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By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Here’s today’s chat transcript covering the Penguins’ grit added by Ray Shero, the Steelers ignoring Steve McLendon, the Pirates’ placement of Starling Marte at leadoff, plus Pitt football, Riverhounds and more. Thanks to all for participating.

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media >> The Friday notes column checks the baseball club’s pulse on its way out of town — yes, it’s got one — as well as offering thoughts on the Penguins, Steelers, Pitt, West Virginia and Duquesne. Couple glimpses of the breeze whipped up at PNC, as captured by staff [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media >> The weekly chat will rise up right here on this blog at noon. The post should go up around 8 a.m., which is when entries can be submitted. Please bear in mind, entries go in the chat field, not in the comments section. >> As our overly alliterative [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media >> The Wednesday column pays homage to the architect of the Penguins’ 15-game winning streak that ended last night at Consol. And boy, did it end with a blah and a half … News coverage this morning is by beat man Rob Rossi. Not much to say about this [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Here’s today’s TribLIVE Radio show podcast, featuring my guests, Matt Cooke of the Penguins and the Trib’s Pitt football beat man Jerry DiPaola. And here’s video of the opening segment on the welcome demise of the Penguins’ blues …

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Morning, lunatics … >> The TribLIVE Radio show today — 1-2 p.m. — will feature Matt Cooke of the Penguins. To listen, just click on TribLIVE Radio. It’s free, easy, no signup. If you’ve got an iPhone, iPad or Android, we’ve also got the upgraded TribLIVE Radio app. [...]

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 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 FORT MYERS, Fla. — Morning, lunatics … >> The Wednesday column takes on that most dreaded of baseball topics — at least as far as overfilling the inbox — and that’s picking out a lineup preference. Included in this piece are three elements related to the Pirates’ 2013 lineup: [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media >> The Wednesday column looks at all the tough calls the Steelers have to make in the next couple weeks … and concludes that there really aren’t any at all. I’ll ask you right here: Are you in favor of cutting James Harrison for the cap space? Don’t pull [...]