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    Here is a breakdown of Pitt’s non-conference opponents for the 2011-12 season. The Panthers play two teams from BCS Conferences, both away from home, with Tennessee in Knoxville, on Dec. 3 in the Big East/SEC Challenge and against Oklahoma State on Dec. 10 at Madison Square Garden. On paper, this appears to be [...]

Pitt’s Ashton Gibbs scored 16 points, but Team USA went cold from the outside in a 76-74 loss to Lithuania in the quarterfinals of the World University Games on Saturday in Shenzhen, China. Team USA, down by eight in the fourth quarter, rallied to tie the score at 74-all with under two minutes to play, [...]

The Pitt men’s basketball team is expected to release its 2011-12 non-conference schedule today. Barring any late changes, here is what it should look like based on previously announced games, other team’s website and different info: Date    Opponent        Nov. 11           Albany                                    Nov. 13           Rider   Nov. 16           Long Beach State       Nov. 22           LaSalle            [...]

Pitt will break training camp Saturday, with a scrimmage that is closed to anyone outside the team. Don’t ask if it was a good camp. Of course, it was. In more than three decades of trying to understand what a football coach really means, I never have heard even one say, “Man, this was one [...]

      Blog stuff   *** Freshman wide receiver Darius Patton was taken to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Oakland after collapsing at practice. “He’s awake and alert and his vitals signs are very good,” coach Todd Graham said. “We hope he is going to be fine. That’s all I really know.” Patton, 18, played [...]

Ashton Gibbs is one step closer to another gold medal. The senior guard scored eight points off the bench as Team USA defeated Israel, 94-84, on Thursday in the World University Games at Shenzhen, China.  Team USA (5-0) will play Lithuania (4-1) on Saturday in the medal round. Gibbs, a member of the world champion U19 [...]

Pitt fans should contain their excitement over what I am about to write. Remember, they are just freshmen and (as a wise man once said), we are just talking about practice. But Pitt coach Todd Graham made a point of praising freshman running backs Corey Davis, Isaac Bennett and Malcolm Crockett after the morning session Wednesday. [...]

Former Pitt and Dallas Cowboys great Tony Dorsett visited the Panthers football team Tuesday and spent 35 minutes talking to the players in their big meeting room. He talked about life, about football, about dealing with expectations, about not being afraid to set lofty standards for yourself. Players greeted Dorsett, the 1976 Heisman Trophy winner [...]

Earlier this week, reporters who cover Pitt football practice noticed backup quarterback Anthony Gonzalez working with the H-backs. Pitt coach Todd Graham wasn’t eager to talk about it, perhaps hoping to spring Gonzalez on an unsuspecting opponent later in the season. But when the athletically gifted Gonzalez made an outstanding, running, one-handed catch at practice [...]

Tight ends don’t necessarily have to disappear from Pitt coach Todd Graham’s offense. They can become H-backs, or 3-backs, as Graham likes to call them. So far, Hubie Graham, a transfer from Illinois who sat out last season, is leading the pack at what Todd Graham calls “the most complicated position in our offense.” The [...]