Dejan Kovacevic
Verified- Columnist and Creator, DK Pittsburgh Sports
- Host, DK's Daily Shot of Steelers
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- Host, DK's Daily Shot of Pirates
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Articles by Dejan Kovacevic
Drive to the Net: The competition's awesome, but to what end?
CRANBERRY, Pa. -- Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins opened training camp Thursday at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex with hopes for progress beyond their climb back into the Stanley Cup playoffs this past spring.
21 Takes: 'It's a win,' all right, but man ... this offense
PITTSBURGH -- The Steelers beat the Falcons, 20-13, on a brilliant day for T.J. Watt amid the franchise's 94th NFL season opener Sunday at Acrisure Stadium.
The Steelers' last, lingering questions
The day after a day off, and three practice days removed from the walkthrough day that comes the day before the Steelers' 94th NFL season opener ... let's take the day to revisit the last handful of the team's surprisingly large lot of lingering issues. If only because one might imagine they haven't a day to spare to sort it all out: WHO'S AT CORNER?
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Making the Steelers, the NFL's oldest team, seem new
PITTSBURGH -- The Steelers are the NFL's oldest team, founded still on Aaron Rodgers, Cam Heyward and T.J. Watt, but there's been plenty of youth infused this summer.
Too much faith in Steelers' inside linebackers?
PITTSBURGH -- The Steelers' release of veteran Elandon Roberts should raise questions about the inside linebackers who remain, Dejan Kovacevic writes.
Mario Lemieux, Ron Burkle out of Penguins' ownership
PITTSBURGH -- Mario Lemieux's all the way out of the Penguins' ownership, two sources told DK Pittsburgh Sports, for the first time since buying the team out of bankruptcy in 1999. He and Ron Burkle, his longtime business partner and friend, recently sold all of their remaining shares
Already mad about Steelers' Max Iheanachor?
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- Max Iheanachor, the Steelers' rookie right tackle and first-round pick in the most recent NFL Draft, made his debut in falling to the Bills, 28-27, in both teams' preseason finale Thursday night here at Highmark Stadium.
Steelers will keep all four quarterbacks
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- The Steelers will keep all four of the current quarterbacks on the 53-man roster, a source confirms for DK Pittsburgh Sports here at Highmark Stadium.
Max Iheanachor should be the Steelers' real headliner
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- It's Steelers vs. Bills, it's the preseason, it's a 7:05 p.m. kickoff, it's at the new Highmark Stadium, and it'll represent the NFL debut of Pittsburgh's first-round pick, right tackle Max Iheanachor.
How media's failed in defining the Dodgers' disease
PITTSBURGH -- This won't be about one Major League Baseball team. Because it could've been any of a handful. This won't be about one reporter. Because it could be almost any of a dozen or so who've somehow earned the strange status of being 'national,' even though they've not ascended from anything but, rather, just do the job very differently from actual beat reporters.
Steelers going nowhere without a ground game
PITTSBURGH -- Even with an experienced backfield of Jaylen Warren and Rico Dowdle, concerns persist about a consistent running game for the Steelers in this NFL preseason.
Allar deserves a lot better look than this debacle
PITTSBURGH -- The Steelers' young quarterbacks, Will Howard and Drew Allar, had very different experiences in a 17-0 loss to the New York Jets on Friday night at Acrisure Stadium than they had in the preseason opener.
Chief concerns about Steelers so far
PITTSBURGH -- It's Steelers vs. Other Jets, it's the preseason, it's a 7:02 p.m. kickoff, it's at Acrisure Stadium, and it's not yet too late to share 10 observations before the football flies.
Steelers' offense goes nowhere without the big boys
PITTSBURGH -- No quarterback for the Steelers, no matter how exciting or electric, no matter how much hope they'll instill in a franchise's hungry fan base, will mean much of anything if they aren't allowed to stay upright.
Hey, maybe give the Steelers' quarterbacks a hand, huh?
