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By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media UNIONDALE, N.Y. — The Sunday column advancing Game 3 takes Marc-Andre Fleury’s temperature after that strange showing and comes up with … well, more questions. Here’s a video of some of our talk yesterday after practice … Here’s the totality of our Penguins coverage. Rob Rossi and I will [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media UNIONDALE, N.Y. — The joint venture between WPXI and Trib Total Media into sports TV continues Sunday night at 11:35 p.m. with the second episode of The Final Word. The discussion will be lively and informed, built on a rotation of WPXI and Trib personalities, but also heavy on [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media The Saturday column from Game 2 last night looks at the dramatic contrast between what Sidney Crosby did to get back on the ice versus how the Penguins as a whole failed to show up at all. Here’s the totality of our Penguins coverage. Here’s a video of some [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Looking ahead to faceoff … Game 2: Penguins vs. New York Islanders, Stanley Cup playoffs, first round Series: Penguins, 1-0. Time: 7:08 p.m. Site: Consol Energy Center TV, radio: Root Sports, NBC Sports Network (national), MSG Plus (New York), WXDX-FM 105.9 Here is the official live box score. Here [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media >> There’s no Friday column because of the Stanley Cup playoffs messing with our schedules. I will, however, write a column each of the next five days, covering Game 2 tonight, Games 3 and 4 on Long Island, and everything in between. >> The chat transcript covered pucks, plus [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Here’s today’s chat transcript covering the Penguins’ pending line shuffle for Game 2, the Steelers’ remaining vacancies after the draft, and the Pirates’ still-glaring lack of starting pitching, plus more. Thanks to all for participating.

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Morning, Lunatics … >> The Thursday column pays homage to one seriously determined group of individuals … but also reminds that it was just one game. Many, many laps of the rink left. Full news coverage by Rob Rossi, Josh Yohe, Jerry DiPaola and Kevin Gorman is on our [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Looking ahead to faceoff … Game 1: Penguins vs. New York Islanders, Stanley Cup playoffs, first round Time: 7:38 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 [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Morning, Lunatics … >> The Wednesday column spins some randomly collected yarn into … well, you’ll see … it’s about Game 1 of the Stanley Cup playoffs tonight. One part is about this crazy guy, goes by Crankshaft … Another is about the Islanders’ bronzed rear ends … And [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Here’s today’s TribLIVE Radio show podcast featuring my guests: Jarome Iginla, the Trib’s Steelers beat man Alan Robinson and — live in studio! — the one and only @suckmeter And here’s video of the opening rant on Root Sports picking between Penguins and Pirates tomorrow … Thanks to all [...]