Jeff Rice

Shooting contributes to Lions’ slow starts

To even begin to fathom what is going through the head of Patrick Chambers as he watches his Penn State team start so many games as if they’d never gone to sleep the night before, you have to understand the sort of guy that Chambers is.

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JEFF RICE

O’Brien finding recruiting company

Bob Lichtenfels has covered college football recruiting along the East Coast for nearly a decade for Scout.com. The former high school coach knows the major players in the region, particularly those in his native Pennsylvania.

114 days ago
JEFF RICE

PSU not in same league with Houston

DALLAS — Cotton Bowl Stadium has played host to some terrific games in its 82 years of existence. Doak Walker built much of his SMU legend here. The Red River Rivalry, which pits Texas against Oklahoma, annually draws more than 90,000 fans. The Cotton Bowl Classic, once one of the four major...

145 days ago
JEFF RICE

PSU committee should emulate Delany’s proactive course

With all due respect to David Joyner, you have to wonder if Penn State’s search for its next head football coach would be over by now had the university included one James Delany in the process.

149 days ago
FOOTBALL

Athletics, academics should share spotlight at Penn State

The one guy at Penn State who seemed to get how things should be handled from a public relations standpoint during the past month was university president Rodney Erickson. There was far too much silence coming out of Old Main in the first few days after the Jerry Sandusky story reared its hideous...

170 days ago
JEFF RICE

PSU saga calls for patience

The truth is there to be found. And with persistence and diligence and luck, we will find it, if only in small pieces at a time.

191 days ago
JEFF RICE

Authority figures failed those who gave their trust

This is not a sports story. This is a story about people in positions of authority and the people who trusted them. It just so happens that those people played and still play central roles in the area’s prominent sports program.

201 days ago
JEFF RICE

Chambers instilling confidence in players

During the first part of Penn State’s closed scrimmage against Temple last weekend, Billy Oliver made two, maybe three of his first seven shots. He didn’t quite remember.

205 days ago
JEFF RICE

Is Paterno handling his duties?

A reporter for the Chicago Sun Times by the name of Tina Akouris posted three paragraphs on her blog “Inside Northwestern Sports” on Tuesday afternoon. It was a brief, folksy little anecdote about some young kids, their father and a warm gesture. Akouris and the Northwestern fans who...

212 days ago
JEFF RICE

Hoops tale made for big screen

Though he might not have realized it at the time, Tim Chambers saw firsthand just how far the Mighty Macs of Immaculata College had to go.

219 days ago
FOOTBALL

PSU’s woes on offense from lack of execution

There was a point during Joe Paterno’s news conference on Tuesday when Penn State’s football coach pulled back the curtain just a bit.

247 days ago