The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) voted on Friday to move three of its state championship sites to Penn State. The sports being included in this move are baseball, softball and boys volleyball. This comes after the PIAA had moved the boys basketball championship from the GIANT Center in Hershey to the Bryce Jordan Center in 2007.
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A couple of months ago, I wrote a post on how Nittany Nation, the student section for the men’s basketball team, was looking for ideas on how to make itself a force in the Big Ten (if you haven’t submitted your idea for a Super-Sized Face yet, be sure to do so). Madame President Katie […]
A new set of Big Ten meetings and Big Ten Media Day are coming up in August, and with the face-lift the conference has undergone over the past couple of months, there is plenty to talk about. After the jump: The skinny on Big Ten Media Day, conference realignment, and possible locations for the Big Ten championship game.
It has been proven time and time again that the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee looks kindly upon a team that has played a tough out-of-conference schedule when it comes to placing teams who are on the bubble in the Big Dance. Penn State knows this fact all too well; go back and take a look who we played in the 2008-2009 season. The non-conference slate for the 2010-2011 season was officially released yesterday and while it may not stack up that of a Duke or UCLA, you can tell that Coach DeChellis and his staff made an concerted effort to strengthen its portfolio come March.
More on this coming season's schedule after the jump.
It has been a few years since I got caught up in the hoopla of buying something at midnight. My last late-night purchase was one of the Harry Potter books; Half-Blood Prince, I believe. But, being as I have nothing else to do while I sit in Kentucky wasting away in a research project all summer, I decided to go out and grab NCAA Football 11 from EA Sports along side of a few other of the Bluegrass State's finest Tuesday morning.
More on the Penn State's (virtual) lineup after the jump.
Penn State women's volleyball star Megan Hodge has been lugging around a lot of hardware over the past few months. She started out by being named the AVCA Division 1 Women's Volleyball National Player of the Year and the Penn State Female Athlete of the Year. In the past month, she has also won the Suzy Favor Award (given to the Big Ten's top female performer) and the Honda-Broderick Cup, presented to the best female athlete in the NCAA. And on this coming Wednesday, she could have another honor to add to her already over-loaded trophy case.