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Pitt freshman receiver/return specialist Cameron Saddler has a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee and will miss the season, Pitt spokesman E.J. Borghetti confirmed today. The 5-foot-7, 175-pound Saddler, who starred at Gateway High School, was injured in a special teams drill before Tuesday’s scrimmage. Surgery is pending for Saddler, who is expected [...]

There are things the naked eye isn’t trained to see, which is why coaches study practice and game tape with such a religious fervor. So what they see while watching a scrimmage in person and what they catch when watching it again on tape can sometimes differ greatly. Pitt had only one practice today, a [...]

The excitement surrounding Pitt’s first scrimmage of training camp must have gotten to Robb Houser, as the center botched the first exchange with quarterback Pat Bostick and then mistimed two snaps that led to penalties. Considering the center-exchange problems Pitt had with John Bachman last year in spring drills and training camp and the alarming [...]

The excitement surrounding Pitt’s first scrimmage of training camp must have gotten to Robb Houser, as the center botched the first exchange with quarterback Pat Bostick and then mistimed two snaps that led to penalties. Considering the center-exchange problems Pitt had with John Bachman last year in spring drills and training camp and the alarming [...]

The biggest news of the morning session – and Pitt’s first bad break of training camp – was the revelation that redshirt junior defensive end Doug Fulmer was likely lost for the season. And maybe done for his career. An MRI showed that Fulmer has a torn ligament in his left knee (the good one). [...]

In what Pitt coach Dave Wannstedt called “disappointing news,” Panthers defensive end Doug Fulmer has been lost for the season to another knee injury. Fulmer, who missed last season after surgery on his right knee, was injured in Sunday’s practice and an MRI revealed a torn ligament in his left knee. The 6-foot-4, 255-pound redshirt [...]

I got a day off, so here’s a practice report from John Grupp, the Trib’s esteemed Pitt men’s basketball and horse racing writer: There was a big scare during Monday’s practice when quarterback Bill Stull went down during 11-on-11 drills, but the redshirt junior was only sidelined for a handful of plays. During a botched [...]

The Panthers ended today’s second session with an overtime drill, and it quickly became a show of OD starring in OT. Oderick Turner capped one of his best practices in some time with a punctuation mark, catching a 23-yard pass from Bill Stull on third-and-25 pass and – after LeSean McCoy converted a fourth-and-2 – [...]

It took all of four days of training camp — not one in full pads, mind you — for Pitt coaches to make a switch Saturday afternoon on the offensive line that appeared inevitable from the start. When the first-team offense lined up for the inside-run drill, Jason Pinkston trotted out to left tackle, Joe [...]

Don’t know if it was because Pitt coaches changed the script of plays — oops, let me first apologize for using Pitt and script in the same sentence — but the offense looked drastically different today. For one, the quarterbacks actually had time to finish their drops and spot receivers. For another, they actually completed [...]