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By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Brief and to the Point … >> Nothing like writing a column asking a fan base to enjoy a pennant race the morning before they get blown out and lose one of their best players. Yeah, enjoy! Look, as I wrote in that column, it’s tough. I get [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Looking ahead to first pitch … Game: Pirates (64-52) vs. Los Angeles Dodgers (64-53) Time: 7:05 p.m. Site: PNC Park TV, radio: Root Sports, 93.7 The Fan Here is the live box score. And here is the Pirates’ lineup vs. Los Angeles LHP Clayton Kershaw … Starling Marte, LF [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Brief and to the Point … >> The Wednesday column wonders what’s happened to the Pirates’ fans of late. As one genius on Twitter shot at me late last night, “ohhhhhhhhhhh dejan went to the olympics and now he’s too good for pirates.” Or something. >> That photo [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Looking ahead to first pitch … Game: Pirates (64-51) vs. Los Angeles Dodgers (63-53) Time: 7:05 p.m. Site: PNC Park TV, radio: Root Sports, 93.7 The Fan Here is the live box score. And here is the Pirates’ lineup vs. Los Angeles RHP Chad Billingsley … Starling Marte, LF [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media HOME — Brief and to the Point … >> The Tuesday column … wait, there isn’t one. The streak is snapped at 19 days. And I’m betting it won’t be the only streak snapped at 19 this summer. Nice to be back in the good place. Planning to [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Looking ahead to first pitch … Game: Pirates (64-50) vs. Los Angeles Dodgers (62-53) Time: 7:05 p.m. Site: PNC Park TV, radio: Root Sports, 93.7 The Fan Here is the live box score. And here is the Pirates’ lineup vs. Los Angeles RHP Aaron Harang … Starling Marte, LF [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media LONDON — Brief and to the Point … >> The Monday column is my farewell to this world-class city, country and Olympics. And I have a piece for the news section wrapping up the Games. Oh, and in that column, the truth about ‘Lisa’ is finally revealed. >> [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Looking ahead to first pitch … Game: Pirates (63-50) vs. San Diego Padres (51-64) Time: 1:35 p.m. Site: PNC Park TV, radio: Root Sports, 93.7 The Fan Here is the live box score. And here is the Pirates’ lineup vs. San Diego RHP Ross Ohlendorf … Starling Marte, LF [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media Looking ahead to first pitch … Game: Pirates (63-48) vs. San Diego Padres (49-64) Time: 7:05 p.m. Site: PNC Park TV, radio: Root Sports, 93.7 The Fan Here is the live box score. And here is the Pirates’ lineup vs. San Diego RHP Jason Marquis … Starling Marte, LF [...]

By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media LONDON – Waynesburg’s Coleman Scott won the Olympic bronze medal in 60-kilogram freestyle wrestling Saturday, but Wexford’s Jake Herbert failed to medal in the 84-kilogram bracket. Scott, 26, was eliminated from gold contetion in the semifinals by Azerbaijan’s Toghrul Asgarov, 1-0, 4-1. But he responded in the bronze [...]