Breaking News

Penn State news

Duke wins freshman wrestling award

From Mirror reports UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State wrestling’s PJ Duke was named Big Ten Wrestling Freshman of the Week on Thursday. Duke picked up Penn State’s first weekly honor of the year. He pinned No. 23 Jared Hill of Wyoming at the 4:09 mark in the second period of their 157-pound match-up last weekend. Duke, a true freshman, pinned the Cowboy graduate student after taking him down four times. Duke’s fall was one of four for Penn State in the Nittany Lions’ 40-7 victory at Wyoming. Duke improved to 6-0 on the year with five pins and an injury default ...

Brief stint with PSU football still left imprint on DC

Just a year removed from Penn State’s program, Clemson defensive coordinator Tom Allen will be coaching against his former team. After being the head coach at Indiana two years ago, Allen was the defensive coordinator for the Nittany Lions for a year before moving on to Clemson in the same ...

Penn State hires Noah Pauley as new WR coach

Penn State’s new receivers coach is coming with Matt Campbell from Iowa State. On3.com reported on Tuesday that Noah Pauley will handle the position for the Nittany Lions. Pauley replaces Marques Hagans. FootballScoop’s wide receiver coach of the year in 2024, Pauley helped develop Jayden Higgins (second round, 2025, Houston) and Jaylin Noel (third round, 2025, also Houston) at Iowa State. He previously coached Green Bay’s Christian Watson at North Dakota State. Pauley was a four-year starting receiver at Minnesota-Duluth, where he started his coaching career in 2011.

Nittany Lion wrestlers cruise past Cowboys

LARAMIE, WY — The Penn State wrestling team improved to 4-0 Saturday night, thanks to a 40-7 win over Wyoming in collegiate action. The Cowboys fell to 2-3. The Nittany Lions tallied four pins in the victory. A Wyoming wrestling all-time record crowd of 4,686 watched the Nittany Lions add two technical falls to its four pins and won the first eight bouts of the dual meet. The falls went to Marcus Blaze (133), Shayne Van Ness (149), P.J. Duke (157) and Mitchell Mesenbrink (165). Penn State posted a 20-8 takedown edge over Wyoming. The Nittany Lions tallied 16 bonus points off four ...

Report: Penn State defensive coordinator leaves for Vols

Penn State defensive coordinator Jim Knowles is expected to be named the new DC at Tennessee, according to published reports. CBS college football writer Matt Zenitz confirmed Wednesday that Knowles, who spent one year on James Franklin’s staff as the highest paid coordinator in the country ...

Terry Smith excited about Pinstripe Bowl opportunity

Terry Smith’s tenure as the Nittany Lions’ interim coach has been “the greatest seven weeks of my coaching career,” and he hopes it can end with a victory over Clemson in the Dec. 27 Pinstripe Bowl at Yankee Stadium. “The opportunity to represent my alma mater and sit at the very ...