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By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media LONDON — Brief and to the Point … >> The Tuesday Olympics column looks at Wexford’s Jake Herbert, a legit gold-medal candidate in freestyle wrestling this weekend. How many of you recall Kurt Angle in Atlanta, before all the goofy stuff in his career? Given how poorly the [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media LONDON — Brief and to the Point … >> The Monday column is about Cassidy Krug’s final dive. The Olympics can be terribly cruel. >> They also can be tremendously exciting. >> Are there seriously people comparing the speed of football players to Usain Bolt? How arrogant. The [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media LONDON — Brief and to the Point … >> The Friday column is on badminton. No, really, it is. But it also gets into a broader issue from which all sports could learn, given the real mess of a controversy here about throwing matches. >> London has strange [...]

LONDON — Brief and to the Point … >> The Thursday Olympics column is about Bethel Park race walker Trevor Barron. I know going into a piece like this that my odds of getting anyone to read a piece with the words “race walker” in it are laughably low. But let me just say here [...]

LONDON — Brief and to the Point … >> The Wednesday Olympics column looks at the amazing double redemption of Jordyn Wieber and Michael Phelps, best things that have happened here yet. >> I also have a Pirates column about the trade deadline. For full coverage of everything that happened on that front, check our [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media LONDON — Brief and to the Point … >> The Tuesday column goes after my new friends at NBC for their horse-and-buggy approach to covering these Olympics. I don’t get to see what they’re doing, obviously, but I’m aware of the ridiculous delays. Moreover, I’m seeing at least [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media LONDON — Brief and to the Point … >> The Monday column wonders if Michael Phelps and Jordyn Wieber falter, who might step up in their stead for the United States? >> Aussie fan came into the Pittsburgh bureau for Olympics coverage, based conveniently near the Tower Bridge, [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media LONDON — Brief and to the Point … >> The Friday column rates Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps among the truly transcendent athletes in history. But can they — like Muhammad, Michael and Mario off that list — show a great sequel? These Olympics will tell. Would love [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media LONDON — Brief and to the Point … >> Wow. Talk about the cool parts of a job that really doesn’t have many non-cool parts. This is one of the great cities in the world, and I can’t tell you how excited I am to be here for [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media The Trib’s five-page Olympic preview runs in your Sunday paper, and it was the result of a pretty big effort by an awful lot of people not named me. My contribution is an analysis of why these Games will be more visible, more accessible than any in history. [...]