The College Sports Blog

University of Pittsburgh athletic director Steve Pederson has been signed to a new five-year contract that will keep him at Pitt through at least 2018, Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg has announced. “With the University of Pittsburgh set to officially join the Atlantic Coast Conference on July 1, our athletic programs never have been better positioned […]

PITTSBURGH—The University of Pittsburgh basketball team will play Cincinnati as part of the 2013 Jimmy V Classic doubleheader scheduled for Tuesday, December 17 at New York’s Madison Square Garden, ESPN announced on Wednesday. The Pitt-Cincinnati contest will be played at 7 p.m. ET as part of a doubleheader that will be followed by a Florida-Memphis […]

PITTSBURGH—The Atlantic Coast Conference has announced Pitt’s rotating crossover football opponents for the next 11 seasons. The Panthers will annually play eight ACC games. Six of those contests will be against Coastal Division opponents (Duke, Georgia Tech, Miami, North Carolina, Virginia and Virginia Tech) and two will be against Atlantic Division teams. Pitt will play […]

PITTSBURGH—Pitt will have at its disposal two of the finest defensive players in the Atlantic Coast Conference this fall according to Athlon Sports 2013 ACC Football Preview magazine. Defensive tackle Aaron Donald and safety Jason Hendricks were both selected preseason first team All-ACC by Athlon. The two seniors headline a Pitt defense that returns eight […]

PITTSBURGH—The Atlantic Coast Conference announced today that the Pitt football team’s Sept. 14 non-conference game with New Mexico will kick off at 12:30 p.m. and be televised by the ACC Network. The ACC Network syndicates in 95 markets nationally and more than 62 million TV households. ACC Network games are also available digitally on ESPN3 […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—University of Pittsburgh freshman James Robinson (Mitchellville, Md./DeMatha Catholic H.S.) is one of 24 athletes invited to take part in the USA Basketball 2013 Men’s Under-19 National Team Training Camp. The camp will run from June 14-19 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. Following the first three or four […]