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By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Could the Pirates have done more to sign Mark Appel? And would it have been worth it? We won’t fully know the answer to the second question for a long time based on a lot of variables. But a phone call from Scott Boras over the weekend reminded [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Looking ahead to first pitch … Game: Pirates (49-38) vs. Milwaukee Brewers (41-46) Time: 2:10 p.m. Site: House of Horrors TV, radio: Root Sports, 93.7 The Fan Here is the live box score. And here is the Pirates’ lineup vs. Milwaukee RHP Yovani Gallardo … Drew Sutton, LF Neil Walker, [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Looking ahead to first pitch … Game: Pirates (48-38) vs. Milwaukee Brewers (41-45) Time: 7:10 p.m. Site: House of Horrors TV, radio: Root Sports, 93.7 The Fan Here is the live box score. And here is the Pirates’ lineup vs. Milwaukee RHP Marco Estrada … Drew Sutton, LF Neil [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Looking ahead to first pitch … Game: Pirates (48-37) vs. Milwaukee Brewers (40-45) Time: 8:10 p.m. Site: House of Horrors TV, radio: Root Sports, 93.7 The Fan Here is the live box score. And here is the Pirates’ lineup vs. Milwaukee RHP Zack Greinke … Drew Sutton, LF Neil [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Brief and to the Point … >> The Friday column is the newspaper version of the piece you saw get built right here throughout the day yesterday. This last one has additional rewriting and a couple updates. Over to the right you can see our Trib sports cover, [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media If football mattered too much, then it shouldn’t matter at all now. In light of the Louis Freeh investigation report that dropped like an anvil this morning, the NCAA no longer has a choice but to aggressively pursue the so-called death penalty for Penn State football. And the [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media In lieu of the Wakeup Call this morning, we’re going to focus entirely on the results of the Penn State investigation, due for an online release at 9 a.m. You can find it right here. And I mean it when I say we. Going to try something different [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Brief and to the Point … >> The Wednesday column uncovers the Penguins’ real plan for a Sidney Crosby winger. And it might not be a Crosby winger at all. >> A small slice of my conversation with top prospect Simon Despres … httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4DL_vzbPZA Poor kid did that [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Brief and to the Point … >> The Home Run Derby is … um, hang on … uh … Zzzzzzzzzzzzz … >> The Pirates’ last game before the break, the 13-2 rout of the Giants on Sunday, was the highest-rated broadcast for the team in the history of [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Brief and to the Point … >> The Monday column looks both at the remarkable scene yesterday and ahead to the second half. Hope you enjoy this one half as much as the one on women’s sports. >> Once again, Trib photographer Chris Horner nails the moment, the [...]