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Pitt’s Jeff Capel shepherds young team into uncertain season

While wading cautiously into his third season as Pitt’s basketball coach, Jeff Capel doesn’t know what to expect. He likes what he has seen at practice. But doesn’t everyone before the games begin? The Panthers expect to improve on last season’s shooting percentage (40.4, the program’s worst in 51 years),...
No. 1 Pitt soccer loses to Clemson in ACC championship match

After sitting on Zoom calls, remaining under quarantine and doing little more than thinking about soccer for three weeks, Pitt’s men’s soccer team found itself one victory from winning the ACC championship. But the No. 1-ranked team in the nation had its seven-game winning streak stopped Sunday in Cary, N.C.,...
Touchdowns, field goals: Pitt gets plenty of both while booting Virginia Tech

Pat Narduzzi likes field goals. Really. Pitt’s coach is pleased, of course, when Alex Kessman boots the football through the uprights, and Kessman has given him plenty of reason to smile over the past four seasons. He holds the school record with 64 field goals, including 18 of 24 attempts...
Pitt’s depleted roster steps up, pounds Virginia Tech

Pitt’s 47-14 victory against Virginia Tech wasn’t official until the clock showed triple zeros at 7:20 p.m. Saturday. But Pat Narduzzi saw it coming four days earlier, and maybe that says something about how Pitt’s senior class hasn’t allowed this grim season to unravel. Quarterback Kenny Pickett stood up in...
Pitt football changes course, won’t require players to wear masks during Saturday’s game

In a reversal of a previous announcement, Pitt and Virginia Tech players won’t need to pull up their masks to cover the nose and mouth during Saturday’s game at Heinz Field. Pitt’s athletic department, which initially announced Friday that all players would wear face coverings while engaged in competition, clarified...
VPI (better known as Virginia Tech) stands in the way of Pitt’s recovery efforts

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...
Ex-Pitt star Dorin Dickerson ‘can’t wait to start working’ for Penguins on Lower Hill project

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...
Pitt’s Jeff Capel knows he must confront challenges on, off the court

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...
Pitt seniors contemplate stretching their careers into 2021

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...
Pitt men’s soccer makes history, beats Notre Dame to earn first berth in ACC championship game

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...
ACC could benefit from show of force behind 3 ranked teams

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....
Pitt discovers anything’s possible when ‘silent, little killer’ strikes

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...
Running backs coach Andre Powell seeks standouts for Pitt’s ground game

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...
Pat Narduzzi urges Pitt players ‘to keep your guard up’ amid covid-19 surge

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...
Pitt men’s soccer prepares for 2nd consecutive trip to ACC semifinals

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...
No. 4 Virginia opens season ahead of Duke as ACC favoriteVideo

Tony Bennett was pleased how his Virginia team played in the weeks before the coronavirus pandemic abruptly shut down last season. That’s the foundation he is relying on for the fourth-ranked Cavaliers, the preseason ACC favorite for the first time in nearly four decades in a race featuring No. 9...

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