lot of interest
ortinos personal bankruptcy. and 2011. in the ICA,
The only employee at the as well there
ICA since former Gov. Ed Ren-
dell, D-Philadelphia, named
should be, she said. It is
important to the future of the
him executive director in 2004,
Sciortino, 67, led the agency
city and involves a great deal
of money. It is unfortunate,
through a tumultuous era of
but necessary, that all of us
often rancorous tilts with city are spending so much time
officials in an ongoing effort and energy on the past. It is,
to erase $1 billion in munici- however, a new day.
pal debt and fully fund the
pension and health care plans ICA A6

DOUBLE
STRIKE
Carter reaffirms U.S. presence in Pacific
An 8-month-old
baby is rescued On carrier in contested With a key Asia Pacific ally at
his side, Carters visit aboard
the vivid blue skies, about 70
nautical miles west of the is-
Friday from sea, Defense secretary the USS John C. Stennis under- land of Luzon.
a home that scores persistent complaints Later, in the massive gray
collapsed in an slams Chinese build-up from the United States and ships hangar bay, Carter said
earthquake in its allies in the region about his message in making the trip
ASSOCIATED PRESS
southern Japan. Chinas military build-up in is that the United States in-
The quake with ABOARD THE USS JOHN the South China Sea. Beijing tends to continue to play a role
a preliminary C. STENNIS For the second has been creating man-made in keeping peace and stability
magnitude time in five months, Defense islands and equipping many in this region.
of 7.3 struck Secretary Ash Carter landed with runways, fighter aircraft He said the only reason
hours after a aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier and other weapons. Americas presence in the re-
smaller quake hit Carter stood alongside Phil- gion comes up as an issue is
in the bitterly contested South
the same region. because of Chinas behavior
China Sea, sending a deliberate ippine Defense Secretary Vol-
over the past year and thats
Story, A3 message to China on American taire Gazmin as they watched
REUTERS power in the region. Navy fighter jets launch into CARTER A6

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