2-year old’s first trip to the dentist this morning. You can only imagine how much fun that was for all involved. Next time one of us is going to get anesthetized. I’m volunteering but may have to fight the wife for that one.

There will be a live blog here for tonight’s ESPN counter-programming to the opening ceremonies to the Winter Olympics. Which started another, uh, discussion with the wife when I let her know that there was a game tonight that I intended to watch on the big screen.

Most of the attention is on how the Oakland Zoo will behave. It seems like a non-story, because there is no real concern.

Pitt’s done well at home against top-5 teams. Which really means nothing since the sample size at the Pete is all of five games.

This is the start of another brutal stretch for Pitt. WVU, a trip to the Bradley Center against Marquette, home to face ‘Nova and then to South Bend — the only place where ND can win. Pitt needs to manage a 2-2 stretch.

This is the game that matters right now. No one believes Pitt will play as badly as they did in Morgantown, when afterwards Coach Dixon treated the team like children after they got in trouble while out with the parents.

Dixon had much more important things on his mind during that 75-mile bus ride home.

Not that he did much talking. Nobody did.

“It wasn’t pleasant,” said senior guard Jermaine Dixon. “Coach Dixon said he didn’t want to hear us talking. He didn’t want to hear anything. It just wasn’t good.”

Good news, Seth Davis at SI.com is picking the Hoopies.

LiveBlog kicks off right around 9pm.

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