MORGANTOWN — The challenge awaits inside the Petersen Events Center. The question will be whether it’s the WVU or Pitt men’s basketball team who is ready to meet it. The […]
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Eli Holstein passes Pitt to comeback win against WVU in Backyard Brawl
PITTSBURGH — Trailing by 10 and the clock dwindling, there was no panic on the Pittsburgh sideline. No nervousness. No anxiety. Given the way Eli Holstein is playing, why would […]
NOTEBOOK: WVU’s offense stalls in crunch time in Brawl loss against Pitt
PITTSBURGH — West Virginia’s offense ran out of gas at the most crucial time in Saturday’s 38-34 loss to Pitt. The Mountaineers got their offense moving in the second half, […]
COLUMN: West Virginia’s secondary is a weak enough link to keep them from being competitive
West Virginia simply does not have the secondary to compete this season. There’s no other way to say it. As bad as WVU’s defense has been in the past, it’s […]
The Backyard Brawl returns to Pittsburgh with the 107th clash between the Mountaineers and Panthers
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 […]
COLUMN: Brown and Narduzzi show there’s more than one way to coach a football team
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 […]
Don Ireland, Pitt’s (in)famous ‘E-I-E-I-O’ announcer remembers the 1994 Backyard Brawl
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 […]
COLUMN: The only way to get players to care about the Brawl is to keep playing it
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, […]
Throw out the record books, it’s Backyard Brawl week
MORGANTOWN — This week is unlike all the others, no matter how many coaches and players try to make it business as usual. In terms of things like conference standings […]
Pitt’s Narduzzi: Panthers ‘couldn’t be more excited’ for Backyard Brawl
Now that the current generation of Panthers and Mountaineers have gotten a taste of the Backyard Brawl, Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi said they can’t get enough. “Our kids couldn’t be […]
