Sport: The Season Opens

The University of Pittsburgh's football team was feeling fine. The night before the opening game with West Virginia, they all stowed away a steak dinner and took in a movie, Somebody Up There Likes Me. Next afternoon, it turned out that somebody up there really did like them. Outplayed for most of the game, the Panthers just managed to go home on the long end of a 14-13 score.

Professional Gloom. Pitt was obviously unready for the hefty, hopped-up Mountaineers. West Virginia, on the other hand, had been pointing for Pitt since spring. Coach...

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