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Penn State’s Tariq Castro-Fields hoping to stay healthy, lead CBs
Tariq Castro-Fields isn’t supposed to be analyzing the benefits of one more spring practice this year. Fact is, there was never supposed to be a 2021 season for him in a Penn State uniform. In an ideal world, he’d have been long gone, pursuing his NFL dreams. After his junior...
After one season at Penn State, Kirk Ciarrocca joins WVU staff as offensive analyst
After only one season as Penn State’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, Kirk Ciarrocca found work in a neighboring state. West Virginia coach Neal Brown announced he has hired Ciarrocca as an offensive analyst for the Mountaineers. “I have known Kirk for many years, having worked together on the staff...
Spencer Lee becomes 3-time NCAA wrestling champion
Iowa senior Spencer Lee is used to beginning a wrestling match. He’d rather set the tone for his Iowa teammates. But the NCAA wrestling championships had other ideas. They decided to put the 125-pound final at the end Saturday at Enterprise Center in St. Louis. The ESPN broadcast team called...
Story of Wally Triplett, 1st Black football player to start for Penn State, to be made into movieVideo
It was a moment every high school football player dreams about. It was the mid-1940s, and Wally Triplett had just opened a letter from the University of Miami. The school was offering him a scholarship to play football for the Hurricanes. Triplett was ecstatic. His joy quickly evaporated when he...
2 Pitt wrestlers, 2 Franklin Regional grads advance to NCAA finals
A pair of Franklin Regional graduates and a pair of Pitt teammates from WPIAL schools will wrestle for national championships Saturday night. Spencer Lee and Michael Kemerer, both top seeds for Iowa, and Panthers wrestlers Jake Wentzel from South Park and Nino Bonaccorsi from Bethel Park won their semifinal matches...
Local wrestlers at NCAAs: Iowa’s Lee, Kemmerer among WPIAL grads in quarters
A handful of Westmoreland County wrestlers advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships with a pair of wins Thursday in St. Louis. Iowa’s Spencer Lee (Franklin Regional) and Michael Kemmerer (Franklin Regional), Pitt’s Micky Phillippi (Derry), Ohio State’s Ethan Smith (Latrobe) and Bucknell’s Zach Hartman (Belle...
Penn State running back competition ‘wide open’ entering spring practice
UNIVERSITY PARK — Ja’Juan Seider sees plenty of talent and experience when he looks around the Penn State running backs room. Noah Cain was a breakout performer in 2019 before an injury in the season opener paved the way for Keyvone Lee and Caziah Holmes to contribute as freshmen. Devyn...
No Blue-White game, but Penn State will admit some students for final spring practice
Penn State will not have a traditional Blue-White game in 2021, but it will host some fans at Beaver Stadium for the team’s final spring practice. The Lions’ athletic department announced Wednesday that it will allow only University Park first-year students and the families and guests of student-athletes, coaches and...
Reports: 6 Penn State men’s basketball players hit transfer portal
Hours after hiring a new coach, Penn State men’s basketball has reportedly lost six players to the transfer portal. Center John Harrar, forwards Trent Buttrick and Seth Lundy and guards Myreon Jones, Izaiah Brockington and Jamari Wheeler are in the transfer portal, according to reports from Blue White Illustrated, The...
Penn State set to hire Purdue associate head coach Micah Shrewsberry as men’s basketball coach
Penn State men’s basketball has its new head coach. The Nittany Lions are set to hire Purdue associate head coach Micah Shrewsberry to lead the men’s basketball team, a source confirmed to the Centre Daily Times. The expected hire was first reported by Stadium’s Jeff Goodman. The new leader of...
Penn State is bigger at some positions as the program opens spring practice, but are the Lions better?
James Franklin said Monday that his 2021 Penn State football team is the biggest squad he’s had during his eight seasons in State College. A quick check of Penn State’s updated roster indicates that, indeed, there are some large athletes at just about every position. “From a physical standpoint, this...
Penn State still undecided about Blue-White spring football game
Penn State has not yet decided if it will have a traditional Blue-White game this year. Head coach James Franklin said Monday that there are ongoing discussions about whether or not the annual open scrimmage to end spring practice will be held and that an announcement will be coming soon....
