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Releasing an updated but not ruined version of a classic game is tough, sand I'm excited to see what Capcom has planned for its upcoming Xbox Live and Playstation Network releases of Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix and Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix. HD means 1080p as well as updated artwork and graphics. UDON comics, the gifted folks behind the Street Fighter comic series, are handling all the updated art, and it looks like the games are in good hands. But almost every change is optional, so feel free to run the original graphics or the original version of Puzzle Fighter II.

Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix includes all 17 of the original SSFII Turbo characters, and will include single-player as well as local or online one-on-one action. In addition, it'll feature in-game voice chat, matchmaking "flexibility through multiple options," and worldwide leaderboards.

The Pistons Pick Up Their Intensity

The Pistons are built for the playoffs. This is a team with six consecutive 50-win seasons and four straight trips to the Eastern Conference Finals. So forgive them if they coasted through long stretches of the regular season, because the know that now is the time that games matter. From the Detroit Free Press:Dumars joked before the playoffs started about how literally Wallace seems to take the team's "Playoffs are it" approach. "If you tell him that's what the main focus is, then that's what he's going to lock in on," Dumars said. "The backlash of that is you still have 82 games to play. I've said to him, 'The playoffs are what matters here.' He basically takes that literally. I'm like, 'wait, wait, wait, we've still got 82 games.' I've got to remind him from time to time that the 82 games do mean something."Dumars does not have to send a similar reminder when the playoffs begin, not when he sees Wallace racing down the court, hitting the floor and shooting lights out.Chauncey Billups is also picking up his intensity -- not only on the floor but also in interviews.

The Dating Game: What, you think we won't notice?

When I found myself back in the dating game, the online choices were overwhelming. Which service should I use? Friends had different opinions, debating the finer points of Match.com vs. eHarmony.

No, try AmericanSingles, one would say. Or PlentyofFish, it's free. What about Yahoo personals or MySpace?

As I cruised through the sites, the photos started to look the same, and the profiles read identical.

Nearly every woman I clicked on in the 25-to-33 age bracket was searching for someone with about 22 qualities that must be met: You need to be spontaneous and ambitious, not into games, and you better know how to enjoy a Blockbuster night at home or you are toast.

Now, to be fair, I am sure there are some classic men's profiles out there, detailing the number of cars and boats at their various houses, how many times they visit the gym and a listing of attributes (perhaps mostly physical) that they seek in a partner.

Sunday's events

TUNE IN: Plano Civic Chorus performs Mendelssohn's Elijah with the choir of Temple Emanu-El, accompanied by the Plano Symphony Orchestra. 3 p.m. at Temple Emanu-El, 8500 Hillcrest Road. $20. 214-706-0000 or planocivicchorus.org.

YOUNG TALENT: "On Broadway" by Ivy Camerata Orchestra (comprising musicians ages 14 to 20) includes music from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story and Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I.

Viewpoint: Robinson Cleared a Path, but Fewer Are Following

The baseball fields in black neighborhoods crackled when I was a kid, not only in Chicago, where I grew up, but also in Detroit and Cleveland and Compton, where we would visit relatives. On driving trips, we’d take along a bat and a glove because chances were we would find a field and play baseball. The talk in the barber shop wasn’t of Wilt and Russell nearly as much as it was of Aaron and Mays. The great baseball players weren’t close to being rich, not in the 1960s and ’70s, and the black ones lived in black neighborhoods in segregated times, sometimes renting a room from a neighbor with a big house, and they would play catch with kids on off-days.

It doesn’t seem like it’s been 35 years since baseball was so important to black America; it seems like another century, like the story should be illustrated in black-and-white clips.