MORGANTOWN — Saturday will be the 108th meeting of the Backyard Brawl between Pitt and West Virginia, one of the famous rivalries in college football. It’s been going for four […]
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Pitt’s Pat Narduzzi strong advocate for yearly Backyard Brawl
MORGANTOWN — The biggest game on West Virginia’s schedule isn’t a Big 12 conference game. It’s the third game of the season against Pitt in the 108th Backyard Brawl. That’s […]
COLUMN: Narduzzi waited until hitting rock bottom to make a change; Neal Brown doesn’t have that luxury
Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi is as old school as college head coaches come. A defensive mind, Narduzzi just wants his offense to run the ball, control the clock and shorten […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Backyard Brawl returns to Morgantown for 106th meeting between the bitter rivals
MORGANTOWN — It will be strength against strength and weakness against weakness when West Virginia and Pitt meet for the 106th edition of the Backyard Brawl tonight inside Milan Puskar […]
Current Mountaineers have gone from hearing about the Backyard Brawl to living it
MORGANTOWN — It did not take long for Neal Brown to get the full Backyard Brawl experience. When the storied rivalry between West Virginia and Pitt returned from a 10-year […]
