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Bob Bozzuto, AD of North Allegheny, joins Don Rebel as winners of the Trib Cup.

In this week's "Madden Monday," Mark Madden and I talk about the odd NHL draft lottery, coverage of the Ben Roethlisberger admissions, and the Pirates' questions at DH.

Brian Green was Nick Gonzales' coach at New Mexico State. The Pirates drafted Gonzales in the first round of this month's MLB draft. Now at Washington State, Green joins me to talk about Gonzales' freakish bat speed, fielding skills, and sudden rise from walk-on to batting champ.

Voted the best WPIAL athletes of the year, Spencer Lee and Maura Huwalt talk about their playing days in high school.

Jeff Erickson of RotoWire joins me for our weekly fantasy sports podcast. We look at how a 60-game MLB season may hurt fantasy interest and participation. We also talk about roster manipulation strategy, Pirates DH prospects, and Antonio Brown's potential NFL destinations.

Part Two of our broadcast welcomes Steve Mears. The Penguins TV play-by-play man has experience calling live hockey games remotely. He's done it before for World Junior championship games. He'll have to do it again calling Penguins games soon.

Pirates play-by-play man Greg Brown talks about the enormous challenges of calling MLB road games from a remote location.

In this week's hockey podcast, Brian Metzer of the Penguins Radio Network joins me to talk about why the prospect of being an NHL hub city isn't all that great. Also we analyze the latest bumps in the road on the path to an NHL reboot, how the expansion team in Seattle may be viewing all of this drama, and a few Penguins flashbacks to days of yore.

In this week's "Madden Monday" podcast, Mark Madden joins me to talk about the Steelers playoff prospects, attempts to reboot North American sports, classic Pittsburgh sports victories, and NHL hub cities.

Don Rebel recaps the voting results in the semi-finals of who the greatest WPIAL athlete is of this century.