Kehoe back with 'Canes

WHEN ART KEHOE heard Al Golden was leaving Temple to become the head football coach at Miami, he knew what he had to do.

Kehoe, who had starred at Miami as a player and served as an offensive coach for 25 years at the school before being fired after the 2005 season, wanted to be part of the Hurricanes' program again.

So he called everyone he knew with ties to Golden.

"It was a blitzkrieg," Kehoe told the Associated Press yesterday, speaking for the first time since he was rehired last week.

Kehoe, a Conshohocken native who played at Archbishop Kennedy, will serve as Golden's assistant line coach.

The 53-year-old Kehoe is the only Miami coach to be part of all five of the Hurricanes' national championships.

After his firing, Kehoe took jobs at Ole Miss, Lambuth University and the California Redwoods, of the United Football League.

"I can't tell you how great it is to be back," he said. "It's unbelievable . . . Just pumped up.

"I just want to tell you from my heart and soul, to be back in Miami is a wonderful thing," Kehoe said. "I am so grateful . . . I have to write a lot of letters as soon as I can catch a breath here. I've got to make a lot of phone calls."

The Pittsburgh Steelers might have the youngest fan base of any NFL team in the nation.

According to a report, St. Clair Hospital in Mount Lebanon is wrapping newborns in Terrible Towels, as a show of support for the Steelers as they prepare for Sunday's Super Bowl.

"They're born Steelers fans here in Pittsburgh,'' Sharon Johnson, a clinical supervisor at the hospital, told the Upper St. Clair Patch.

There is no truth to the rumor that a Philadelphia hospital is lining up babies in rows of six, writing the letters E-A-G-L-E-S in midnight green on their little bare chests and putting snowballs in each of their tiny little hands.

- Tom Mahon

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