Here are 5 storylines to watch as Penn State football begins spring practice
Monday is set to be the beginning of one of the more unique spring practice periods since James Franklin took over as Penn State’s head football coach in 2014. It will be the first time the program has held a spring practice since 2019, after last year’s practices were canceled...
Wisconsin holds off furious Penn State comeback bid
INDIANAPOLIS — Aleem Ford scored 17 points and No. 6 seed Wisconsin made a stop on the last play to escape with a 75-74 win over No. 11 seed Penn State in the second round of the Big Ten Tournament on Thursday night. The Badgers (17-11) led by 18 in...
9 Penn State wrestlers will compete at NCAA Championships
Penn State will send nine wrestlers, including four top-three seeds, to the NCAA Championships on March 18-20, in St. Louis. Five freshmen and a sophomore are among the qualifiers. Two-time All-American and Big Ten champion Roman Bravo-Young (9-0) at 133 pounds and senior Nick Lee at 141 will be No....
Penn State rallies past Nebraska in Big Ten first-round game
INDIANAPOLIS — Jamari Wheeler scored a career-high 19 points, and No. 11 seed Penn State pulled away inside the last four minutes to beat No. 14 seed Nebraska 72-66 on Wednesday night in the first round of the Big Ten Conference tournament. Penn State (11-13) has won four of its...
Big Ten entering postseason eager to end NCAA title drought
The coach of the Big Ten’s last national championship team believes the conference’s 20-year title drought could end this season. “We’ve got four or five teams that are on top that could do it,” Michigan State’s Tom Izzo said. “There’s enough good teams that we could get a couple teams...
Ohio 4-star QB Drew Allar commits to Penn State
Penn State football added a second quarterback to its 2022 recruiting class. Four-star signal-caller Drew Allar announced his commitment to coach James Franklin and the Nittany Lions on Monday with a tweet from his personal Twitter account. He joins fellow four-star recruit Beau Pribula as quarterbacks committed to Penn State...
Lundy’s 31 points help Penn State stun Maryland
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Seth Lundy scored 31 points, one away from his career high, and Penn State rallied to stun Maryland, 66-61, on Sunday night. Lundy made 11 of Penn State’s 19 field goals. Lundy entered Sunday’s contest having scored 30 total points in the last seven games. Eric...
Penn State wrestlers finish a distant 2nd in Big Ten championshipsVideo
Second place is all in how you look at it, and you can be sure that Penn State wrestling coach Cael Sanderson will look and look again at the Nittany Lions’ finish at the Big Ten Wrestling Champions on Sunday. Iowa won its second straight conference title on Sunday, distancing...
Myreon Jones leads way, Penn State slaps Minnesota
UNIVERSITY PARK — Myreon Jones scored 17 points, knocking down four 3-pointers, as five Penn State players reached double-figures and the Nittany Lions walloped Minnesota, 84-65, on Wednesday night. After an early scramble, Penn State took the lead for keeps on a Trent Buttrick 3-pointer about 5 minutes in, surging...
Penn State men lose at home vs. Purdue
UNIVERSITY PARK — Sasha Stefanovic scored 16 points, Jaden Ivey added 14 points and Purdue cruised to a 73-52 win over Penn State on Friday night. Myreon Jones had 11 points, and Jamari Wheeler had nine points, six rebounds and six assists for the Nittany Lions (8-13, 5-12 Big Ten)....
Myreon Jones scores 29; Penn State holds off Nebraska
LINCOLN, Neb. — Myreon Jones scored a career-high 29 points to lead five in double figures, and Penn State held off Nebraska for an 86-83 victory on Tuesday night to snap a four-game losing streak. Nebraska (5-16, 1-13 Big Ten), which trailed most of the game and by 10 points...
Penn State wrestling finishes dual season No. 2 in the NWCA poll, shares Big Ten title
Penn State wrestling held steady at No. 2 in the last National Wrestling Coaches Association’s coaches poll of the season Tuesday, after defeating Ohio State and Maryland in the last week and locking up a share of the Big Ten wrestling dual meet championship in the process. The Nittany Lions...
Luka Garza breaks Iowa scoring mark, No. 11 Hawkeyes beat Penn StateVideo
IOWA CITY, Iowa — The chase to become Iowa’s all-time leading scorer got to Luka Garza only once during Sunday’s game against Penn State. Garza looked at the scoreboard going into a media timeout in the second half and saw that he needed to make both of the free throws...
