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The additions could provide a greater financial windfall for the conference.

With any new head coaching hire, it's generally understood that a team will undergo significant roster turnover as it transitions to new leadership. Penn State is no different. Heading into his second season in Happy Valley, Micah Shrewsberry will have a revamped roster, bringing in eight total players from both...

Penn State began the expansion circus in 1990. Now it can reap the benefits.

“That life begins at conception is a Christian notion. The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is, therefore, a de facto declaration that this is a Christian nation,” a Boalsburg resident writes.

It’s the long-awaited return for several popular events, including Arts Fest and the People’s Choice Festival.

On Thursday, we learned that USC and USC plan on leaving the Pac 12 conference to join the Big 10 conference starting in 2024. Some programs will benefit from this latest round of conference realignment, and I believe that the program that will benefit the most will be the Penn State Nittany Lions. And here are the reasons why.

The Board of Trustees voted Wednesday to approve a purchasing agreement and lease with the Scholar Hotel Group. Penn State plans to sell the Nittany Lion Inn and Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center and lease the land they’re on to a company that will run them, in a move the university says will have long-term benefits.

A sock is a shoe, and a buskin is a boot. But together, the two have cemented their names in the arts and now in a new theatre company based around Centre County. Gregg Baptista, the treasurer for the new group called Sock & Buskin Theatre Company said the new community company is taking a “collaborative approach” to the arts.

I saw the funniest joke on the internet on Thursday. It was this one about USC and UCLA joining the Big Ten. I couldn’t stop laughing about it. Oh that’s real. That’s a thing that’s actually going to happen. This isn’t some made-up NCAA Football 2024...

When Southern California and UCLA sent shockwaves through college sports by announcing their intention to join the Big Ten on Thursday, Penn State officials – from the university president to the baseball and softball coaches – expressed their excitement about the move. Football coach James Franklin was no...

The Ohio State football team will face Big Ten East rivals Penn State on Oct. 29 at Beaver Stadium. The Buckeyes have won five straight in the series and nine of the past 11 dating back to the 2011 season. Ohio State defeated Penn State 33-24 last season – the...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., (WTAJ) — Thursday saw the 19th annual Uplifting Athletes Lift for Life event that benefited the rare disease community. Penn State football hit the field for a bit of friendly competition with the community. The Nittany Lions participated in a variety of events with kids– a bit of catch, cornhole, and relay […]

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Penn State football held its 19th annual Lift For Life Challenge on the outdoor artificial turf field near Lasch Building Thursday. While the annual event that raises money and awareness for the fight against rare diseases has become a part of the football culture in Happy Valley, for many of the Nittany Lions involved it was their first chance to help the good cause.

The Big Ten created a seismic shift in the college athletics landscape Thursday when it announced the addition of longtime Pac-12 schools UCLA and USC to its ranks. The Big Ten, which previously added three schools during the round of conference realignment in the early 2010s, is currently slated to be a 16-school conference when UCLA and USC are officially added Aug. 2, 2024.

Pat Kraft sat in the media room in Beaver Stadium in late April and shared a story to express his reverence for Penn State. During Kraft’s playing career at Indiana, the Hoosiers faced the Nittany Lions in State College, and as Kraft’s parents drove in, his late father remarked to his mother, “We're about to enter the Mecca of college sports.”

Well, that happened quickly. News broke shortly after 1 p.m. Thursday that UCLA and USC were preparing to leave the Pac-12 for the Big Ten, and less than seven hours later, both schools made the announcements that they’ll join the conference in 2024. It’s a seismic move in the...

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Over the past year, many events that were sidelined because of the COVID-19 pandemic have slowly made their returns as things progress back toward a semblance of normalcy. Some were large scale, like last September when 109,958 fans crowded inside Beaver Stadium to watch Penn State face Auburn in the White Out.

Now that USC and UCLA head to the Big Ten by leaving the Pac-12 by 2024, the Big Ten figureheads started to react. Penn State head coach James Franklin was very welcoming to the new additions to the conference. Every sport, except women’s beach volleyball is expected to be added to the Big Ten from USC and UCLA’s athletic department.