The Penn State football team added two offensive lineman recruits to the fold this week, bringing its number of commitments up to eight.
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This is a terrible time of year to be a Penn State football fan. Spring ball is over, the season is more than three months away and all there is to do is wait for the next recruit to commit or pull up huge chunks of data from past seasons and use it to make sweeping declarations on the message boards.
Ed DeChellis still has his right-hand man.
Penn State men's basketball assistant coach Kurt Kanaskie has withdrawn his name from consideration for the head coaching vacancy at Saint Francis, Penn State sports information director Brian Siegrist confirmed Tuesday night.Penn State took a big step this weekend toward filling its needs in the secondary, receiving commitments from defensive back prospects Stephen Obeng-Agyapong and Darrell Givens. The Nittany Lions still have a need at wide receiver, though it might have found a prospect late Sunday that could fill both needs.
This is the first in a series of eight columns on what amounts to a farewell tour that will cross the retirement finish line on June 30. In the coming weeks, I'll share with you what I consider my favorite players, coaches, athletes, events and people from these past 41 years. There are far too many to include in one last column and probably too many even for eight.
Penn State tapped some familiar territory to add two defensive backs to its 2009 recruiting class during the weekend.
The same passing combination that thrilled so many Penn State football fans and brought the Nittany Lions a national championship in 1982 hooked up again recently.
Shortly after the respective fields for last season’s NCAA Tournament and NIT had been selected last March, The Gazelle Group, a sports representation and consultation company that runs several early-season tournaments, did an informal survey of 16 teams left on the outside of both bubbles.
INDIANAPOLIS — The slate may have been swept clean for the Penn State women’s basketball team heading into the Big Ten Tournament, but once Thursday’s opening round game was played the story remained the same.
SAN ANTONIO — They were, as they almost always have been these last few years at Penn State, the question marks on a team that thought it had answers almost everywhere else.
SAN ANTONIO — Texas A&M quarterback Stephen McGee plans to do two things after the Aggies wrap up their 2007 season by playing Penn State in Saturday’s Alamo Bowl.
SAN ANTONIO — The statistics, as Texas A&M offensive coordinator Les Koenning quickly pointed out Thursday, are heavily in favor of Penn State.
UNIVERSITY PARK — A win on Senior Day, for obvious reasons, means a lot to each group of Penn State seniors. It’s the last time they will ride to the stadium in the blue buses, the last time they will run through the tunnel and the last time they will play before 100-some-odd thousand home fans.
UNIVERSITY PARK — On good days, Purdue convinces 65,000 fans to enter Ross Ade Stadium. So, naturally, coach Joe Tiller entered Saturday concerned whether his team could handle the rigors of playing before more than 108,000 at Beaver Stadium.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Penn State's slumbering offense woke up against Iowa.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Joe Paterno sat before the microphones and tape recorders and fought to keep the frown from his face. He had wondered during this past week, and possibly for the whole season, what sort of mettle his Penn State team possessed, and he had figured Saturday’s visit to Michigan Stadium would provide some answers.
After a sluggish start, a couple lucky bounces propelled No. 12 Penn State to another win.
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