Once again, Penn State placed a wrestler in five of the 10 NCAA championship bouts. The Nittany Lions wrapped up the team title hours before any of them stepped on the mat Saturday. Forget that […]
STATE COLLEGE — More than 30 minutes after his final public workout prior to the NFL draft had ended, Connor McGovern was nowhere to be found. Some half of an hour earlier, McGovern walked straight […]
Tommy Stevens and Ricky Slade may well line up next to each other in the backfield for the first snap of the season. But between now and Penn State’s Aug. 31 opener, there’s plenty that […]
The odds of Tommy Stevens being in this spot were extremely low. He wasn’t even supposed to be at Penn State — period — let alone heading into his final spring practice in State College […]
Amani Oruwariye hadn’t gone through on-field drills yet at the NFL scouting combine. But the Penn State cornerback was feeling confident after watching six of his teammates turn in strong performances ahead of him. “We […]
Fair or not, Miles Sanders had to spend all of 2018 being compared to Saquon Barkley. Little surprise, then, that it carried over into 2019 at the NFL scouting combine. After the Penn State running […]
Three years later, a brief experiment at Penn State may be paying off for Connor McGovern. An early enrollee in Happy Valley at the start of 2016, McGovern arrived and was thrown in the mix […]
Penn State recently went nearly nine full years in between punt return touchdowns. For the Nittany Lions, it felt like an eternity. Imagine, then, an FBS record 21-year drought on kick return touchdowns like Memphis […]
George Campbell badly needed a fresh start. Penn State badly needed bodies in its wide receiver room. And size. And seniority. And help in general. So, for the first time this offseason, the NCAA’s transfer […]
Signing day came and went. And for the first time since James Franklin’s opening weeks as Penn State coach, the Nittany Lions didn’t have a quarterback already committed for the next year’s recruiting class. Until […]
The question was about keeping Phil Galiano on staff. The answer, perhaps tellingly, didn’t mention Phil Galiano at all. Last Wednesday, Penn State coach James Franklin kept it vague when asked about his embattled special […]
In December’s early signing period, James Franklin invoked the ‘D’ word. “We really don’t want drama,” the Penn State coach said about recruiting. “For us, we want to build strong relationships with parents, with high […]
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