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Ryan Malone officially signed with the Lightning for 31.5 million over seven years. He will make $6 million next season.
For what it's worth, Rick Nash of Columbus, Henrik Zetterberg of Detroit, Marian Gaborik of Minnesota, Alex Kovalev of Montreal, Danie...
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Gary Roberts officially signed with the Lightning. He will make a base salary of $1.2 million and will get $10,000 for every game he plays. The deal is potentially worth $2 million.
Tampa Bay also officially signed forward Vaclav...
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The New York Times has an interesting article that makes the argument that Microsoft should start all over again on Windows....
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Ryan Malone, we hardly knew you.
The Upper St. Clair native came to the Penguins known mostly for being the son of former Penguins forward Greg Malone. He leaves as arguably the team's best power forward sin...
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According to Damian Cristodero of the St. Petersburg Times, Mike Liut, the agent for former Penguins forward said a deal between his client and the Tampa Bay Lightning "is going to get done. ... I think we'll finish it today."
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Louisiana has passed the latest attempt to end-run the Constitutional church and state provisions...
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How ironic that the same thing that saved the Penguins as a competitive franchise is now forcing Ray Shero to disassemble a Stanley Cup finalist?
Remember the early part of this decade when the Penguins were forced to part with stars such as Jaromir Jagr...
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Welcome to the second episode of "TechMan's Giants of Technology: Important People You Probably Never Heard Of." Today's topic is the man who invented network e-mail. ......
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The Penguins dealt the negotiating rights of Ryan Malone and Gary Roberts to Tampa Bay earlier today. In return, the Penguins get a conditional draft pick. Should Malone sign with the Lightning, the Penguins would get a third rounder. If he doesn't si...
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Based on a lot of the feedback we've gotten, many of you aren't happy about the new logo for Empty Netters. We're not crazy about it either. It wasn't our choice. Someone in a much higher tax bracket than us made that call. As a few of your pointed out, i...
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Today is Bill Gates' last day at Microsoft. He is leaving to devote full time to his charitable foundation.
Despite what you think of Microsoft, you have to admit that Gates is a giant in the history of the computer industry. Of course he was very well ...
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A few of you have e-mailed inquiring on how to comment with the new format for Empty Netters.
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It's fairly easy and harmless. All you have to do is give us your social securit...
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Brooks Oprik turned down an offer by the Penguins yesterday. His agent mentioned that the two sides are still talking however.
Assuming Orpik reaches some sort of long-term deal with the team and assuming he stays healthy during the duration of that de...
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Good idea: turn Annie Proulx's short story "Brokeback Mountain" into an opera. The plot is a great fit, certainly better than "Dead Man Walking" or "The Great Gatsby" (and we will soon see about "Grapes of Wrath" at Pittsburgh Opera this fall), and the st...
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If you having problems viewing post-gazetteNOW -- www.post-gazette.com -- please follow these steps.
For example, if you do not see the Stock Market report near the bottom of the left column on the home page, hold down the Control and F5 keys on your key...
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Does Don Barden have the money to build the casino on the North Shore? Or will contractors walk off the job on Monday?
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This may be a little off topic, but I guess cable TV news qualifies as technology.
While I was at the gym the other day, I was forced to watch the Fox News channel because it was on the TV above the piece of exercise equipment I was using.
The show that...
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We guarantee you this is the best video of former Penguins forward Aleksey Morozov introducing Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees at a Russian music awards show you'll see all day:
[View:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRCvVehUgf0]
Morozov, along with Thrasher...
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I could not touch on this in my article on "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," but the song went through a curious transformation in the 1940s and 50s. Many decades after the song was written by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer in triple meter -- a relaxe...
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Slashdot has an article on research being done on an eBook reader with two screens that allows you to "turn the page."
It looks pretty cool and it is improvements like this that have to be made to put eBook readers in the mainstream....
