UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State women’s basketball’s player Gracie Merkle earned a spot on the Lisa Leslie Center of the Year Preseason Top 20 Watchlist on Friday. This award honors the best centers in women’s college basketball and is presented by the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. ...
Ethan Grunkemeyer grew up in Lewis Center, Ohio — about 30 minutes from the Horseshoe. Saturday, he’ll make his second career start with the Nittany Lions (3-4 overall, 0-4 in the Big Ten) against the nation’s top-ranked team, the 7-0 Buckeyes (noon, Fox). “Ever since I was a kid, I ...
Sorting through the blue and white mailbag: Neil: “Football is our backbone,” according to Pat Kraft. No, football is a game, student education is the backbone. The Big Ten provides a stage, and thanks to prior leadership, the Lions are on that stage. A few wins or losses either way ...
Penn State will play Ohio State for the 41st time in the series on Saturday, and it will be the last meeting for at least the next two seasons. Mark me as a fan of the new expanded conference with the four West Coast schools joining the Big Ten, which is as strong as ever in football with ...
After four consecutive losses and the firing of the team’s head coach, this week’s Penn State-Ohio State game comes with a little less media attention and hype. It also comes with fewer complaints from blue-and-white fans. After all, the typical whining about a noon game on Fox pales in ...
The seabed of college football is littered with multiple shipwrecks of a promising season. While Penn State’s season seems destined to be regarded as the supreme cataclysm, the implosions of Florida State, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Arkansas — all winless in conference play — ...
