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• Pitt scouting report

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  PITTSBURGH — So what can we expect to see from Pitt on tonight?

  Before the season, the easy answer would have been a heavy dose of RB Dion Lewis, the Big East’s Offensive Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year last season.

  But Lewis has struggled so far this season, [...]

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• Harris and his receivers

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  PITTSBURGH – Even though we’ve exhausted the analysis of QB Jacory Harris and the passing attack the past two weeks, here’s a little more for those of you who can’t get enough.  

  Coach Randy Shannon again defended Harris on the weekly ACC conference call Wednesday, blaming nine of Harris’ incompletions on his [...]

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• 2013 game against Rutgers at Yankee Stadium imminent

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  PITTSBURGH — Miami AD Kirby Hocutt said tonight that a 2013 game against Rutgers at Yankee Stadium is imminent.

  Myself and your favorite beat writers from the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post ran into Hocutt at Lidia’s, a nice Italian joint here in the Steel City. In case you were [...]

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• Cooper won’t play against Pitt

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  PITTSBURGH — The Hurricanes landed here a little more than an hour ago. RB Graig Cooper did not make the trip, so he won’t play against Pittsburgh, missing his second consecutive game with an unspecified lower extremity injury.

  RT Joel Figueroa, DE Marcus Robinson and DT Luther Robinson, all of whom are [...]

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• Injury report for Pitt game – Cooper doubtful

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  CORAL GABLES — Hurricanes LB Shayon Green is out for the season with an “upper extremity” injury, according to the team.

  Green, who was injured against Ohio State, is the latest to go down for the year. FB John Calhoun, RB Darion Hall, DL Jeremy Lewis and LB Travis Williams are also done for [...]

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• Making moves at linebacker

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  CORAL GABLES — Hurricanes coach Randy Shannon wasn’t particularly impressed with either Kylan Robinson or Ramon Buchanan against Ohio State.

  Robinson started against the Buckeyes, along with Sean Spence and Colin McCarthy. It appears Buchanan, who was working with the first team in practice Monday, will start in place of Robinson [...]

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• Hankerson catching passes like clockwork

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  CORAL GABLES – Lamar Miller had his genuine “Miller Time” haircut. Leonard Hankerson has his T-shirt.

  The Hurricanes’ leading receiver showed up Sunday at UM’s athletic complex wearing his own version of walking Pictionary.

  On the front of Hankerson’s T-shirt — a design invented and created by his friend — was his [...]

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• Shannon-Wannstedt relationship spans decades

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  CORAL GABLES – Thursday night, UM’s Randy Shannon will coach against the man he’s spent most of his life learning from.

  “Randy and I go way back,” Pittsburgh coach Dave Wannstedt noted on Monday’s Big East Conference call. “I’ve probably been involved with most of his football life.”

  From [...]

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• Harris should hurl aside the hate shown to him

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  CORAL GABLES — Hurricanes DT Marcus Forston knew something was wrong with QB Jacory Harris just by looking at him in the locker room last week.

  They’ve been friends since their high school days at Miami Northwestern and as long as Forston can remember, even when Harris was watching Robert Marve start as a freshman, Harris [...]

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• Players motivated by Shannon’s postgame reaction

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  So we’ve learned that Hurricanes coach Randy Shannon apparently really tore into his players after last Saturday’s loss at Ohio State.

  It remains to be seen what kind of impact it has, if any, on UM’s next game Thursday in Pittsburgh.

  Cornerback Brandon McGee said players were motivated by Shannon’s [...]

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