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. PHILADELPHIA — Brief and to the Point … >> My special-edition Thursday column looks at the Penguins’ most important performance in the 10-3 annihilation in Game 4. It might surprise you a bit. This is usually Joe Starkey’s day to column-ize, but we flipped days this week because of the Penguins being on the [...]

. Brief and to the Point … >> My Friday column is about the Penguins needing to move forward tonight. And I’m not just talking about moving forward from the Game 1 debacle. >> Spent part of the day at the Penguins’ and Flyers’ practices, then went about a block and half across Uptown to [...]

. Brief and to the Point … >> Well, I didn’t see that coming. When one sits down to pen a column about Duquesne basketball, one pretty much is resigned to getting next to nothing in terms of feedback the following morning. Not so for the piece yesterday admonishing the administration for firing Ron Everhart. [...]

. Brief and to the Point … >> My Monday column provides my first chance to share feelings on Duquesne’s firing of Ron Everhart. Suffice it to say I won’t be getting those 11 missing credits on an honorary degree anytime soon. >> How silly does Neal Huntington look in vowing Pedro Alvarez will make [...]

. Brief and to the Point … >> My Friday column, aimed entirely at generating additional street-level newspaper sales and cheap online page views, is about Duquesne basketball. I get a lot of the eye-roll responses from readers when I take topics like these, and even something Pitt-related. I understand that, but part of covering [...]

. Brief and to the Point … >> Great day for hockey in Pittsburgh, really was. The Mario Lemieux statue’s unveiling comes on a 66-degree day before the Penguins’ 66th game of the season, and the team comes through with a three-goal rally to beat Toronto, 3-2. It was lots of fun, as columnist Joe [...]

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Some sporting thoughts before sunrise … >> My Wednesday column offers almost unmitigated love for the NHL realignment, the new playoff structure, pretty much everything. Though I must admit, it’s oddly uncomfortable to feel this positive about anything this league does. >> Quebec Nordiques? Mais oui! >> New rule: No complaining [...]

Some sporting thoughts before sunrise … >> Can we please dispense with even the minimal amount of hype given to the “City Game?” Until Duquesne takes its commitment to athletics more seriously than it has for, oh, four decades now, there’s just another Pitt exhibition in which a couple extra thousand Dukes fans help make [...]