Position Profile: Defensive Line
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With less than two weeks until Penn State takes on Youngstown State, the mixing and matching of the spring and summer is starting to die down. The starting lineup and rotation is mostly set, and we’re taking a look as just how each position stacks …

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Finances force Notre Dame into the Big Ten
March 31, 2008 – 4:28 pm | View Comments
Finances force Notre Dame into the Big Ten

In a stunning turn of events, the Big Ten is no longer just a moniker for the 11 universities that currently fill its ranks.
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish is now officially part of the “Big Ten” conference.
Turbulent Irish-NBC relationship
The process began as early as …

Beaver Stadium will not be seeing Fergie’s Humps
March 30, 2008 – 4:28 pm | View Comments

 
Apparently this is not isolated to Fergie and Penn State. All performances scheduled to take place as part of the Gridiron Bash are canceled and as of now, no ticket refund policy has been announced by MSL Sports & Entertainment.
The Gridiron Bash, a football pep …

Penn State trumps Buckeyes and Wolverines
March 29, 2008 – 4:27 pm | View Comments

 
Lions are sitting at #2 in the latest Division I U.S. Sports Academy Directors’ Cup standings, 95.75 points behind first place Stanford. Thats not a lot if you consider that they offer 100 points for a championship, any championship.
The Lions are ahead of #3 Ohio …

And then there were none
March 29, 2008 – 4:27 pm | View Comments

 
Boy, was I wrong. All year long, the critics were loud and clear. The nation’s #6 ranked conference in the RPIs was too weak to compete with the big boys this year. 4 seeds to the Big Ten were more than most were willing to …

Spring Practice Roundtable
March 27, 2008 – 4:27 pm | View Comments
Spring Practice Roundtable

Several Penn State bloggers have decided to put together a round table entering spring practice and I was lucky enough to take part in this one. And this year’s participants are:
Black Shoe Diaries
The Nittany Line
There is No Name on My Jersey
Tangled Up in White and …

Rocky Top in Columbus
March 27, 2008 – 4:26 pm | View Comments
Rocky Top in Columbus

This just in:
It’s still a little more than a decade away, but mark September 1st, 2018, on your calender right now.
On that day the Vols will open their football season with a big battle against Ohio State University in Knoxville. It will be followed by …

Nittany Lion’s Offensive firepower: Quarterbacks
March 27, 2008 – 4:26 pm | View Comments
Nittany Lion’s Offensive firepower: Quarterbacks

Quarterback

#

Height
Weight
Games
Played/ Started
Comp-Att-Int
Yards
TD
Effic

15
Paul Cianciolo
*Sr
6-2
219
-
0-0-0
-
-
-

17
Daryll Clark
Sr
6-4
231
8/0
6-9-0
31
0
95.60

7
Pat Devlin
*So.
6-4
222
4/1
0-1-0
0
0
0.00

In reality, this is a 2 horse race between Daryll Clark and Pat Devlin. The common assumption is that Clark is the scrambler and Devlin is the strong armed quarterback.
Reports say “[Clark] lacks the speed to be an electrifying homerun threat …

How sweet it is
March 26, 2008 – 4:26 pm | View Comments
How sweet it is

 
 

Record
overall

31-4

28-6

27-8

35-1

conference

19-2

16-2

13-7

19-0

against
tournament
teams

8-4

3-3

5-5

10-1

Resume
RPI

10

34

15

3

SOS

58

129

41

27

Quality Wins

13

0

11

15

Team Stats
per game
Points

67.6

78.8

71.1

79.9

Turnovers

12.2

12.3

13.7

12.2

Rebounds

38.4

38.3

41.1

43.3

Free throw %

0.707

0.719

0.739

0.597

3pt %

0.356

0.367

0.374

0.353

Blocks

3.3

3.4

4.3

6.1

With everyone dubbing Curry and the Davidson Wildcats as this year’s Cinderella team, what does that make the Badgers? The wicked stepmother? From the way the audience is tortured with their style of play, they might very well be. …

One Shining Moment
March 26, 2008 – 4:26 pm | View Comments
One Shining Moment

Spring football has begun, but amidst all this March Madness hoopla, we’d like to put out our very own ‘One Shining Moment’ montage to Penn State football before we are force fed more North Carolina, Duke, Memphis and Kansas videos by CBS.
Before that, do we …

Time to pick sides
March 25, 2008 – 4:25 pm | View Comments
Time to pick sides

If you have ever encountered the legend himself, you would know he is not the ruthless coach you see on media day. He is the proud grandfather of 16, and 5 children. He is the father figure for over 100 student athletes a year that …