August 29, 2015
Saturday Site Stuff: The Point Park discount
Who better to step up for our coming college discount than Point Park University?
It’s so perfect in so many ways I don’t know where to start, but I’ll try by going way back to preschool. I was born and raised right Downtown way before that was a thing, and I went to kindergarten on Point Park’s campus back when that was a thing. Our playground was actually on the rooftop of the current main building there.
Few of us can remember much from that age, but I’ve never forgotten that.
In addition to that — maybe partly because of it — I’ve written often over the years, including for this site just last year, of my enormous respect for the institution and all that it’s done for our Downtown, practically picking up Wood Street on its broad shoulders. It’s been a joy to watch and experience first-hand with my family.
Well, now, Point Park University is family.
August 31, 2015
Monday Planner: Here come the colleges
by Dejan Kovacevic • Site stuff • Monday planner
A look at the week ahead on the site …
Monday: We open with our weekly Dave DiCello photo gallery, which henceforth will be called DiCello’s Point of View and sponsored by Point Park University. (Get it?) Neal Coolong will have our Steelers PATs first thing in the morning. By daylight, I’ll cover Pat Narduzzi’s first game-week press conference before Pitt football opens, then pick up Steelers right across the hall. At 2 p.m., Josh Yohe will have Good Dudes. At 5 p.m., Matt Gajtka will take your Five Qs at 5 on a new day to better suit his baseball schedule.
Tuesday: I’m headed out to Milwaukee for a week on the road covering the Pirates. I’ll begin by writing from Miller Park that afternoon. Neal will have the Mike Tomlin press conference, the Steelers’ first big cutdown day, coverage of practice and Five Qs. This also will be the day we begin covering Penn State and West Virginia football, with correspondents Connor Whooley and Nicole Curtin reporting from State College and Morgantown, respectively, on the James Franklin and Dana Holgorsen press conferences.
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