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Byline: Dejan Kovacevic June 13--The six-year, $48 million extension Maurice Pouncey signed Thursday might well represent the biggest move the Steelers make all summer. That's terrific and troubling. Don't misunderstand. [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic June 05--The red-eye charter flying the Pirates home from San Diego was due to land by sunrise Thursday and, barring some surprise announcement about a detour to [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic Jan. 24--Phone rang the other day, and I had to yank it away from the ear before it ever got close. 'Warren Cromartie! Ellis Valentine! Andre Dawson!' [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic Jan. 23--Let's get this out of the way: I'm anything but a Kris Letang basher. There's no bigger admirer of his skill set, his unparalleled combination of [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic Dec. 22--MILWAUKEE -- At whichever point makes the most fiscal sense following the coming flip of the calendar, the Steelers front office should -- no, must, if [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic Oct. 11--One final flip through the scorebook, as well as penciling in some of what might lie ahead ... Best thing about the 2013 Pirates: That's easy. [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic Oct. 03--Jaromir Jagr will be in the visitors' locker room Thursday night at Consol Energy Center as a member of the New Jersey Devils, but he won't [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic Aug. 28--This is what winning teams do. No, there wasn't anything singularly spectacular about the Pirates' acquisitions Tuesday of Marlon Byrd and John Buck from the Mets [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic Aug. 01--It took 14 full minutes for Neal Huntington to answer the many questions of the assembled media at PNC Park, all essentially wondering why the Pirates [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic July 11--Dejan Kovacevic: Ugh. Really long night working on a Friday column that I'm fairly certain most of you will hate. To make matters worse, I woke [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic June 26--Pirates owner Bob Nutting was adamant that any decision general manager Neal Huntington makes about prized pitcher Gerrit Cole's future will not be based on money. [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic June 24--Hey, no one's perfect. I mean, if Jason Grilli could serve up that gopher ball the other night in Cincinnati, if Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic June 13--Dejan Kovacevic: Afternoon, all. Pierogies will be done in a few. For those of us who stayed up and watched all of the Blackhawks winning in [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic March 15--Brief and to the Point ... So much about the Steelers is in flux right now, but here's what is settled, maybe for years to come: [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic March 10--The first thought upon the Steelers' seismic release of James Harrison, a few minutes past noon Saturday, had nothing to do with whether it was the [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic March 08--Brief and to the Point, some final impressions from a week at spring training ... If Gerrit Cole isn't ready for the Pirates, then he's most [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic Feb. 22--Brief and to the Point ... To those unfamiliar with Bob Nutting's thinking, it might have seemed somewhat asymmetrical that, in the same week, he'd issue [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic Dec. 14--Ever wanted to be a baseball beat reporter? Well, come one, come all, pay the requisite $12 admission plus Convention Center parking, and spend your Friday [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic Aug. 29--You know it'll be one of those days in the sports news biz when it starts the way Tuesday did ... 12:34 a.m.: Email alert dings. [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic July 02--Brief and to the Point ... Some of the numbers being tossed about in the Zach Parise sweepstakes Sunday were astounding. Terms were at 10 to [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic May 28--When James McDonald takes the mound on this Memorial Day at PNC Park, he'll do so as an All-Star in the making. He's been that good, [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic April 09--Andrew McCutchen is an extraordinarily wealthy young man, you might have heard. That six-year, $51.5 million extension he signed with the Pirates a couple of months [...]

Byline: Dejan KovacevicFeb. 10--It's one of the many torments of the Pirates' longest-suffering fans, the perpetual thought that somehow, some way, this will be the winter they make that big [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic Jan. 04--The Pirates and free-agent pitcher Paul Maholm have had discussions, but a team source confirmed Tuesday that his return to Pittsburgh is highly unlikely. Management continues [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic Sept. 23--The Pirates' four drafts under the current management have done plenty pitching, not nearly as much for the hitting. Good thing, then, that the international amateur [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic Aug. 31--The Pirates' 19th consecutive losing season is all but sealed, and September will see the Steelers and Penguins in action, burying baseball even deeper in our [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic Aug. 03--LaMarr Woodley, the Steelers' Pro Bowl linebacker said Tuesday that the team has approached him about signing a multiyear contract. In February, management applied the franchise [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic Aug. 02--Steelers linebacker LaMarr Woodley said today the team has approached him about signing a multi-year contract. In February, the Steelers signed Woodley to a one-year, $10 [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic July 29--BRADENTON, Fla. -- Luis Heredia was fairly steaming on the mound Wednesday at Pirate City, and not just because of the scorching high-noon sun. His belt-high [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic July 29--BRADENTON, Fla. -- Luis Heredia has a new car, a new house and a new pitching repertoire in his first year of professional baseball. Typical 16-year-old. [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic July 22--Even with the NFL's what-was-that-all-about labor drama Wednesday, the lockout still moved a vital step closer to resolution. Shouldn't be long before local eyes turn toward [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic July 15--The Pirates emerge from the All-Star break Friday in Houston four games over .500, one game out of first place and 34 victories shy of ending [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic June 30--This Jaromir Jagr drama is beginning to veer into silly territory, and it's getting close to time for the Penguins to do something about that. First, [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic June 13--It says here that the Pirates will extend general manager Neal Huntington's contract, currently due to expire at season's end, and that they will do so [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic June 13--The Pirates acquired catcher Mike McKenry in a trade with Boston late Sunday night, one in which the Red Sox will receive a player to be [...]

Byline: Dejan Kovacevic June 12--The Pirates and center fielder Andrew McCutchen have made no progress toward a multiyear contract extension since they last talked in April. The sides had been [...]