Jerry DiPaola stories, Page 41

Recruiting rankings tend to fluctuate throughout the year, but they do give a good indication on the current progress schools are making in building their class. That said, Pitt’s 17-man class of 2024 moved into Rivals.com’s top 10 at No. 9 on Sunday when two more 3-star prospects who had...

Coach Pat Narduzzi’s Twitter account announced four verbal commitments Saturday on the final day of Pitt’s second weekend of official visits for members of the class of 2024. A reveal … Jerry DiPaola (@JDiPaola_Trib) June 10, 2023 Only one of the four revealed himself: defensive back (most likely a...

Big Ten officials Thursday unveiled the format for the 2024 and 2025 football seasons, the first with newcomers USC and UCLA. There will be 16 teams for the first time and the end to the divisional format. Each team will continue to play nine conference opponents, leaving room for three...

Mars graduate JJ Wetherholt needed only two seasons at West Virginia to establish himself as one of the top college baseball players in the nation. Proof of his worthiness for that honor is his nomination Thursday as one of five finalists for the 36th Dick Howser Trophy, the Heisman Trophy...

Colin Holderman chats amicably with all who pass his locker cubicle looking to engage in conversation. But that’s only one side of the Pittsburgh Pirates relief pitcher, not the personality trait general manager Ben Cherington was trading for last year when he sent Daniel Vogelbach to the New York Mets...

Pitt football coach Pat Narduzzi added a third offensive lineman to his class of 2024 when Mason Lindsay of Dematha Catholic (Md.) High School made his decision public. 1000% COMMITTED???? #AGTG #H2P @CoachDScott1 @CoachDuzzPittFB @Pitt_FB @RivalsFriedman @DMCoachbrown6 @CoachMcGregor pic.twitter.com/NfkvccRxAg— Mason lindsay (@MasonLindsay19) June 7, 2023 Narduzzi likes to keep a...

Roberto Clemente III, also known as R.C. III, is a lucky boy. Not only does he have a grandfather who has been revered and celebrated inside and outside the baseball world for more than a half-century, but he gets to have two birthday celebrations this month. "22 is good. 21...

When Connor Joe was asked if the Pittsburgh Pirates’ style of play resembles small ball, he mostly disagreed with the phrase as it pertains to his team. “I don’t know about small ball, but it’s a hard-nosed, fast-paced (style), playing the game hard,” he said. “Some small ball involved, for...

The Pittsburgh Pirates carried a six-game winning streak into Tuesday night’s game against the Oakland A’s, but it hasn’t been easy. In four of them, victory margins have been one run; a fifth was decided in the Pirates’ favor by two. Such games involve scenarios in which one or two...

Pitt Athletic Director Heather Lyke on Monday announced the university’s 2023 Athletics Hall of Fame class, a 12-member group from seven sports that includes championship coaches and athletes, NFL first-round draft choices and the second-most prolific scorer in Panthers basketball history. Pitt’s sixth Hall of Fame class will be inducted...

Garry A. Nelson, a legendary athlete and unmistakable presence with his twin brother, Barry, on Duquesne basketball teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s and later a law school graduate at his alma mater, died Sunday in Florida after a fall. He was 73. “The entire Duquesne University community...

Pitt continued its attempt to build a cornerback roster for the future when Davion Pritchard, a three-star prospect from Austintown Fitch in Youngstown, Ohio, tweeted his verbal commitment Sunday night. Pritchard (6-foot-1, 165 pounds) is the second senior cornerback to reveal his pledge to enroll after Pitt’s official visit weekend....

Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi likes to stockpile defensive backs on his roster and in his recruiting classes, and he picked up a second one Saturday when Allen Bryant of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., pledged to enroll next year. H2P!!! pic.twitter.com/Stz4xCO2xD— ???????????????????? ???????????????????????? (@Br6Allen) June 3, 2023 Bryant, a three-star cornerback, verbally...

The daily heat from the sun baking the Abaco Islands was fierce, relentless. Especially on the roof of the local library, where some of the 17 Pitt student-athletes — men and women from five sports — were nailing down new shingles. There was stubborn devastation all around them on the...

Pittsburgh Pirates outfield prospect Travis Swaggerty is asking for prayers for his wife, Peyton, who he said is suffering from an “extremely rare” blood disorder, triggered by a bite from a rabid raccoon in 2022. ???????? pic.twitter.com/Qe2bI81W43— Travis Swaggerty (@TSwaggerty_21) May 31, 2023 In a Twitter post, Swaggerty, the Pirates’...

The calendar says summer is still three weeks away, but the college football fall schedule is coming into focus. Start times and networks for some Pitt, Penn State and West Virginia games were announced Wednesday by the schools and their respective conferences. ABC will put Pitt’s Sept. 16 game at...

Blake Hinson, whose productive shooting and rebounding and aggressively courageous style of play were among the most significant factors in Pitt’s turnaround during the 2022-23 season, has decided to withdraw his name from the NBA Draft and return to school for his senior season. B2 ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/Flvr3VvEHm— Pitt Basketball (@Pitt_MBB)...

The Pittsburgh Pirates’ winning record will be in jeopardy during the team’s six-game road trip that began Friday in Seattle before turning south to San Francisco for the Memorial Day holiday. The Pirates have won more games than they’ve lost since defeating the Boston Red Sox in Fenway Park on...

The Pitt baseball team won’t repeat its 2022 trip to the ACC Tournament semifinals after its season ended Thursday with a 10-2 loss to No. 1 Wake Forest in the second game of pool play in Durham, N.C. Brock Wilken, Bennett Lee and Danny Corona hit home runs among Wake...

Setting the stage the day before confronting the No. 1-ranked team in the nation, Pitt hit five home runs Wednesday to defeat No. 8 seed Notre Dame, 9-5, in its first game of pool play in the ACC Baseball Championships in Durham, N.C. The victory improved Pitt’s all-time ACC Tournament...

Pitt’s first game against Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind., since 2018 will kick off at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 28 and will be nationally televised by NBC, the schools announced Wednesday. Locally, the game will be televised by WPXI-TV. It also will be shown on Peacock, NBC’s streaming service. The...

Penn State’s final game of the regular season will be played Nov. 24 — Black Friday — against Michigan State at Ford Field in Detroit, the schools announced Wednesday. The game will kick off at 7:30 p.m. and will be telecast on NBC as part of the Big Ten’s new...

Duane Underwood Jr. was not minimizing the solo home run he surrendered to the Texas Rangers’ Josh Jung on Tuesday night at PNC Park. The game was a lost cause at that point — top of the eighth inning of what became the Pittsburgh Pirates’ 6-1 loss to the American...

Two years ago, when Gilbert Brown was hired as Pitt’s Director of Alumni and Player Development, Papa Kante started appearing on Jeff Capel’s radar. Capel might have noticed Kante, anyway. A 6-foot-10, 225-pound player with a 7-foot-4 wing span who can hit 3-pointers is hard to miss. Still, Brown —...

With a $1 million prize at stake, it’s no wonder The Zoo Crew is making a comeback. The Zoo Crew, a group of former Pitt basketball players, will compete this year in The Basketball Tournament (TBT), a 64-team, single-elimination event. The first game will be July 25 in the West...