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Positive coronavirus tests shut down Penn State wrestling program
The Penn State wrestling team shut down because of positive coronavirus tests within the program just days before its scheduled season opener, the school announced Wednesday. The Nittany Lions were set to open the season Saturday at Rutgers. The schools and Big Ten will work to reschedule the match. Penn...
Big Ten releases updated January schedule for Penn State men’s basketball
The Penn State men’s basketball team currently is scheduled to visit Purdue in Big Ten Conference play Sunday afternoon. Now, the Nittany Lions know when they will play previously postponed conference home games against Rutgers and Wisconsin. The conference Wednesday announced an updated January schedule for Penn State, which also...
Young Penn State wrestling roster opens season with typically great expectations
Penn State opens the wrestling season Friday at Rutgers, and veteran coach Cael Sanderson said a starting lineup has yet to be decided. The Nittany Lions are coming off a 12-2 season and a fourth-place finish in the Big Ten tournament. They return seven starters from that squad. They must...
PSU fires OC Kirk Ciarrocca after 1 season, names Cal (Pa.) grad Mike Yurcich as replacement
Penn State coach James Franklin will work with his third offensive coordinator in three seasons after hiring Mike Yurcich on Friday as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach to replace Kirk Ciarrocca, who is gone after one season. Welcome Coach Yurcich (@Coach_Yurcich)!?: pic.twitter.com/eddLVIg5TJ— Penn State Football (@PennStateFball) January 8, 2021...
Wide receiver Jahan Dotson returning to Penn State
Speculation Penn State could lose its most exciting offensive player to the NFL Draft ran rampant late this season. Jahan Dotson ended it Thursday. The all-Big Ten receiver announced he will to return to Happy Valley for his fourth season in the fall, looking to build off a breakout junior...
Penn State men’s basketball program shuts down after positive covid-19 tests
Having already postponed its past two games, the Penn State men’s basketball team is shutting down through at least Jan. 12, the school announced Wednesday. Games against Michigan on Saturday and Rutgers on Tuesday have been postponed. The Big Ten will make an attempt to reschedule, Penn State said. Penn...
Penn State-Ohio State basketball postponed due to positive covid-19 tests
Penn State’s men’s basketball game scheduled for Wednesday at Ohio State has been postponed due to positive covid-19 tests in the Nittany Lions program. “Individuals with a positive test have been put into isolation. In addition to isolation, contact tracing procedures have been implemented, which includes quarantine and testing for...
Penn State, Wisconsin postpone Sunday’s men’s basketball game
Penn State’s men’s basketball team won’t get the chance to stop its three-game losing streak Sunday after its game against No. 6 Wisconsin, scheduled for the Bryce Jordan Center, was postponed. School officials said the postponement was mutually agreed upon between the schools due to “an abundance of caution for...
Steel-High’s Mehki Flowers commits to play football at Penn State
Mehki Flowers started the new year by announcing a new journey with the Penn State football team. The junior from Steelton-Highspire in Harrisburg announced on Twitter a verbal commitment to the Nittany Lions on Friday morning. “Gear me up @coachjfranklin lol. Super excited to get started with you, Let’s make...
From BLM to rallying teammates, how McKeesport grad Johnasia Cash found her voice with Penn State women’s basketball
Johnasia Cash realized in July that she wanted more out of her experience as a college basketball player. She wanted to freely express herself. She wanted her voice to be heard. She wanted to continue to grow as a player. So, the 6-foot-2 forward — a three-year starter for Dallas’...
Sports stories of the year: Steelers’ historic start; Pirates achieve infamy
Here we are, in the victory formation to end 2020, looking to run out the clock on a year you probably never want to see again. But before we get to 2021, here’s a look back at some of the top sports stories of the year. Steelers’ record start, sobering...
Indiana pulls out overtime win over Penn State
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Trayce Jackson-Davis scored 21 points and Rob Phinisee hit a stepback jumper for the win as Indiana held off Penn State 87-85 in overtime Wednesday night. Jackson-Davis and Phinisee (11 points) were among five Hoosiers (6-4, 1-2 Big Ten) to score in double figures as Indiana shot...
Year in Review: Pandemic-altered 2020 Pittsburgh sports seasons won’t soon be forgotten
When historians proclaim 2020 as a sports year unlike any other, no hyperbole will be attached to such sentiment. The coronavirus pandemic that affected so many lives across the world also drastically altered the sports landscape, causing major events to be canceled or postponed and impacting athletes from the professional...
