Seriously, was the weather this weekend out of this world or what? It felt like early September, not early November. There’s not a ton of news today, I think everyone was out and about this weekend generally staying out of trouble.

Quick housekeeping note – did you know we have a fan page on Facebook? It’s true. If you haven’t checked it out yet, please do. It’s available at facebook.com/erieblogs. Thanks!

Speaking of the face pages, we saw lots of great feedback on Twitter and Facebook about the Train show this weekend. Hope you enjoyed it. I think it was the OHL finals back in ‘02 – Pat Monahan sang the national anthem. Was that game 7?

Barry Grossman is officially the next Erie County Executive. Good luck, bro. I hope you figure out the 911 stuff pretty quickly after taking office.

Kara Murphy of the Erie Times-News had a nice story this weekend about the growth of local wineries. Want to start learning more about wine? Check out Gary Vaynerchuk’s wine video blog. He’s also got a wine book (and I’m most of the way through Crush It!-about doing business on the web.)

Anybody know a lot about wine? Maybe you own a bar or restaurant and want to have some people in to learn about wine? I’d love to learn more. Drop me a note on our contact page. As someone in his early thirties, I feel wine and scotch are two things I should understand more. Don Draper = stunned.

Sports

NFL:
Cincinatti 17 Baltimore 7
Pittsburgh @ Denver 8:30 p.m. tonight on ESPN

The Browns and Bills both had a bye.

College:
West Chester 45 Mercyhurst 13
Edinboro 28 Millersville 25
Wittenburg 52 Allegheny 10
Gannon 10 Bloomsburg 7 OT
Ohio State 24 Penn State 7
Pittsburgh 37 Syracuse 10

Cory Conacher scored the game-deciding goal on a late penalty shot, and Canisius completed the home-and-home sweep of the Mercyhurst College men’s hockey team with a 4-3 victory Saturday evening at the Buffalo State Sports Arena.

Friday night, Erie beat the Niagara IceDogs 9-3 in Ontario Hockey League action before 3,107 fans at the Tullio Arena, the team’s largest home ice margin since Oct. 26, 2005. It was “home and home sweet home” for the Erie Otters this weekend as they completed a sweep of the Niagara IceDogs with a solid three-period effort and a 6-2 Ontario Hockey League victory before a crowd of 3,040 at the Gatorade Garden City Complex Saturday night. It was Erie’s fourth straight win in St. Catharines.

Events

Rabbi Steve Greenberg will present “Civil Law and Sacred Text,” the 2009 Samuel Schick Lecture, on Wednesday, Nov. 11 at 7 p.m. in the Tippie Alumni Center on the Allegheny College campus. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be followed at 8:30 p.m. by a screening and discussion of “And Thou Shalt Love,” a short documentary film about gay Orthodox Jews.