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2.7K17Super Bowl LIII ratings hit 10-year low
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:03 AM February 4, 2019Is America getting tired of seeing the Patriots in the Super Bowl? Super Bowl LIII pulled an overnight rating of 44.9 nationally, the lowest since 2009’s Super Bowl between the...
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7.3KCity’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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3.1KBuried 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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11.2KKovacevic: 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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2.6KCartoon 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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12.9KKovacevic: 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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8.4KKovacevic: 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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2.9KCartoon 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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8.2KKovacevic: 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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15.6KKovacevic: 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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6.2KKovacevic: 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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47.0KKovacevic: 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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10.3KKovacevic: 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.