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Pitt, Penn State, WVU players recognized for community service
The Wuerffel Trophy is known as “College Football’s Premier Award for Community Service.” Apparently, several area players have made their mark on their communities. Players from Pitt, Penn State and West Virginia were named to the Wuerffel Award watch list Thursday. Pitt senior defensive end Patrick Jones II, and Penn...
8 players from Penn State, Pitt, WVU named to Nagurski, Outland watch lists
Eight players from Pitt, Penn State and West Virginia were named Tuesday to watch lists for the Nagurski Trophy and Outland Trophy, which are given to college football’s best defender and interior lineman. In addition, Pitt, PSU and WVU are three of 15 schools with multiple players on the watch...
Penn State’s Lamont Wade chosen for Thorpe watch list
Clairton’s Lamont Wade, a senior safety at Penn State, was named Monday to the Jim Thorpe Award watch list. The award is given annually to college football’s top defensive back. Wade was an All-Big Ten honorable mention choice by the coaches and media in 2019 while tying a Big Ten...
Penn State linebacker Micah Parsons named to Butkus Award watch list
Numerous eyes will be on Penn State linebacker Micah Parsons this season after he was named Monday to his third college football watch list — the Butkus Award. Parsons had previously been named to the Bednarik Award and Lott IMPACT Trophy watch lists. Parsons, a junior, was named a Consensus...
Montour, Penn State grad John Hufnagel elected to Canadian Football Hall of FameVideo
While serving as coach of the Calgary Stampeders, Montour and Penn State grad John Hufnagel had one of the CFL’s most successful tenures. From 2008-15, he went 102-41-1 — the .712 winning percentage being the highest in league history among coaches with at least 100 games — and won two...
Shady Side Academy alum Skyy Moore, Penn State’s Pat Freiermuth selected to Biletnikoff Award watch list
New Kensington’s Skyy Moore, a Shady Side Academy graduate and rising sophomore wide receiver at Western Michigan in the Mid-American Conference, has been named to the preseason Biletnikoff Award watch list. The Biletnikoff Award is presented each year to the nation’s top college receiver by the Tallahassee Quarterback Club Foundation....
Penn State announces zero of its covid-19 tests of athletes have come back positiveVideo
Zero of 178 coronavirus tests administered by Penn State on its athletes have come back positive, the university announced Wednesday. Penn State athletic director Sandy Barbour on July 1 said PSU would be releasing data regarding its covid-19 testing of athletes biweekly on Wednesdays. An emailed 34-word release from the...
Penn State’s Sean Clifford named to Davey O’Brien Award watch list
Sean Clifford, Penn State’s junior quarterback, is one of 30 quarterbacks in Division I football named to The Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award watch list released Tuesday. The award is presented annually by the Davey O’Brien Foundation to the nation’s best college quarterback. It is the oldest national quarterback award,...
3 Pitt players named to Bednarik watch list
Only three Division I college football programs have three players on the 2020 Bednarik Award Watch List released Monday. Pitt is one of them, joining defending national champion LSU and USC. Selected to the list from the Panthers are safety Paris Ford, defensive end Patrick Jones II and defensive tackle...
Mark Madden: Steelers’ JuJu Smith-Schuster ‘won’t be very good, then he’ll leave,’ Notre Dame should ‘kick rocks’
If you listen to our “Madden Monday” podcasts weekly, then you know Mark Madden’s strong affection for Steelers wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster. Obviously, Mark is JuJu’s biggest fan. So when Smith-Schuster celebrated subscriber No. 1,000,000 to his YouTube channel, you knew Mark would be the first one in line to...
Mark Madden: College sports need to tap out for fall season
Relaunching big-time professional sports while a pandemic rages seems ill-advised and is proving difficult. But pro athletes are adults, and get compensated appropriately. It’s time to tap out with college sports, especially football. That’s happening, slowly but surely. The Big Ten has canceled nonconference games. Ohio State football has ceased...
First Call: How the Big Ten’s decision may impact Pitt, Notre Dame, West Virginia and others
Sometimes this job requires you to act like you have all the answers. All the time. Immediately. Even if you don’t. Saying “I don’t know” feels like a cop-out. But when it comes to asking what the football ripple effects will be from Thursday’s decision by the Big Ten to...
