Kevin Gorman at the Trib is reporting that Joe Clermond had marijuana possession charges against him withdrawn. Police found the a small amount of the drug in a car Clermond was riding in on the way home from a concert at Mellon Arena. Apparently there was enough reason to believe Clermond had nothing to do with it. Clermond’s release from the charges will help him avoid what could have been a possible suspension.

Not really much else to say on the topic — hopefully, for Clermond’s sake as a young man, people can simply forget about this as though it never happened. He was cleared quickly enough that we can easily move forward from the whole situation.

Everyone likes Power Rankings, yet never before have we seen them completely dedicated to our Pittsburgh Panthers. Every week or so we’ll take a look at the biggest news makers related to Pitt sports — all in Power Ranking form.

5. Aaron Gray, center, Chicago Bulls
Gray’s been signed, and Chas wrote about that a few days ago. I was a bit surprised, however, whenever I clicked on the link to the Bulls website and saw this picture:

Definitely kind of odd to see Gray without a Pitt jersey on. Joakim Noah? Still don’t like him.

4. New Pitt football jerseys
Speaking of jerseys, Pitt’s are supposedly scheduled to be released on August 9. There have been two possible concepts floating around the message boards (home and away) but I won’t believe it until I see it.

3. College Football Live, ESPN
There are plenty of things I don’t really like about ESPN, but their new show College Football Live is a winner. You can see it at weekdays at 3:30 on ESPN and again at 6:30 on ESPN2. And if you were wondering, Mark May is a regular on the show.

2. Jim Delany, Big Ten Commissioner
We’ve talked at length about the possible Big Ten expansion that Delany might be proposing as well as Pitt’s place in the big scheme of things. One problem about the Big Ten adding a team is that they’ll need to change one of the best logos in all of sports. Notice the 11 that is formed around the ‘t’…

1. Football training camp
The countdown to camp is at less than a week and it’s pretty easy to see that the football talk is really heating up. September 1 is the start of a new year…time to start getting excited.