Okay, you read blogs. You may even glance at message boards on occasion. Mostly, these sites tend to lean (often rather heavily) toward the notion that Joe Paterno’s presence on the Penn State sideline is hurting the on-field results of the football team. What about the people you know that are more casual fans, for [...]
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While non-football sports are not covered to any appreciable extent on this site, let it be known that I will sit in front of a television and watch Penn State compete in anything. With this in mind, congratulations to the Penn State men’s volleyball team for winning their first national championship since 1994.
IRVINE, Calif. [...]
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Been a busy two days and my laptop’s AC charger just crapped itself. Regardless, have we discussed the female streaker at the Phillies game? Some quality reactions from Chase Utley and Jayson Werth, not to mention Harry Kalas.
Additionally, some of the knuckleheads may be returning to the Penn State roster. The distance from “back on [...]
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A few quick things, because I’m going to be unavoidably detained for the bulk of today. If you’re heading up to the game, travel safely and have a great time! If you feel like playing Internet Reporter For A Day, please feel free to send any game pictures, tailgate pictures, stories, observations, or anything else [...]
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Posted in Penn State on April 3, 2008 | 25 Comments »
Fully realizing that I may be in over my head on this issue, as long as the University can tie student season tickets to ID cards, doesn’t that essentially take care of the scalping issue? Nobody is going to hand their ID over to a stranger just to make a buck on football tickets. I don’t know [...]
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Did Ed DeChellis save his job with Penn State’s late season run, which culminated yesterday afternoon with an upset over #17 Indiana? The Lions season was essentially torpedoed after Geary Claxton’s knee injury during the first half of a blowout loss against Wisconsin, and Penn State immediately went from “slight tailspin” (they had just given [...]
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Posted in Penn State, thon on February 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Thanks to FightOnState.com, take a look at this video of various Penn State football players taking some young cancer survivors through the football facilities.
As you might know, this is a small part of THON, the annual dance marathon benefitting the Four Diamonds Fund.
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This is a nice breakdown at Black Shoe Diaries. The reality of the situation is that Penn State and Pitt really weren’t competing against each other for many Pennsylvania recruits this year — not in that “Oh my God, it’s down to just Penn State and Pitt!” sort of way, at least.
A good portion of [...]
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Legal tumbleweeds from Centre County, connected with the fight involving football players, a black fraternity’s “party walk”, and uh…frontin’.
PennLive.com:
Baker, 20, of Windsor, Conn., and Bowman, 19, of District Heights, Md., were suspended the last two games of the season because of their legal trouble.
Assistant District Attorney Steve Sloane said prosecutors will decide in the next [...]
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Posted in Penn State, basketball on January 16, 2008 | 9 Comments »
As if starting the game down 20-4 wasn’t insulting enough, Penn State’s entire basketball season came to a screeching halt last night against Wisconsin as leading scorer Geary Claxton tore his ACL with 13 minutes left in the first half at the Bryce Jordan Center.
Team doctor Wayne Sebastianelli said after the game that Claxton hurt [...]
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Posted in Penn State on January 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Fight On State is reporting that DT Tom McEowen is back with the team after taking time off to address “personal issues”.
Impact for 2008: McEowen played sparingly in 2007 as he recovered from preseason knee surgery. In fact, you can’t even find him anywhere on the 2007 cumulative stat sheet. He’s a player who many [...]
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Posted in Penn State, basketball on January 7, 2008 | 9 Comments »
For once, the light at the end of the tunnel may not be an oncoming train.
Penn State opens up the Big Ten basketball season with consecutive road victories. Recap from Black Shoe Diaries. Video and other statistical brilliance from the minty-fresh Happy Valley Hoops.
Sometime this week, assuming the deities of scheduling and free time conspire, we’ll [...]
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