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. Looking ahead to faceoff … Game: Penguins (36-21-5) vs. Dallas Stars (33-26-4) Time: 7:38 p.m. Site: American Airlines Center, Dallas TV, radio: NBC Sports Network, 105.9 The X Here is the official live summary. Updates are on our Penguins page. Josh Yohe is hiding behind the grassy knoll.

. Looking ahead to tipoff … Game: Pitt (15-14, 4-12 Big East) vs. St. John’s (13-16, 6-10) Time: 7:05 p.m. Site: Petersen Events Center, one final time TV, radio: ESPNU, 93.7 The Fan Here is the official live summary, and here are news updates on our Pitt page. John Grupp is on the job. I’m [...]

. Brief and to the Point … >> My Wednesday column tries like crazy to get Jamie Dixon to open up about this rough season at Pitt. I can assure you it wasn’t easy, and it wasn’t necessarily successful. Dixon, by the way, gets my vote from our little poll yesterday about Pittsburgh’s best coach. [...]

. Brief and to the Point … >> A question before we get started: Who is Pittsburgh’s best current coach/manager? >> I wrote a week ago from Buffalo that the Penguins shouldn’t make any moves, then on Monday that they wouldn’t make any moves. And, wow, nothing at all about that changed yesterday. That might [...]

. Brief and to the Point … >> My Monday column discovers a potential winger for Sidney Crosby on the NHL’s trade deadline day. And he might be even better than Rick Nash. >> Assuming the top line remains intact, as the column strongly advocates, what would your other three lines look like going into [...]

. Looking ahead to faceoff … Game: Penguins (35-21-5) vs. Columbus Blue Jackets (18-36-7) Time: 1:08 p.m. Site: Consol Energy Center TV, radio: Root Sports, NHL Network, 105.9 The X Here is the official live summary. Updates are on our Penguins page. Josh Yohe gets another matinee discount.

. Looking ahead to faceoff … Game: Penguins (34-21-5) vs. Tampa Bay Lightning (27-27-6) Time: 1:08 p.m. Site: Consol Energy Center TV, radio: Root Sports, NHL Network, 105.9 The X Here is the official live summary. Updates are on our Penguins page. Josh Yohe gets the matinee discount.

. Brief and to the Point … >> My Friday column discusses Frank Coonelly’s DUI, what it means to the Pirates and, infinitely more important, what it could mean toward victims of drunk driving. My thanks here go to the Pennsylvania chapter of MADD for their help. >> On this very blog yesterday, we had [...]

Check the Trib’s main site for my breaking news of Frank Coonelly’s DUI charges. Feel free to use this space to discuss, but please remember we also have the chat coming up at noon.

. Brief and to the Point … >> Today’s chat is at noon. Hope you’ll be there. >> I won’t get too much into this thing I learned yesterday, because it won’t look good no matter how I do it. So let’s just say I was floored, if only by looking at that list of [...]