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7932Carter’s Christmas Classroom: ‘Home Alone’ Remix
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 8:52 PM December 21, 2018Christopher Carter diagrams how to survive the Christmas blitz with a DK Pittsburgh Sports gift subscription.
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6.5K89City’s sports react to Squirrel Hill shooting
in DowntownPOSTED: 11:43 PM October 27, 2018The Pittsburgh sports community is reacting, passionately, emotionally, from near and far, to the mass shooting Saturday at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill.
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2.3K15Buried Treasure: ‘Holy kangaroo!’ Team Tennis in Pittsburgh
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 7:30 AM August 8, 2018In October, 1972, there were stories about Pittsburgh public relations man Chuck Reichblum forming the National Tennis League. In the Oct. 6 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Vince Leonard quotes Reichblum as saying,...
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Kovacevic: For Pitt, this rebound requires a real winner
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:00 AM March 9, 2018Five slices of wholly unsolicited advice for Heather Lyke, Pitt's AD, in her search for Kevin Stallings' replacement.
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1.8KCartoon Canon: Send it in, Panthers!
in Richmond, Va.POSTED: 12:05 AM March 6, 2018I’m hoping Pitt finds a way out of the current doldrums. Truly, there is nowhere to go but up!
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11.8KKovacevic: Final home-court humiliation should mark Stallings’ Pitt farewell
at Petersen Events CenterPOSTED: 7:46 PM February 24, 2018If this was, in fact, the end of the Kevin Stallings era of Pitt basketball, it absolutely ended appropriately.
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7.2KKovacevic: Amid all the losing, how long can Stallings last?
at Petersen Events CenterPOSTED: 4:59 PM January 27, 2018These Panthers, now 8-14 overall and 0-9 in the ACC, might have just lost their last chance at winning even once.
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2.0KCartoon Canon: Hail to Pitt’s championship!
in Richmond, Va.POSTED: 12:00 AM January 9, 2018I’m quite certain that if I hadn’t been only 5 years old on New Year’s Day 1977, I would have been rooting for Pitt!
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Kovacevic: Are Dukes for real?
at PPG Paints ArenaPOSTED: 9:23 PM January 7, 2018It's one thing for Duquesne to have slid through its out-of-conference schedule unscathed.
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Buried Treasure: Rummaging through KQV’s attic
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:00 AM December 21, 2017With the sad news that KQV is planning to go off the air in the new year, it seems like a good time to visit the odd way they affected...
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Buried Treasure: The Calder Cup comes to Pittsburgh
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:01 AM December 14, 2017The Pittsburgh Hornets were a charter member of the American Hockey League, which started play in 1936.
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Buried Treasure: Pioneers for a month
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 11:19 PM November 29, 2017An ad in the form of an open letter in the August 9, 1970 Pittsburgh Press put it this way.
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7.5KKovacevic: On good guys, bad guys, gargantuan heads, gratitude
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:00 AM November 22, 2017It's Thanksgiving Eve, and I'm feeling grateful to get to know good people like Marcus Gilbert, the better with which to form a personal judgment.
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14.7KKovacevic: You’re grinning about ESPN’s demise for the wrong reason
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 2:41 AM November 10, 2017ESPN's been as big a part of Pittsburgh sporting culture as it has across America, and this for the better part of three decades.
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5.4KKovacevic: Our TV ad hits … New Zealand? You won’t believe this
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:00 AM October 26, 2017Allow me to introduce you to a couple of popular, respected rugby commentators in New Zealand named Gareth Dinneen and Steve Prescott.
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45.8KKovacevic: While you ignored the Pirates …
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:00 AM September 19, 2017The state of the Pirates, both recently and rolling the clock way back, is such that it doesn't deserve to be ignored.
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9.5KKovacevic: Hoping for another Pitt-Penn State classic, but …
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:00 AM September 4, 2017Penn State will beat Pitt by pretty much any score it wants. I write that with no malice. I picked the Panthers last year.
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11.3KKovacevic: Why rush a third-line center?
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:02 AM August 29, 2017Jim Rutherford absolutely, positively must find a third-line center before the Penguins' season starts because ... why, exactly?
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7.9KKovacevic: Does Dukes’ hiring of Dambrot make it OK to dream?
in Bradenton, Fla.POSTED: 3:14 AM March 28, 2017If Keith Dambrot, the venerable, highly successful coach at Akron, had been hired within minutes of Jim Ferry's firing, it would have been a pleasant surprise.
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8.4KWinnipeg Wednesday: A cool place that’s really hot
in Winnipeg, ManitobaPOSTED: 12:00 AM March 8, 2017As many times as I've been here in the world's coldest big city, I'd never tried to do a full video taking people on a little tour.
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3.5KSketchbook: Anatomy of a strip
in Richmond, Va.POSTED: 12:00 AM February 17, 2017Living as I do in Virginia, I’d been asked many times by my Capitals-fan friends and acquaintances “When are you going to do a strip about the Caps?”
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11.8KKovacevic: Ask anti-Dixon donors to pay up
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:00 AM January 31, 2017Word is filtering this way that the frustration with Kevin Stallings at Pitt has reached all the way up the university ladder.
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10.5KKovacevic: The cupboard’s bare, all right … of contrived excuses for Stallings
at PPG Paints ArenaPOSTED: 1:45 AM January 25, 2017The University of Pittsburgh's not-so-long-ago proud basketball program is about to plunge off Cardiac Hill and into the ACC's abyss if something isn't done soon.
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Kovacevic: Ferry determined to see Dukes build off upset
at PPG Paints ArenaPOSTED: 12:47 AM December 3, 2016About a minute remained in the 85th City Game, and Dave Harper, the new AD at Duquesne University, had been alerted by PPG Paints Arena's visibly fidgety security staff.
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6.5KKovacevic: Panthers shaky in Stallings’ debut but prevail … and that’s OK
at Petersen Events CenterPOSTED: 9:33 PM November 11, 2016Kevin Stallings' Pitt basketball coaching debut undoubtedly didn't go as smoothly as he'd have liked, but his Panthers eventually dragged away from an eager Eastern Michigan group.