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William Jeffress’ basketball journey began in the second grade when he scored half of his AAU team’s points in a game against the Pittsburgh Storm. His team lost, 45-6. “We were in second grade and they were in fourth grade, and they handled us,” Jeffress said, unashamedly. “We hit two...

Pitt fans looking for good news won’t find it from Chip Patterson, a college football analyst for CBSSports.com. Patterson predicted every ACC team’s season, game-by-game, and he sees Pitt winning only seven of its 12 and finishing 4-4 in the ACC Coastal (fourth place). It’s a curious prediction, with Pitt...

Pitt boosted its class of 2021 to seven members when wide receiver Myles Alston announced through his Twitter account Monday his intention to enroll next year. @CoachAlstonOL @bredlife757 @RivalsFriedman @HamiltonESPN @BrianDohn247 @LandonVCooper @clarissacoop @KDotTheGemini C O M M I T T E D ! pic.twitter.com/j4B2u29t0z— MYLES ALSTON (@Myles1Alston) April 27,...

Dane Jackson, who started three seasons at cornerback for Pitt, moved to the next level Saturday when he was drafted in the seventh round by the Buffalo Bills (No. 239 overall). “The Bills got themselves a steal in Dane Jackson,” Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi said. “He is as good as...

Quarterback Ben DiNucci’s football journey from Pine-Richland to Pitt to James Madison ended up in Dallas on Saturday when he was drafted by the Cowboys in the seventh round (No. 231 overall). After transferring from Pitt when Kenny Pickett seized the starting job in 2017, DiNucci, who originally committed to...

Pitt received two verbal commitments from members of the class of 2021 Thursday when offensive lineman Terrance Rankl and wide receiver Jaden Bradley made their non-binding pledges public. 100% Committed #H2P #PITT2L1TT pic.twitter.com/tVVedlqcNc— Jaden G Bradley (@JadenBradleyyy) April 23, 2020 That makes three in two days for Pitt, lifting its...

Pitt women’s basketball coach Lance White is using transfer players to rebuild his team. new beginnings ?? pic.twitter.com/P1f0QC6arj— Destiny ? (@___destiny03) April 23, 2020 White received a verbal commitment Wednesday from guard Destiny Strother, who played sparingly as a freshman this season for Marquette. She will join Jayla Everett, who...

Trevion Stevenson couldn’t visit Pitt while mulling scholarship offers from 39 other schools, but Wednesday he committed to coach Pat Narduzzi, anyway — on Narduzzi’s 54th birthday. Blessed To Be In This Position ✞... Now It’s Time To Take The Next Step C O M M I T T E...

Pitt coach Keith Gavin finalized his 2020 recruiting class Tuesday when he announced Tyler Badgett, one of the country’s top wrestlers at 152 pounds, signed his letter of intent. Badgett is ranked No. 8 by FloWrestling and No. 7 by InterMat. “I chose Pitt because I know the coaches will...

Not much has made me smile since the covid-19 shut-in. Tiger King. Bert Kreischer’s new comedy special. Oh, and this dog video. Good boy’s reaction...?pic.twitter.com/OK3t2x1VJU— Rex Chapman? (@RexChapman) April 15, 2020 C’mon! You gotta laugh every time, right? There was one other thing that gave me a chuckle. It was...

Before it’s done, the recruitment of Laurel Highlands freshman sensation Rodney Gallagher might wake up the echoes of the mad 2008 pursuit of Jeannette star Terrelle Pryor. It’s become clear Gallagher is going to receive dozens of scholarship offers from the top programs in the country in both basketball and...

Pitt extended scholarship offers to two area prospects Thursday. Beaver Falls junior running back Josh Hough, who scored a touchdown an average of every 7 1/2 carries last season, and Brashear freshman safety Ta’Mere Robinson (6-3, 190) announced the offers on their Twitter accounts. Blessed to receive an offer from...

First-year Robert Morris athletic director Chris King had just gone through a full week of overseeing his teams barrel through playoff performances. The men’s basketball team had just won the NEC Tournament at the brand-new UPMC Events Center. His women’s team finished 17-1 in conference play. The men’s hockey team...

Femi Odukale, who came remarkably close to averaging a triple-double in his post-grad season, signed a national letter of intent with Pitt on Wednesday. That brings coach Jeff Capel’s 2020 class to four players. “Femi displayed outstanding versatility, talent, toughness and competitiveness during an outstanding post-grad season,” Capel said in...

Lance White can’t put Jayla Everett in his lineup until the second semester of the 2020-21 Pitt season, but he believes she will be worth the wait. Pitt’s women’s basketball coach made Everett’s transfer official Wednesday after a season and a half at New Mexico. “She is a dynamic player...

Coach Keith Gavin, now wrapping up his third season at the helm, has made solid progress in improving the standing of the Pitt wrestling program on the national scene. Over the past two seasons, the Panthers have gone 23-7 in dual meets, crowned five ACC champs and qualified 11 wrestlers...

Pitt’s athletic department refused to allow the covid-19 quarantine to shut down its presentation of the most accomplished student-athletes of the past academic year. So, the third annual Panthers’ Choice Awards went viral via Twitter on Wednesday. Several staff members, including Chancellor Patrick Gallagher, and former student-athletes, including Dan Marino,...

Aaron Mathews only wanted the opportunity to get noticed. Alex Guminski helped make that happen. Guminski, a Pittsburgh-based NFL agent, found a way for local football players to get exposed to pro scouts — while adhering to social distancing guidelines — by organizing workouts for Mathews, Pitt teammate Jazzee Stocker...

Joe Solomon, a Pitt wrestler who won an NCAA championship in 1954, has been named to the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame. Solomon, a Canonsburg native, won his title at 167 pounds, but that was only one achievement in a long wrestling career. In four years at Pitt, he was...

Luke Pletcher is a two-time All-American wrestler at Ohio State and a legitimate Olympic hopeful. He has to wrap up only two more online classes before he graduates, and he has a coaching job — a volunteer assistant position at Pitt — lined up once he does. Yet at the...

One minute, a recruit will send Pat Narduzzi a text message while he’s on a conference call with reporters. Then, Marty, the family dog, might bounce into the room, perhaps looking for something to eat or checking to make sure Pitt’s football coach is hard at work and not sneaking...

Latrobe’s Luke Pletcher is coming home to chase a goal while helping a former rival reach its own. Pitt wrestling coach Keith Gavin hired Pletcher, a two-time All-American at Ohio State and three-time PIAA champion, as a volunteer assistant. Pletcher will join the staff after his graduation from Ohio State...

Three athletes from Pitt’s swimming and diving team lost their opportunity to compete in the NCAA Championships, but that roadblock didn’t stop them from becoming first-time All-Americans. Sophomore divers Serena Buchwald and Amy Read and junior swimmer Blaise Vera were named Wednesday 2020 All-Americans by the College Swimming & Diving...

Saleem Brightwell always felt comfortable asking Reggie Mitchell for guidance. Didn’t matter where. Didn’t matter when. Didn’t matter how many people were watching. He did so during a moment of chaos in Clemson’s Death Valley in 2016 when more than 80,000 people were making so much noise that Mitchell, Pitt’s...