DK on Pittsburgh Sports Saturday site stuff http://dkonpittsburghsports.com Award-winning columnist Dejan Kovacevic covers Steelers, Penguins, Pirates, Pitt and more Mon, 24 Aug 2015 02:22:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3 Saturday Site Stuff: College discount? Finally! http://dkonpittsburghsports.com/2015/08/22/saturday-site-stuff-college-discount-finally/ http://dkonpittsburghsports.com/2015/08/22/saturday-site-stuff-college-discount-finally/#comments Sat, 22 Aug 2015 04:01:20 +0000 http://dkonpittsburghsports.com/?p=26327 By far the most common question I’ve gotten from potential subscribers — and wow, there is no close second — is when, if ever, we’ll discount our rates for college students. The answer, at long last, is September. For the whole month, we’ll offer one-year subscriptions at half-price to anyone currently studying at a college […]

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]]> http://dkonpittsburghsports.com/2015/08/08/saturday-site-stuff-while-under-construction/feed/ 42 Saturday Site Stuff: The Coolong effect http://dkonpittsburghsports.com/2015/08/01/saturday-site-stuff-the-coolong-effect/ http://dkonpittsburghsports.com/2015/08/01/saturday-site-stuff-the-coolong-effect/#comments Sat, 01 Aug 2015 04:01:01 +0000 http://dkonpittsburghsports.com/?p=23405 Just about the only thing I’ve enjoyed about Neal Coolong’s first week with our site more than his actual work has been all the newcomers that work has brought aboard. We’ve enjoyed one of the biggest weeks in our site’s history, and it’s been easy to tell that most of it has originated from that […]

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]]> http://dkonpittsburghsports.com/2015/08/01/saturday-site-stuff-the-coolong-effect/feed/ 85 Saturday Site Stuff: Oh, those app alerts! http://dkonpittsburghsports.com/2015/07/25/saturday-site-stuff-oh-those-app-alerts/ http://dkonpittsburghsports.com/2015/07/25/saturday-site-stuff-oh-those-app-alerts/#comments Sat, 25 Jul 2015 04:01:24 +0000 http://dkonpittsburghsports.com/?p=22563 The more that our readership skews toward the app — and it was 52 percent in June — the more we’ll keep working to improve your experience on that platform. And to that end, let me toss some various items your way about stuff happening on that front: • We love the app alerts. They’re […]

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