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2012 record: 8-4 2012 conference record: 6-2 (second, Leaders Division) Returning starters: Offense: 8; defense: 6, kicker/punter: 2 Top returners RB Zach Zwinak, WR Allen Robinson, TE Kyle Carter, OG John Urschel, OT Donovan Smith, DE Deion ...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Saturday's annual scrimmage, known as the Blue-White Game, will offer fans a nice reprieve as they wait more than 20 weeks for the college season to kick off. Saturday will be the first time most of last season's freshmen wil...

Joe Cowart sat behind his desk last spring and watched as students filed into his classroom. And every day he spotted a certain basketball player, the teacher/football coach always had a comment waiting. "You look like an athlete who'd make the NF...

Safeties coach Anthony Midget didn't dwell on the difficulties of becoming accustomed to another defense or meshing with his players' personalities after less than three months on the job. No, the assistant coach who was hired Feb. 14 instead used...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- While Bill O'Brien's voice carried over the field Monday afternoon, quarterbacks coach Charlie Fisher directed his players in a calmer manner. During position drills at Penn State's first spring practice, Fisher stood about f...

Penn State assistant Larry Johnson usually doesn't usually travel to Michigan high schools to offer juniors. But then again, he doesn't often come across defensive ends like the recruit he saw Thursday either. Malik McDowell (Detroit, Mich./Loyola...

The season is only two weeks old, but the redshirt picture is already becoming a little clearer. Four true freshmen are listed on the depth chart but haven't seen any time on the field. Six freshmen have already burned their redshirts. And three a...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- All eyes were on Matt McGloin as he focused on short routes and impressed on intermediate, 15- to 20-yard ones during Tuesday afternoon's practice. He threw only one incompletion on his last six throws - a ball that sailed ab...

Penn State's 2012 recruiting class didn't make ESPN's top 25 class rankings -- nor were any recruits ranked in the ESPN 150 -- but this class could graduate as one of the most memorable for other reasons. No offensive prospect (and only one defensive...