STEELERS WR ACCUSED OF INTERCEPTING COMPANY FUNDS: Hines Ward is in a legal pickle, as the Steelers receiver is being sued by a business partner for company theft:

The PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW reports that a co-owner of the Locker Room Bar & Grille is accusing Ward and another partner of stealing money from the business.

Nicholas Lettieri claims that Ward and Kimberly Pitts have not placed the bar’s earnings back into the company, but instead have stashed the funds into their own personal bank accounts.

Lettieri asserts that the Locker Room has made more than $1 million in profits, and has another $500,000 in insurance money - yet, the company’s current accounts total less than $19,000.

An attorney for Ward and Pitts deny the claims, saying Lettieri’s accusations are “baseless, ridiculous and unfounded,” and adding that the bar’s black-ink tabs “never came anywhere close to those totals.”

The bickering owners should just get together and have a beer, and try to sort this whole thing out. But mind where the payment for the Iron City suds goes.