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• Penguins

  Kovacevic: Huge change needed? Be serious

  Jim Rutherford isn't getting fired. Nor is he quitting. I've been told that definitively, right from the Penguins' brass. Mike Johnston isn't getting fired, either. Heard that tonight.

  at Consol Energy Center

  POSTED: 12:02 AM April 23, 2015
• Pirates

  Kovacevic: Hurdle can’t keep waiting on closer

  As Andrew Lambo buttoned up his shirt following the Pirates' 9-8 ninth-inning, blown-lead bummer of a loss to the Cubs, he lamented some of his lousy luck at the plate...

  at PNC Park

  POSTED: 12:47 AM April 22, 2015
• Penguins

  Kovacevic: Stripes have Penguins seeing stars

  The Rangers are just so sound, so stout defensively. I feel compelled, in all candor, to start right there in describing the Penguins' 2-1 defeat in Game 3.

  at Consol Energy Center

  POSTED: 11:40 PM April 20, 2015
• Steelers

  Kovacevic: AB threat hypocritical, hollow

  Antonio Brown didn't show for the opening of the Steelers' voluntary workouts this morning on the South Side, and he might not show for quite a while.

  at Rooney Sports Complex

  POSTED: 12:24 PM April 20, 2015
• Penguins

  Kovacevic: With a little help from friends

  The puck struck Maxim Lapierre with maximum velocity right in the ... um ... "Honestly, I have no idea," the Penguins' fiery fourth-line center told me.

  in New York

  POSTED: 1:20 AM April 19, 2015
• Penguins

  Kovacevic: Crush Crosby? Sure, but it’s missing point

  It's never enough that the Penguins lose in the Stanley Cup playoffs. No, it's always got to come with the standard set of narratives attached, too.

  in New York

  POSTED: 12:02 AM April 17, 2015
• Penguins

  Friday Insider: Penguins eyeing buyouts

  BY DEJAN KOVACEVIC NEW YORK — Roundup of a lot of randomness from a lot of time around our teams … • Barring some unforeseen reversal in the performance of...

  at Highmark Stadium

  POSTED: 12:01 AM April 17, 2015
• Penguins

  Kovacevic: All about that Hornqvist

  The Penguins will lose in four. Let's start with that as the default outlook for this first-round Stanley Cup playoff series that gets going tonight at Madison Square Garden.

  in New York

  POSTED: 12:02 AM April 16, 2015
• Pirates

  Kovacevic: Of bricks, bonds, serious ball

  Clint Hurdle called it afterward: "A great day for baseball on the North Shore, for the Pirates and for our fans." No one would dispute it.

  at PNC Park

  POSTED: 4:00 PM April 13, 2015
• Penguins

  Kovacevic: Penguins push through … to what end?

  Marc-Andre Fleury gulped a giant chug of water, exhaled loudly, then slumped back in his stall late Saturday night inside First Niagara Center's visiting locker room.

  in Buffalo, N.Y.

  POSTED: 12:04 AM April 12, 2015
• Penguins

  Kovacevic: Digging deep into Penguins’ abyss

  There's backing into the Stanley Cup playoffs, and then there's backing up over Niagara Falls.

  at Consol Energy Center

  POSTED: 12:40 AM April 11, 2015
• Penguins

  Exclusive: Letang done for the season

  BY DEJAN KOVACEVIC Kris Letang will not play again for the Penguins this season, “even if we make a deep run in the playoffs,” general manager Jim Rutherford told DKonPittsburghSports.com...

  at Highmark Stadium

  POSTED: 9:55 PM April 10, 2015
• Penguins

  Friday Insider: Penguins’ core won’t be touched

  BY DEJAN KOVACEVIC Roundup of a lot of randomness from a lot of time around our teams … • Should the Penguins miss the Stanley Cup playoffs, or even if...

  at Highmark Stadium

  POSTED: 12:01 AM April 10, 2015
• Steelers

  Kovacevic: Troy retires, as ever, with class

  Troy Polamalu has chosen to retire, according to Jim Wexell at Steel City Insider in a piece that quotes Polamalu extensively to that end. It's truly the end of an...

  at Rooney Sports Complex

  POSTED: 10:26 PM April 9, 2015
• Penguins

  Kovacevic: ‘Fragile’ Penguins closing on collapse

  These Penguins could have come away with so much from this sensational setting with the Senators, in essence a single-game cauldron.

  in Ottawa

  POSTED: 1:09 AM April 8, 2015
• Pirates

  Kovacevic: One of 162 … and not all bad

  “One game,” Starling Marte was saying at his stall, speaking softly but still easily picked up in an otherwise silent visiting clubhouse at Great American Ball Park.

  in Cincinnati

  POSTED: 9:18 PM April 6, 2015
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  Pirates

  Kovacevic: One more step not asking much

  It's been a dozen years since a babyfaced Francisco Liriano was flown from his native Dominican Republic into the Giants' spring fold in Arizona.

  in Cincinnati

  POSTED: 9:31 PM April 5, 2015
• Penguins

  Kovacevic: Do these Penguins even care?

  There is so much that can be so easily explained, even excused about the Penguins' current crunch or collapse or whatever you'd choose to call it.

  in Columbus, Ohio

  POSTED: 7:02 PM April 4, 2015