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    Young hurt at NBA tryout

    May 14th, 2009

    Former Pitt star Sam Young has always been a cool customer. So when a screw punctured his arm in a fluke accident at a workout with the Toronto Raptors last weekend, the All-America small forward was unfazed. “It will be OK,” Young said Wednesday. “It’s not going to affect anything, not even a little bit.” [...]

    Pitt men’s basketball coach Jamie Dixon may get an early start coaching one of his prized recruits. Dixon was named head coach of the USA Basketball men’s Under-19 team for the FIBA World Championships in New Zealand, and one of his players could be McDonald’s All-American Dante Taylor. Tryouts for the Under-19 team will be [...]