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Dean Spiros

Copy editor

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St. Paul Pioneer Press, Star Tribune, WDAY

Preston's Summary

Dean Spiros is a copy editor for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, focusing on local news in St. Paul, Minnesota. He covers a range of topics including college sports, women's hockey, men's basketball, and local events, providing in-depth coverage and analysis for readers in the St. Paul area.

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Geo Focus

St. Paul, Minnesota, United States (Local)

Coverage Attributes:

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Event Coverage: 63 %
Evolving Stories: 18 %
Announcement: 6 %
Expert Commentary: 5 %
Investment Analysis: 2 %

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Most Recent Topics:

  • Sports
  • Baseball
  • Hockey
  • Minnesota Twins
  • Coaching

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Dean Spiros' coverage is highly focused on local sports, particularly college-level basketball and hockey. His articles predominantly revolve around event coverage and evolving stories related to the mentioned sports.

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Articles

St. Paul Pioneer Press

to submit an obituary To place an obituary, please include the information from the obituary checklist below in an email to [email protected] . There is no option to place them through our website. Feel free to contact our obituary desk at 651-228-5263 with any questions. General Information: Your full name, Address (City, State, Zip Code), Phone number, And an alternate phone number (if any) Obituary Specification: Name of Deceased, Obituary Text, A photo in a JPEG or PDF file is preferable, TIF and other files are accepted, we will contact you if there are any issues with the photo. Ad Run dates There is a discount for running more than one day, but this must be scheduled on the first run date to apply. If a photo is used, it must be used for both days for the discount to apply, contact us for more information. Policies: Verification of Death: In order to publish obituaries a name and phone number of funeral home/cremation society is required. We must contact the funeral home/cremation society handling the arrangements during their business hours to verify the death. If the body of the deceased has been donated to the University of Minnesota Anatomy Bequest Program, or a similar program, their phone number is required for verification. Please allow enough time to contact them especially during their limited weekend hours. A death certificate is also acceptable for this purpose but only one of these two options are necessary. Guestbook and Outside Websites: We are not allowed to reference other media sources with a guestbook or an obituary placed elsewhere when placing an obituary in print and online. We may place a website for a funeral home or a family email for contact instead; contact us with any questions regarding this matter. Obituary Process: Once your submission is completed, we will fax or email a proof for review prior to publication in the newspaper. This proof includes price and days the notice is scheduled to appear. Please review the proof carefully. We must be notified of errors or changes before the notice appears in the Pioneer Press based on each day's deadlines. After publication, we will not be responsible for errors that may occur after final proofing. Online: Payment Procedure: Pre-payment is required for all obituary notices prior to publication by the deadline specified below in our deadline schedule. Please call 651-228-5263 with your payment information after you have received the proof and approved its contents. Credit Card: Payment accepted by phone only due to PCI (Payment Card Industry) regulations EFT: Check by phone. Please provide your routing number and account number. Rates: The minimum charge is $162 for the first 10 lines. Every line after the first 10 is $12.20. If the ad is under 10 lines it will be charged the minimum rate of $162. On a second run date, the lines are $8.20 per line, starting w/ the first line. For example: if first run date was 20 lines the cost would be $164. Each photo published is $125 per day. For example: 2 photos in the paper on 2 days would be 4 photo charges at $500. Deadlines: Please follow deadline times to ensure your obituary is published on the day requested. MEMORIAM (NON-OBITUARY) REQUEST Unlike an obituary, Memoriam submissions are remembrances of a loved one who has passed. The rates for a memoriam differ from obituaries. HOURS: Monday – Friday 8:00AM – 5:00PM (CLOSED WEEKENDS and HOLIDAYS) Please submit your memoriam ad to [email protected] or call 651-228-5280. Minnesota Twins | Twins take third straight from lowly White Sox

