Entries Tagged as 'Basketball'

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Friday night/Saturday morning Pittsburgh sports roundup

As usual, there are a ton of little notes worth mentioning and nothing really huge worth writing a post about, so here goes:

DePaul did not help out Pitt on Thursday night, defeating #17 Villanova 84-76 and giving one of the teams that expected to be the class of the Big East a shock to start [...]

Monday, December 31st, 2007

How losing Levance Fields affects Pitt

It did not look good when Levance Fields went down in the second half Saturday night in Dayton, but we found out the full extent of the damage today when reports revealed that Fields has a broken left foot. The injury leaves Pitt without its point guard and sometime street brawler for two to [...]

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

Vote for Pittsburgh

ESPN is using the Chris Berman loud saying reel to create something called the Greatest Highlight. This is probably just another idiotic ESPN promotion to put together meaningless shows, but if the six Pittsburgh-related moments on the list are successful, it would further prove that this small market city is a big time player [...]

Friday, December 21st, 2007

Pitt victorious over Duke at MSG

This was the game we had all been waiting for. It was billed as a slobberknocker between two of the preeminent programs in college basketball and it completely lived up to its billing, but not before one player’s career probably ended, one freshmen exploded, one team remained undefeated, and some gritty basketball was played.

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

The rundown

Today was another one of those days where there were a ton of little things and the hype to two major big things, so here goes:

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

Notes of the day

There are a ton of small stories today that do not really deserve their own post, so I’m just going to run through them here and give brief analysis. Included in here are Pitt basketball, Penguin hockey, Pirate baseball, Steeler football and some other random stuff.