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CHICAGO -- Penn State athletic director Dave Joyner jokes with his Pitt counterpart Steve Pederson about scheduling football games somewhere on the Pennsylvania Turnpike between State College and Pittsburgh. It's unlikely the Nittany Lions and Pan...

Coach Bill O'Brien is no longer new to the Penn State program and its players, but after the departure of a special senior class, the Lions are starting over for the 2013 season. Colleague Ivan Maisel was in State College this spring and writes ab...

Penn State's Bill O'Brien has earned another coaching honor for his Year 1 success in State College, and the latest award has a link to his predecessor. O'Brien on Thursday night was named the Bear Bryant Coach of the Year winner at a ceremony in ...

Election Day edition. Peter from State College, Pa., writes: I was wondering if you could explain why Manti Te'o gets so much love from the media while Michael Mauti is left out to dry. Mauti is better in most statistical categories (except INT's)...

Rob Bolden and Paul Jones both arrived at Penn State as heralded quarterback recruits with great expectations. It looks like neither man will fulfill them in State College. Two months after Bolden bolted State College for LSU, Jones has left the P...

It was a mass of mixed emotions Saturday at Beaver Stadium. Penn State fans hopscotched between yesterday, today and tomorrow, anger, sadness and hope. If one thing is certain, it appears the Nittany Lions will be stuck between now and then for some time.

Penn State players know next Saturday's season opener against Ohio won't resemble a normal football game. After an offseason filled with change, NCAA sanctions, scandal residue and constant tension around State College, the emotion at Beaver Stadi...

Illinois made waves last week by sending eight assistant coaches to State College to try to lure Penn State players. The aggressive and controversial approach has yielded at least one Nittany Lion. Offensive lineman Ryan Nowicki, a redshirt freshm...

The Joe Paterno statue, located on the west side of Beaver Stadium in State College, has been one of the most-discussed topics in the wake of Louis Freeh's scathing report on the failures of top Penn State officials, including Paterno, to stop child ...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- The day after Louis Freeh and his investigative team exposed Penn State's ugliest scar, one that never can be concealed, a different side of the school revealed itself. Across University Drive from the football complex where ...

A day after the Freeh report detailed the failure of Penn State's leaders, the campus began to show a different side.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- As the sun set on a dark day in Happy Valley, Matt Williams and his friends decided to pay Joe a visit. Wearing Penn State T-shirts, Williams and his three companions approached the Joe Paterno statue flanking Beaver Stadium....

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Maybe it's a blessing that Mauti follows Massaro in the alphabet. Much like seating assignments in a class, football lockers are often distributed according to surnames. As a result, Penn State senior defenders Pete Massaro a...

Penn State has experienced unparalleled turmoil in the last five months, starting with the scandal that rocked State College through its first spring without Joe Paterno. But the players have shown a resiliency that should benefit them come fall.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- New Penn State coach Bill O'Brien reiterates he has not watched and will not watch one frame of film from the team's 2011 season. That's not necessarily good news for Nittany Lions defenders Gerald Hodges and Jordan Hill. Bot...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- When Penn State running back Silas Redd sat down to watch Super Bowl XLVI, he had two goals in mind. 1. Go Giants! 2. Study the New England Patriots' offense, which would soon become his offense at Penn State under new coa...