UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State’s Koby Howard caught nine passes as a true freshman last year for a team-high 19.1 yards per reception. It was an encouraging start at a position screaming for big-play productivity. And yet, asked Tuesday what he learned most from 2025, Howard said: “A lot ...
Last year’s Blue-White Game didn’t look anything like a normal spring game from the past. There were drills being ran in position groups. The popular 7-on-7 “skeleton” drill was part of it. Offensive and defensive lines ran pass protection and pass rushing 1-on-1 drills. At the end, there was a little bit of a scrimmage held in a thud format, rather than wrapping up and tackling. In other words, there isn’t much of a game to be played any longer. The 2026 edition of the Nittany Lions is now just embracing that sentiment by now calling it the Blue-White Practice. And ...
Anyone who wants to see the highlight event of Blue-White Weekend at Penn State, some on-field activity at Beaver Stadium that’s no longer a game and at best a practice, will have to do so in person. It’s kind of an old-school, throwback weekend in Happy Valley that way. Forget 2026, it will feel several decades earlier Saturday — maybe not by what happens in the stadium or on the field, but by how people access it. Or not. There’s no planned TV coverage of the practice session for the football team and no radio coverage, either. As of this writing, there’s not even any ...
Just when conference affiliations in college football seemed to stabilize, two conferences traditionally associated with the far west shuffled the deck once more. Not to worry. Four full months span Penn State’s Blue-White Weekend and Week 0 of the college football season, which is plenty of time to memorize the new members of the Pac-12 and Mountain West Conference. Not so long ago, it was easy to rattle off the teams in the Pac-12 if you could remember that two teams each were located in Arizona, Southern California, Northern California, Oregon and Washington and one each in Utah ...
UNIVERSITY PARK — Fans traveling to Penn State’s Blue-White Practice should be aware of active construction projects that will result in road closures and detours in the State College area. Penn State Athletics encourages all attendees to review the information below and plan travel accordingly ahead of what is expected to be a busy weekend. Fans can visit the Blue-White Central webpage, https://gopsusports.com/sports/2026/4/2/blue-white-central.aspx, which serves as the central hub for all event information and complete Blue-White Weekend details. Innovation Park/Penn State ...
UNIVERSITY PARK — Ready, set, run with Special Olympics Pennsylvania (SOPA). More than 2,500 runners and walkers are expected to participate in the 17th annual Paterno Family Beaver Stadium Run, presented by Sheetz. The run will take place at 11 a.m. Sunday at Penn State’s University Park campus. Runners and walkers of all ages and abilities will have the chance to participate in a 5K run or the Mount Nittany Health 2-mile Family Fun Walk. The Run will take participants through Penn State’s scenic campus before entering the famous Beaver Stadium tunnel and finishing on the ...
