http://sportstalk.triblive.com/download/MADDENlaborDAY2019.mp3 This week’s “Cheerleaders” Madden Monday with Mark Madden gets posted Tuesday because of the Labor Day weekend. We plunge into Steelers-Patriots, Pitt’s slow start, the Pirates sweep in Colorado, and “Carli the Kicker.”

http://sportstalk.triblive.com/download/CHEERLEADERSsteelersPATSopen.mp3 The hype for the Patriots season opener hasn’t been what it has been in years past. But it’ll start….now.

http://sportstalk.triblive.com/download/fantasy829.mp3 Fulfill your fantasy at Cheerleaders! It’s our final weekly fantasy sports podcast before the last NFL drafts take place this weekend. Get some last minute advice with Jeff Erickson of Rotowire. We talk some baseball as well.

http://sportstalk.triblive.com/download/CHEERLEADERabHELMETboomin.mp3 Antonio Brown has turned complaining into a cottage industry.

http://sportstalk.triblive.com/download/podcastkamkelly.mp3 Thursday’s “Breakfast with Benz” podcast features Kameron Kelly. The Steelers safety has gone from a fringe roster candidate in the spring to a likely roster member already, before the last preseason game is even played. How has that happened? Kelly gives us a good reason. And he tells us how some new tweaks to […]

http://sportstalk.triblive.com/download/Cheeerleadersluckretire.mp3 Why do people keep saying Andrew Luck’s retirement was “brave,” when no one seems to be allowed to criticize him?

http://sportstalk.triblive.com/download/budprecarpodcast.mp3 Steelers linebacker Bud Dupree joins me to talk about his thumb injury, preseason production, improved team speed, and Stephon Tuitt.

http://sportstalk.triblive.com/download/cheerleaderssteelersdeftenn.mp3 The Steelers defense may be better than we had a right to expect coming off of last year. Bud Dupree and Stephon Tuitt may be the reasons why.