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CHARLESTON, S.C. — Penn State's eight-month winning streak ended quickly Thursday in the Charleston Classic.

When: 7 p.m. tonight

Where: Bellefonte High School

UNIVERSITY PARK — The State College ice hockey team scored five goals in the first two periods and held on to defeat Mount Lebanon 6-5 Thursday at the Penn State Ice Pavilion.

EL PASO, Texas — Penn State senior Kevin Foley has been invited back to the 35th annual Western Refining College All-American Golf Classic.

For as long as he's been in the lineup at Penn State, people have tried to compare quarterback Daryll Clark to his mentor, Michael Robinson.

There is only so much opponent scouting you can do at this point in the college basketball season. Which is fine, because that leaves more time to focus on exactly just what you might see from your own team.

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State senior Tyra Grant is one of 50 players on the Naismith Trophy presented by AT&T preseason watch list, announced on Wednesday by the Atlanta Tipoff Club.

On live television, against a team some consider the state's best and with a half-dozen Division I prospects standing across from him, State College's Colby Way received football's ultimate compliment.

It's danced all over the country since its inception in Stillwater, Okla., in 1967. For many years, the annual all-star dual, now conducted by the National Wrestling Coaches Association, was held after the season, sometimes matching the NCAA champion and runner-up.

With some down time on media day, the Penn State women's basketball players got in an impromptu game of duck-duck- goose to pass the minutes before practice.

Penn State football season ticket holders will soon get details in the mail about the new seat selection process university athletics is starting in 2011 to increase revenues for sports and match giving levels with seating locations.

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State's defense threw its foes into quicksand during the first two months of the season, allowing a grand total of three first-quarter points in its first seven games.

HERSHEY — Seven times earlier this season the State College girls' soccer team had trailed 1-0 at the half and each time the Lady Little Lions had come back for a win.

Acclaimed journalist and author John Feinstein, who also happens to be a voter in the Associated Press men's college basketball poll, always reserves the No. 25 spot in his weekly ballot for a small, obscure program worthy of the billing.

UNIVERSITY PARK — Ed Czekaj, Penn State's athletic director from 1969-80, died Monday at The Village in State College. He was 87.

UNIVERSITY PARK -- Penn State football coach Joe Paterno was asked if this week's opponent, Michigan State, would pose the biggest special teams challenge his team has faced this season.

UNIVERSITY PARK — Ed DeChellis knows that strategy, effort and smart, heads-up play are all important on the basketball court.

Roxanne Jaffe, a State College graduate, has been named to the All-Centennial Conference first team in field hockey.

Under the blanket of a brilliant blue sky and an unusually warm mid-November day, nearly everyone had reason to enjoy their day Sunday.

Penn State running back Brandon Beachum is out for the remainder of the season after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in his right knee during this past Saturday's 31-20 win over Indiana.

CentreDaily.com football fans, here's this week's Gameday Pocket Guide for Saturday's game.

State College has always had a pretty sound girls' soccer program.

UNIVERSITY PARK — The Penn State men's soccer team, fresh off a runner-up Big Ten finish in both the regular season and conference tournament, has drawn the No. 7 seed and will be home for the second round of the NCAA tournament.

UNIVERSITY PARK — The first four bouts of Penn State's home opener against Bloomsburg included 22 takedowns, an alarming total by college wrestling standards.

UNIVERSITY PARK — It was hard to tell which script Penn State's 31-20 defeat of Indiana on Saturday was following.

UNIVERSITY PARK — Freshman Alex Bentley slowly had been getting her feet wet as Penn State's starting point guard.

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — David Tiemstra scored in the final minute of regulation for No. 25 Ohio State, sending Penn State to heartbreaking 1-0 loss on Sunday in the Big Ten men's soccer title game.

NEW YORK After another humiliating loss, Southern California tumbled to its worst ranking since Pete Carroll's Trojans began their run as one of college football's best programs in 2002.

UNIVERSITY PARK — Shocking. Stunning. Surprising. Gut-wrenching.

Pick any adjective you want, it works for what Penn State soccer fans witnessed in the second half at Jeffrey Field on Sunday afternoon.