ATLANTA — If bowl games are typically a combination of an end of one season and the beginning of the next, Penn State badly failed on both fronts Saturday at the Peach Bowl. The Nittany Lions were drubbed by Mississippi, 38-25, and thus ended 2023 with a thud, falling to 10-3 and going 0-3 ...
ATLANTA — This could be called “The Moving Parts Bowl.” Then again, given the state of college football, now dominated at this time of the year by the transfer portal, behind-the-scenes NIL maneuvering and coaching moves, they all could. Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin admits he’s approaching today’s Peach Bowl against the Nittany Lions (noon, ESPN) with too much uncertainty. “We really don’t know what to expect,” he said. Kiffin was referring to the Nittany Lions’ defense, which lost coordinator Manny Diaz to Duke after the season. In his place, safeties coach ...
Fifty years ago, on December 28, 1973, President Richard Nixon signed The Endangered Species Act into law. The full title of the ESA was “an Act to provide for the conservation of endangered and threatened species of fish, wildlife, and plants, and for other purposes.” The Supreme Court of the United States once called it “the most comprehensive legislation for the preservation of endangered species enacted by any nation.” Appeals for meaningful legislation to protect and conserve wildlife began to garner support in the early years of the twentieth century after the severe ...
UNIVERSITY PARK — College football is screaming for leadership. In the past couple of weeks, you’ve heard from the likes of James Franklin and Pat Kraft that “tampering is rampant,” and “it’s the wild, wild West.” It really wasn’t that long ago that teams accepted bowl bids in late November or early December and then all but drew their shades until reporting to the bowl site. Now, with the addition of the transfer portal and NIL (Name, Image and Likeness), not to mention a December signing day that previously didn’t exist, coaches’ heads are spinning. Agents ...
Saint Francis University Communications Professor Pat Farabaugh is currently writing a book on Penn State undefeated 1969 football season. It was the last game of the 1968 season — the Orange Bowl game against Kansas on Jan. 1, 1969 — that served notice to fans across the country that there was a program in the East that was building something special. Below is an excerpt from Farabaugh’s forthcoming book on that Orange Bowl game, one that will mark its 55th anniversary on Jan. 1. Less than 24 hours after ringing in the start of a new year, the Penn State football program ...
The local FC814 u-16 Energy girls soccer team, which won its national Classic League in the Great Lakes Conference this past year, continues to be on a roll. The team went undefeated at 3-0-0 and won its bracket at the Worldwide Sports Complex in Orlando, Fla., on Dec. 8-11 where the top 40 teams in the nation gathered to battle for a spot in the United States Youth Soccer National Championships, which will also be held in Orlando. It is the first team from our area to accomplish this feat. Energy coach Marc Frye said there were teams from all over the country among the 40 teams in ...
