The Penn State football roster turnstile keeps moving, with transfers coming, several Nittany Lions seeking other opportunities and new recruits on the horizon. According to Twitter and internet reports, the Lions have added four transfers in the past week — Temple defensive end Arnold ...
STATE COLLEGE — Freshman Maddie Burke drilled seven 3-pointers and graduate student Kelly Jekot recorded a double-double, but the Penn State women’s basketball team couldn’t slow down the nation’s second-best scoring offense as No. 14 Maryland claimed a 96-82 victory in Big Ten action ...
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The Penn State men’s basketball team overcame a 12-point deficit at Indiana in the waning minutes of regulation to force overtime, but the Nittany Lions eventually dropped a tough road contest, 87-85, Wednesday night at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. The Nittany Lions ...
Interscholastic and youth sports can resume in-person practice and competition beginning Monday morning as previously planned, Gov. Tom Wolf announced at a press conference Wednesday afternoon. Wolf announced the mitigation efforts put into place on Dec. 12 to help slow the spread of COVID-19 ...
Seventeen area players and Jersey Shore coach Tom Gravish were all honored on the Pennsylvania Football News All-State football team over the weekend. The PFN all-state team is nominated and selected entirely by coaches from around the state. This year, more than 200 coaches responded to ...
The 2020 high school football season was one like no other. Despite various cancellations and setbacks this fall due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was a memorable one for many of the teams in the area. Here is the 2020 All-Express football team. QUARTERBACK BRANDEN WHEARY, JERSEY ...
The winter sports season is set to start Jan.4, which is when Gov. Tom Wolf’s suspension of youth and interscholastic sports is set to expire. The PIAA announced Tuesday it is reducing the number of required preseason practices from 15 to 10 prior to competition. The change was made in ...
Jersey Shore’s football program put together one of its best seasons this past fall. The Bulldogs went 11-1 with their lone loss coming to Thomas Jefferson in the PIAA Class AAAA championship game at Hersheypark Stadium. Jersey Shore played excellent offensively, had an outstanding defense ...
The PIAA Board of Directors voted unanimously Tuesday to postpone the Team Wrestling Championships until after the individual state tournament which is scheduled to finish March 13. The move came as the state’s governing body for high school sports tries to give as much opportunity for ...
Central Mountain graduate and former Penn State standout Robbie Gould moved up the NFL ranks after Sunday’s game with the San Francisco 49ers. Gould kicked his 400th career field goal, becoming just the 11th player in NFL history to reach 400 career made field goals. He also moved up the ...
STATE COLLEGE — The Penn State women’s basketball team came out on the short end of a 91-87 nail-biter Sunday afternoon to Purdue in Penn State’s Big Ten opener at the Bryce Jordan Center. Sophomore Makenna Marisa led five Nittany Lions in double figures with a career-best 26 points. ...
One of the oldest sayings in sports goes like this: It’s not whether you win or lose but how you play the game. In the case of the 2020 Penn State football team, the final part of that saying could be changed to “that you played the game.” The record book will say 4-5 — the Nittany ...
Penn State’s season is over. The Nittany Lions buried Illinois, 56-21, Saturday at Beaver Stadium, their fourth consecutive win after an 0-5 start, and an hour later announced they will be bypassing a bowl bid. The decision was made by the players and “fully supported” by coach James ...
Some nitpicking as Penn State’s home season (for sure this time) concludes: • With three games canceled, and uncertainty over the availability of some key Ohio State players in the Big Ten title game, there’s an anti-climatic cloud over the entire conference today, and, surely, Penn ...
Penn State's season is over. The Nittany Lions buried Illinois, 56-21, Saturday at Beaver Stadium, their fourth-straight win after an 0-5 start, and an hour later announced they will be bypassing a bowl bid. The decision was made by the players and "fully supported" by coach James Franklin ...
Steve Hafele has been named as Central Mountain’s new athletic director. Hafele takes over for George Bidwell, who has been the interim athletic director for Central Mountain. Hafele was a health and physical education teacher at Central Dauphin High school prior to accepting the position ...
Jersey Shore and Central Mountain had a handful of players named to the Heartland-Division I football all-star team, which was released Thursday. The Bulldogs — who reached the PIAA Class AAAA championship game against Thomas Jefferson — had 14 athletes honored, including the HAC Overall ...
To say that the sports seasons have been some of the strangest and challenging would be a gross understatement. The current situation in PIAA is that the winter sports are shutdown until Jan. 4. District 6 chair Bill Marshall announced the following: The PIAA Board of Directors held a work ...
Penn State revealed its football recruiting Class of 2021 on Wednesday afternoon which features 15 incoming players from seven states and one from Ontario, Canada. Of the 15, four are from Pennsylvania and four are from Michigan. While there's talented scattered throughout – all are at least ...
The following are the highlights of Penn State coach James Franklin’s Tuesday press conference. The Nittany Lions host Illinois on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. (FS1). MAIN STORYLINE With Penn State set to reveal its 2021 recruiting class with the early-signing period beginning today, Franklin ...