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Pens Radio Network host Brian Metzer joins me for our weekly hockey podcast. The Penguins played a stinker in their first home game back from a week off. New Jersey beat them 6-3. We talk about Evgeni Malkin's struggles, the team's inability to beat bad teams, and more shorthanded goals allowed.

The only fun part of the Pro Bowl was seeing the guys on offense play defense, and vise versa. And even that brought up a concerning moment.

The NFL must have a reason for staging the Pro Bowl. I just don't know what it is. And it can't just be money.

In this week's Madden Monday, Mark Madden of 105.9 the X joins me to talk about the return of hockey after the All Star break, the ongoing Antonio Brown fiasco, and the politics spewed at PiratesFest.

Don Rebel runs down news and notes from around the countries that make up the WPIAL with another edition of Sweeping the District.

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The Browns may still be the Browns after all.

A lot of attention was paid to Jamal Adams sacking the Patriots mascot at the Pro Bowl. But, there was one detail that emerged from the story that has me baffled.

Don Rebel looks at the latest WPIAL boys basketball playoff picture and touches on key games coming up as the Stretch Run to the regular season begins.

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It's our weekly fantasy sports podcast with Rotowire’s Jeff Erickson. Baseball drafts are starting up. Manny Machado, Bryce Harper, and Starling Marte are all mysteries. Plus the debate over how legalized gambling is affecting the fantasy sports world. Oh. And the Super Bowl. Yeah that’s happening too.

Steelers players are changing their tune about Antonio Brown staying in Pittsburgh. How seriously should we take that?