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By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Morning, lunatics … >> The Friday notes column is led by — what else? — the Steelers’ No. 1 pick, Jarvis Jones. You’ll also find more in there on football, plus pucks and baseball. Here, too, is our news coverage by Alan Robinson. And here’s Jones’ official NFL [...]

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 Brief and to the Point … >> The Monday column counts the ways in which Paul Chryst has to dramatically improve Pitt before their next game … which is Thursday against the defending Big East champs. Here’s some of what Tino Sunseri had to say late Saturday night [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Looking ahead to kickoff … Game: West Virginia vs. Marshall, season opener for both Time: 12:02 p.m. Site: Milan Puskar Stadium, Morgantown, W.Va. TV, radio: FX, ESPN Radio (970 AM) Here is West Virginia’s official football page. Here is the Trib’s West Virginia football page.

. Brief and to the Point … >> The Friday column examines how West Virginia and Pitt will emerge from their conference shuffle. The answer isn’t the no-brainer many seem to think. >> It’s stunning, still, just to hear conference commissioners and school presidents openly talking about the four-team playoff. In the event of the [...]

. Brief and to the Point … >> My Monday column examines whatever passes for the Penguins’ home-ice advantage. >> After you read — and yes, that’s the toll — I’d welcome hearing your suggestions for ways to heal some of the stuff you’ve seen go wrong the past six games. Doesn’t have to be [...]

Looking ahead to kickoff … Game: Pitt (5-5, 3-2 Big East) vs. West Virginia (7-3, 3-2) Time: 7:10 p.m. Site: Milan Puskar Stadium, Morgantown, W.Va. TV, radio: ESPN, 93.7 The Fan Weather: 55 degrees, mostly clear Here is the official live summary, and here are news updates on our Pitt page. Jerry DiPaola and John [...]

Some sporting thoughts before sunrise … >> My Wednesday column is a bit off the beaten path, but it was something I thought about a lot during the recent road trip: Why do so many prefer autographs to an actual personal interaction? No, I’m not getting into the usual adults-as-children criticism. It’s much more about [...]

Some sporting thoughts before sunrise … >> My Wednesday column is about Sidney Crosby looking and sounding more upbeat than he has in nearly a year. If I didn’t read much into that before, I certainly did after our talk yesterday. The Kid is legitimately feeling good, more than he’s letting on most of the [...]

Some sporting thoughts before sunrise … >> If a shark attacks someone off the coast of Florida, then another attacks someone else off the coast of North Carolina, our nightly news invariably carries reports of “an increase in shark attacks.” As if sharks just figured out, after a million years or so, that they enjoy [...]