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What I liked most about Pitt running back Ray Graham’s latest effort had less to do with last night and more to do with how he responded to last night this morning. Long after he had rushed for 226 yards and two touchdowns and caught four passes for 42 more in a dominant 44-17 Pitt [...]

The overall success of Pitt’s football season and the future of Todd Graham’s program do not hinge on the outcome of tonight’s game against South Florida at Heinz Field. Let’s not get carried away with unnecessary drama. After tonight, there still will be seven games left on the schedule, enough time for a salvage operation. [...]

As the NBA lockout drags on, three Pitt seniors from last season — and an old pro — are ready to work in Europe.  DeJuan Blair of the NBA’s Spurs had 23 points and 11 rebounds — both game-highs — in his Russian debut earlier today, Sept. 27, with Krasnye Krylya Samara. Blair led the Samara “Red Wings” to a 98-78 victory [...]

Maybe he was feeling guilty. Maybe he just wanted to clarify where and how things flow at Pitt. Whatever his motivation, Pitt coach Todd Graham repeated something today he has said in the past, but this time wanted to emphasize. After weeks of criticizing his players at several positions on both sides of the ball, [...]

  Senior guard Ashton Gibbs was named to the third-team pre-season All-America team in the 2011-12 edition of  Blue Ribbon magazine, which was released late last week. Gibbs is one of five Big East players on the four All-America teams, joined by first-teamer Kris Joseph of Syracuse; second-teamer Jeremy Lamb of Connecticut; and fourth-teamers Tim [...]

  No one worked harder and no player meant more to the Pitt football team than senior left guard Chris Jacobson. That’s why the bad news tonight from coach Todd Graham was especially difficult to accept. Jacobson, a starter since the beginning of 2010, will miss the rest of this season with a left knee injury [...]

Bloodied, but with his head held high, Pitt quarterback Tino Sunseri confidently met the media Tuesday, insisting his two-interception, two-fumble (one lost) performance against Iowa constituted his best game of the season.  “I would say it was my best game I played yet,” he said. “I was very pleased with all my reads. Even the [...]

***  Jamie Dixon, an outspoken opponent of leaving the Big East in recent years, said the move to the Atlantic Coast Conference had to be done. “We realized it was time,” Dixon said this morning. “If not us, it was going to be somebody else. I think we can all agree on that.” Dixon, who spoke [...]

The Atlantic Coast Conference announced today that it has unanimously voted to accept founding Big East members Pitt and Syracuse. “The ACC is a strong, united conference that is only going to get better with the addition of the University of Pittsburgh and Syracuse University,” said Duke University President Richard Broadhead, chair of the ACC Council [...]

Anybody have an extra cell phone charger? Big East associate comissioner John Paquette, who is here in Iowa City for the Pitt/Iowa game, may need one by the end of the day. Everyone wants to know if the story of the weekend is true. Big East contraction is in the news again after the CBSSports.com [...]