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Pitt and West Virginia basketball teams will play the last of a four-game series Nov. 13 at the WVU Coliseum in Morgantown. The series, negotiated in 2016 by former Pitt athletic director Scott Barnes and West Virginia’s Shane Lyons, ended a five-year period in which the two long-standing rivals did...

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. – Kevan Smith took some blindside hits during his days as a quarterback at Seneca Valley and Pitt. However, no blitzing linebacker or safety ever hit Smith in quite the way Los Angeles Angels general manager Billy Eppler did during a phone conversation in November. Eppler informed...

After three days of football practice in March, it is impossible to build momentum or make definitive declarations, especially when players donned pads only one day. Doesn’t matter. Mark Whipple is giving it his best shot. Before the coronavirus outbreak halted spring drills at Pitt and everywhere else and the...

Sophomore guard Trey McGowens, one of the building blocks coach Jeff Capel put in place at the outset of his Pitt tenure, entered the NCAA transfer portal. Pittsburgh sophomore Trey McGowens just informed @Stockrisers that he will enter his name in the transfer portal. He averaged 11.5 points last season...

Pitt men’s basketball received good news Tuesday for its depth at guard when three-star Femi Odukale announced on his Instagram account his plans to enroll next academic year. Odukale’s commitment came two days after guard Ryan Murphy entered his name in the transfer portal. View this post on Instagram What...

The ACC announced Tuesday it is shutting down all athletic-related activities, including all competition and practices, through the end of the 2019-20 academic year. It was a unanimous decision made to mitigate the further spread of coronavirus. Each university will continue to work in accordance with its school and state...

In “First Call” for Monday, we defend the NFL’s decision to move forward with the start of its league year. Coronavirus may impact the Raiders’ ability to move to Las Vegas on time. And potential landing spots for Tom Brady are disappearing. Look a little deeper The NFL took heat...

Ryan Murphy’s time with the Pitt basketball team will last one season. Murphy, who transferred from New Mexico Junior College last year after spending the previous season at Charlotte, entered the NCAA transfer portal. Murphy will have a year of eligibility remaining as a graduate transfer. “We appreciate Ryan’s efforts...

North Allegheny graduates Jack Wright and Jerry Chen were top contributors to their teams at the ACC men’s swimming championship meet Feb. 26-29 in Greensboro, N.C. Wright, a Virginia freshman, made the A final of the 200-yard freestyle, the only freshman in the 12-team field to do so. He placed...

Pitt postponed its annual Pro Day for seniors wishing to work out for NFL scouts after the league banned in-person visits with draft-eligible players. The session, which typically attracts scouts and executives from most NFL teams, was scheduled for Wednesday at the South Side practice facility Pitt shares with the...

It was always Jeff Capel’s intention and the hope of Pitt fans for the Panthers to play on the last day of the ACC Tournament. Just not this way. After Pitt was eliminated Wednesday in a 73-58 second-round loss to N.C. State, the ACC canceled the remaining three days of...

March Madness came to a screeching halt before a bracket could even be filled out. The NCAA canceled its men’s and women’s basketball tournaments Thursday because of the spread of coronavirus, putting an abrupt end to the season less than a month before champions were to be crowned. The unprecedented...

The ACC has decided to suspend all athletic activities, which will significantly impact Pitt teams on several fronts, including participation in the NCAA Wrestling Tournament, which was subsequently canceled by the NCAA. Also, spring football practice, games and recruiting will be discontinued for the duration of the spring. The ban...

While in-person classes at the University of Pittsburgh will transition to online and “alternative learning options” in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Pitt’s athletics teams will continue their previously scheduled regimen of practices and home games, university officials announced. That includes the resumption of football’s spring drills Tuesday at...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Justin Champagnie felt snubbed after being left off the ACC’s All-Freshman team. So he decided to take it out on Wake Forest in the opening round of the conference tournament Tuesday, scoring a career-high 31 points to lead Pitt to a 81-72 victory over the Demon Deacons....

Since the middle of the previous decade, there’s been a common thread to the latter stages of Pitt’s basketball seasons: The team has staggered to the finish line every year since 2015. No matter the coach. Jamie Dixon ended his final two seasons 0-5 and 1-4, including NIT and NCAA...

Pitt will be the No. 13 seed and open the 14-team ACC Tournament at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday against No. 12 Wake Forest at the Greensboro Coliseum. It’s officially #ACCTourney Time! Here's the bracket ↓↓ pic.twitter.com/JNRl6siTQx— ACC Men's Basketball (@accmbb) March 8, 2020 Pitt (15-16, 6-14) will attempt to stop a...

Every week, Randy Bates adds another pushup to his daily regimen, another milestone. Bates is up to 36, representing the number of weeks since doctors cleared him for activity after cancer surgery on his tonsils 12 months ago. “It just reminds me of where I was,” Pitt’s defensive coordinator said....

Rashad Weaver retweeted the slight against his teammates without comment, which says something about Pitt’s senior defensive end. It merely was a listing of someone’s ranking of the top 10 defensive lines in college football. Clemson’s line is No. 1 on the list for 2020. Pitt’s Coastal division rival Miami...