The Nittany Lions struggled on Saturday against the Minnesota Golden Gophers en route to a 24-10 road loss. The game looked unwinnable for Penn State from the start as the offense came out cold and the defense could not make plays early on. After digesting one of the ugliest football games of the season, we handed out some grades to the team.
A record number of foreign students coming to America to seek an education -- 819,644 in count for 2012-2013 -- and Penn State is taking advantage of that increased interest. According to the latest numbers from the International Education’s “Open Doors” report, Penn State has the 10th highest enrollment for international students in the country.
Ask any Penn State fan old enough to remember the 1970's who the greatest linebacker they ever saw was, and Bruce Bannon is usually one of the first answers. Although many great linebackers have come and gone since the 1972 All-American suited up for Penn State, Bannon was one of the first great products in the early days of Linebacker U. He would go on to play for two years in the NFL with the Dolphins, but he made his legacy on the gridiron here in Happy Valley. We caught up with Bannon to talk Nittany Lion football, life after leaving Happy Valley, and his playing days.
Tom and Kari Whitehead, parents of Four Diamonds Child Emily Whitehead, will speak on the experimental treatment that saved their daughter's life at Pennsylvania Bio's annual conference later this week.
Penn State women's soccer's path to its second straight National Championship Game just became a little clearer. Erica Walsh's 20th ranked Nittany Lions received a #4 seed in their region of the bracket as an at-large team yesterday, with the team's first match being this Friday at Jeffrey Field against Monmouth at 7:30 p.m.
Effective today, the Penn State Sigma Sigma Sigma chapter has been shut down by their national headquarters due to their inability to reach their recruitment quota.