PITTSBURGH -- Mason Rudolph, Will Howard and Drew Allar all acquitted themselves quite well in the Steelers' 28-9 victory over the Green Bay Packers in both teams' NFL preseason opener Thursday night at Acrisure Stadium.
Here go the Steelers! (And not just the QBs!)
PITTSBURGH -- It's Steelers vs. Packers, it's the preseason opener, it's a 7:02 p.m. kickoff, it's at Acrisure Stadium, and it's not yet too late to share a handful of observations before it begins.
21 Takes: If the Penguins get better/younger ... that's the plan
PITTSBURGH -- So tell me, please, how I'd possibly interpret the Penguins as having had the most impactful impression of late by simple virtue of signing a grossly underperforming winger - two goals in 47 NHL games - to a contract extension?
21 Takes: The Steelers' pads weren't all that was poppin'
LATROBE, Pa. -- Why should anyone believe in the Steelers' defense a year after former coach Mike Tomlin preposterously referred to this same crew as having 'historic' potential?
These Pirates are only missing one thing
PITTSBURGH -- These Pirates can do a lot of terrific things, but this bullpen's going to bury them before it can matter, writes Dejan Kovacevic of DK Pittsburgh Sports.
Pity? Nah, a party!
PITTSBURGH -- How DK Pittsburgh Sports, the pioneering independent media outlet, came to be in 2014 without an expected loan and without much beyond ... a beautiful launch.
'The greatest risk'
This is the fourth of a five-part series on how DK Pittsburgh Sports forever changed the media industry, with a hard focus on how and why we decided to try this thing that hadn't previously been t
The sleepless night
PITTSBURGH -- Part 3 of how DK Pittsburgh Sports, Dejan Kovacevic's pioneering media company, was formed from a frustrated relationship with the fading newspaper industry.
Begone newspapers
PITTSBURGH -- Part 2 of how DK Pittsburgh Sports, Dejan Kovacevic's pioneering media company, was formed from a frustrated relationship with the fading newspaper industry.
A screamin' inspiration
PITTSBURGH -- How DK Pittsburgh Sports, Dejan Kovacevic's pioneering media company, was formed from a frustrated relationship with the fading newspaper industry.
21 Takes: How could all this offense whiff on playoffs?
PITTSBURGH -- The Pirates are now tied for No. 1 in runs spanning Major League Baseball, so how could they conceivably miss the playoffs?
What should .500-ish Pirates do at deadline?
PITTSBURGH -- Should Ben Cherington's young Pirates, a game over .500, be buyers or sellers at Major League Baseball's trade deadline?
Kyle Dubas' 'boring-brick' plan perfect for Penguins
PITTSBURGH -- Kyle Dubas' self-style 'brick-by-boring-brick' plan for the Penguins sounds perfect, writes veteran Pittsburgh journalist Dejan Kovacevic.
DK's Breakdown: Is this bullpen (finally) beginning to dig out?
PITTSBURGH -- If the 2026 Major League Baseball season had ended Tuesday evening, soon after the Pirates' 3-2 loss to the Mariners here at PNC Park, that'd represent an epic failure for a baseball operations department that's now halfway into Year 7.
With Mario Lemieux, Sidney Crosby, winning's always first
PITTSBURGH -- I believe in Mario Lemieux. I believe in Sidney Crosby. Couple of bold stances there, huh? But no, it's real. I've been blessed to know both for decades now, and I believe in both, as iconic performers, as incredible people and, of course, as perpetual winners in all walks of life.
On the Steelers' brutally botched NFL Draft process
Two statements I believe are totally true: 1. Max Iheanachor might well wind up a wonderful prospect for the Steelers. 2. My God, they brutally botched the process of selecting their first-round pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, and this on the grandest possible local stage right here in front of 300,000-plus football fans packed onto our North Shore and Downtown on this otherwise thrilling Thursday night. Think about it from both perspectives, as if they're on parallel tracks.
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