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9.2K121Capel, Panthers aren’t new here anymore ☕
at Petersen Events CenterPOSTED: 12:05 AM November 6, 2019What can we expect from this year's Pitt Panthers, anyway? Jeff Capel, Trey McGowens and Au'Diese Toney discuss.
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13.7K145Kovacevic: What Pirates’ GM needs most is an eye
in Strip DistrictPOSTED: 12:03 AM November 5, 2019The Pirates will hire a new general manager before long. As of Monday evening, based on a couple contacts I made, the interview process hadn't yet begun.
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11.1KKovacevic: For Pitt, this rebound requires a real winner
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:00 AM March 9, 2018Five slices of wholly unsolicited advice for Heather Lyke, Pitt's AD, in her search for Kevin Stallings' replacement.
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12.9KKovacevic: Final home-court humiliation should mark Stallings’ Pitt farewell
at Petersen Events CenterPOSTED: 7:46 PM February 24, 2018If this was, in fact, the end of the Kevin Stallings era of Pitt basketball, it absolutely ended appropriately.
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8.4KKovacevic: Amid all the losing, how long can Stallings last?
at Petersen Events CenterPOSTED: 4:59 PM January 27, 2018These Panthers, now 8-14 overall and 0-9 in the ACC, might have just lost their last chance at winning even once.
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10.3KKovacevic: Hoping for another Pitt-Penn State classic, but …
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:00 AM September 4, 2017Penn State will beat Pitt by pretty much any score it wants. I write that with no malice. I picked the Panthers last year.
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12.6KKovacevic: Ask anti-Dixon donors to pay up
at Highmark StadiumPOSTED: 12:00 AM January 31, 2017Word is filtering this way that the frustration with Kevin Stallings at Pitt has reached all the way up the university ladder.
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Kovacevic: The cupboard’s bare, all right … of contrived excuses for Stallings
at PPG Paints ArenaPOSTED: 1:45 AM January 25, 2017The University of Pittsburgh's not-so-long-ago proud basketball program is about to plunge off Cardiac Hill and into the ACC's abyss if something isn't done soon.
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7.4KKovacevic: Panthers shaky in Stallings’ debut but prevail … and that’s OK
at Petersen Events CenterPOSTED: 9:33 PM November 11, 2016Kevin Stallings' Pitt basketball coaching debut undoubtedly didn't go as smoothly as he'd have liked, but his Panthers eventually dragged away from an eager Eastern Michigan group.
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9.1KKovacevic: Narduzzi’s outcry should be aimed at himself
at Heinz FieldPOSTED: 2:05 AM October 28, 2016So the thought occurred about midway through the first half Thursday night at Heinz Field: Why would any opponent ever, ever run the ball against Pitt?
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17.4KKovacevic: Anyone doubting this rivalry just got one extraordinary lesson
at Heinz FieldPOSTED: 11:30 PM September 10, 2016"It is a rivalry." Those four words were buried in a verbal blur from Pat Narduzzi, still speaking with so much motor at his press conference you'd think his next...
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13.0KKovacevic: What does Pitt gain by secluding players?
at Rooney Sports ComplexPOSTED: 12:01 AM September 6, 2016Let's get this up front, since Pat Narduzzi announced that Pitt's players and practices would be off-limits to reporters leading up to the Penn State game: I really don't care.
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8.0KKovacevic: Conner, a football player once again, completes his climb
at Heinz FieldPOSTED: 6:30 PM September 3, 2016There's a temptation to suggest this was bigger than a football game. It wasn't, though. And that was its beauty.
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10.2KKovacevic: Why not talk Pitt-Penn State? My untimely pick!
at Duratz Athletic ComplexPOSTED: 11:49 PM August 29, 2016The Panthers are thinking Villanova. As they should. This is, after all, a program that opened 2012 with a loss to Youngstown State.
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6.5KKovacevic: Conner will light up start, but Narduzzi’s program must set sights high
at Duratz Athletic ComplexPOSTED: 2:50 PM August 29, 2016According to the script, a few minutes before 1:30 p.m. Saturday, James Conner will emerge from the riverside tunnel at Heinz Field to a loud, proud roar.
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Kovacevic: Stallings outshines his boss
at Petersen Events CenterPOSTED: 12:33 AM March 29, 2016The press conference was going to be tough, and all concerned had to have realized that. Or so one might think.
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Kovacevic: Stallings hire stinks on all levels
in PittsburghPOSTED: 1:17 PM March 27, 2016Believe it or not, I'm not here to bury Kevin Stallings. I don't know Stallings. I don't care about Stallings.