Penn State end Jayson Oweh declares for the 2021 NFL Draft
Penn State defensive end Jayson Oweh has declared for the 2021 NFL Draft. The junior from New Jersey made his announcement Saturday, exactly a week after the Nittany Lions’ 4-5 season ended with a victory over Illinois inside of an empty Beaver Stadium. “After careful and precise consideration with my...
Penn State starts fast, fades quickly against No. 18 IllinoisVideo
STATE COLLEGE — Illinois coach Brad Underwood isn’t going to change his mind or his tune all season, especially if Ayo Dosunmu keeps playing like this. Dosunmu scored 21 of his 30 points in the second half to lead the No. 18 Fighting Illini past Penn State, 98-81, on Wednesday...
AP All-Big Ten: Ohio State’s Fields, Penn State’s Toney honored
Quarterback Justin Fields repeated as offensive player of the year and is joined by three of his teammates on The Associated Press All-Big Ten football team announced Tuesday. Defensive end Shaka Toney was the only Penn State player picked for the first team. Penn State guard Mike Miranda, tight end...
Pitt, Penn State, WVU players honored as Pro Football Focus All-Americans
Pitt defensive end Rashad Weaver, Penn State safety Jaquan Brisker and West Virginia slot defender Tykee Smith were named first-team selections Monday to the Pro Football Focus All-America Team. “Weaver finished his season with a 90.0 pass-rush grade and produced multiple pressures in every single game played,” PFF wrote. “And...
PSUAC cancels fall and winter athletic seasons
The athletic programs in the Penn State University Athletic Conference, including Penn State New Kensington, Beaver, Fayette, Greater Allegheny and Shenango, continue to come to terms with Friday’s decision by the conference’s executive committee to cancel all intercollegiate athletics competition for men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s soccer and...
Tim Benz: Wanna blame Notre Dame for College Football Playoff mess? Me too, but we can’t
The easiest thing in the sports world to do is to hate Notre Dame. The arrogance. The individualism. The hype. The specially catered ACC membership rules. The money. The independent television network deal. So when the Fighting Irish were drubbed 34-10 by Clemson in the ACC Championship Game, that resulted...
Completing the season was a triumph for James Franklin and Penn State
At 4-5, Penn State’s football team finished with a losing record. The team’s decision to decline a bowl invitation — made following a 56-21 home win against Illinois on Saturday — will guarantee a sub-.500 mark for the first time since 2004, when many members of the current squad were...
Penn State tight end Pat Freiermuth declares for 2021 NFL Draft
Penn State junior Pat Freiermuth declared for the 2021 NFL Draft. The 2019 All-American and 2020 Big Ten tight end of the year made the expected announcement Sunday, just a day after the Lions topped Illinois, 56-21, to end their season at 4-5. “It has been an absolute honor representing...
Penn State decides against playing in a bowl game
Shortly after winning their fourth straight game, members of the Penn State football team met Saturday night and decided not to participate in a bowl game this season. Coach James Franklin and vice president for intercollegiate athletics Sandy Barbour announced the decision late Saturday, saying it was the players’ decision...
Jahan Dotson powers Penn State past Illinois for 4th straight win
Jahan Dotson sliced his way through Illinois defenders as if he were juking through a gauntlet of orange practice cones on Saturday night. It’s become typical for Penn State’s top wideout who has posted standout performances all season inside Beaver Stadium, where the Nittany Lions (4-5) beat Illinois, 56-21, to...
Jahan Dotson steps up as Penn State’s top wide receiver
Despite being Penn State’s leader in receptions (46), receiving yards (695) and touchdown receptions (six), wide receiver Jahan Dotson still gets chided, albeit in a brotherly way, by his peers. “My teammates always joke around with me saying that I’m not fast,” Dotson said via video conference with media Saturday....
Tim Benz: Adopt the 2020 chaos! Include Cincinnati, Coastal Carolina in College Football Playoff.
The most overused phrase of 2020 is, “Hey, it’s 2020!” Well, allow me to employ it one more time while discussing college football. Hey, it’s 2020! So what better year to bust the College Football Playoff norms than this year? The selection committee should embrace the chaos and admit either...
