MORGANTOWN — The biggest game of the year isn’t typically played in the middle of September, but it’s hard to argue that there is ever a bigger game for WVU or Pitt than the Backyard Brawl. The Backyard Brawl returns to the Steel City this season for the 107th meeting between bitter ...
Morgantown and Pittsburgh are close enough that the weather doesn’t drastically change from one place to the other. We’ve had a beautiful week of weather here in Morgantown and it was pretty much the same up in the Steel City. And yet, Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi held football practice ...
MORGANTOWN — The University High School boys’ soccer team has enjoyed a positive start to their 2024 campaign with five wins in eight games. Although the momentum halted slightly on Thursday night against Wheeling Park in an 8-1 defeat on a perfect evening at Mylan Pharmaceutical ...
Amid all the cheering in that rickety stadium in the Steel City during an improbably wild Backyard Brawl between WVU and Pitt on Oct. 15, 1994, you could still hear it. Ripples of laughter, from the home-crowd Panther faithful who packed the place in Pittsburgh’s venerable Oakland ...
The Backyard Brawl is critically important to the WVU and Pitt football programs and their fans. For the players, not so much. Yet. The players know the rivalry is important, but very few of them have a personal connection to the game that was so evident with players 10 or 15 years ago. ...
MORGANTOWN — Eric Snyder now has one game under his belt as head coach of the University High School football team. It's a job two decades in the making for the longtime assistant coach, but after just a few months at the helm, that first game seemed like it took a lifetime to ...
