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OTAs: Hope Springs Eternal

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SCI publisher Jim Wexell takes a light-hearted look at what we can expect this week from the Steelers.

Organized Team Activities begin this week and that means football in the morning, in the brisk spring air, amid the chirping birds, when the coaches are in a good mood and 90 players have hope.

The Pittsburgh Steelers will hold their first of 10 such practices tomorrow and I'll be there to chronicle the following:

* Ben Roethlisberger's conditioning. He reportedly lost 15 pounds only two months into the offseason.

* The recoveries of Maurkice Pouncey and Le'Veon Bell.