At Auburn, Greene fired football coach Gus Malzahn at the end of the 2020 season and then made the disastrous hire of Bryan Harsin to replace him. Greene resigned in August 2022 with five months left on his contract, and Harsin was fired two months later after less than two seasons on the job.

Allen Greene stepped away from his role as Auburn’s athletic director over two years ago, and now he is ready to take the chair at another institution. ESPN’s Pete Thamel reports that Pittsburgh has hired Greene to become the university’s next athletic director.

Pittsburgh has hired Allen Greene as its new athletic director. Greene replaces Heather Lyke. Lyke was fired in early September with a few months remaining on her contract. Greene, currently a senior deputy athletics director at Tennessee,

Pittsburgh Police Chief Larry Scirotto is returning to refereeing college basketball games. In accepting the job as chief last May, Scirotto told Mayor Ed Gainey he would no longer pursue his other passion: refereeing NCAA basketball games.

Pittsburgh police Chief Larry Scirotto announced Thursday he will return to his passion of refereeing college basketball games part-time while running Western Pennsylvania’s largest police force — apparently reversing an agreement with Mayor Ed Gainey not to officiate while serving as chief.

Vice presidential candidate JD Vance was back in Western Pennsylvania on Thursday, campaigning in Downtown Pittsburgh.