In a heart-stopping encounter, the Jamie Dixon led USA team has set up a classic final match-up with Greece at the FIBA U19 World Championship in Auckland, New Zealand. more »

6'6", 310 Matt Rotheram of North Olmstead in North Olmstead, Ohio verbally committed to play football at the University of Pittsburgh today. This is the highest rated recruit so far for Pitt's 2010 class, with Rotheram being rated the #9 guard and a 4 star recruit by rivals.com.Rotheram had offers from over 20 schools, including Michigan State, LSU, more »

Running back LeSean McCoy, the team's second-round pick in April's draft, agreed to terms on a four-year contract Monday night. The Eagles have now come to terms with seven of the eight members of their 2009 draft class. more »

Pitt added a WR, a RB and two lineman, one offensive and one defensive, today. Kevin Weatherspoon of Clairton... more »

Pitt got it's 6th verbal commitment of the class of 2010 today when K'Waun Williams gave his word today to play ball for the Panthers. Williams had offers from Pitt and MAC powerhouse Akron. He says he had interest from other schools but he d… more »

"Fella" was supposed to be drafted between 10-16 in the first round, and no later than 23rd for sure. He fell the entire way to the 7th pick of the 2nd round. more »

Clemmings chose Pitt over offers from Penn State, Notre Dame, Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina, Rutgers, Duke, Syracuse, Georgia, and Maryland.Clemmings, from Patterson, NJ more »

Late in the day on June 14th the Pitt football team received a commitment from its third recruit for the class of 2010. Jeff Knox Jr. of Hyattsville, MD gave his word to Dave Wannstedt on Sunday night. more »

Please see below for Andy Katz' report on Dixon and USC. more »

USC coach Tim Floyd resigned today in light of the NCAA investigation into $1,000 that he supposedly gave to O.J. Mayo via Mayo's agent to come play at USC. USC has for years been rumored as a destination for Pitt coach Jamie Dixon. more »

With the defection of expected "in the bag" recruits to the dump up in sad valley and to other schools, the Panther faithful are in an uproar and a state of shock. What is going on that is causing this to occur? Let's take a look. more »

Today, Tom Ricketts Jr. committed to Penn State. His father was a star offensive lineman and first round NFL draft pick at Pitt (1989 gradauate). I recall watching him play when I was young. Panther folk are in a state of disbelief. more »

Miles Dieffenbach was thought to be a Pitt lock by everybody in the Panther community: coaches, insiders, outsiders and the media. He verbally committed to Penn State yesterday, dealing another blow to Dave Wannstedt's 2010 recruiting efforts. more »

Exchange student at McNamara High School says "American' family helped his achieve 'American dream' Talib Zanna came from Nigeria to the US for the first time at the age of 15 and shortly thereafter he moved to the US permanently to get a US education… more »

Pitt football was hot for Hapton defensive end Jordan Paskorz, younger brother of Notre Dame fullback Steve Paskorz. See below which school he will attend. more »

The 2009 NBA Draft will be held on June 25, 2009, at the Theatre at Madison Square Garden in New York City. While I don't care much for pro basketball, Pitt has two players who are expected to go in the first round in DeJuan Blair and Sam Young and I hope they both go as high as possible. Here's some recent information on DeJuan and where he's expected to go. more »