to submit an obituary To place an obituary, please include the information from the obituary checklist below in an email to obits@pioneerpress.com . There is no option to place them through our website. Feel free to contact our obituary desk at 651-228-5263 with any questions. General Information: Your full name, Address (City, State, Zip Code), Phone number, And an alternate phone number (if any) Obituary Specification: Name of Deceased, Obituary Text, A photo in a JPEG or PDF file is preferable, TIF and other files are accepted, we will contact you if there are any issues with the photo. Ad Run dates There is a discount for running more than one day, but this must be scheduled on the first run date to apply. If a photo is used, it must be used for both days for the discount to apply, contact us for more information. Policies: Verification of Death: In order to publish obituaries a name and phone number of funeral home/cremation society is required. We must contact the funeral home/cremation society handling the arrangements during their business hours to verify the death. If the body of the deceased has been donated to the University of Minnesota Anatomy Bequest Program, or a similar program, their phone number is required for verification. Please allow enough time to contact them especially during their limited weekend hours. A death certificate is also acceptable for this purpose but only one of these two options are necessary. Guestbook and Outside Websites: We are not allowed to reference other media sources with a guestbook or an obituary placed elsewhere when placing an obituary in print and online. We may place a website for a funeral home or a family email for contact instead; contact us with any questions regarding this matter. Obituary Process: Once your submission is completed, we will fax or email a proof for review prior to publication in the newspaper. This proof includes price and days the notice is scheduled to appear. Please review the proof carefully. We must be notified of errors or changes before the notice appears in the Pioneer Press based on each day's deadlines. After publication, we will not be responsible for errors that may occur after final proofing. Online: Payment Procedure: Pre-payment is required for all obituary notices prior to publication by the deadline specified below in our deadline schedule. Please call 651-228-5263 with your payment information after you have received the proof and approved its contents. Credit Card: Payment accepted by phone only due to PCI (Payment Card Industry) regulations EFT: Check by phone. Please provide your routing number and account number. Rates: The minimum charge is $162 for the first 10 lines. Every line after the first 10 is $12.20. If the ad is under 10 lines it will be charged the minimum rate of $162. On a second run date, the lines are $8.20 per line, starting w/ the first line. For example: if first run date was 20 lines the cost would be $164. Each photo published is $125 per day. For example: 2 photos in the paper on 2 days would be 4 photo charges at $500. Deadlines: Please follow deadline times to ensure your obituary is published on the day requested. MEMORIAM (NON-OBITUARY) REQUEST Unlike an obituary, Memoriam submissions are remembrances of a loved one who has passed. The rates for a memoriam differ from obituaries. HOURS: Monday – Friday 8:00AM – 5:00PM (CLOSED WEEKENDS and HOLIDAYS) Please submit your memoriam ad to memoriams@pioneerpress.com or call 651-228-5280. Minnesota Twins | Twins take third straight from lowly White Sox

By: Dean Spiros

Joe Ryan picked up his first win of the season for the Twins on Wednesday night at Target Field, and he did it with flair.

St. Paul Pioneer Press

SUBSCRIBER ONLY Minnesota Twins | Twins overpower scuffling White Sox with five homers Loading your audio article Suddenly, the Twins are talking about a winning streak, about playing the type of baseball they believe they are capable of playing, about hot bats and playing well in all facets of the game. A four-game sweep can lead to that, and the Twins saw their wishes become reality on Thursday afternoon, beating the Chicago White Sox 6-3 before an announced crowd of 20,363. “I think going into this series we felt that this was a stretch that we have the opportunity to turn some stuff around,” said Twins catcher Ryan Jeffers, who hit his fourth home run of the season. “Kind of get some mojo back, start swinging it better. I think we did exactly that. “I thinks there's still are areas where we can improve, there's still spots where we're going to get better.” The Twins hit five home runs — all after the fifth inning — to erase a 2-0 deficit. They twice went back to back; Edouard Julien and Jeffers in the sixth, and Carlos Santana and Jose Miranda in the eighth. Julien hit his second of the game in seventh. Right-hander Simeon Woods Richardson, called up from the Saints to make his third major-league start and second this season, pitched five innings, allowing two runs on seven hits. The bullpen kept things in check until the ninth when the White Sox scratched across a run. “You have to like a lot of what we saw today,” Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said. “It was a really good series for us. We wanted to get a lot of things in order this week at home and play well. We were able to do much of it.” The White Sox, who dropped to 3-22, are losing at an alarming rate. But as far as the Twins are concerned, a sweep is a sweep, no matter the opponent. “They're a big-league club,” Jeffers said. “I don't think we treat it any differently. You can look at the record all you want, but that's a full clubhouse of big-league baseball players. We won four games. We could have easily come in here and not shown up and lost these games. “To be the team we want to be you've got to beat the teams you're supposed to beat. I think we did a good job of that.” The Twins hit into some tough luck in the early innings against starter Michael Soroka. But that changed in the sixth when Julien led off the inning with a home run. When Jeffers matched it, the game was tied and Soroka's day was done. The Twins took the lead before the inning was over, with Willi Castro delivering an RBI single. Julien hit a solo homer in the seventh before Santana and Miranda went back to back in the eighth. “The homers are huge, there's no way around it,” Baldelli said. “But you don't hit homers by going up there swinging big and trying to hit homers. Our guys weren't doing that. They just tried to barrel some balls up and they left the yard.” Julien, who said he is feeling good at the plate after a slow start, does not think his power surge is something that necessarily will continue. “I feel like there are times I am going to hit four in one week and other times where I'm not going to hit homers,” he said. “For me, I'm more of a complete hitter than a power hitter. My goal is to just get on base and help the team win.” Woods Richardson was pleased with his effort on a day he had less than his best stuff. “I didn't feel I had everything, but that's OK,” he said. “You're going to have games like that. What you can piece together with what you've got is kind of where I was at. Just trying to compete.” Offered Jeffers: “He did a good job of keeping us in the game. He was in attack mode and stayed in attack mode. That's all we can ask of him.”

