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By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media >> The Monday column looks at the Pirates’ mental state, as well as that of their surroundings, even as it offers a prediction for how they’ll fare in 2013. Here’s a neat thing from the workout yesterday. Flicked on the video to start interviewing Jason Grilli and, as you’ll [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Official word comes from the Penguins that Sidney Crosby has a broken jaw and will be out indefinitely. The team expects to have a firmer timeline later in the week. Here’s the Trib’s news coverage by Rob Rossi. Obviously a lousy development for the athlete and the organization. General [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media The Sunday column covers Jarome Iginla’s day from midnight to matinee to skating alongside Evgeni Malkin and James Neal in his Pittsburgh debut. A bit of his postgame session, with a couple questions I threw his way … Here’s our Penguins page for full team coverage of Sidney Crosby’s [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Looking ahead to faceoff … Game: Penguins (27-8) vs. New York Islanders (16-15-3) Time: 1:08 p.m. Site: Consol Energy Center TV, radio: Root Sports, WXDX-FM 105.9 Here is the official live box score. Here is TribLIVE’s Penguins page. Rob Rossi, Josh Yohe and I are on the scene.

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Looking ahead to first pitch … Game: Pirates vs. Altoona Curve, exhibition Starters: RHP James McDonald vs. RHP Jason Grilli Time: 2:05 p.m. Site: Blair County Ballpark, Altoona, Pa. Radio: MLB.com Here is the official live box score. Here is the TribLIVE’s Pirates page. Karen Price is on the [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media >> The Friday column is about Jarome Iginla, the Penguins and the false notion of this extra pressure. >> Meanwhile, in that big yellow box Uptown … It’s 14 … As in, 14 … Which is to say, 14 and ALL IN, as our talented cover designer Matt Rosenberg [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Looking ahead to faceoff … Game: Penguins (26-8) vs. Winnipeg Jets (18-14-2) Time: 7:08 p.m. Site: Consol Energy Center TV, radio: Root Sports, TSN Jets (Manitoba), WXDX-FM 105.9 Here is the official live box score. Here is TribLIVE’s Penguins page. Rob Rossi, Josh Yohe and the Trib’s Manitoba correspondent [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Looking ahead to first pitch … Game: Pirates (12-18-1) vs. New York Yankees, exhibition Starters: LHP Jeff Locke vs. RHP Hiroki Kuroda Time: 1:05 p.m. Site: George M. Steinbrenner Field, Tampa, Fla. Radio: MLB.com Here is the official live box score. Here is the TribLIVE’s Pirates page. Rob Biertempfel [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Here’s today’s chat transcript. Record participation, and I’ll assume Jarome Iginla had a little to do with that but also that we had it right here on the blog. Thanks to Matt Neistein of our staff for working hard to make that happen.

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Morning, lunatics … >> The weekly chat will take place today at noon, as always. There will be a difference, though, as the live chat platform will be moved right here to the blog. It’s the post right above this. >> And it’s not like we won’t have much [...]