Blogs

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 [...]

. Brief and to the Point … >> Seeing back-to-back blah starts by Brad Lincoln and Kevin Correia surely will heighten the outcry for Rudy Owens — and friends, maybe — to come up from Indianapolis. It should also serve as a reminder of what these Pirates are all about. The pitching can’t be average [...]

. Brief and to the Point … >> Wow. What else can you say about a No. 8 seed that goes 16-4, takes out the top three seeds in its conference, then steamrolls a worthy opponent to raise sports’ greatest trophy? Wow. The Los Angeles Kings, born the same year as the Penguins, finally raised [...]

. MUNCIE, Ind. – Brief and to the Point … >> My Friday column follows a fun sit-down I had yesterday morning with Bill O’Brien. Really down-to-earth guy, the type I could see doing very well in recruiting the state. You’ll also find a brief video. Curious to hear the reaction of you Penn Staters. [...]

DENVER – Some sporting thoughts from a mile high … >> My Monday column eulogizes the Steelers. I’ll let it stand on its own. >> This has nothing to do with anything, but am I the only one put off by Maurkice Pouncey aggressively peddling — through Twitter and Facebook — T-shirts commemorating his Pro [...]

DENVER – Some sporting thoughts from a mile high … >> My Friday column covers the Mike Wallace issue, or at least as much as anyone can hope to cover Wallace. It’s largely from the Denver perspective, which I found telling. >> Had a request to interview John Elway turned down. I’m told he does [...]

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 [...]