T-minus 33 hours until WWIII at Heinz Field and this a glorious sports day to wake up to in Pittsburgh.

The Pens beat Anaheim 3-1 last night, their second win in three games, Pitt plays at Louisville in their second big match up of the year and we continue to monitor Steelers and Raven injuries.

I'll get the links rolling after the jump, but I wanted to defer to friend of TTB and hockey expert Jason McBride's analysis of why the Penguins have sucked over the last couple months. While he had many thoughts on moves the Pens could make, it all boiled down to they fact that they are an easy team to play against. Not just an easy team to beat, but unlike last year, no teams consider playing Pittsburgh a hard, physical game that they want to avoid.

In short, they lack the scrappy, hard-nosed kind of players it takes to make you tough to play. Well, for last night anyway, Matt Cooke was one of those guys. Cooke had two goals in a win that wasn't pretty, but came without Sid and without Orpik, who missed most of the game after suffering an undisclosed injury.

Steelers, Pens, Pitt hoops and more after the jump....

PG: Pressure will be on the guards tonight as Rick Petino always loves to pressure. No. 1 Pitt vs. No. 20 Louisville at 6 p.m. ESPN.

Louisville C-J: Pitt isn't a finesse team. Compares them to the Steelers. I don't disagree.

PG: Ed Reed is good. Blah, blah, blah. He is. I've just been hearing that a lot.

Trib: How the Ravens have tried to neutralize Harrison. Extra tackle again?

PG: FWP likes to laugh too! The typical giddy, happy feature that comes with being in the Conference Title game.

Baltimore Sun: This Schmuck's lame attempt to talk trash in his blog. It's easy to make fun of his name, but his post is lamer, so let's stick to that.

BS: Why Ravens fans hate Pittsburgh. No doubt, this is the shortest, stupidest "article" I've ever seen.