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Postby llipgh2 » Tue Aug 07, 2018 7:32 am

I subscribe to the Athletic. What I like about it is it isn't just local sports coverage.

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Postby NAN » Tue Aug 07, 2018 8:32 am

Katie Brown moving to Montana to....cover high school sports: https://medium.com/@ktbrwn.85/moving-to ... 6d62200767

A little over a year ago she was covering the Caps for NHL.com, and now covering high school sports in booming Kalispell, Montana. Sounds like a movie plot. Good luck to her, maybe its for the best. But looks like the DK incident and writing about it hurt her career.
She will be living with her parents in two years.
months

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Postby NAN » Tue Aug 07, 2018 8:32 am

I’m sure it has everything to do with her professional portfolio
Meh, the Pompeani name aside, she’s pretty talented in her own right.
Agree. The name definitely opened doors, but she has kept them opened and moved forward. She is pretty talented IMO.

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Postby pens9192 » Thu Aug 09, 2018 12:00 pm

maybe there's more to the story that I don't know about, but is it wise to move across the country with no savings and having to depend on a gofundme to get you there?

https://www.gofundme.com/katies-moving-to-montana

Wow, she has $955 funded. I was only expecting like a $100. I really need to start a random GoFundMe..

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Postby pens9192 » Thu Aug 09, 2018 12:04 pm

DK recently: "Cody Tucker starts on the Penguins beat for us Monday with the release of his first feature, one we're all pumped to share. As one of his former colleagues at the Lansing State Journal shared with me in a text yesterday, "Just wanted to tell you that you're getting one hell of a reporter and writer."

Where have we heard this type of praise before? Maybe Big Country will be good, who knows.

Dale Lolley in February: "One of the criticisms Dejan used to get on his new hires was that he would blow them up like they were the greatest journalists to ever put words in print — or on the Internet. I’m not going to do that."

I thought DK was going to stop being the face of the site and Dale/DK's wife would take over? I think DK pretty much hired the new hockey writer himself after he said he was only give advice on who to hire.

I guess its hard giving up control of your baby.

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Postby pens9192 » Thu Aug 09, 2018 12:07 pm

New Pens writer started at DKPittsburghsports today. Good interview with three Pens enforcers: Tamer, Laraque, and Caulfield.
“Big Country” Cody Tucker:

“Much like my ballyhooed introductory profile photo shows; what you see is what you get. I like my Coors beer, heavy metal, I have a lot of tattoos and a shaggy beard. My Twitter feed is typically filled with barbs at the fans of my rival teams — look out, Colorado State and BYU loyalists — and intellectual types who drink craft beer with oranges on the rim.”
He will be a hit with the Kenny Chesney crowd that likes hockey.

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Postby NailedPenguin » Thu Aug 09, 2018 12:15 pm

Asking for money from strangers so you can move across country for a job you voluntarily accepted. And people are giving it to her. Unreal.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Thu Aug 09, 2018 12:57 pm

Asking for money from strangers so you can move across country for a job you voluntarily accepted. And people are giving it to her. Unreal.
Mostly men. Trying to white knight and win her heart?

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Postby iamjs » Thu Aug 09, 2018 1:12 pm

Great story Kaboly. What are the chances?!
Mark Kaboly
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Picking up some dry cleaning and as the lady is looking for it and other clothes go whipping by, I see a Malkin jersey, Polamalu jersey and Lambert jersey go flying by. Only in Pittsburgh.
What are the chances people would dry clean jerseys that have the instructions "dry clean only"?!!?!
which means "it's dirty."

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Postby iamjs » Thu Aug 09, 2018 1:16 pm

New Pens writer started at DKPittsburghsports today. Good interview with three Pens enforcers: Tamer, Laraque, and Caulfield.
“Big Country” Cody Tucker:

“Much like my ballyhooed introductory profile photo shows; what you see is what you get. I like my Coors beer, heavy metal, I have a lot of tattoos and a shaggy beard. My Twitter feed is typically filled with barbs at the fans of my rival teams — look out, Colorado State and BYU loyalists — and intellectual types who drink craft beer with oranges on the rim.”
He will be a hit with the Kenny Chesney crowd that likes hockey.
The last person in Pittsburgh who gave himself the name Big Country didn't work out too well.

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Postby NailedPenguin » Thu Aug 09, 2018 1:25 pm

Asking for money from strangers so you can move across country for a job you voluntarily accepted. And people are giving it to her. Unreal.
Mostly men. Trying to white knight and win her heart?

Like @NAN the other day trying to swoop in when everybody already agrees Celina Pomp is very good at her job. She aint gonna date you @NAN!

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Postby NAN » Thu Aug 09, 2018 1:30 pm

Asking for money from strangers so you can move across country for a job you voluntarily accepted. And people are giving it to her. Unreal.
Mostly men. Trying to white knight and win her heart?

Like @NAN the other day trying to swoop in when everybody already agrees Celina Pomp is very good at her job. She aint gonna date you @NAN!
She loves me.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Thu Aug 09, 2018 2:03 pm

Oh man, Brad Eldred...I so badly wanted him to pan out.

I checked his profile on BR...got a chuckle out of this :lol:
Appearances on Leaderboards, Awards, and Honors

Errors Committed as 1B
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Postby iamjs » Thu Aug 09, 2018 2:53 pm

I'm surprised he's still active.

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Postby MrKennethTKangaroo » Thu Aug 09, 2018 3:13 pm

133 home runs for the Hiroshima carp.....I tip my cap to the man.

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Postby NAN » Thu Aug 09, 2018 3:22 pm

133 home runs for the Hiroshima carp.....I tip my cap to the man.
He's still bombing them.

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Postby Nittany Ned » Thu Aug 09, 2018 7:46 pm

The Big Man is trolling people HARD right now with his Juju hate. The classic wrestling heel move.

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Postby pens9192 » Fri Aug 10, 2018 3:16 pm

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Heel commentator runs in his blood

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Postby Lemon Berry Lobster » Fri Aug 10, 2018 3:20 pm

He's so LIT!

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Postby Troy Loney » Fri Aug 10, 2018 3:26 pm

Heel move or whatever. It's pathetic.

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Postby NailedPenguin » Fri Aug 10, 2018 3:43 pm

It's trying way too hard. Throw a few jabs on the show, write an article if you have too, (which he did) then let the fish jump in the boat. At least that way you'll get more people that take you seriously instead of making is so obvious you're just trolling for attention.

If any other person on the planet called him and mentioned a dropped pass or wrong route at friggen camp, he'd lose his 166 mind quicker than he could hang up on them.

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Postby Morkle » Sun Aug 12, 2018 7:07 pm

It's been like three weeks and I'm already tired of the whole LIT brigade. That's my only gripe about Madden, I listen to him daily, but God damn does he milk something dry when he thinks it's hilarious.

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Postby dodint » Sun Aug 12, 2018 7:12 pm

How often is Madden on the Benz show? Might be because Friday is one of my three car commute days but I feel like I hear fill-ins as often as I do Madden.

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Postby Nittany Ned » Sun Aug 12, 2018 8:02 pm

He was in Vegas again this past week. In addition to his roughly quarter million annual salary, Mark gets 5 weeks of vacation. Nice gig.

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Postby iamjs » Mon Aug 13, 2018 8:46 am

a certain morning show host is really white-knighting AB on twitter.

Just because he was nice to one group doesn't mean he didn't drop the ball on other plans by being several hours late to another group.

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