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Spring Practice No. 3 &#149 Dorin Dickerson might have found a home. In the first day of full-contact drills, the 6-foot-2, 223-pound tailback/receiver-turned-outside linebacker showed he isn’t afraid of contact and can make a big play. In tackling drills, Dickerson lowered his shoulder and knocked Shane Murray onto his back. On their second collision, Dickerson [...]

Spring Practice No. 2 * Redshirt freshman defensive end Greg Romeus continues to impress, using his 6-foot-5, 255-pound frame to knock down passes at the line of scrimmage. Romeus has leapfrogged Joe Clermond, a second-team All-Big East selection, and is taking reps with the first-team defense. “I don’t know how we keep that kid out [...]

Spring Practice No. 1 &#149 When the first-team defense lined up, redshirt freshman Greg Romeus lined up at left end opposite Chris McKillop instead of All-Big East selection Joe Clermond. On back-to-back plays, Romeus swatted down a screen pass then stopped Marcel Pestano in the backfield on a reverse. &#149 The rest of the first-team [...]

With Pitt football spring practice opening Saturday and the Pitt basketball team in the NCAA Tournament, I posed the following question: If you could take one Pitt basketball player for the football team, who would it be, what position would he play and why? Here are some reader responses: Bud: “Aaron Gray. I would play [...]

Sam Clancy knew what was coming the moment he saw Jackie Sherrill last August at Pitt’s training camp. Give me two football seasons, the Panthers football coach would say to the Pitt basketball star in the late 1970s, and I’ll turn you into an All-American. So after Clancy spent 11 seasons in the NFL as [...]