After what Pitt fans saw on Saturday from the Pitt Panthers, the bye week is coming up at a bad time. The Panthers ran up 626 yards of offense and got another inspired effort from their defense en route to a 55-10 victory over FCS opponent Gardner-Webb. After starting the season 0-2, being outscored 65-27, the Panthers have bounced back by winning two straight games, outscoring Virginia Tech and Gardner-Webb by a combined 90-27, putting up a combined 1,163 yards of total offense. Much ... Read More
Duquesne makes in 3 in a row with 35-21 win over Bryant
The Duquesne Dukes started building momentum as a team with a pair of non-conference wins over Dayton and Valparaiso in consecutive weeks as they prepared to enter Northeast Conference play. Behind a balanced offensive attack and a defense that forced four turnovers, the Dukes stayed hot as they came away with a big 35-21 road win against Bryant University, getting Duquesne off to a 1-0 start in the conference. Quarterback Sean Patterson threw for 247 yards and a pair of scores and running ... Read More
Who Needs Owners?
This story is why hockey players are my favorite athletes of any sport. While embroiled in a bitter lockout with no end in sight, several players took matters into their own hands. Players like Evgeni Malkin, Sergei Gonchar, Tyler Seguin and more have gone overseas to play in various leagues. However, a few French-Canadians decided that wasn’t good enough. So they just started their own league. Headed up by former Penguin Max Talbot and NY Islander Bruno Gervais, a group of NHLers are ... Read More
Predicting the Big Games of Week 3 in the NFL
Week 3 has a few very intriguing match ups this Sunday. Lets start with Eagles at Cardinals; both teams are 2-0 and both have very good defenses. The Cardinals were able to shut down the Patriots in New England last week which gives me good reason to believe they can shut down Philadelphia's high powered offense. This game will rely on Michael Vick and his propensity for turning the ball over. The first two weeks he has thrown 6 interceptions and if he can keep those in check and use LeSean ... Read More
Division II preview: No. 6 Cal U vs No. 14 IUP prepare to go to battle
Indiana at California In what easily may be the game of the week in the PSAC, the No. 6 Vulcans welcome the No. 14 Crimson Hawks to Adamson Stadium at 3:30 p.m. Indiana enters the game after a 42-0 shellacking of Lock Haven. The Crimson Hawks (3-0) have outscored their opponents 131-6 this season. The Crimson Hawks offense is powered by its run game. The team is second in rushing yards per game with 325. Senior Harvie Tuck has led offense, rushing for 465 yards and five touchdowns ... Read More
Malkin Returns as Metallurg Falls 4-3 in OT
Evgeni Malkin tallied an assist in a losing effort as Metallurg Magnitogorsk fell 4-3 to Salavat Yulaev. It was Malkin's first game in the KHL since the 2005-2006 season when he tallied 47 points in 46 games as a 19 year old. At the time, the Penguins had already called "Geno's" name on draft day, but since the NHL suffered a season-long lockout, the Russian stayed home. It wasn't until the end of 2006 when Malkin appeared at Mario Lemieux's doorstep looking to join the Penguins. With ... Read More
Pitt’s Jahmahl Pardner Lost for Season
There wasn't a whole lot of bad news that came from Pitt's 35-17 victory over Virginia Tech last Saturday, but they did receive some when it was made known that talented freshman cornerback Jahmahl Pardner will have surgery to repair a torn ACL this week and will miss the rest of the 2012 season. Pardner suffered the injury against the Hokies on Saturday. He appeared in all three games this season on special teams and as a nickel-back, recording three tackles, one sack, and one forced ... Read More
Pitt Defense Looking to Build Off Encoraging Performace vs. Hokies
After Pitt’s big win last Saturday against Virginia Tech, much has been made of the way Tino Sunseri and the Panthers’ offense performed. Why not? All Sunseri did was win Big East Offensive Player of the Week after completing 19-of-28 passes for 283 yards and three touchdowns. In addition, the Pitt offense racked up 537 yards, their highest total since 2000. However while Sunseri and freshman running back Rushel Shell’s 157 yards on the ground were a big part of the Panthers victory, that ... Read More
The Steelers in a trap game? Not so fast
I’ve heard rumblings afoot about the Steelers-Raiders tilt being “a trap game” due to the fact that the up-trending Steelers are favored by a mere four points on the road against an 0-2 Raider squad that has underperformed at home and on the road. Why such a tempting offer of minus 4? The prevailing logic suggests that if something is too good to be true, then it probably is. The Steelers laying four to make the post-Al Davis Raiders a home dog certainly meets that criteria. All the ... Read More
Slippery Rock set to collide with Mercyhurst
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Slippery Rock University looks to continue its winning ways and stay atop the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference-Western Division football standings Saturday when it travels to Erie to take on the Lakers of Mercyhurst University. The winner of The Rock-Mercyhurst game will join the winner of Saturday's game between sixth-ranked California (Pa.) and 14th-ranked Indiana (Pa.) in California as the only PSAC-West teams without a division loss two weeks into the conference ... Read More