Chawntez Moss leaving Pitt football team
By Steve Rotstein | Senior Staff Writer
December 4, 2017
Filed under Football, Top Stories
After missing six of Pitt’s final seven games of the 2017 season, sophomore running back Chawntez Moss will not be back with the team next year. Moss said in a Twitter direct message Monday he decided to transfer on his own, contradicting a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette report that stated he had been...
No repeats of 2012 debacle in forecast for Panthers
By Steve Rotstein / Sports Editor
September 1, 2016
Pitt fans know all too well the perils that can come with taking the first opponent of the season lightly just because it is a Football Championship Subdivision — formerly I-AA — team. In 2012, Paul Chryst was in his first game as head coach of the Panthers, and a win -- good start to his tenu...
Next In Line: Meet Chawntez Moss
By Steve Rotstein / Sports Editor
May 31, 2016
Filed under Football, Sports, Sports Features
Just before the start of the Blue-Gold game on April 16, 2016, incoming first-year running back Chawntez Moss had to take a moment to reflect. Moss was in a corner of the locker room with sophomore running back Qadree Ollison when he was handed his gold No. 26 game jersey. “Come on, man, put it on,â...
Spring football notebook: Players, coaches reflect on Blue-Gold game
By Dan Sostek / Sports Editor
April 18, 2016
Spring football games usually have their fair share of fireworks, touchdowns and big plays — but not Pitt’s Blue-Gold Game Sunday. A rather dull intersquad scrimmage ended with the Blue team squeaking out a 19-17 win.. And instead of any specific plays or moments sticking out, reactions to the end ...