ACC navigates pandemic-induced schedule changes
By Stephen Thompson, Assistant Sports Editor
September 21, 2020
Both 2020 Panthers gamedays have gone relatively smoothly. Seven Panthers sat out the Austin Peay game due to COVID-19 protocols, and three sat out against Syracuse. But Pitt has avoided the dreaded postponed or cancelled games that follow large-scale outbreaks.
Fall sports schedules to watch
By Marshall Worth, Staff Writer
September 16, 2020
After months of uncertainty, all of Pitt’s fall sports now have schedules and teams are beginning play.
2020 ACC football power rankings
By Alex Lehmbeck, Sports Editor
September 6, 2020
College football is back — the first eight FBS games of the season took place this weekend, giving fans a glimpse of what a season amid the COVID-19 pandemic will look like. While the nation’s most prestigious conference, the SEC, won’t kick off until Sept. 26, the ACC and Big 12 will debut the first Power Five conference games this week.
Pitt placed in geographic pods for remainder of fall sports
By Stephen Thompson, Assistant Sports Editor
September 6, 2020
After ensuring that the fall football season was feasible amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Atlantic Coast Conference moved to establish guidelines for the five other fall sports its member schools play.
ACC announces fall sports plans: what are they and what do they mean for Pitt?
By Alex Lehmbeck, Sports Editor
August 17, 2020
After a summer of ambiguity, the Atlantic Coast Conference released an updated schedule in late July for ensuing fall sports seasons, creating a separate plan for football and the rest of the fall sports.
ACC announces delay for some fall sports
By Stephen Thompson, Sports Editor
July 9, 2020
The Atlantic Coast Conference Board of Directors announced Thursday afternoon that the beginning of fall Olympic sports will be delayed until Sept. 1. Pitt’s men’s and women’s soccer, volleyball and cross country are among the affected sports. ACC field hockey programs will also be subject to the delay, but will not apply to Pitt, which does not have a program.
ACC officially cancels spring season
By Trent Leonard, Sports Editor
March 17, 2020
With the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently recommending that gatherings of 50 or more people not occur for the next eight weeks, it became clear that no timeline in the near future would work for the conference’s spring athletes.
ACC to suspend all athletic activities
By Trent Leonard, Sports Editor
March 12, 2020
The ACC announced Thursday that it will suspend all athletic related activities in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
Reimagining the broken and senseless ACC
By Henry Jackson, Staff Writer
February 28, 2020
The conference has expanded, retracted and morphed in such bizarre motions as to create a loose confederacy that no longer can even claim the very region it abbreviates — the Atlantic coast.
Duke, Clemson on the rise in ACC standings
By Henry Jackson, Staff Writer
February 18, 2020
While four teams have climbed to the shallow peak of the ACC and the bottom four have made themselves apparent, an astounding seven teams remain within two games of .500 in conference play.