7:14 PM ET, Fri September 03, 2010

Pitt approaching its 2nd sellout season

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — SALT LAKE CITY -- Pitt athletic director Steve Pederson often has said that one of his top priorities every year is to fill Heinz Field to capacity for Panthers football games. He may get his wish this year as the school closes in on a full-season sellout for only the second time in its history.

15 hours ago

Pitt rally forces overtime, but interception and field goal give Utah opening win

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — SALT LAKE CITY -- Fifty yards and three points was all that stood between the Pitt Panthers and a huge victory on opening night in a hostile environment. Pitt got the three points on Dan Hutchins' 30-yard field goal to force overtime, but then lost the game to Utah, 27-24, on Joe Phillips 21-yard field goal in overtime at Rice-Eccles Stadium Thursday night.

15 hours ago

Paul Zeise's Pitt football chat transcript

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — Paul talks about the Panthers in his first chat of the 2010 college football season.

September 2, 2010

Q&A: Could Cross fill Dickerson's shoes?

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — Pitt football Q&A; with Paul Zeise

September 2, 2010

Panthers are looking forward to Utah but using heartbreaking end to 2009 season as motivation

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — It has been just eight months since Pitt lost a 45-44 heartbreaker to Cincinnati at Heinz Field in the final regular-season game of 2009. Had the Panthers won they would have headed to the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans to make their first Bowl Championship Series appearance since the 2004 season.

September 1, 2010

Q&A: Utah's hidden 'strength'?

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — Pitt football Q&A; with Paul Zeise

September 1, 2010

Live college football chats today

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — The college football season starts tonight! Join our college football beat writers every Thursday during the season, beginning today, then check back in during the Pitt game tonight for the first in a series of live college football Game Day chats this season.

September 1, 2010

2010 Preview: Panthers rather not take it easy

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — There are no preseason games in college football, which is why it is common in college football these days for teams to start the season by playing a home game against Division I-AA opponent or a lower level Division I-A opponent.

August 31, 2010

Q&A: Exploiting Utah's defensive weaknesses

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — Pitt football Q&A; with Paul Zeise

August 31, 2010

Pitt Basketball: It's all academic now for freshman

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette — Isaiah Epps was the first member of the 2010 recruiting class to give Pitt coach Jamie Dixon a verbal commitment in January 2009, but he was the final player from the class to arrive on campus Monday, more than two months after fellow freshmen Jonathan Moore and Cameron Wright enrolled.

August 31, 2010

Pittsburgh Panthers merchandise

  • Time Warner Cable Sports will broadcast Saturday's football game between Syracuse and Akron Orange Football Blog | Post-Standard Fans will be able to watch the season opener on television.
  • Notre Dame football: Recruit visits few on opening weekend South Bend Tribune SOUTH BEND -- As NBC expands its broadcasting footprint of Notre Dame football games this season to Europe and Asia for the first time, the one thing the new audience won't be gawking at Saturday will be a gaggle of recruits on the ND Stadium sidelines.
  • Former UC basketball coach dies Cincinnati Enquirer Former UC women's basketball coach J. Kelley Hall passed away Thursday of an apparent heart attack at his home in Myrtle Beach, S.C., according to the Lafayette Daily Advertiser.
  • After a busy and trying summer for PC basketball, newcomers arrive on campus Providence Journal
  • Video: Five newcomers to watch for USF The Bulletin | St. Petersburg Times So I've resorted to all the cliche telltale signs of modern-day journalists doing video for their blogs -- I've embraced the tiny little tripod, I'm using the little remote control, and (shame) I've lined myself up in some random corner of my house. Anyway, here's a look at five newcomers to watch in Saturday's opener against Stony Brook -- really could have done 10, but they want to keep these videos short, just so we don't destroy Youtube's servers and keep my kids from enjoying the Geico little-pig-goes-weeeee commercial over and over again.