Jerry DiPaola stories, Page 114

The Tribune-Review sports staff is conducting a daily countdown of the best players in Pittsburgh pro and college sports history to wear each jersey number. No. 13: Dan Marino He was the coach’s son, so it was only right that a very young Dan Marino had to accept he was...

With covid concerns in the air, Pat Narduzzi likes the fact he has a third candidate to be Pitt’s backup quarterback this season. The NCAA last week granted Arizona State transfer Joey Yellen immediate eligibility. He is competing with Nick Patti and Davis Beville for the No. 1 backup job...

By the time JT Brubaker throws the first pitch Tuesday night at PNC Park, the Pittsburgh Pirates will have more games to play (42) than there are days remaining (41) in the season. With a 4-14 record that is the worst in MLB and eight pitchers on the injured list...

The two games postponed in Cincinnati because a Reds player tested positive for covid-19 won’t be played Monday, the Pittsburgh Pirates announced Sunday afternoon. Manager Derek Shelton said he was not told why there won’t be a doubleheader Monday when both teams are idle. “Major League Baseball has decided, protocol-wise,...

The NCAA granted Pitt redshirt freshman quarterback Joey Yellen immediate eligibility Friday, giving him the opportunity to challenge sophomore Nick Patti and redshirt freshman Davis Beville for the No. 2 job behind senior starter Kenny Pickett. Yellen enrolled in January after one season at Arizona State (2019) and an appearance...

Pitt canceled football practice Thursday after several players displayed symptoms that are associated with covid-19. “Our medical team decided it was in everyone’s best interest to temporarily pause our Thursday training camp activities so that we could test symptomatic players per our protocol,” athletic director Heather Lyke said. “Based on...

Although the Big Ten and Pac-12 shut down fall sports, the Big 12 Board of Directors decided to join the ACC and SEC among Power 5 conferences with plans to proceed with the fall sports seasons. That means football at West Virginia, for now. The first of nine conference football...

Robert Morris plans to move its football season to the spring after the Big South announced Wednesday it will delay fall sports until then. Robert Morris is an associate member of the Big South in football. The Big South will allow its members to play as many as four nonconference...

Here are what some of the top officials in the Big Ten and Pac-12 are saying about the decisions to postpone fall sports in their Power 5 conferences, and what might happen going forward: Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez has no doubt about one of the residual effects: “There will...

The ACC is proceeding with the intent of starting the football season on time, and the conference’s top doctor said Tuesday it can be done safely. Dr. Cameron Wolfe, an infectious disease specialist at Duke and chair of the ACC’s medical advisory team, told Sports Business Daily he recognizes the...

Big Ten and Pac-12 chancellors and presidents, representing two of the Power 5 conferences, postponed football and all fall sports for the 2020 season, choosing not to face the risk of the coronavirus pandemic. The Pac-12 went one step further, postponing all sports through the end of 2020, including the...

With tan lines on his face from wearing his mask at practice, Penn State coach James Franklin said Tuesday that there is no need to decide immediately on the fate of college football. “I’m not saying we should cancel the season at this point. I’m not saying we should definitely...

Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi continued to build his class of 2021 on Monday night when tight end Jake Renda flipped from his commitment to Michigan State and announced on Twitter his plan to enroll at Pitt. The Panthers have 19 players in next year’s recruiting class, which is ranked 26th...

Neil Brown was in a familiar place Monday. Surrounded by his team, beard stubble around his chin. (Who has time to shave?) Instructing groups of (socially distanced) players. It was the first day of football practice at West Virginia. For now, all was right in his world. “You see guys,...

Monday was a regularly scheduled day off for Pitt football, but while the practice fields on the South Side were silent, players’ voices were not. Several of them went on Twitter — using the hashtag #WeWantToPlay — to join players from around the nation in pleading with Power 5 officials...

Pitt’s Jaylen Twyman and Penn State’s Micah Parsons, who decided to opt out this season, soon might be joined by the entirety of their college football brethren. ESPN reported Sunday night that sources told the network postponing or canceling the football season appears inevitable. Power 5 commissioners held an emergency...

The Tribune-Review sports staff is conducting a daily countdown of the best players in Pittsburgh pro and college sports history to wear each jersey number. No. 22: Andrew McCutchen Andrew McCutchen will be remembered for many achievements in his nine seasons in Pittsburgh: swinging a reliable bat, stealing bases, running...

Randy Bates is a cancer survivor who spent quarantine “sitting in my living room thinking about weird things I’m going to do” when Pitt opens training camp. So why wouldn’t you expect the Panthers’ 60-year-old defensive coordinator to use a water pump that looked like it came from the Civil...

A day after Pitt defensive coordinator Randy Bates said he would be shocked if one of his players decided not to play this season out of respect to covid-19, All-ACC defensive tackle Jaylen Twyman revealed Saturday his plans to return home and skip the 2020 season. “This past year has...

The question made Damar Hamlin chuckle. He considered it for a moment and gave an answer that said a lot about what will push Pitt through a season overflowing with expectations. Athletes and their coaches don’t usually like to play the what-if game with reporters. They prefer to deal with...