Following is Neil Rudel’s report card from Penn State’s 25-24 loss to Iowa on Saturday night at Kinnick Stadium: Quarterback: C+ For his first start, on the road, at night, Grunk did OK. He was 15 of 28 for just 93 yards, but he managed the line of scrimmage well and made some key ...
DAYTON, Ohio — The Penn State men’s basketball team dropped a 78-62 exhibition game at Dayton Sunday afternoon at UD Arena. The charity exhibition game was held in support of adolescent and young adult mental health and suicide prevention. The exhibition game does not count toward official records or statistics. The Nittany Lions were down five at the half, but couldn’t get their offense going in the second half. Penn State finished the game shooting 39.3 percent from the field compared to Dayton’s 48.4. Freshman Kayden Mingo and redshirt junior Freddie Dilione V led the ...
James Franklin put some closure on his Penn State tenure by appearing as a guest on ESPN Gameday Saturday morning. Franklin said he was “pretty much in shock” after being informed of his dismissal last Sunday afternoon by Athletic Director Pat Kraft, who according to Franklin, “walked in and said, ‘We’re going to make a change, I’m sorry.’’ The Nittany Lions (3-3) were ranked No. 2 by the Associated Press to start this season but lost three straight, including to a pair of unranked teams, which sparked fan unrest and "Fire Franklin" chants at Beaver Stadium. ...
IOWA CITY – The post-James Franklin era began the way it ended. Penn State fell to Iowa, 25-24, Saturday night at Kinnick Stadium and extended the Nittany Lions’ losing streak to four games. It was their first game under interim head coach Terry Smith, who took over for Franklin following the 12-year coach's dismissal last Sunday. PSU is now 3-4 on the season. Iowa improved to 5-2. Penn State led 24-19 with 4:56 remaining, but the Lions’ defense collapsed. It allowed Iowa quarterback Mark Gronowski to burst 67 yards to the PSU 8, and Kaden Wetjen finished it off with an 8-yard ...
This is the most tumultuous week of Penn State football since Joe Paterno was abruptly fired in 2011. Tom Bradley was named the interim coach at that time, and in their first game after the controversial dismissal, in an emotion-filled Beaver Stadium, the Nittany Lions played tough against ...
UNIVERSITY PARK — Junior Matt DiMarsico registered his second hat-trick of the season as No. 6 Penn State erased a two-goal deficit in a come-from-behind, 5-4, overtime victory against Long Island University in non-conference action at Pegula Ice Arena on Friday night. DiMarsico joins classmate Aiden Fink and sophomore JJ Wiebusch as the only Nittany Lions all-time to secure multiple games with three or more goals in a career. The junior also became the only Penn State player all-time to tally multiple hat-tricks in the same season. DiMarsico’s hat-trick is the 17th all-time and ...
