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Former Duquesne coach Ron Everhart is negotiating with West Virginia officials and is expected to officially accept an assistant’s position on Mountaineers basketball coach Bob Huggins’ staff later today, a source told the Tribune-Review. Everhart, a native of Fairmont, W.Va., was fired March 23 after six seasons as the Duquesne basketball coach. Everhart compiled a [...]

This much I can tell you about quarterback Tom Savage: If Pitt fullback Mark Giubilato’s tweet is to be believed — and I have no reason to doubt it — Savage and Giubilato went to see “The Avengers” on Monday night. “It better be as good as everyone says it is,” Giubilato tweeted. They might [...]

In what couldn’t have been much of a surprise to anyone, beleaguered John Marinatto stepped down today as Big East commissioner. The shifting conference has tabbed former Miami Dolphin CEO Joe Bailey as the interim commissioner. Since replacing Mike Tranghese — who got out just in time – in 2009, Marinatto, a Big East lifer from Providence, took much of the [...]