A live television show revealing the brackets. A member of the committee is on the show, answering questions about the brackets and seedings. Coaches are interviewed and media members give their comments.

It sounds like March Madness and the NCAA basketball tournament.

Nope. This will be Mad Monday for the WPIAL football playoffs.

For the first time, two cable television stations will have live shows Monday night, centered around the release of the WPIAL football playoff pairings.

Comcast, in conjunction with MSA Sports, will do a two-hour show live from the Embassy Suites hotel in Coraopolis, site of the playoff meeting. The show will start at 7 p.m., the same time the meeting starts. It will air on CN8, which is either station 188 or 210 for Comcast customers.

Meanwhile, FSN Pittsburgh will do a live half-hour show (7:30-8 p.m.) from its studio on the North Shore. WPIAL executive assistant Jim Collins will be one of the guests and he will discuss the brackets and seedings.

Some might call the live shows overkill. It costs money to do a live show. But both stations believe they are giving the public something it desires.

"Literally, on Monday night, there are going to be thousands of high school football fans with one question on their mind -- who are we playing this weekend?" Comcast spokesman Bob Grove said . "Now they don't have to wait to get the answer.

"There is no question that this is something of intense interest to the many high school fans, especially since they never had a chance to watch this before. We think it's going to be popular. We're already getting a lot of feedback."

A couple of hundred coaches -- head and assistants -- and athletic directors are among those who attend the meeting.

"I think what we're doing is just another sign of how big, how energized and how enthusiastic Western Pennsylvania is about high school football," said Shawn McClintock, FSN Pittsburgh's executive producer. "It's been said time and time again that schools, players, parents, former students and communities are passionate, loyal and interested in their high schools. This is just a natural extension and expansion of our high school coverage, from doing the WPIAL championships to the Thursday night games."

MSA sports director Don Rebel will be the host for the Comcast show. MSA has done a live radio and Internet show for years from the playoff meetings -- football and basketball. Rob King will be the host for FSN's show.

"One thing we love about that event is the energy in that room for that meeting," Grove said. "When those brackets are passed out, there is so much energy."

Central Catholic's starting quarterback is playing again.

Nolan Krivijanski suffered a dislocated kneecap in the season opener against Lakeland, Fla. He didn't play again until the Oct. 10 game against Plum, and was 8 of 13 for 175 yards last week against Kiski Area.

"He has started both games since he's been back and he's been pretty efficient so far," Central Catholic coach Terry Totten said.

You have to consider Thomas Jefferson senior Sara Oczypok one of the best all-around athletes in the WPIAL. She gave more evidence of it this week.

Oczypok finished 22nd at the PIAA girls' golf championships in York. She also is one of the key players on Thomas Jefferson's volleyball team that qualified for the WPIAL Class AA playoffs. On top of that, she was sixth in the javelin at the PIAA track and field championships in the spring. And she is on the basketball team.

The DelGrecos have family goals. But they don't reach them. They score them.

Seton-LaSalle's David DelGreco led the WPIAL in goals during the regular season with 46. His cousin, James, also plays for Seton-LaSalle and found the back of the net 15 times.

But there is more to this goal-scoring family. Alexa DelGreco, James' sister, was 18th in WPIAL girls' scoring with 21 goals. The Seton-LaSalle boys' and girls' teams made the WPIAL playoffs.

Lawrence "Deuce" Skurcenski, a North Braddock resident, has been called everything from strange to lunatic. He is well-known in Western Pennsylvania high school sports circles as the man who has attended more than 9,000 WPIAL and City League basketball games and more than 3,000 football games. He has been going to games for more than 50 years and keeps statistics at every contest he attends, basically for nobody but himself. He does sometimes call media outlets with scores of games.

But a film company thought Skurcenski's story was so unusual that a documentary-type film was made about him that will be shown as part of the Three Rivers Film Festival next month. "Deuce" will be shown Nov. 11, 8 p.m. at the Regent Square Theater. The film is produced by brothers Joe and Mark Graziano, former Pittsburghers residing in Southern California.

In the film, numerous media members and coaches talk about Deuce. Two of the basketball coaches who speak about him are Duke's Mike Krzyzewski and West Virginia's Bob Huggins.

• Canon-McMillan running back-defensive back Jon Pozonsky and fullback Brad Strimel have made commitments to West Point.

• Shouldn't Langley be counted as one of the surprise teams of the year? The Mustangs are 4-4 overall, 4-3 in the City League and actually have a shot to make the City League playoffs. If Langley beats Perry, or Carrick loses to Schenley, then Langley will make the postseason for the first time since 1988, when the Mustangs finished 7-2-1. Since that year, Langley has had five winless seasons and five when the Mustangs won only one game. They were winless the previous two seasons.