DK Pittsburgh Sports Site stuff http://dkpittsburghsports.com Award-winning columnist Dejan Kovacevic covers Steelers, Penguins, Pirates, Pitt and more Tue, 29 Sep 2015 02:43:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3 Monday Planner: Is this a St. Louis site? http://dkpittsburghsports.com/2015/09/28/monday-planner-is-this-a-st-louis-site/ http://dkpittsburghsports.com/2015/09/28/monday-planner-is-this-a-st-louis-site/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2015 04:01:35 +0000 http://dkpittsburghsports.com/?p=32575 ST. LOUIS — A look at the week ahead on the site … Monday: We open, as always, with our Dave DiCello photo gallery. In addition to the coverage Neal Coolong and I offer from Steelers-Rams here, we’ll fly back just in time to cover the Mike Tomlin press conference at noon on the South […]

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]]> http://dkpittsburghsports.com/2015/09/26/saturday-site-stuff-the-real-goal-retention/feed/ 71 Monday Planner: List gets longer each week http://dkpittsburghsports.com/2015/09/21/monday-planner-4/ http://dkpittsburghsports.com/2015/09/21/monday-planner-4/#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2015 04:01:29 +0000 http://dkpittsburghsports.com/?p=31329 A look at the week ahead on the site … Monday: We open, as always, with our Dave DiCello photo gallery, this one from that little football game yesterday. By daylight, I’ll head up to Cranberry to check out the Penguins’ training camp, this while Josh Yohe heads out to Columbus to cover their preseason […]

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]]> http://dkpittsburghsports.com/2015/09/21/monday-planner-4/feed/ 31 Saturday Site Stuff: DiCello takes Heinz Field http://dkpittsburghsports.com/2015/09/19/saturday-site-stuff-dicello-takes-heinz-field/ http://dkpittsburghsports.com/2015/09/19/saturday-site-stuff-dicello-takes-heinz-field/#comments Sat, 19 Sep 2015 04:43:34 +0000 http://dkpittsburghsports.com/?p=31096 We’re beyond delighted at the photography we can offer you via Getty Images, but we’re also hoping as we move along to offer more original work in that area. To that end, it’s great to share with you here that our creative partner, Dave DiCello, will shoot the Steelers’ home opener exclusively for us Sunday […]

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]]> http://dkpittsburghsports.com/2015/09/19/saturday-site-stuff-dicello-takes-heinz-field/feed/ 39 Monday Planner: Penguins’ camp opens http://dkpittsburghsports.com/2015/09/14/monday-planner-3/ http://dkpittsburghsports.com/2015/09/14/monday-planner-3/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2015 04:01:20 +0000 http://dkpittsburghsports.com/?p=30256 A look at the week ahead on the site … Monday: We open, as always, with our Dave DiCello photo gallery. By daylight, contributor Steve Brenner will cover Pat Narduzzi’s press conference at Pitt HQ. At 2 p.m., Josh Yohe will have Good Dudettes. Neal Coolong will back on the South Side with the Steelers. […]

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]]> http://dkpittsburghsports.com/2015/09/14/monday-planner-3/feed/ 35 Saturday Site Stuff: The hard wall works http://dkpittsburghsports.com/2015/09/12/saturday-site-stuff-the-hard-wall/ http://dkpittsburghsports.com/2015/09/12/saturday-site-stuff-the-hard-wall/#comments Sat, 12 Sep 2015 04:01:16 +0000 http://dkpittsburghsports.com/?p=29964 There’s been an argument ongoing for decades about the pluses and minuses of the hard paywall. It’s been ongoing with us, too, even before we launched. There’s no argument now. We spent our first year behind a very soft wall. We knew that and wanted it that way, the better to get out the kind […]

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]]> http://dkpittsburghsports.com/2015/09/05/saturday-site-stuff-our-new-college-crew/feed/ 43 OK, the new platform is here … so now what? http://dkpittsburghsports.com/2015/09/02/ok-the-new-platform-is-here-so-now-what/ http://dkpittsburghsports.com/2015/09/02/ok-the-new-platform-is-here-so-now-what/#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2015 04:02:40 +0000 http://dkonpittsburghsports.com/?p=28183 MILWAUKEE — Our custom commerce platform is up and running. As mentioned the other day, it’s aimed almost entirely at new subscribers but also will have some immediate impact on existing subscribers: • You’ll need to log in. Actually, if you log in, you’ll solve about 99.999999 percent of any problems that might occur. So […]

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