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Kovacevic: Feeling healthy for a re-opener ☕

POSTED: 12:07 PM Saturday

at Rooney Complex

"Fun" was what Alejandro Villanueva called it, though I never know how to take remarks like that from a dude who once dogged bad guys in the Afghan desert.

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Kovacevic: Murray flicks off payday pressure ☕

POSTED: 1:50 PM Wednesday

in Cranberry, Pa.

Matt Murray, quite possibly, is the most important piece of the Penguins' present and immediate future. And he pledges that'll have zero impact on him.

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Tuesday Takes: Could Foxborough be a blessing? ☕

in Strip District

POSTED: 2:34 PM Tuesday

I tried. Went stall to stall, canvassing the Steelers' sullen locker room late Sunday night in Foxborough, seeking any semblance of a positive to cull from that 33-3 loss to...

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Kovacevic: Was Tomlin living in fears? Or outright terror? ☕

in Foxborough, Mass.

POSTED: 5:09 AM Monday

The Steelers fell hard in their season opener to the Patriots, and they looked plenty timid in doing so.

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Kovacevic: Smartest trade in franchise history

POSTED: 3:02 PM September 8, 2019

in Foxborough, Mass.

The Steelers' trade of Antonio Brown to the Oakland Raiders was brilliant, as it turned out.

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Kovacevic: Key vs. Patriots will be youngsters ☕

POSTED: 7:08 PM September 6, 2019

at Rooney Complex

James Washington will be "a better player." Jaylen Samuels will be "way better."

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Kovacevic: When double-digit disasters become the norm ☕

POSTED: 7:39 PM August 29, 2019

Mitch Keller and the last-place Pirates were rocked by the Phillies, 12-3, Wednesday night at Citizens Bank Park.

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Kovacevic: Vazquez vs. Harper and the beauty of big-time ball ☕

POSTED: 4:40 PM August 28, 2019

Felipe Vazquez's four-out save and closing K of Bryce Harper highlighted a 5-4 victory for the Pirates.

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Kovacevic: Did Newman hustle the Phillies? ☕

POSTED: 2:45 AM August 28, 2019

The ball was bad news right off Kevin Newman's bat, and he knew it. Truth be told, he blew it.

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Kovacevic: Half the bullpen’s out and no moves? Why? ☕

POSTED: 12:10 AM August 27, 2019

Fire everyone. Then rehire them. Then fire them again. Just to make double-damned sure they're gone.

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Kovacevic: Why Pittsburgh’s falling for this team

POSTED: 12:54 AM August 24, 2019

at Highmark Stadium

Cars were parked, pretty much at 45-degree angles and altogether illegally, along a grass embankment near Highmark Stadium.

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Kovacevic: Marte says he isn’t respected … and he’s right ☕

POSTED: 3:23 PM August 21, 2019

Starling Marte's three-run home run and superb game-ending catch serve to highlight how underappreciated he remains in Pittsburgh.

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Kovacevic: Hurdle’s open, welcome defiance ☕

POSTED: 2:22 PM August 21, 2019

Clint Hurdle defiantly spoke of his Pirates' continuing will to win after a rare victory Tuesday night against the Nationals.

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Kovacevic: Simulator spits out another 10,000 … runs allowed ☕

POSTED: 12:10 AM August 20, 2019

Trevor Williams was rocked for eight runs over two innings in the Pirates' lastest blowout loss.

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Kovacevic: What if long-dreaded window is actually opening? ☕

POSTED: 12:09 AM August 19, 2019

at Heinz Field

James Washington's four catches led the Steelers past the Chiefs, 17-7, in a preseason game at Heinz Field.

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Kovacevic: Why Nutting’s ‘BMTIB’ quote lives on

POSTED: 6:04 PM August 16, 2019

Bob Nutting's infamous quote about the Pirates having "the best management team in all of baseball" was spoken 11 years ago to the day. And has never stopped resonating.

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Kovacevic: Rebuild now a must, but start at top

POSTED: 6:25 PM August 15, 2019

in Anaheim, Calif.

Chris Archer's rough fourth inning and Bryan Reynolds' costly error hurt the Pirates in a 7-4 loss to the Angels.

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Kovacevic: Forever baseball’s prettiest play ☕

POSTED: 3:28 PM August 14, 2019

in Anaheim, Calif.

Starling Marte's superlative throw from center field highlighted the Pirates' 10-5 annihilation of the Angels Tuesday night.

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Kovacevic: Keller’s tourniquet for the torment ☕

POSTED: 12:25 PM August 13, 2019

in Anaheim, Calif.

Mitch Keller's fourth big-league start was the first to click, as he and the Pirates beat the Angels, 10-2, Monday night at Angel Stadium.

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Kovacevic: Huntington rolls his people under the bus … from afar ☕

POSTED: 5:10 PM August 12, 2019

in St. Louis

"Changes are needed," Neal Huntington had the nerve to say early Sunday afternoon, presumably from a bunker beneath Federal Street back in Pittsburgh

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Kovacevic: Even when it goes right, it’s wrong ☕

POSTED: 1:09 AM August 11, 2019

in St. Louis

I'll say it again: Fire everyone. The very most Bob Nutting could do is sell. The very least he could and should do is clear out the front office. All of them.

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Kovacevic: Archer takes control of all he can ☕

POSTED: 12:03 AM August 10, 2019

in St. Louis

The reeling Pirates lost again to the Cardinals, 6-2, Friday night at Busch Stadium, but Chris Archer looked terrific.

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Kovacevic: How bad? Man, hit the history books ☕

POSTED: 2:47 PM August 8, 2019

The Pirates' current 4-21 nosedive marks the franchise's worst 25-game stretch since ... wow, you won't believe it going back over 133 years of history.

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Tuesday Takes: How Nutting can (finally) do something right ☕