DEJAN KOVACEVIC, born in Downtown Pittsburgh and raised in Monroeville, is the lead columnist, creator and owner of DKPittsburghSports.com.
Career: Five months after graduating Gateway High School in 1984, Dejan began writing for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on a freelance basis while attending Duquesne University. In 1990, he was hired to the PG’s sports staff and reported on high schools, as well as expanding into editing and page design. He went into writing full-time when assigned to the Penguins beat in 1997 and continued covering the NHL until 2004, when he covered his first of four Olympics in Athens. The other three would take him to Vancouver (2010), London (2012) and Sochi (2014). In 2005, he began six full seasons as the newspaper’s primary beat writer on the Pirates. In 2011, he switched newspapers, going to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review as lead sports columnist. Later that year, he was recognized by the Associated Press Sports Editors as one of the top four columnists in the country, this in the highest circulation category. Finally, in July 2014, he lapsed into temporary insanity and left the Trib to begin this venture, the first of its kind in the U.S. or Canada for an established sports journalist. He also appears as a broadcast commentator on KDKA-TV’s ‘Sports Showdown’ and on Pittsburgh’s iHeartMedia radio stations.
Personal: Dejan lives Downtown with wife Dali and two young children, Dara and Marko. His passions include collecting superhero comics with a specialty in Green Lantern, playing guitar after spending part of his youth in a punk band, all things Pittsburgh with a secondary love of Winnipeg, Starbucks coffee and seeing pretty much every inch of the planet.
Click here for more about Dejan, this site and a complete list of his journalism awards.
