Pitt category, Page 112

Before we get started, let’s make something perfectly clear: The team scheduled to play Pitt on Saturday at Heinz Field (and we say “scheduled” because these days you never know) is not technically Virginia Tech. To explain, here’s a bit of history that’s been passed down through the years: In...

Since his NFL playing days ended, Dorin Dickerson has been building a balance between two budding careers that ultimately led to the union of a perfect position for him with the Pittsburgh Penguins. The former Pitt All-American, who has worked as a weekend and pre-game host for the Panthers and...

Like every coach on every level in every sport, Jeff Capel doesn’t know what to expect. He just knows it won’t be easy navigating through more than 20 basketball games — walking in and out of gyms and on and off airplanes and buses — in the midst of a...

After chatting with reporters on his usual Thursday conference call, Pat Narduzzi arose from his chair and uttered these hopeful words, “Say your prayers. Hope to see you on Saturday.” For so many reasons, Pitt’s encounter with Virginia Tech, scheduled for 4 p.m. Saturday at Heinz Field, is one of...

Ranked No. 1 in the nation, Pitt’s men’s soccer team reached another milestone Wednesday night, earning its first berth in the ACC Championship Final with a 3-1 semifinal victory against Notre Dame. The Panthers will meet Clemson for the championship at noon Sunday at WakeMed Park in Cary, N.C. The...

There is a growing look of mediocrity in the middle of the Atlantic Coast Conference’s standings. The league appears to have sagged in the middle even as the ACC’s headliners have been quite impressive. There are three Top 25 teams — No. 2 Notre Dame, No. 4 Clemson and No....

Perhaps Pitt wide receiver D.J. Turner captured best what it means to play, coach and follow college football this season. “This is the year you have to be flexible because you never know what the next day is going to bring,” he said. By early Wednesday, there were 65 games...

In this complicated time when people are fearful of something as simple as a handshake, Andre Powell has learned not to sweat too much. “I control what I can control. The rest I let go,” Pitt’s running backs/special teams coach said Tuesday, minutes after the first practice since covid-19 concerns...

For Pat Narduzzi, the most maddening aspect of shepherding Pitt through the covid-19 pandemic is not knowing what’s next. Football coaches are consumed with knowing everything, from the bus schedule to what the opponent’s coach is thinking on fourth-and-3. But Narduzzi doesn’t know something that, in 2020, matters more than...

Jay Vidovich called Pitt’s 2-1 victory against Duke in the ACC Championship tournament “a big step for the program.” The chance to make another even bigger step awaits as the Panthers, the nation’s top-ranked men’s soccer team, advances into the tournament semifinals Wednesday against Notre Dame in Raleigh, N.C. The...

Pitt’s men’s basketball team will open its season Nov. 25 against St. Francis (Pa.) in the first of at least three nonconference games at Petersen Events Center. Tip-off for the opener is 7 p.m. The Panthers also will play Drexel on Nov. 28 and Gardner-Webb on Dec. 12, and are...

Pat Narduzzi prayed. But he now knows the awful truth: The opponent, inevitably, was too strong. Pitt played eight games over two months before Saturday’s game at Georgia Tech was postponed out of respect for covid-19 concerns. Considering what has happened across college football all season — 59 games have...

The Pitt women’s basketball team will open the season when it hosts George Mason on Nov. 25 at Petersen Events Center, the first of three nonconference games in a 23-game schedule. The Panthers also will host Hofstra on Nov. 29 and Delaware on Dec. 6. The Hofstra game will involve...

After playing most of this season uninterrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, Pitt postponed its game Saturday at Georgia Tech because of covid-related issues on both teams. Football injuries at Georgia Tech also were cited by its athletic director, Todd Stansbury. The ACC said in a statement the game was postponed...

Ten days after he opted out of the final four games of Pitt’s season, All-ACC safety Paris Ford explained his decision and declared for the NFL Draft on Thursday in a message on Twitter. Forever, Thankful. ??#H2P— 12OUT. pic.twitter.com/XpRCud4NHb— Pᴀʀɪs Fᴏʀᴅ (@DiddyBop12_) November 12, 2020 Ford was one of the...

Lacey Bernick and Katelyn Kauffman were a dynamic one-two punch for the Norwin girls soccer team. Fast on the outside, nimble on possessions and often marked, the forward/midfielders drew college attention early in their careers as they helped the Knights remain a top-end team in WPIAL Class AAAA. The All-WPIAL...

If Kirk Christodoulou thought it was traumatic to have Notre Dame’s 257-pound Isaiah Foskey bear down upon him to block a punt, imagine how he felt the day he walked into his first class in Pitt’s Katz Graduate School of Business. Yes, two different levels of trauma, but Christodoulou handled...

The Pitt women’s basketball team will open a 20-game ACC schedule Dec. 10 at Virginia Tech, with the Panthers playing their home opener three days later against Clemson at Petersen Events Center. The ACC announced its 20-game schedule Wednesday, a two-game increase from last year because of the coronavirus pandemic....

Pitt will enter the 2020-21 basketball season with something to prove after the Panthers were picked in the ACC preseason media poll to finish 13th in the 15-team league. Since Jamie Dixon left after the 2015-16 season, the Panthers have a 13-61 ACC record. They have finished tied for 13th...

When Rashad Weaver was asked how he’s changed after five football seasons and more than four years at Pitt, he laughed. How could he not change? “I was fresh out of high school (in 2016 from Fort Lauderdale, Fla.),” Weaver said, “not doing any type of technique (as a pass-rushing...

Employing an abundance of caution and in accordance with state and local covid restrictions, Pitt will allow 1,250 people in the Petersen Events Center for each of its 14 home basketball games this season, 10% of capacity (12,508). School officials released the details Tuesday morning. The capacity number is subject...

In this upside-down college football season, Notre Dame, an independent since 1887, has climbed into first place in the ACC. The undefeated Irish, No. 2 in the Associated Press poll, agreed to join the conference only for the 2020 season to facilitate scheduling in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic....

Pat Narduzzi is 54 years old, not old by anyone’s standards. But when asked about the special problems associated with coaching a young team, he turned his head to reveal some gray peeking out from the temples. “They give us a lot of gray hair. That’s for sure,” he said....