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4.1K8DK'S GRINDClassic Grind: Why’d Geno drop to block?
in Calgary, AlbertaPOSTED: 6:38 PM June 13, 2020Hockey is the world's fastest team sport and, within that prism, players are required to process information at a rate that rivals the action.
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9.3K90DK'S GRINDKovacevic: Pirates’ smart new front office, Manfred’s boldness raise baseball spirits
in the Strip DistrictPOSTED: 10:11 PM June 11, 2020The Pirates' smart selection of New Mexico State second baseman Nick Gonzales is plenty to raise baseball spirits in these parts.
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5.3K136DK'S GRINDKovacevic: Yeah, sorry, Steelers’ 1990s were worse
in the Strip DistrictPOSTED: 4:49 PM June 8, 2020The Steelers' history over the past half-century is rich to the extreme that it's fair to ask which of two decades wrought the greatest disappointment.
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5.3K39DK'S GRINDClassic Grind: Magic moment morphs into three
at PNC ParkPOSTED: 12:04 AM June 7, 2020The instant the ball made impact with Matt Szczur's bat and seared toward third base, with fellow Cubs at first and second, the Pirates' infield experienced individual flashes.
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11.5K350DK'S GRINDKovacevic: Conversing, canceling, coercing
in the Strip DistrictPOSTED: 4:11 PM June 5, 2020Maybe it's to be expected, in this terrible, tumultuous 2020, one in which it feels like we'll tear ourselves apart, that we'd eventually cut off civil conversation.
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14.2K206DK'S GRINDKovacevic: Archer trade worst in Pittsburgh sports history
in the Strip DistrictPOSTED: 6:23 PM June 4, 2020“We finished in last place with you. We can finish in last place without you.”
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11.6K159DK'S GRINDKovacevic: Nutting inexplicably quiet on cap
in the Strip DistrictPOSTED: 5:15 PM June 3, 2020It's time to speak up. To stop being silent. No, I'm not going there again today. Sticking to sports 'n at.
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19.8K155PiratesKovacevic: Pirates, PNC miles apart on naming rights
at PNC ParkPOSTED: 8:16 PM June 1, 2020The Pirates and PNC Bank are far apart on agreeing to an extension on their naming rights deal to PNC Park that expired this year.
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8.5K119DK'S GRINDKovacevic: It’s about talking … but more so listening
in DowntownPOSTED: 10:18 AM May 31, 2020It was the summer of 2017, a sweltering day at Saint Vincent College. The Steelers were out on the field, sweating up a storm in full pads.
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6.4K45DK'S GRINDClassic Grind: Winners will win, losers will lose
in CincinnatiPOSTED: 12:03 AM May 31, 2020The Steelers were making their exit, stage left into Paul Brown Stadium's visiting tunnel, late Saturday night, and the din down there was as thick as the downpour outside.
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7.8K98DK'S GRINDKovacevic: James, JuJu pivotal in truest sense
in the Strip DistrictPOSTED: 12:05 AM May 29, 2020The Nation went wild at the Ben Roethlisberger viral video a week ago, the one where he was winging the ball to James Conner and JuJu Smith-Schuster.
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9.2K176DK'S GRINDKovacevic: Everyone’s seeing NHL vs. MLB trajectory now
in the Strip DistrictPOSTED: 6:46 PM May 27, 2020"The most storied and treasured trophy in all of the sports." That's what Gary Bettman called the trophy he's charged with handing out each summer.
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8.0K219DK'S GRINDKovacevic: In search of middle ground
in the Strip DistrictPOSTED: 11:09 AM May 26, 2020Not a whole lot bugs me on social media. And that goes double for stuff that isn't aimed directly at me.
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9.1K39DK'S GRINDKovacevic: A Price without a match
in the Strip DistrictPOSTED: 12:05 AM May 26, 2020The Canadiens, the Penguins' likely opponent in the 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs, aren't much without all-universe goaltender Carey Price.
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7.2K28DK'S GRINDClassic Grind: No Penguins showed greater grit
at PPG Paints ArenaPOSTED: 12:06 AM May 24, 2020This puck, this time, wasn't going to be stopped. It wasn't going to lounge idly in the blue paint for two eternal seconds before finally being swept away.
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7.5K155DK'S GRINDKovacevic: If baseball bails, blame the players
in the Strip DistrictPOSTED: 2:07 PM May 22, 2020There's no agreement between Major League Baseball and the Players Association, and there never was one. Not a completed one, anyway.
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7.8K82DK'S GRINDKovacevic: Twenty ways 2020 can be … predictable?
in the Strip DistrictPOSTED: 12:07 AM May 20, 2020Much as I'll always recall March 12 as the day this coronavirus crisis closed up civilization, I'd be remiss if I didn't equally recall May 19.
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6.7K200DK'S GRINDKovacevic: Reconnecting who we really are
in the Strip DistrictPOSTED: 12:37 AM May 18, 2020Having the good fortune to have already visited five continents, I've still not encountered any setting as invigorating, as inviting as our very own Strip District.