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This week the Food Podcast featured Jeremiah’s Place, a crisis nursery in the Pittsburgh area.

“A crisis nursery is essentially an emergency childcare center. Pittsburgh didn’t have one til about 2014 when we opened our doors,” said acting director of Jeremiah’s Place Jordan Shoneburger.

Brian Metzer of the Penguins radio network joins me to look at the Penguins' attempt to rebound against the New York Islanders in Game 2 of the East Division semifinals.

In this week's "Madden Monday" podcast, Mark Madden and Tim Benz recap the Penguins Game 1 loss against the Islanders, Tristan Jarry's goaltending issues, Evgeni Malkin's injury, and the Steelers 2021 schedule.

Don Rebel chats with Jefferson-Morgan athletic director and WPIAL Softball Committee chair Scot Moore. The two discuss the newly unveiled WPIAL Softball bracket in each classification and what went into constructed each bracket.

Friday's Breakfast With Benz podcast features Robert Morris women's lacrosse coach Katrina Silva. Her Colonials make their NCAA Tournament debut Friday against No. 5 Notre Dame. She talks about how RMU can pull off the upset, the team's MAC championship, and what her players can learn from a 16-2 loss to the Fighting Irish earlier this season.

In this week's fantasy sports podcast we look at JuJu Smith-Schuster's outlook for 2021, Pirates vs. Giants, and ex-Bucco pitchers cleaning up statistically.

Don Rebel chats with Carmichaels coach Richard Krause about his team's success thus far, whether or not the Mighty Mikes could be considered "battle tested", and his thoughts on the section series format in the regular season. .

An interview with Food Bank’s Director of Child Nutrition Programs Karen Dreyer. Rewind to one year ago. Every school in Western PA had to switch to remote learning, and overnight, the food bank’s child nutrition team had to find a way to make sure kids reliant on school meal programs, still had food while learning from home.

Robert Morris men's lacrosse coach Drew McMinn joins me to talk about his team wrapping up a gauntlet of a schedule as an independent in 2021. And we look at the team's plan to join the Atlantic Sun conference for 2022.