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In case you missed it:

On the Ice:

• The Bleacher Report provides another analysis of The Great One vs. the Next One. Nothing stunningly new here except for a few amusing stories from Tony Esposito and Glen Sather. The point of the article though is spot on.
• Will Sid ever be a great goal scorer? Darren Dreger of TSN.ca doubts it though is impressed with his two goals last night. Let's not forget that it took 66 until his third year to register 50 goals. 87 is currently on a 37 goal pace for an 82 game schedule. Will he ever be Lemieux like in goal scoring? No, but who is? Will he ever get 50 - almost certainly. Will guys like Ovechkin and Kovalchuk regularly score more - likely. What does it all mean? Crosby is really good is probably all.
• Who is the Hart winner? Even Geno thinks AO will win it. Another case of Geno subjugating himself for the higher profile player like he seems to do when Crosby is in the lineup? Doubtful considering the simmering feud between AO and Geno. More likely just being realistic.
• Going to Vegas? As of March 24th the Pens were the co-favorite to win the Wales Conference with the rouge blanc et bleu. But both of them were behind 3 teams from the Campbell:
  
  Detroit Red Wings 4 - 1
  San Jose Sharks 11 - 2
  Anaheim Ducks 6 - 1
  Pittsburgh Penguins 7 - 1
  Montreal Canadiens 7 - 1
  New Jersey Devils 10 - 1
  New York Rangers 10 - 1

On the Gridiron:

• Wonder what old Quiver and Shake member Greg Lloyd has been up to since shoving a gun in his son's mouth? Strange as it seems, he's around even more kids, teaching Tae Kwan Do, using the "intensity and rigid adherence to the minutest detail that helped make Lloyd a five-time Pro Bowler during a standout 12-year NFL career spent mostly with the Pittsburgh Steelers and are also among the personal characteristics that his ex-wife Rhonda cited when she had Lloyd arrested after accusing him of shoving a gun into his son's mouth in 2001 and of pointing a gun at her head a year later." Something tells me we haven't heard the last of #95.
• Want to see firsthand what plays the Steelers mothballed and what people meant when they claimed Big Ben simply "managed" games in his rookie year of 2004? Now for $10 you can own a digital copy of the Steelers playbook from 2004 and see all the crazy flea flickers, double reverses, and hook and ladders plays that they didn't use and see in exciting black and white, exactly which X is supposed to block which O on every guard trap play the team ran that year on their way to a 15-1 record.
• Are we really counting on Chris Kemoeatu to replace Faneca on the o-line this coming year? I hope he's changed, but here's a pretty good reason why he's rarely seen the field in his first three seasons:
  

  Arizona Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt yesterday told about Steelers offensive guard Chris Kemoeatu leaving his playbook in the dining hall on the eve of their Super Bowl XL victory in Detroit.
  
  "We as coaches saw it," said Whisenhunt, the team's offensive coordinator then.
  
  "We grabbed it and had it with us."
  
  Kemoeatu walked into the meeting that night before the Super Bowl carrying a little black book under his arm. The coaches knew it wasn't his playbook, so Whisenhunt said Cowher quizzed him on it.
  
  "Chris, I need to see your playbook," Cowher said.
  
  Kemoeatu was reluctant to give it to him.
  
  "I need to see your playbook," Cowher repeated. "Hand it over."
  
  Finally, Kemoeatu gave up the small black book.
  
  "It was the room-service menu," Whisenhunt said, laughing.

On the Diamond:

• Yes, I know the Bucs have started in Atlanta and are 1-1 and have allowed 11 and 10 runs in their first two games. More on them in a bit....