How about a fully illustrated Early Returns today? The latest is the hilarious cover of this week's Pittsburgh City Paper, by Vince Dorse.

It was bound to happen. Luke Ravenstahl's unprecedented ad attack on political foe Bill Peduto gets the Rob Rogers treatment today:

Oy vey.

At the least there are plenty of non-sports headlines today:

1. The sentencing judge for former Pa Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin went out of his way to humiliate her, but not send her to jail. It was "over the top," a former state and federal prosecutor said.

2. Here's the latest on the federal probe of Pittsburgh Police, this time into the granting of parking variances to companies including Tri-State Valet. Tri-State is run by Robert Gigliotti, who was among those who hosted a giant reelection fundraiser for Luke Ravenstahl in late 2011.

3. Tom Corbett introduced his pension overhaul plans yesterday -- Karen Langley has the details.

4. The Pittsburgh Film Office is still trying to boost the ever-tapped-out state film tax credit program.

5. Longtime Allegheny County official and community volunteer Robert Stumpp died Monday from a rare form of cancer. "He was one of those people who you wish you could put in a copy machine and run off 1,000 of him," said former Allegheny County Executive Jim Roddey. "He was sincere, humble, hard-working and really cared about the community. He was a professional who had no ego."

Bruce Castor is out. Or just not in in the first place.

But even after announcing on Facebook that he will not force a Republican gubernatorial primary, the Montgomery County commissioner had a few more things to say about Gov. Tom Corbett. Specifically: He still thinks the top Pennsylvania Republican could face trouble in November.

"The thing that's troubling to me is that every piece of evidence I look at tells me the governor is in electoral peril next year," Castor said in an interview tonight. "And our party has simply refused to consider any options, any thought of changing. It's like whistling past the graveyard and ignoring the reality."

"We got our heads handed to us last year. All our endorsed candidates lost. One of them lost in the primary. We have legions of polling saying the governor's standing with the public is miserable. He gets the worst press of any politician I've ever seen, aside from one I've seen that was getting arrested. Not that all of it's deserved, but in politics you have to deal with things the way they are."

Castor began publicly floating the idea of a primary in December, and since then he's kept his name out there, commenting ahead of Corbett's budget proposal in February and issuing press releases as late as this morning urging the governor to "demonstrate the leadership necessary to get the Commonwealth out of the booze business." ("As Pres. Lincoln showed in getting the 13th Amendment passed, you have to assertively engage the key players in the legislature.")

But with Democrats already scheduling debates, Castor said he decided his suport was not there.

"I realized it started to get too late," he said. "I have been traveling the state. I have not felt that there was any great desire on the part of Republican leadership to make a change. While I got a lot of encouragement from regular folks I would meet on the streets and at conferences, the decision seems to be that the Republican Party will back Governor Corbett no matter what, notwithstanding the mounting evidence that he has electoral difficulties next fall."