
THON announced last night via Facebook that it will create a new initiative to "Gold Out" the stands for this Saturday's game against Illinois to help show support for pediatric cancer awareness.

If you think your past week of classes was hard, just imagine working your way towards your degree while fighting for your country oversees. The Military Students of the Penn State World Campus do just that.

The first big event of the THON season kicked off on Saturday with the annual FT5K. The 5K began with a multitude of festivities before the race began, including the always-inspiring Kid’s Race.

Penn State is known for three things that don't involve the words "scandal" or "NCAA sanctions": football, partying, and a bevy of guys who decided they were going to try rapping without any discernible rapping skills. Seriously. There are nursing homes with better rappers than Penn State. So when this video came across our radar of a Penn State rapper who, you know, has talent, we were shocked:

If you've followed baseball at all over the last two decades, you've probably at least read something written by Sports Illustrated senior writer Tom Verducci. But did you know Verducci received his journalism degree from Penn State in 1982?

A change of scenery might've been what Penn State needed, but it wasn't enough to pull the Nittany Lions out of its recent slump. Penn State dropped to 1-3-1 on the year after falling 5-2 to Vermont at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia yesterday.