The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

Stephen Caruso / Contributing Editor

From inside the scrum: a firsthand look at Pitt Rugby

By Stephen Caruso / Assistant Sports Editor September 16, 2015

Editors note: This is the first in a two part series about Pitt Rugby. I knew I should have packed my cleats. After endeavouring to partake in a University of Pittsburgh Rugby Football Club’s practice,...

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Scheduling rivals could provide boon to football attendance

By Stephen Caruso / Assistant Sports Editor September 15, 2015

Two weeks ago, I wrote a column calling for Pitt and West Virginia to renew the Backyard Brawl. Last Thursday, by pure happenstance, fate intervened — in the form of Pitt and WVU AD’s Scott Barnes...

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Pitt grads build big league careers in media relations

By Jessie Wallace / Staff Writer September 11, 2015

Over the years, the football world has recognized Pitt as a sure-fire producer of NFL talent, with stars like Dan Marino, Larry Fitzgerald and LeSean McCoy all making names for themselves in the league....

Sports medicine lets students stay close to athletics, help others

By Ted Zhang / For The Pitt News September 11, 2015

Alex Dejong’s sporting career didn’t end by her own choice. A Pittsburgh native, Dejong was an active athlete in high school, playing soccer and running track. That is, until an injury forced her...

Stephen Caruso / Assistant Sports Editor

Jordan Whitehead uses talent to overcome lack of experience

By Jeremy Tepper / Senior Staff Writer September 4, 2015

Jordan Whitehead might be inexperienced. He might not completely know the playbook. Sometimes, he might not even be in the right place. But whatever mistakes the young defensive back makes early in his...

Meghan Sunners / Senior Staff Photographer

K.K. Mosley-Smith triumphs over uncertainty in Pitt football program

By Jeremy Tepper / Senior Staff Writer September 4, 2015

K.K. Mosley-Smith prefers not to dwell on the past. Whatever successes and failures he’s lived through, Mosley-Smith likes to keep them in the rearview. “I’m just focused on the future,” Mosley-Smith...

Stephen Caruso / Assistant Sports Editor

Brian O’Neill builds body, changes positions

By Dan Sostek / Sports Editor September 4, 2015

It wasn’t a GNC protein bar or rare animal meat that Pitt redshirt freshman Brian O’Neill credited as a staple of his weight-gaining regimen this offseason. Instead, the first of six meals he ate every...

Meghan Sunners / Senior Staff Photographer

‘Clavicle busters’: Pitt running back depth extends past Conner

By Stephen Caruso / Assistant Sports Editor September 3, 2015

The saying goes that two’s company, and three’s a crowd. But when it comes to a football backfield, Pitt offensive coordinator Jim Chaney thinks otherwise. “I’m going to play everybody I feel...

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Pitt aims to improve fan gameday experience

By Jessie Wallace / For The Pitt News September 2, 2015

Turning the tide is no easy feat — especially when that tide is a tsunami of students ditching Pitt football games right after “Sweet Caroline” — but new athletic director Scott Barnes won’t...

Royal pain: Kansas City fans abuse of All-Star voting an abomination

Royal pain: Kansas City fans abuse of All-Star voting an abomination

America has always styled itself as a nation of equality — if you have the skills, you will be rewarded.Of course, this has always been counterbalanced by people’s love of rewarding those they know,...

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