Aaron Donald Wins The Lombardi Award
Not since DE Hugh Green back in 1980 has a Pitt player won the Lombardi Award. That all changed tonight when DT Aaron Donald won the 2013 edition.
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Aaron Donald Wins The Bronko Nagurski Trophy
Capping one of the finest senior seasons ever witnessed in Pitt football history, DT Aaron Donald took home his first piece of post-season hardware tonight by winning the Bronko Nagurski Trophy.
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Pitt Accepts Invite To Little Caesars Pizza Bowl vs Bowling Green
The Pitt 2013 football season will last one more game as the Panthers have announced they have accepted a bid to play Bowling Green in the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl at Ford Field in Detroit, MI on 12/26.
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Pitt Cruises Past Loyola Marymount, 85-68
Its not so easy to find what keeps a well-balanced team basketball team like Pitt performing at a high level night after night. Look a little closer, watch the reserves and you’ll have your answer.
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Pitt 78 Penn State 69
For the first time since 2005, Pitt and Penn State renewed their rivalry on the hardwood. The battle for Pennsylvania was physical, slow and painful to watch.
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Shake, Rattle and Pitt Rolls Over Duquesne 84-67 In The “City Game”
Duquesne fought hard in the first half and hoped they could win. Pitt looked sluggish but knew they would. Paced by 20 points from Cameron Wright, Pitt cruised to a 84-67 win over cross-town rivals Duquesne at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh.
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Miami Throttles Pitt in 41-31 Win
“We just gotta run faster, it’s that simple,” were the infamous halftime comments former Pitt head coach Dave Wannstedt made during an embarrassing 45-13 loss at West Virigina in 2005. Now 8 years later, those comments still ring true as Pitt put a wrap on its first season in the ACC after a 41-31 home loss to Miami.
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Pitt Dominant In Win Over Stanford, 88-67
Sometimes five-star players out of high school don’t blossom until their senior year in college. Sometimes they fade out altogether. Whether Lamar Patterson has lived up to his high school ranking (he was rated anywhere from 3-5 stars by various services) prior to this season or not, it looks like he is peaking at just the right time.
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On Fire, Pitt Downs Texas Tech 76-53
The paint isn’t even dry on the start of the Pitt Basketball season but the takeaway from tonight’s 76-53 win over Texas Tech in the Progressive Legends Classic at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, was Pitt is already in mid-season form
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Reaching 7 Wins Will Be No Easy Task For Pitt
By Miami Hurricanes standards, the 2013 football season has been a “down” year. Yes, they started the season with 7 straight wins. However, after a number of injuries especially to star tailback Duke Johnson, Miami lost 3 straight games before winning this past Saturday.
