Mason Heintschel aims to showcase growth at quarterback in Pitt’s spring game
When Mason Heintschel takes his first rep Saturday at Acrisure Stadium in Pitt’s Blue-Gold Spring Game, he’ll be in a vastly different position than a year ago. Last April, he was a wide-eyed, true freshman at the bottom of the depth chart. But despite being in the program for only...
Pat Narduzzi promises intensity, seeks balance in Pitt’s upcoming spring game
In a sense, Pitt’s annual Blue-Gold Spring Game on Saturday at Acrisure Stadium represents a conundrum for coach Pat Narduzzi. As he prepares to evaluate his first-team offense and first-team defense, as well as Pitt’s reserves, Narduzzi will be looking for balance. In a perfect world, there will be moments,...
Pitt guard Nojus Indrusaitis enters transfer portal as exodus of last season’s team continues
The depletion of Pitt’s men’s basketball roster continued on the second day of the transfer portal window being open. Guard Nojus Indrusaitis was the latest Panthers player to tell the program of his intentions to transfer Wednesday, a source confirmed to TribLive, following fellow guards Brandin Cummings and Omari Witherspoon,...
Report: 4-star forward Anthony Felesi backs off commitment to Pitt
Over the past few weeks, since a disappointing 2025-26 men’s basketball campaign ended, Pitt has absorbed blow after blow, with a total of five players from last season’s team opting to hit the transfer portal. On Tuesday, guard Omari Witherspoon became the latest of the bunch, which includes Roman Siulepa,...
Pitt experiments by giving cornerback Shawn Lee reps at safety
Back on Jan. 1, Pitt football was grappling with major roster defections that saw the Panthers lose key players such as linebacker Rasheem Biles and receiver Kenny Johnson to the transfer portal. Cornerback Shawn Lee, who completed his true freshman campaign in 2025, wouldn’t have ranked as the worst loss...
Pitt guard Omari Witherspoon the latest in wave of players to enter transfer portal
Pitt will have one additional roster spot to fill after the spring basketball transfer portal season opened Tuesday. Omari Witherspoon, a former four-star recruit who played his true freshman campaign at Pitt last season, plans to enter the portal, a source confirmed to TribLive. Witherspoon joins Roman Siulepa, Brandin Cummings,...
On Sports: How does this Pirates’ start stack up to past seasons?Video
The Pittsburgh Pirates are now 10 games into the 2026 season, so how does this 6-4 start rank among previous campaigns? After a slow night in the NHL, Tuesday’s slate heats up in the Eastern Conference, and the Penguins’ Rickard Rakell shines bright. Plus, the Ravens start offseason activities and...
The ‘damage zone’: Deep, experienced roster has Pitt baseball eyeing rise within tough ACC
The postmortem performed by Pitt baseball coach Mike Bell and his staff following the 2025 campaign was straightforward enough. The Panthers, among other things, needed to refine their approach at the plate. That would involve taking far better at-bats, pitch by pitch, to cut down on strikeouts, draw more walks...
Pitt’s receivers, defensive backs compete for takeaway, big-play helmet stickers
Pitt wide receiver Blue Hicks is quickly running out of room on his helmet. The shell of Hicks’ helmet, from the top of his head down to the facemask, is plastered with white stickers spelling out “Blurrr.” In total, Hicks has a team-leading six “Blurrr” stickers, each of which is...
After strong freshman season, Pitt’s Josh Guerrier eyes starting role at safety
Early last August, long before he ascended to the starting quarterback role at Pitt, then-freshman Mason Heintschel offered a prediction regarding a fellow young teammate. “Josh Guerrier, he’s a freak,” Heintschel said. “That dude is a stud. He’s going to make some noise here soon. It’s tough going against him...
Report: Pitt roster exodus continues, as Roman Siulepa plans to enter transfer portal
News surfaced Tuesday that both Pitt’s Brandin Cummings and Papa Amadou Kante would enter the transfer portal. But a bigger blow for the Panthers was in store before the day was through, as promising Australian forward Roman Siulepa is expected to do the same, according to DraftExpress. NEWS: Pitt's Roman...
Pitt’s Papa Amadou Kante to enter transfer portal
Following news Tuesday that Pitt’s Brandin Cummings plans to enter the transfer portal, a second Panthers men’s basketball player is preparing to do the same. Forward Papa Amadou Kante, who will be a redshirt junior for 2026-27, has also informed the Panthers of his intentions to enter the portal upon...
