The bright lights were shining on the field Thursday night as two PSAC West teams kicked off the 2014 season. Unfortunately, they both came away with a loss on opening night. Seton Hill had the unfortunate task of playing against Shippensburg on the road and came up on the wrong side of a 55-30 score. After Shippensburg opened up a 20-2 lead, Griffins quarterback Drew Jackson found FJ Williams for a 65-yard pitch-and-catch for the score. A Seton Hill fumble recovery on defense could've ... Read More
Pitt vs. Boston College: Complete Preview, Guide and Prediction
Coming off a very impressive 62-0 victory over Delaware, the Pitt Panthers will not only get their first look at an FBS team Friday night, but will get their first road test of the season when they travel to Boston College to open up ACC play. The Panthers are fresh off a performance in which they ran for over 400 yards as a team with seven touchdowns and limited Delaware to only 64 yards of total offense. The Eagles are fresh off a 27-7 win over Massachusetts, where Florida transfer Tyler ... Read More
Mike Sirianni has W&J ready to open 2014 season
When the Washington & Jefferson Presidents take the field Saturday afternoon against Wooster to begin a quest for their third consecutive Presidents’ Athletic Conference championship, something will be a little different for Mike Sirianni’s team. W&J will be really young. “We are as young as we have been in my 12 years here,” said Sirianni. “We have only 10 seniors on the whole team. But we have a lot of talent.” Despite having the youngest team that Sirianni has ever had in his ... Read More
PSAC West Pigskin Preview: Seton Hill
A 1-10 start was not how the Seton Hill football envisioned its 2013 season, its first year of playing football in the PSAC. Now, another year older and more accustomed to the PSAC West, the Griffins hope to secure some wins. Seton Hill received a decent season from redshirt sophomore quarterback Nick Halfhill, who appeared in 10 games for the Griffins last season. Halfhill threw for 1,002 yards and nine touchdowns for an offense which saw eight different players attempt passes. Halfhill ... Read More
James Conner feels the time is Now for Pitt
If you are around Paul Chryst’s Pitt Panthers football team, there is something different about the Panthers this season. While Pitt is one of the youngest teams in the entire nation, there is a certain confidence in that locker room right now that hasn’t been seen nor felt in the past few years. None of that has to really do with their 62-0 rout of Delaware to open the season. While that was certainly a nice way to start the season, this Panthers team has bigger goals in mind for the 2014 ... Read More
ACC Power Rankings: Looking at how teams stack up after Week 1
With one week of the college football season now in the books, it’s time to take a look at how the ACC stacks up in my latest ACC Power Rankings. Who has moved up and who has moved down after one week? Let’s take a look. 1. Florida State (1-0, defeated Oklahoma State 37-31, Last Week’s Rank- 1) The defending national champs weren’t dominant by any stretch of the imagination. But they beat a decent team and are still the ACC’s most talented team. Up Next: Saturday vs. the ... Read More
Pirates Swept in St. Louis
Yadier Molina scored from second on a game-winning single by Peter Bourjos in the ninth inning Wednesday, sending the Pittsburgh Pirates (71-68) to a series sweep to the NL Central division-leading St. Louis Cardinals (76-63) and a fourth consecutive loss. In a series in which everything seemed to go the way of the Cardinals, the Pirates failed to drive home any runs through nine innings before Mark Melancon (2-4) allowed a walk to Molina and two singles in his second inning of work. Jon Jay ... Read More
2014 Steelers season preview
Andrew Barlow - Offensive preview Unbalanced, inconsistent, the epitome of average...all words accurately descriptive of Todd Haley's offense in an 8-8 2013 season last year for the Pittsburgh Steelers. It was a unit that averaged about 23.7 points per game, good for 17th of 32 in the NFL and seventh of 16 in the AFC. Ranked 12th overall in passing yards per game, it was definitely Ben Roethlisberger's offense as the running game struggled, ranking just 28th with only 86.4 yards per ... Read More
Former Pitt DB Trenton Coles transfers to Duquesne
It didn’t take former Pitt cornerback Trenton Coles a long time to land at a new school. After announcing his decision to transfer from Pitt during training camp, the Clairton product has announced that he will enroll at Duquesne. Coles will be eligible to play immediately for the Dukes and was scheduled to practice on Tuesday. Coles appeared in all 11 games for the Panthers last season as a freshman and began training camp with Pitt on Aug. 3 as a projected starter. He injured his ... Read More
Tyler Boyd practices; other Pitt news
Pitt Panthers fans got some good news on Tuesday when sophomore wide receiver Tyler Boyd was back on the practice field. The guy who running back James Conner called “the best wide receiver in college football,” gave the Panthers and their fans a scare when he dislocated a finger on his left hand returning a punt in Saturday’s 62-0 victory against Delaware. All signs point to Boyd being ready to go when Pitt travels to Boston College on Friday. “He practiced yesterday and he’ll practice ... Read More