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Furious finish helps Nittany Lions avoid upset at home to Fairfield

UNIVERSITY PARK — The Penn State men’s basketball team spent the final 3:28 on a 16-2 run, including 11 unanswered points in the final two minutes, to earn a gritty 76-68 season-opening victory over Fairfield Monday night inside the Jordan Center. The back-and-forth battle saw 13 lead ...

Hoosiers OL will miss Penn State game

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — No. 2 Indiana will be without starting guard Drew Evans when it plays Saturday at Penn State. Evans also missed last weekend’s 55-10 victory at Maryland with an undisclosed injury after starting the Hoosiers’ first eight games. He was replaced by Zen Michalski, an Ohio State transfer who primarily has played tackle during his career. Coach Curt Cignetti didn’t have an update on receiver Elijah Sarratt, who left last weekend’s game with a hamstring injury and didn’t return. He sounded hopeful of getting back linebacker Aiden Fisher, a preseason ...

PSU Altoona women’s soccer coach celebrates milestone victory

Penn State Altoona women’s head soccer coach Pam Snyder-Etters very recently celebrated her 100th career victory at the helm of the program. This is a stellar achievement as Etters, like most PSU branch campus coaches, is only in a part-time coaching position. She must handle every aspect ...

McMiller, Merkle spark PSU women’s basketball to opening win

UNIVERSITY PARK — The Penn State women’s basketball team scored an 83-55 season-opening victory over Bucknell Monday night at Rec Hall. Sophomore guard Kiyomi McMiller and redshirt junior center Gracie Merkle’s 20-plus-point performances, along with efficient team defense, powered Penn ...

There’s no defending this Penn State defense

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Of the endless compilation of issues that have plagued the Penn State football team this year — resulting in the firing of James Franklin and what is now a five-game losing streak — the Nittany Lions’ defense must take its rightful place at the top of the ...

For Grunkemeyer, trip home bittersweet

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Penn State quarterback Ethan Grunkemeyer went to high school only 16 miles from Ohio Stadium, making for quite a homecoming in just his second start as a Nittany Lion. Although it wasn’t the result he wanted with the Lions’ 38-14 loss to Ohio State, it was a day he will ...