Panthers get a lesson on how to speak properly to the media...shouldn't more people be signed up for this? You better ax someone...


ESPN television analyst Dave Sims spent two hours Tuesday at the Duratz Complex on the South Side lecturing the Pitt football team on what to say and what not to say to the media. Sims stressed the importance of body language and appearance to the Panthers, emphasizing that they remove ballcaps and the like when doing TV interviews. He told them to be careful of how they conjugate the verb 'be' — "It's not, 'I be'; it's, 'I am …'" Sims said. He told them to work on their enunciation — "It's not, 'ax;' it's, 'ask,'" he said.