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Five first round matchups to watch

By Chad Cameron / For The Pitt News • March 16, 2016

In the first round of the NCAA Tournament, there’s enough March Madness to induce vertigo. To help sort through the 32 games on Thursday and Friday, we’ve selected some games that should more than...

Selection Committee could tweak rules to curb surprises

By Chris Puzia / Contributing Editor • March 15, 2016

Every Selection Sunday, some teams and fan bases will inevitably call foul on why their squad misses its shot to, well, take more shots. Part of this frustration likely comes from the NCAA Selection Committee’s...

Girls’ game: Women making advances in coaching field

By Jessie Wallace / Staff Writer • February 12, 2016

I’ve been an athlete my entire life. As “one of the boys” in grade school, I worked out as often as I attended classes. As a track athlete in college, I’ve been more apt to hurl a shotput than...

Players and politicians: Dynamic duos in the stretch

By Chris Puzia / Contributing Editor • February 10, 2016

While basketball teams are jockeying for positions in the NBA playoffs, an entirely different race to knock off competition is unfolding across the country. Few have ventured to link the two competitions,...

Super Bowl 50 a disappointing product from start to finish

By Dan Sostek / Sports Editor • February 8, 2016

As I sat sprawled in a chair, watching Cam Newton get slaughtered by a vicious Denver defense and a lifeless Peyton Manning loft the ball in the air with less velocity than a granny-style free throw, one...

Narduzzi providing results in first full recruiting offseason

By Chad Cameron / For The Pitt News • February 2, 2016

In the final stretch of the courting process, Pitt head football coach Pat Narduzzi fed his recruits to the Zoo. Pitt invited a group of football recruits to watch the Virginia Tech game Sunday as members...

Expand College Football Playoff to eight teams

By Chris Puzia / Assistant Sports Editor • January 13, 2016

I can’t be the only one sick of Alabama’s football dynasty after the Crimson Tide won their fourth national championship in seven years on Monday. For myself and everyone else wanting more diversity...

Burfict problematic, not the problem in NFL’s roughness epidemic

By Dan Sostek / Sports Editor • January 11, 2016

Vontaze Burfict and Adam “Pacman” Jones signed, sealed and delivered a playoff victory to the Pittsburgh Steelers Saturday. Thanks to the two Cincinnati Bengals’ defenders’ personal foul calls...

NFL coaches not given enough of a chance to succeed

By Chris Puzia / Assistant Sports Editor • January 7, 2016

With a resumé that included “firewood cutter” and “doormat salesman” and peaked at “NFL defensive line coach,” Jim Tomsula didn’t seem like your prototypical head coaching candidate. Following...

With Dupuis retirement decision, Penguins lose solid teammate, player

By Jeff Carpenter / Staff Writer • December 11, 2015

After receiving a diagnosis of a blood clot in his lung last November, causing him to miss the final 66 games of the regular season and five playoff games, Pascal Dupuis vowed that he would return to the...