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There will be a sea of white shirts entering Beaver Stadium as the sun starts to set Sept. 27. Penn State will host Oregon that night in a Big Ten showdown between national championship contenders, and the Nittany Lions announced Thursday that will be their annual White Out game in...

After reports surfaced earlier this month, Penn State men’s basketball has welcomed the first general manager in its program’s history. Scott Pera, a Hershey, Pennsylvania, native and 1989 Penn State Harrisburg graduate, has officially assumed the position, according to a release Tuesday. The Field of 68’s Jeff Goodman first reported...

Former Penn State football player Julian Fleming was seriously injured Friday after an ATV crash that left one person dead. Fleming, 24, was driving an ATV on Painter Lick Lane in Columbia Township, Bradford County, when it collided with a deer at about 8 p.m., according to a crash report...

The Nittany Lions couldn’t keep their late-game magic rolling for a bid at a national title. Penn State men’s lacrosse lost to No. 1 seed Cornell, 11-9, in the NCAA semifinal Saturday afternoon in Foxborough, Mass. Penn State had beaten Cornell in the regular season in overtime, handing the Big...

Class of 2026 cornerback Jaziel Hart committed to Penn State on Thursday afternoon. He’s a three-star prospect and the No. 44 corner nationally, according to the 247Sports Composite. Hart committed on a YouTube livestream with On3, feigning a Michigan hat before officially announcing his Penn State pledge. Hailing from the...

Penn State football officially announced a few key transfer portal acquisitions and a 2025 class signee Tuesday morning. Transfers Trebor Peña and Amare Campbell and incoming freshman Daniel Jennings were added to Penn State’s roster. Campbell (6-0, 230) comes to the Nittany Lions from North Carolina where he played two...

There is more to Penn State’s running back room than returning 1,000-yard rushers Kaytron Allen and Nick Singleton. A few of the Nittany Lions’ younger backs represent the future of the position. And the future could involve the next player on PennLive’s list of Penn State’s players to watch coming...

Penn State — and wide receivers coach Marques Hagans — got some massive news Monday night. Class of 2026 four-star wide receiver Davion Brown committed to the Nittany Lions, he announced on a social media post. From Trinity Episcopal School in Richmond, Va., Brown is the nation’s 29th-best receiver and...

James Franklin — sitting at his Blue-White game press conference, staring into the cameras — could not have been clearer when discussing the need for a transfer portal linebacker. “We’re in good shape, but there’s some concerns there,” Franklin said in the Beaver Stadium media room. “We lost a guy...

Nico Megaludis has decided to hang up his singlet. The three-time PIAA Class 3A champion at Franklin Regional finished with a 170-1 career record in high school before becoming a NCAA champion, two-time runner-up and third-place finisher at Penn State. He recently announced on Instagram that he was going to...

Penn State emerged from spring drills looking to add depth at the linebacker position. James Franklin’s program landed an athletic one in former North Carolina Tar Heel Amare Campbell, a 6-foot, 230-pounder who is coming off an impressive 2024 campaign. ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported the transfer news Tuesday night. Campbell...

Penn State’s 2026 recruiting class keeps on rolling. Three-star linebacker Mathieu Lamah (formerly Mathieu Kanu) committed to the Nittany Lions on Monday. He’s long been a target for the staff, visiting Happy Valley four times thus far, dating back to last November. Lamah, a three-star and the nation’s No. 42...

Already boasting one of the nation’s best recruiting classes, Penn State got stronger in the 2026 cycle with a top in-state prospect. Coatesville linebacker Terry Wiggins committed to the Nittany Lions on Friday afternoon. He’s a four-star, the No. 9 player in Pennsylvania and the No. 26 linebacker, according to...

The Pitt and Penn State women’s volleyball programs, two of the best in the college game, will be part of four-team showcase event Labor Day weekend at PPG Paints Arena. Four contested matches will kick off the college volleyball season Aug. 31 and Sept. 1. The defending NCAA champion Nittany...

Penn State’s postgame locker room at the Orange Bowl was as somber as you’d expect. No one wanted to talk during the 20-minute period open to the media, and it’s hard to blame them. The Nittany Lions’ memorable season evaporated in a matter of seconds. That mood, that silence in...

Penn State was well-represented early in the 2025 NFL Draft with edge rusher Abdul Carter and tight end Tyler Warren going in the first 14 picks. But it was not a particularly large Penn State draft, checking in at just five players. It could have been considerably larger. However, Penn...

STATE COLLEGE — Penn State started spring ball back in March with a few question marks. Fast forward to Saturday when the Nittany Lions wrapped up camp with the Blue-White game, and one of the biggest questions still doesn’t have an answer — and might not until the fall. Who...

STATE COLLEGE — Penn State’s 2025 spring camp is in the books after the Blue-White game delivered a few offensive standouts on Saturday at Beaver Stadium. In reality, the biggest piece of news came before the scrimmage kicked off. Syracuse’s Trebor Pena, arguably the top wide receiver in the spring...

The latest off-ball linebacker to enter the NFL out of “Linebacker U,” Kobe King during the combine relayed a chat he had with management of an unnamed NFL team. King is an old-school style inside linebacker who’s hoping to enter the league just as old-school is coming back into fashion...

Jaylen Reed didn’t take too much time to ponder what was the biggest lesson he learned from coach James Franklin over four years as part of the Penn State football program. If you’re not five minutes early, you’re late. “It might seem like a little thing, but if you show...

It’s no secret: Penn State has long been trying to find another difference-maker at wide receiver via the transfer portal. James Franklin has addressed it, receivers coach Marques Hagans has addressed it and even athletic director Pat Kraft has said it. “We need a wide receiver,” Kraft bluntly said in...

Penn State’s 2026 recruiting already added safety Darrell Carey and defensive lineman Isaac Chukwurah in the past week. Ahead of Saturday’s Blue-White Game, coach James Franklin and his staff struck again. Timber Creek (N.J.) offensive lineman Roseby Lubintus committed to Penn State late Friday night. He’s rated as a three-star...

When speaking last week in discussing safeties available in the draft, the NFL Network’s Daniel Jeremiah observed that the knee injury suffered by Penn State’s Kevin Winston Jr. early last season would end up being to the benefit of the team that drafted him this spring. “I think there’s value...