SUBSCRIBER ONLY Minnesota Twins | Twins overpower scuffling White Sox with five homers Loading your audio article Suddenly, the Twins are talking about a winning streak, about playing the type of baseball they believe they are capable of playing, about hot bats and playing well in all facets of the game. A four-game sweep can lead to that, and the Twins saw their wishes become reality on Thursday afternoon, beating the Chicago White Sox 6-3 before an announced crowd of 20,363. “I think going into this series we felt that this was a stretch that we have the opportunity to turn some stuff around,” said Twins catcher Ryan Jeffers, who hit his fourth home run of the season. “Kind of get some mojo back, start swinging it better. I think we did exactly that. “I thinks there's still are areas where we can improve, there's still spots where we're going to get better.” The Twins hit five home runs — all after the fifth inning — to erase a 2-0 deficit. They twice went back to back; Edouard Julien and Jeffers in the sixth, and Carlos Santana and Jose Miranda in the eighth. Julien hit his second of the game in seventh. Right-hander Simeon Woods Richardson, called up from the Saints to make his third major-league start and second this season, pitched five innings, allowing two runs on seven hits. The bullpen kept things in check until the ninth when the White Sox scratched across a run. “You have to like a lot of what we saw today,” Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said. “It was a really good series for us. We wanted to get a lot of things in order this week at home and play well. We were able to do much of it.” The White Sox, who dropped to 3-22, are losing at an alarming rate. But as far as the Twins are concerned, a sweep is a sweep, no matter the opponent. “They're a big-league club,” Jeffers said. “I don't think we treat it any differently. You can look at the record all you want, but that's a full clubhouse of big-league baseball players. We won four games. We could have easily come in here and not shown up and lost these games. “To be the team we want to be you've got to beat the teams you're supposed to beat. I think we did a good job of that.” The Twins hit into some tough luck in the early innings against starter Michael Soroka. But that changed in the sixth when Julien led off the inning with a home run. When Jeffers matched it, the game was tied and Soroka's day was done. The Twins took the lead before the inning was over, with Willi Castro delivering an RBI single. Julien hit a solo homer in the seventh before Santana and Miranda went back to back in the eighth. “The homers are huge, there's no way around it,” Baldelli said. “But you don't hit homers by going up there swinging big and trying to hit homers. Our guys weren't doing that. They just tried to barrel some balls up and they left the yard.” Julien, who said he is feeling good at the plate after a slow start, does not think his power surge is something that necessarily will continue. “I feel like there are times I am going to hit four in one week and other times where I'm not going to hit homers,” he said. “For me, I'm more of a complete hitter than a power hitter. My goal is to just get on base and help the team win.” Woods Richardson was pleased with his effort on a day he had less than his best stuff. “I didn't feel I had everything, but that's OK,” he said. “You're going to have games like that. What you can piece together with what you've got is kind of where I was at. Just trying to compete.” Offered Jeffers: “He did a good job of keeping us in the game. He was in attack mode and stayed in attack mode. That's all we can ask of him.”

By: Dean Spiros

Edouard Julien hit two homers for Minnesota, which swept a four-game series against 3-22 Chicago

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