Has it really been 12 days since this blog has been updated? Has it really been 20 days since the Steelers won the Super Bowl? The clicks, the searches and the hits that brought people here have subsided and we’ve settled into the absolute worst part of the sports year.

Here are 6 reasons why February is the worst sports month, after the first Sunday:
1. The NBA and NHL are trolling along with their near meaningless regular season.
2. Nascar is not my sport…but it’s back if you’re into that mindless driving in circles kinda thing.
3. Baseball is not yet about baseball but rather about steroids and ARod (again)
4. The NFL scouting combine is coming…get pumped! Um, maybe if we followed a team that was bad.
5. Tiger is coming back, that might draw a little attention from me
6. College basketball (save Pitt proving to be a legit contender) is about 2 weeks from interesting

Ah, but at least we have Jeff Reed and the curious case of Max Starks.

Besides Skippy throwing a toddler tantrum at Sheetz for not having the towels to dry his hands and Max Starks (8.451 mil in ‘09) raking in more money than it would have cost to keep Alan Fanaca (8 mil) in town, Here’s what a few of the Steelers have been up to since finishing off the Cardinals in XLIII.

• Super Bowl MVP Santonio Holmes has been making the rounds…Disney World, Leno (intervew at about 10:30 left in the show), Live with regis and Kelly (though I couldn’t find a clip of it), at halftime of an NBA game, and picking up a fine for that Lebronesque celebration (Lebron’s not happy).

Holmes with SI cover model Bar Refaeli

• Gary Russell lending support to the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh
• Ben Roethlisberger on Letterman and hanging with Pens owner Mario Lemieux
• Ben’s sister Carlee is playing some college hoops for Oklahoma
• Jeff Reed dropped the puck at that same Pens game Ben was at…I hope his hands didn’t get wet.
• Of course, Troy, James Farrior and James Harrison spent some time in Hawaii
• The team has been active adding depth to the offseason roster, 10 players were signed
• Hines Ward had shoulder surgery, none needed for the knee
• Lamarr Woodly went home

Good News: Mendenhall’s shoulder is on the mend…way ahead of schedule.
Here’s a few questions for Kevin Colbert (presumably at the scouting combine) by th Columbus-Dispatch
Steelers show interest in Penn State center A.Q. Shipley