As football season inches toward brink, Penn State believes it’s doing its part to playVideo
The college football world is absorbing a flurry of body blows in regards to the chances of staging a representative 2020 season. Wednesday, it was the Ivy League postponing its entire fall sports season, and Ohio State and North Carolina — a pair of marquee athletics programs — shutting down...
Big Ten, Penn State to play only conference games, ‘prepared to’ cancel season entirely
The Big Ten will play only conference games in all fall sports, including football, the league announced Thursday afternoon. The decision cuts down on expenses and travel as coronavirus continues to spread in many regions of the country. Big Ten football teams have nine conference games on the schedule. According...
Penn State’s Zack Kuntz aims for breakout among ‘most talented tight end room in the country’Video
During a video conference call with media Wednesday, Penn State tight end Zack Kuntz made a grandiose statement about his teammates at his position. “I think we’re the most talented tight end room in the country,” the redshirt sophomore said. “And there’s no doubt in my mind about that.” There...
Nuggets promote former Penn State standout Calvin Booth to GMVideo
DENVER — The Denver Nuggets promoted former Penn State standout Calvin Booth to general manager. Booth, 44, is in his third season with the Nuggets after being hired as assistant GM in 2017. He succeeds Arturas Karnisovas, who left Denver in April to become the Chicago Bulls’ top decision-maker. Tim...
Penn State softball coach resigns
The Penn State athletic department will begin a nationwide search for a new softball coach after Amanda Lehotak resigned Monday. Lehotak will be pursuing other professional opportunities outside of softball, the school said. She coached the Nittany Lion softball program for the last seven seasons. She led the 2016 team...
Report: Penn State basketball coach Patrick Chambers made noose comment to player
In January 2019, amid a 0-10 Big Ten start that very nearly got Patrick Chambers fired, the Penn State men’s basketball coach had a talk with his freshman guard Rasir Bolton. He had played Bolton only six minutes in a 71-56 home loss to Michigan State after having given the...
Penn State AD: Beaver Stadium unlikely to be full – if there is a football season at all this fall
Penn State athletic director Sandy Barbour was about as open and forthcoming as she could be during a video conference call with media that lasted almost an hour Wednesday. But, as with just about everything else in the world over the past four months, the answers she didn’t have outnumbered...
No positives among 102 covid-19 tests of Penn State football, basketball playersVideo
Penn State athletic director Sandy Barbour said 102 of the school’s football and basketball players have been tested for the novel coronavirus, and none has turned up positive. Six Nittany Lions teams have been permitted to report for summer workouts, beginning with football early last month. Men’s and women’s soccer...
’Burgh’s best to wear it, No. 61: Steelers’ Stefen Wisniewski kept coaches thinking on ‘high level’
The Tribune-Review sports staff is conducting a daily countdown of the best players in Pittsburgh pro and college sports history to wear each jersey number. No. 61: Stefen Wisniewski John Vaughan never had a problem with Central Catholic offensive lineman Stefen Wisniewski, just an interesting dilemma high school coaches seldom...
Penn State’s Jesse Luketa stays ready by working out with Flyers’ Claude Giroux
The biggest question on Jesse Luketa’s mind during the covid-19 quarantine wasn’t whether he could stay in shape while apart from his coaches and teammates. Back home in Ottawa (when he wasn’t connecting with his six older siblings and nieces and nephews), Penn State’s junior linebacker worked out with former...
Penn State’s Ricky Slade chooses Old Dominion as transfer destination
Running back Ricky Slade, one of the top recruits in Penn State’s class of 2018, announced his decision to transfer to Old Dominion. New beginnings ? let’s get it @ODUFootball pic.twitter.com/6w25E28dFi— RS3⛏ (@TheSlade_Era) June 26, 2020 Slade, who entered the NCAA transfer portal in February, will be reunited with former...
Penn State kicker Jordan Stout hopes to continue long-distance deliveriesVideo
Everyone at Penn State knew Jordan Stout had a strong leg. But splitting the uprights in front of 108,000 people at Beaver Stadium is a mental exercise, too. Even more than a physical challenge, perhaps. So, occasionally last season, when practice was winding down for the day, special teams coach...
James Franklin will leave family in Florida while he coaches Penn State
Penn State coach James Franklin made his most difficult decision of the season when he decided to leave his family in Florida while he coaches the team. He’ll coach the Nittany Lions apart from his family to protect his youngest daughter, Addison, from the coronavirus. Franklin revealed the news on...
