The nine alumni-elected trustees on Penn State's board lettered board chairman Keith Masser today, calling for a special meeting to discuss the university's stance on settlement discussions in the NCAA v. Pennsylvania lawsuit and the consent decree that agreed to the NCAA's sanctions.
Penn State announced its lineup for the 2014-15 Forum Speaker Series, and some names on it should draw significant interest. Among them: NFL Hall of Fame linebacker and concussion awareness advocate Harry Carson on being a "Captain for Life," former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik on the need for criminal justice reform, and PBS President Paula Kerger on the future of educational media.
New York governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law a bill Wednesday that requires the state school coaches to report any signs of child abuse to the local police and complete training on how to identify it, according to the New York Daily News.
As his Twitter handle says, Tyoka Jackson knows football. So, the former defensive lineman is set to join the Big Ten Network as an in-studio analyst, according to his social media accounts.
Data-centric and popular blog FiveThirtyEight recently crunched some numbers on the usage of the nation's public transportation, and, perhaps surprisingly, State College is the city with the eighth-most used public transit system in the country.
James Franklin didn't have anything groundbreaking to give us at today's Media Day, having last spoke at the Big Ten Media Days a week ago. But the spry coach provided updates on numerous positions and questions entering training camp, which officially kicks off today.