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PITTSBURGH — Billy Lucas had two of Duquesne’s four rushing touchdowns, and the Dukes beat Virginia Lynchburg, 56-7, on Saturday for their 14th straight home-opening win. Lucas only carried it three times for 39 yards. Nine players ran it for Duquesne (2-1), gaining 289 yards. Garrett Owens had a team-high...

Norm Nixon will be back on the basketball court for Duquesne University. The former star point guard for the Dukes and first-round draft pick by the Los Angeles Lakers is part of the team for “An Evening With the Stars” on Saturday. It’s the first major event at the university’s...

Duquesne University and iHeartMedia Pittsburgh have entered into a broadcast partnership to air the school’s football and men’s basketball games. The partnership kicks off at 1 p.m. Saturday with the Dukes’ game against Virginia University of Lynchburg. Play-by-play of the games will be available regionally and nationally on 104.7 HD2,...

A smile stretches across the face of Duquesne running back Garrett Owens as he’s asked about what the campus reaction has been like since the Dukes made NEC conference history with their 28-26 victory over Ohio Saturday. “We have all had family members say, ‘Great win,’” Owens said Monday. “Walking...

ATHENS, Ohio — Darius Perrantes passed for one touchdown and ran for another, the Duquesne defense stopped a 2-point conversion attempt with less than 10 seconds remaining and the FCS Dukes defeated Ohio, 28-26, on Saturday. It was Duquesne’s first victory over an FBS opponent in program history. After Duquesne...

Maceo Austin, who came to Duquesne in 2019 after leading Kennedy Catholic to four consecutive PIAA championships and then started 29 games as a freshman, has left the Dukes for the second time. Austin, a 6-foot-5 guard, did not play for six weeks from Jan. 9 until Feb. 20 last...

FORT WORTH, Texas — Max Duggan threw for a touchdown and was one of four TCU players with a rushing score as the Horned Frogs routed Duquense 45-3 in an opener shortened in the second half Saturday night. The coaches agreed to play 12-minute quarters after halftime with the Horned...

Duquesne football head coach Jerry Schmitt was very clear in his approach heading into the Dukes’ recently completed 2021 spring mini-season. The games weren’t exhibitions. They weren’t glorified scrimmages. They weren’t warm-ups for the fall. That was the team’s 2020 campaign — just a few pages late on the calendar,...

With seven new players and a renovated home court, the Duquesne men’s basketball team will open coach Keith Dambrot’s fifth season Nov. 9 against Rider. Duquesne released its nonconference schedule Thursday, and Rider of the Metro Atlantic will be one of four first-time opponents, including UC Irvine (Big West), Weber...

Center Michael Hughes, the most accurate shooter in Duquesne basketball history, has signed a contract to play professionally for BC GGMT Vienna of the Austrian Basketball Superliga. He joins former teammate Baylee Steele, who plays for PGE Spojnia Stargard in the Polish EBL, as the second ex-Duquesne player in the...

After an unprecedented, but successful, spring season, Duquesne was picked to finish in a tie for second with Central Connecticut in the Northeast Conference preseason coaches’ poll released Tuesday. The Dukes received two first-place votes while preseason favorite and defending champion Sacred Heart appeared on four of the seven ballots....

As the drama continues to swirl around the Southeastern Conference’s attempt to absorb Texas and Oklahoma from the Big 12, many characterize the advance as an SEC attempt to form a “super conference.” Wait. I thought that’s what the SEC was already. No? A lot has been written and said...

Rick Bell’s resume is difficult to ignore. Along with his 31 years as head boys basketball coach at Canon-McMillan (18 years) and Peters Township (13), Bell was an assistant coach in the 1996 McDonalds All-American Boys Game at the former Civic Arena where his players included Kobe Bryant and four...

This happens from time to time at “Breakfast With Benz.” I get an email, tweet or a post in the comments section that I want to use for “U mad, bro?” However, sometimes that comment itself gets me mad enough that I find myself writing a response so long, it...

Duquesne isn’t bragging about its unbeaten record inside its UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse. Not after only two games. But it surely doesn’t mind showing off the venue in advance of the 2021-2022 season. Duquesne will hold two open house events at its newly constructed on-campus home July 28-29. Duquesne officials are...

Anxiety about an Adam Frazier trade. Depression over the Pirates draft philosophy. And concerns over the future of college sports. That’s what filled up the comments section in the columns, email inbox and Twitter interactions for this week’s “U mad, bro?” We start with a tweet from Kenny. He agrees...

When Keith Dambrot was playing baseball at the University of Akron and merely trying to keep ground balls from smacking him in the face, he never imagined how college athletics would change in the next four decades, and how he must change with it. “Never,” he said. “I was just...

Hopes of saving the Robert Morris hockey teams are on life support. So the question needs to be asked if any other local universities might be interested in stepping up and filling the void for Pittsburgh area NCAA DI hockey that would be created if the Colonials can’t stay on...

Duquesne’s men’s basketball team learned Thursday which teams it will get to face twice for the 2021-22 Atlantic 10 season. The Dukes will play home and away games against Davidson, Dayton, Fordham, George Washington and St. Bonaventure as part of the league’s 18-game schedule. This is the second straight season...

Thursday’s “First Call” features a “thanks, but no thanks” to the Steelers from a rumored free agent of interest. Also, Spygate is back in the news. We’ve got a look at the NFL’s salary cap for 2022. Duquesne’s football schedule has been released. And LeBron James pumps up Dukes basketball...

Well before Duquesne’s 16-point loss to St. Bonaventure in the Atlantic 10 Tournament — a performance he called “pitiful” and “predictable” — Keith Dambrot had made up his mind. “I decided we needed to reboot, reorganize, regroup,” he said. “I have a saying: ‘You can’t lower your standards. You have...

The Pitt and Duquesne basketball teams won’t play each other this season for the third consecutive year, the longest suspension of the City Game since they didn’t play from 1940-1952. Duquesne coach Keith Dambrot said negotiations have occurred this year, but “the terms weren’t amiable for us at that point.”...

Matt Busche missed qualifying for the NCAA Division I Regional Track and Field championships by a second. But the Duquesne sophomore and 2018 Franklin Regional graduate has put the disappointment behind him and is already looking forward to the 2022 season. What takes away the hurt a little is the...

Duquesne lost its eighth player to the NCAA transfer portal Thursday when freshman forward Andre Harris added his name to the list. Harris played in 17 of Duquesne’s 18 games, averaging 3.8 points, 1.8 rebounds and 11.1 minutes per game. At 6-foot-7, 225 pounds, he gave the Dukes a presence...

A random tweet about West Virginia opening the 2023 football season with consecutive games against Penn State, Duquesne and Pitt raised this question Wednesday afternoon (also on Twitter): Why not Pitt vs. Duquesne in football? Major pats on the back to West Virginia for scheduling the first three games of...