Pitt grapples with both clarity, uncertainty across position groups as spring ball continues
Spring ball is a time for questions to be answered in advance of a break in organized team practices until August. But some matters naturally take longer than others to become fully illuminated in the eyes of football coaches. What’s more, there are undoubtedly questions that will take through the...
Pitt’s Brandin Cummings to enter transfer portal
Jeff Capel being retained as coach at Pitt was no guarantee that the Panthers wouldn’t experience an eventful offseason with regards to player movement. While Capel will remain for at least the 2026-27 campaign, one of Pitt’s leading contributors for the past two seasons apparently will not, as guard Brandin...
‘It will be done’: Pitt entrusts Robin Harmony with rebuilding women’s basketball program
The concept and process of building up a program is not unfamiliar to Robin Harmony. In 2007, at St. Thomas University in Florida, she was the inaugural coach of a newly founded women’s basketball program that didn’t even have its own gym for the first two seasons. Foundations then had...
Pitt WR Deuce Spann raises NFL Draft stock with impressive pro day performance
Audible gasps followed Deuce Spann’s completion of the vertical jump Thursday at Pitt’s pro day at UPMC Rooney Sports Complex on the South Side. Spann’s former Panthers teammates had a similar reaction when the 6-foot-4 wideout ran an unofficial 4.37-second 40-yard dash. At the start of Pitt Pro Day, Spann,...
‘1 last hurrah’: 15 former Pitt players hope pro day performances help plot a course to NFL
The eyes of scouts from every NFL team were fixated on 15 outgoing Pitt players Thursday as the Panthers hosted their annual pro day at UPMC Rooney Sports Complex on the South Side. Of those 15, only linebacker Kyle Louis is considered a lock to be selected at the upcoming...
Sweet 16/Elite 8 breakdown: Could we see an all-Pittsburgh coaching matchup in the Elite 8?
One week into March Madness, and there isn’t as much chaos within people’s brackets as we normally see. The transfer portal, NIL and sprawling power conferences have a lot to do with that. The two biggest surprises still alive are an SEC school in 11th-seeded Texas and a Big Ten...
Back from injuries, LB Jeremiah Marcelin, RB Synkwan Smith hope to contribute for Pitt
Last August, Jeremiah Marcelin began Pitt’s fall camp looking to earn a larger role as a sophomore middle linebacker. Teammate Synkwan Smith, a freshman tailback, aimed to get on the field early. Unfortunately for both players, injuries ended their campaigns before things ever got underway, as Marcelin suffered a season-ending...
Pitt parts ways with men’s basketball assistants Tim O’Toole, Jason Capel
Jeff Capel might have been retained by athletic director Allen Greene — at least for 2025-26 — but early into the offseason, a pair of his assistants are being let go. Associate head coach Tim O’Toole and assistant Jason Capel, Jeff Capel’s younger brother, will not be retained for this...
Pitt’s Isaiah Neal enjoying life at defensive end
Pitt’s Isaiah Neal had good reason to enter the offseason with confidence. Last fall, after the Panthers were decimated by injury at defensive end, Neal — to that point a tackle — was tasked to transition to the outside midseason. By year’s end, Neal had impressively played the part, recording...
Offense clicking early for Pitt this spring, including at team’s 1st scrimmage
Pitt conducted its first scrimmage of spring ball Saturday at Acrisure Stadium, with the offense and defense running a total of 109 plays, per coach Pat Narduzzi. Narduzzi also reported a 52-24 win by the offense, with those units raising some eyebrows by starting off the debut scrimmage on such...
Pitt hires Robin Harmony as new women’s basketball coach
Robin Harmony will be Pitt’s new women’s basketball coach, athletic director Allen Greene announced Monday. Harmony, a Hershey native, joins the Panthers from the College of Charleston, where she just led the Cougars to their first NCAA Tournament appearance, as well as Colonial Athletic Association regular-season and conference tournament titles....
Joe Starkey: Forever Young: Ex-Pitt star Sam Young a reminder of the good ol’ days
Man, do I miss Pitt basketball. Like a lot of you, I can close my eyes and put myself back in Petersen Events Center when the Panthers were humming and just listen to the noise. There was no better day than March 7, 2009, Sam Young’s senior day, when Pitt...
Leveraging bulkier frame, year of experience, Pitt’s Max Hunt eyes role at tight end
It’s customary and commonplace for upperclassmen, especially seniors, to take on leadership roles and help younger players along. But Pitt redshirt freshman tight end Max Hunt has assumed a reverse role among his position mates. This spring, Hunt, Pitt’s lone returning tight end to record a statistic from a season...
