Penn State: Could Nittany Lions Kick Themselves in 2010?
Published on: 30th August, 2010
Anthony Fera arrived in Happy Valley from the deep heart of Texas and seemingly headed straight to the head of the line for the Nittany Lions kicking duties. No kicker had ever arrived on campus with more hype than the kid out of the Houston suburbs. Not Chris Bahr, not ...Penn State Just Reloads at Linebacker
Published on: 25th August, 2010
The NFL draft says something about the quality of your defense. That your defensive coordinator and head coach aren’t sweating bullets over who is going to replace that trio says a great deal about the depth of your program. When Sean Lee, Navarro Bowman, and Josh Hull packed their bags this past ...Penn State Football: QB Battle Still a Three-Horse Race
Published on: 19th August, 2010
The quarterback who was supposed to lead the Nittany Lions against the defending National Champions on September 11th checked into his dorm ten days ago and began preparations for his senior year. The problem for Joe Paterno is that Pat Devlin checked into a dorm at the University of Delaware. For a ...Joe Paterno and the Penn State Nittany Lions: Has the End Begun?
Published on: 30th July, 2010
Joe Paterno has had one of those summers that he would rather forget. For a guy who hates doctors, he’s seen one too many of them this summer. For a guy who likes some down time at his beach house in the summer, he hasn’t had enough of it. For a ...Steeler Nation Has Nervous Breakdown Over Ben Roethlisberger’s Transgressions
Published on: 14th April, 2010
My grandfather used to tell me, "The bigger they are the harder they fall." Back then, he was talking about the physical end of the games that I played and my willingness to lower the shoulder and hit someone harder, but had he lived to see the year 2010, he could ...Is This The End of The Echoes for Notre Dame?
Published on: 24th November, 2009
Its 1996 and all is well in South Bend. The Irish are in the same sentence with the powers that be in college football and their coach is one of the best known figures in sports because he wins and is a great motivator. If I had stopped by the ...Nittany Lions: Special Teams Are Not Special in Happy Valley
Published on: 8th November, 2009
Most of the 110,000 fans in Beaver Stadium got up quietly at the end of Saturday's 24-7 thumping and went home. They took the Nittany Lions chance at a BCS Bowl game with them on the trip. The Lions had put themselves in more than a good position to go big ...Why the Penn State-Pitt Game’s Time Has Passed
Published on: 29th October, 2009
Like the swallows returning every year to San Juan Capistrano, you just knew this week was coming. It comes every year, right? Some sportswriter gets bored, drags out the "why doesn't Penn State play Pitt anymore" line and stands back while the mouth-breathers from both sides emerge from their caves ...Penn State-Eastern Illinois: Follow The Money
Published on: 8th October, 2009
The name Eastern Illinois appears on the Penn State schedule this year right alongside storied franchises such as Syracuse, Michigan, and Ohio State. It's no misprint. The game kicks off at noon, just like the piece of paper says. But it shouldn't be that way. Eastern Illinois is the Nittany Lions' 12th ...Penn State Nittany Lions Run to Redemption
Published on: 5th October, 2009
A week after their BCS hopes apparently crashed and burned, the Nittany Lions went back to basics and on the road for the first time this year to scenic Champaign, Ill. The offense that sputtered and died a week earlier in Happy Valley at the hands of Iowa packed something ...Featured Sponsors
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