When Pat Chambers said he was going to recruit Philly hard, he wasn't kidding. Today, it was announced that Villanova assistant coach Keith Urgo would be joining Chambers at Penn State.
The Wall Street Journal continues to make us proud to be a part of Penn State. Today, they look into the "NCAA's Last Innocents", and Dear Old State (of course) was mentioned as being one of the few schools to have remained free of major NCAA violations.
Gartner's, a technology research firm, recently released a report ranking the Supply Chain Management program in Penn State's Smeal College of Business as the #1 place in the country to train for a career in supply chain management as either an undergraduate or a graduate student.
A Pennsylvania House resolution was introduced in late May by Rep. Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre & Mifflin) to denote September 3, 2011 as "Coach Paterno Day." Yes, that's right folks -- JoePa might very soon have his own official holiday in the Commonwealth.