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The Pitt News

Pirates fans pose for a picture.  Theo Schwarz | Senior Staff Photographer

Pirates fans have no reason to lessen expectations

By Chad Cameron / Staff Writer April 4, 2016

Snow isn’t typically associated with Major League Baseball’s Opening Day. But as a sellout crowd of 39,500 people prepared to pack PNC Park on Sunday, crews on the inside rushed to shovel away the...

Stallings and Barnes at Stallings' first press conference in March 2016. (Photo by Matt Hawley | Senior Staff Photographer)

Point/Counterpoint: Kevin Stallings

The Pitt fanbase had a loud, pointed — and mostly unanimous — reaction when Athletic Director Scott Barnes announced the hiring of Kevin Stallings as Pitt’s men’s basketball head coach. With rumors...

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...

Created by Jeff Ahearn | Assistant Visual Editor (Photos:  TNS)

Players and politicians: Dynamic duos in the stretch

By Chris Puzia / Contributing Editor February 9, 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,...

Carolina Panthers running back Jonathan Stewart (28) scores a touchdown as he leaps over Denver Broncos linebacker Danny Trevathan (59) in Super Bowl 50. (TNS)

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...

Pitt football recruits sit with Coach Narduzzi at a recent basketball game.  Jeff Ahearn | Assistant Visual Editor

Narduzzi providing results in first full recruiting offseason

By Chad Cameron / For The Pitt News February 1, 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...

Derrick Henry (2) of the Alabama Crimson Tide strikes a Heisman pose after scoring in the fourth quarter during the National Championship game between the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Clemson Tigers at the University of Phoenix Stadium on Jan. 11, 2016 in Glendale, Ariz. Alabama won 45-40. (Charles Baus/CSM/Zuma Press/TNS)

Expand College Football Playoff to eight teams

By Chris Puzia / Assistant Sports Editor January 12, 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...

Cincinnati Bengals linebacker, Vontaze Burfict (55) hit and concussed Pittsburgh Steelers' receiver Antonio Brown in Sunday's post-season game. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun/MCT)

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...

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