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Tyler Riddell threw four touchdown passes, and Duquesne scored on its first five possessions in a 52-7 rout of Saint Francis on Saturday. Riddell hit Joey Isabella for a 57-yard score less than four minutes into the game and found Ryan Petras and Jermaine Johnson for first-quarter touchdowns as the...

An assault charge against a Duquesne University basketball player accused of punching his then-girlfriend in August will be reduced to a non-traffic citation if he completes a domestic violence program. The deal was worked out between Maximus Edwards’ lawyer and the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office, which said it reviewed...

PITTSBURGH — Tyler Riddell threw three touchdown passes, Ness Davis gained 111 yards on the ground, and Duquesne cruised past Stonehill, 34-14, on Saturday. After a scoreless first quarter, Davis and Taj Butts scored rushing touchdowns and Riddell’s 21-yard TD pass to Ryan Petras gave the Dukes (3-3, 1-0 Northeast...

They play hoops in college basketball’s mainstream. You know them. They’re the big boys. We’re talking mainly of the ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12 and SEC. Certainly in Pittsburgh, it’s no secret Duquesne plays second fiddle. The Dukes routinely operate in obscurity in the lightly regarded Atlantic 10....

The Duquesne basketball teams will kick off their 2025-26 seasons looking to earn a measure of respect after both were swept aside Tuesday in voting for the top teams in the Atlantic 10 Conference. So, too, were their players ignored. Flanked on Tuesday by sophomore guard Mackenzie Blackford at the...

PITTSBURGH — Tyler Riddell passed to Joey Isabella for three second-quarter touchdowns and ran for two more as Duquesne beat New Haven, 44-18, on Saturday. New Haven’s AJ Duffy found Joshua Tracey deep for a 56-yard score in the second minute of the game, but Riddell and Isabella combined for...

Duquesne’s men’s basketball team will begin its Atlantic 10 season on the road at Davidson. The Dec. 30 matchup was part of the Atlantic 10 schedule that was announced by the conference Thursday. The Dukes’ home games at UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse include matchups against VCU (Jan. 3), Dayton (Jan. 13),...

A pair of high school seniors appear headed to Duquesne next season to play men’s basketball for the Dukes. Separate Instagram posts indicate that 6-foot-4 guard Jackson Williams, from Geneva (Ohio) Spire Academy, and 6-11 Greek-born center Dimitrios Ntapsis, from Ontario (Calif.) Veritas Academy, have become Duquesne coach Dru Joyce...

AKRON, Ohio. — Jordan Gant rushed for three first-half touchdowns, and Akron picked up its first win of the season with a 51-7 victory over Duquesne. Duquesne’s Ness Davis broke loose for a 74-yard run to the Akron 1, and Logan Kushner (North Allegheny) dove in for the touchdown late...

A Duquesne University basketball player has been charged with simple assault for allegedly punching a woman during an argument last month. Pittsburgh police filed the charges against city resident Maximus Edwards, 23, on Aug. 3. The woman, who Edwards knows, reportedly flagged down officers at the intersection of Penn Avenue...

Roman Purcell threw for 82 yards and ran for 78 yards and a touchdown as No. 10 Cal (Pa.) scored a 26-24 victory over West Chester (1-1) in nonconference play Saturday afternoon. Bobbie Boyd Jr. led the Vulcans (2-0) in rushing with 79 yards and one touchdown. West Chester’s Jordan...

Hayden Johnson threw three touchdown passes, and Lehigh defeated Duquesne, 35-21, on Saturday. It was the first meeting between the two Pennsylvania schools that have been playing football since the late 19th century. Despite twice falling behind by 14 points in the second half, Duquesne trailed only 28-21 early in...

It’s not like Duquesne wide receiver Joey Isabella took the Pitt Panthers by surprise. They were preparing for him on Saturday in advance of the 2025 season opener for both clubs. “They’ve got a great receiver in a guy named Joey Isabella,” Panthers coach Pat Narduzzi said during his opening...

Tuesday’s “First Call” brings us back from the Labor Day weekend with news about three linebackers who used to be Pittsburgh Steelers. There is an update on Najee Harris. The Pirates face two tough opponents back-to-back at PNC Park. And Duquesne’s president wants the Pitt basketball rivalry back after Saturday’s...

Perfection eluded Pitt on Saturday at Acrisure Stadium in its season-opening thumping of Duquesne. Coach Pat Narduzzi likely will dial in on the Panthers’ slow offensive start, an ugly interception by Eli Holstein and some other miscellaneous mishaps when he reviews the game tape. But on the heels of a...

The last time Pitt and Duquesne faced off on the gridiron, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president, Pittsburgh’s steel mills boomed and the Germans had just started World War II. That was Oct. 21, 1939, when the Dukes managed a stunning 21-13 victory over the Panthers. Eighty-six years later, the local...

If you’ve ever done the drive from New England to Pittsburgh, you know time has an uncanny way of slowing down. The minutes seem like hours. The hours feel like centuries. Regardless of which state you are departing, there really is no perfect route to take, and you are invariably...

Under normal circumstances, Pitt meeting Duquesne on the football field would instill in the Panthers a desire to enact some revenge, given they lost the last matchup. Conversely, Duquesne might look at things as a chance to stack up consecutive wins against their crosstown foe. But Saturday at Acrisure Stadium,...

It was 1969 when a group of college-aged boys gathered in St. Martin’s Hall at Duquesne University to ignite a grassroots effort to return football to the Bluff. Fox Chapel resident Sam Costanzo helped draw up the game plan – and said it was sheer industriousness and passion that led...

The countdown clock in the Pitt practice facility hit exactly four days, zero minutes, zero seconds, just a few moments before linebacker Kyle Louis walked in for his interview session with local reporters on Tuesday. That’s all that remained before the Panthers’ long offseason ended and they would face Duquesne...

Duquesne defensive lineman A.J. Ackerman remembers the first time we spoke about the topic. What’s the level of excitement surrounding the Dukes’ 2025 season opener at Acrisure Stadium against Pitt? “I think the last time you asked me that question, I gave you a much more muted answer,” Ackerman said....

Duquesne has earned at least a share of the Northeast Conference title the past two seasons and was picked Monday to again contend for the title. The Dukes were ranked second in the NEC football preseason coaches poll. They had two first-place votes. Robert Morris, which went 4-2 in the...

The Duquesne men’s basketball team will play nine nonconference home games at UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse during the 2025-26 season, according to the Dukes schedule that was released Tuesday. The Dukes also will play two games out west at Boise State (Dec. 10) and Nevada (Dec. 13), and their annual game...

Duquesne athletics is morning James Fallon, who helped the Dukes men’s basketball team win the 1955 National Invitation Tournament title. Fallon died June 24, at age 94. A three-year letterwinner known as “Try Guy,” Fallon and the Dukes finished 22-4 in 1955, defeating No. 9 Dayton to win the NIT...