Word: pitt
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...Johnny Majors, "we had to spend some money on them." Such candor will win Majors, 39, no popularity contest with fellow coaches; nor, for that matter, will his coaching record. Last year he took over a team that had lost ten of eleven games the previous season and bought Pitt a winning record for the first time in ten years. Despite a 14-10 loss to heavily favored Notre Dame two weeks ago, this year's Panthers have run up a 7-3 record. This week Majors has them poised to pounce on their archrival Perm State, a team...
Noah sought his mother's help when he was assigned to write a report with his classmate Josh Pitt, the tough neighborhood bully. Lois Stalvey got to know Josh too, and soon realized that his aggression was simply a cover-up for his embarrassment; although he was clearly intelligent, Josh could not read. "I've always felt guilty about Josh," confessed the black teacher who had taught him in second grade. "When I had him in my class, 17 out of the 30 children had reading problems, and I was allowed only one hour a day for reading...
Against Providence, Thompson tossed in an amazing 40 points to lead the Pack to a quick victory and in the Pitt game, the Thompson-less Wolfpack thrashed the hapless Pennsylvanians by 28 points. Indeed, if Norm Sloan, the State coach, hadn't put in the water boy, two cheerleaders as well as both sons, ages nine and fourteen, at the end of the game, it would have been...
Blakinger then advanced to the final round, taking on Ron Bryant of Pitt. Bryant, an extremely strong wrestler with enormous thighs, simply overpowered Blakinger and pinned him at 2:22 of the second period--the only time he has been pinned since his freshman year of high school...
...legendary Vanderpool-Wallace had leaped to 24 ft. 5 1/2 in. and looked like a sure winner when the Pitt senior came through with a 25 ft. 7 in. jump, breaking the oldest record in NCAA annals. Rea, seven-time titlist in the Intercollegiate Amateur Athletes of America championships, said Saturday that he had not had too much competition in the past two years, but VPW's best jump has spurred...