DK Pittsburgh Sports Site stuff http://dkpittsburghsports.com Award-winning columnist Dejan Kovacevic covers Steelers, Penguins, Pirates, Pitt and more Fri, 16 Oct 2015 04:21:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.5 Site searching for new Steelers beat writer http://dkpittsburghsports.com/2015/10/15/site-searching-for-new-steelers-beat-writer/ http://dkpittsburghsports.com/2015/10/15/site-searching-for-new-steelers-beat-writer/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2015 06:23:31 +0000 http://dkpittsburghsports.com/?p=35308 We’re searching for a new Steelers beat writer at DKPittsburghSports.com, as we’ve parted company with Neal Coolong. Most media companies don’t share even that much information about internal moves, and that much will have to suffice here. We wish him the very best. While we begin a thorough and possibly lengthy search — it’s Week […]

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]]> http://dkpittsburghsports.com/2015/10/15/site-searching-for-new-steelers-beat-writer/feed/ 223 Monday Planner: Penguins come home http://dkpittsburghsports.com/2015/10/12/monday-planner-penguins-come-home/ http://dkpittsburghsports.com/2015/10/12/monday-planner-penguins-come-home/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2015 04:03:04 +0000 http://dkpittsburghsports.com/?p=34890 SAN DIEGO — A look at another absolutely insane week ahead on the site … Monday: We open, as always, with our Dave DiCello photo gallery. Josh Yohe will cover the Penguins’ practice at Consol, and he’ll have Good Dudes at 2 p.m. Matt Gajtka will take your Live Qs at 5. And by nightfall, […]

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]]> http://dkpittsburghsports.com/2015/10/12/monday-planner-penguins-come-home/feed/ 25 Saturday Site Stuff: More, better video http://dkpittsburghsports.com/2015/10/10/saturday-site-stuff-more-better-video/ http://dkpittsburghsports.com/2015/10/10/saturday-site-stuff-more-better-video/#comments Sat, 10 Oct 2015 04:01:02 +0000 http://dkpittsburghsports.com/?p=34660 PHOENIX — I like videos. Lots of videos. You might have noticed. And if you look around the Web,  you’ll see that our nation’s most prominent sports sites are moving heavily to video, some at the expense of still photography altogether. We won’t do that. I’m a big fan of still photos, and a big […]

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]]> http://dkpittsburghsports.com/2015/10/10/saturday-site-stuff-more-better-video/feed/ 117 Monday Planner: ‘I once did this alone’ edition http://dkpittsburghsports.com/2015/10/05/monday-planner-i-once-did-this-alone-edition/ http://dkpittsburghsports.com/2015/10/05/monday-planner-i-once-did-this-alone-edition/#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2015 04:01:47 +0000 http://dkpittsburghsports.com/?p=33982 A look at an absolutely insane week ahead on the site … Monday: We open this week with my column looking ahead to the Penguins’ season that opens Thursday in Dallas. We’ve also got our Dave DiCello photo gallery. Josh Yohe will be back on the beat at Consol this morning, and he’ll have Good […]

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]]> http://dkpittsburghsports.com/2015/10/05/monday-planner-i-once-did-this-alone-edition/feed/ 52 Saturday Site Stuff: The million mark http://dkpittsburghsports.com/2015/10/03/saturday-site-stuff-welcome-students/ http://dkpittsburghsports.com/2015/10/03/saturday-site-stuff-welcome-students/#comments Sat, 03 Oct 2015 04:17:04 +0000 http://dkpittsburghsports.com/?p=33618 September smashed every monthly traffic mark we had, blowing through a million page views for the first time. On the main website, we had 450,595. On the app, we increased by more than 200,000 in reaching 601,443. That’s a total of 1,052,038. All figures are produced by Google Analytics, the industry standard for this measurement, […]

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]]> http://dkpittsburghsports.com/2015/10/03/saturday-site-stuff-welcome-students/feed/ 47 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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