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For the first time this season – and, perhaps, since the middle of the 2006 campaign – Pitt put together a game where all three phases performed well. The 42-21 victory over Navy Saturday afternoon was impressive in itself, and it could have been better. The offense rolled up season highs of 244 yards rushing [...]

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Pitt ran roughshod over Navy, as LeSean McCoy dashed into the school’s record books in a 42-21 victory over Navy before a record standing-room-only crowd of 37,970 at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. The No. 23 Panthers (5-1) compiled season-highs of 244 rushing yards and 499 total yards, as McCoy ran for a [...]

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – LeSean McCoy is on pace for a career rushing day in leading the Panthers to a 35-14 third-quarter lead over Navy before a record standing-room-only crowd of 37,970 at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. Neither team scored in the third quarter. McCoy already has run his way into Pitt’s record books, as the [...]

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — LeSean McCoy scored a pair of second-quarter touchdowns, as Pitt took a 35-14 halftime lead over Navy this afternoon before a record standing-room-only crowd of 37,970 at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. McCoy broke a season-long 58-yard scoring run with 1:04 remaining in the half to give the Panthers a 21-point cushion. He [...]

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — LaRod Stephens-Howling scored two touchdowns and LeSean McCoy added another, as Pitt jumped out to a 21-7 lead over Navy in the first quarter this afternoon at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. It is the most points Pitt has scored in a first quarter since matching that total against Central Florida on Oct. [...]

Trev Alberts might be best to provide insight into Navy’s triple-option offense. Not only did Alberts play linebacker at Nebraska in the early 1990s, when the Cornhuskers were running the I-option, but he has called two Midshipmen games this season as an analyst for CBS College Sports Network. The Pitt-Navy game will make it three. [...]

Courtesy of Tribune-Review high school editor Jerry DiPaola: Pitt added to its growing list of recruits from the Class of 2009 when Beaver Falls’ Todd Thomas said today he will join the Panthers next season. Thomas initially was recruited as a wide receiver. He is rated as the 23rd wide receiver in the nation by [...]

Pitt redshirt junior outside linebacker Shane Murray’s knee injury will require season-ending surgery, a Pitt spokesman said today. Murray, a Hazelwood native and Central Catholic graduate, will have surgery Tuesday to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee. Murray started every game at weak-side linebacker last season, finishing second in tackles with [...]

The Pitt-Rutgers football game is scheduled for a 3:30 p.m. kickoff Oct. 25 at Heinz Field but will not be televised. Pitt coach Dave Wannstedt also said at his weekly news conference that redshirt junior weak-side linebacker Shane Murray’s partially torn ACL in his right knee “has not progressed the way we would have hoped [...]

Approaching the midway point of his fourth season, Dave Wannstedt has compiled a 20-20 record as Pitt’s football coach. The hot-seat talk has cooled after the Panthers posted their second win over a top-10 program in six games. Wannstedt is hoping that the 26-21 victory at No. 10 South Florida on Oct. 2 provides a [...]