Posts Tagged ‘Penn State Nittany Lions’

Penn State, Face Plants, And the NIT

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

The primary also-ran tournament came to an end last night as the Nittany Lions of Penn State won the NIT, beating Baylor, 69-63. Along the way, Penn State senior Danny Morrissey absolutely crushed his own face while diving for a loose ball. Over at PennLive.com, they have an article praising the work Jamelle [...]

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Setting Basketball Back (Penn State, Illinois)

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Normally, those scoring charts have a steeper increase, but thanks to what might be one of the uglier basketball games in the shot clock era for a major conference, featuring Penn State and Illinois, the beauty of the game was absolutely extinguished.
At least in Champaign, Illinois, it was.
The Big Ten “battle” [...]

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Taylor Mays Lays Out Two

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

During USC’s first half thrashing/second half clock-running beatdown of Penn State at yesterday’s Rose Bowl, Taylor Mays, a member of USC’s secondary, wanted to show the world just how hard he could lay the wood to opposing players. And if a teammate gets blasted in the process? Sorry. He’s just a casualty [...]

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BCS Overload

Monday, December 8th, 2008

Would you have it any other way? Are there better methods to decide a national championship than the BCS? Ask Division II football. But until a cataclysmic shift in the cosmos occurs, the BCS is what we have so we might as well go with it — unless, that is, the football teams [...]

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Poll: Early BCS Talk

Monday, October 27th, 2008

The BCS standings have been out for a couple of weeks now and after all this weekend’s fun — What’s worse? Watching Penn State beat your Buckeyes or passing a kidney stone? This guy knows. — the picture is taking shape. Of course, said picture could be rendered useless with all the [...]

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Thank God It’s Saturday: Penn State and Ohio State

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Lots of great match ups this weekend, including the headliner of Penn State at Ohio State. It seems everyone wants Penn State to beat the Buckeyes in order to keep them from boring up the BCS Championship game — except for OSU fans, of course. Looking at this game from strictly a historical [...]

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