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Kovacevic: Steelers’ solution? Ball so hard

To dispense with this right off the top: Neither the Steelers nor the Browns experienced anything especially transformational at halftime Sunday.

POSTED: 12:40 AM September 10, 2014

POSTED: 7:43 PM September 8, 2014

Kovacevic: Don’t dare look away from Rice saga

They never saw the video. Until Monday, of course, when all of us saw it. They never saw Ray Rice smash his girlfriend in the face with a left hook.

in Pittsburgh

Kovacevic: More Gay, less D-line rotation

One last look at the Steelers’ last game … • Funny, but it at least sounded like Mike Tomlin watched the Cleveland film and came away with the right conclusions...

POSTED: 1:59 PM September 8, 2014

Kovacevic: Steelers’ defense stuck at signal

Those were the Cleveland Bleeping Browns out there. No, check that, those were the Browns with Brian Hoyer at QB not long after carrying clipboards on the South Side.

POSTED: 6:43 PM September 7, 2014

Hounds

Kovacevic: Riverhounds’ next coach is right here

The only thing more damp than the Highmark Stadium pitch was the mood itself late Saturday night. The Riverhounds were all strewn about.

POSTED: 11:57 PM September 6, 2014

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Kovacevic: No need to overthink this Pitt start

The official Pitt football playbook is as thick as a small tree trunk and weighs a solid three pounds, if you ask Chad Voytik. He ought to know.

in Chestnut Hill, Mass.

POSTED: 11:59 PM September 5, 2014

Friday Insider: Pirates’ truth odder than fiction

DEJAN KOVACEVIC, DK ON PITTSBURGH SPORTS A weekly feature aimed at rounding up a whole lot of odds and ends from a whole lot of time spent around our local...

POSTED: 12:05 AM September 5, 2014

POSTED: 6:20 PM September 3, 2014

Kovacevic: Fast start will rev up Steelers’ rebound

I keep coming back to the same thought: The cumulative winning percentage of opponents on the 2014 schedule is .469, an eighth-place tie for the NFL's easiest.

at Rooney Sports Complex

POSTED: 12:01 AM September 2, 2014

Kovacevic: Shamarko, Dri are Steelers’ ‘X’ men

The single most significant message the Steelers could possibly take from back-to-back 8-8 seasons is that something's got to change.

at Rooney Sports Complex

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Kovacevic: Huntington says ‘it’s all on me’

Neal Huntington sees it. He does. And I'd have to believe he feels it, too, when his Pirates have a day like Sunday at PNC Park.

POSTED: 5:23 PM August 31, 2014

DK'S GRIND

Kovacevic: Tyler, Pitt point the way

The totality of all that Pitt achieved in its 125th football opener could be summarized by the state of one finger on one player.

POSTED: 4:43 PM August 30, 2014

Penguins

Friday Insider: Rev up Penguins’ cycle

DEJAN KOVACEVIC, DK ON PITTSBURGH SPORTS A weekly feature aimed at rounding up a whole lot of odds and ends from a whole lot of time spent around our local...

POSTED: 2:47 PM August 29, 2014

Kovacevic: Top 10 takeaways of preseason

At 7:33 p.m. Thursday, a helmetless Ben Roethlisberger strode casually to Heinz Field's 50-yard line decal for the coin toss between the Steelers and Panthers.

POSTED: 3:41 AM August 29, 2014

POSTED: 9:30 AM August 28, 2014

Kovacevic: What’s so ‘special’ about Jarvis?

Jarvis Jones is a special talent, but don’t take my word for it. And don’t trust your eyes. No, just re-roll the tape from the evening of April 25, 2013.

at Rooney Sports Complex

Kovacevic: Martin wants to stay … and must

Russell Martin wants to stay. Not going to lie here: I was not sure about that. Not all the way. Not until an hour after the Pirates' 3-1 throttling of...

POSTED: 5:35 PM August 27, 2014

Kovacevic: So, this is how it’s going to be, then?

The 2014 edition of the Pittsburgh Baseball Club isn’t going to back into anything because it, unlike its predecessor, won’t have that choice.

POSTED: 11:19 PM August 26, 2014

Kovacevic: Not the game you watched

What a smooth, systematic and satisfying W that was Monday night at PNC Park, huh? Oh, not the game you watched? Well, bear with me here.