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Penn State men’s basketball signs Turkish guard; Ex-Nittany Lion Rafferty dies

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State men’s basketball coach Mike Rhoades announced the signing of 6-foot-5 Turkish guard Melih Tunca ahead of the 2025-26 season. Tunca played the 2024-25 season with Turk Telekom in the Turkish Basketball Super League, the top professional league in Turkey, earning Young Player of the Regular Season honors. He averaged 6.7 points, 2.2 assists and 1.1 rebounds per game through 30 games while shooting 55.0 percent from 2-point range, 47.5 percent from 3-point range and 96.4 percent from the free throw line. “He has size and length that we love, with the ...

Future of CFP still up in the air, Penn State’s James Franklin says

UNIVERSITY PARK — The College Football Playoffs are evolving even faster than NIL and the transfer portal. It seems inevitable that the field will expand to 16 teams, possibly as soon as the 2026 season. The management committee for the CFP recently modified the seeding where the top four ...

PSU Altoona swimming moving out of AMCC

The Penn State Altoona men’s and women’s swimming program becomes one of three Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference teams to transition to a different league, it was announced on Thursday, when the Lions joined fellow conference schools Penn State Behrend and Pitt-Bradford in moving to ...

Penn State Altoona baseball’s Alex Hlivia receives academic honor

Penn State Altoona baseball senior middle infielder Alex Hlivia was named to the College Sports Communicators’ NCAA Division III Academic All-District team for the third consecutive year. Hlivia, who graduated in May with a degree in Kinesiology, started 36 games for the Lions during the ...

White Out game with Oregon set for prime time for Penn State football

UNIVERSITY PARK — The 2025 Penn State White Out is set for prime time as the Nittany Lions welcome Oregon to West Shore Home Field at Beaver Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 27. The game is slated for a 7:30 p.m. kickoff on NBC. The Big Ten also announced kick times and television designations ...