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UNIVERSITY PARK — Teddy Allen raced for a fastbreak layup off a steal with 12 seconds left, lifting Nebraska into a 62-61 win over Penn State on Sunday, ending the Cornhuskers’ string of 25 Big Ten losses that stretched back more than a year. After a quick timeout to set...

Two Franklin Regional grads – Spencer Lee and Michael Kemerer – are ranked No. 1 according to the latest NCAA coaches rankings. Both wrestle for No. 1 Iowa. Lee, a two-time NCAA champion, is ranked No. 1 at 125 pounds. Kemerer, a two-time NCAA placewinner and three-time All-American, is ranked...

INDIANAPOLIS — The Big Ten Conference announced Tuesday that its men’s basketball tournament will move from Chicago to Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, the site of this year’s Final Four. The tournament will be played March 10-14 just a few blocks away from Bankers Life Fieldhouse where the women’s tourney...

The offseason is proving to be every bit as brutal for the Penn State football program as the 2020 season was. Only this time, instead of an 0-5 start and a 4-5 finish, this pain is self-inflicted — by the program’s own Twitter account. The official Penn State football Twitter...

The Penn State football team learned its 2021 schedule Friday … for the second time. Big Ten officials made adjustments to the original schedule, which was released after the completion of the 2020 season. The Big Ten needed to accommodate six games that adjusted locations as a result of changes...

Penn State has named Ty Howle its new tight ends coach, the program announced Friday morning. Howle, who served as an offensive analyst for the Nittany Lions last season and was a four-year letterwinner as an offensive lineman with the program from 2009-13, will take over the position for recently...

Davon Townley Jr., a defensive lineman from North Community High School in Minneapolis, Minn., has joined the 2021 Penn State football recruiting class. Townley Jr., who signed Wednesday morning to kick off the start of the national letter of intent regular signing period for Division I and II football, is...

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin made the most of its immediate opportunity to avenge a rare loss to Penn State. Freshman Jonathan Davis scored a career-high 17 points and the 19th-ranked Badgers resumed their dominance of the Nittany Lions with a 72-56 victory on Tuesday night. Wisconsin’s 13-game winning streak over...

Penn State coach James Franklin brought in Mike Yurcich to rev up the Nittany Lions’ offense, which struggled at times in 2020. Yurcich, Franklin’s fifth offensive coordinator in his eight seasons with the Lions, has an impressive resume. He coached at Texas last season and at Ohio State and Oklahoma...

The advent of the early signing period for college football in December has taken much of the drama out of the annual national signing day in February, which used to be a day filled with much drama and fanfare. Now, teams are mostly finalizing their classes with a couple commits...

One of Penn State’s most productive offensive players and one of its top defensive recruits from the 2019 class likely will be playing elsewhere this fall. Quarterback Will Levis, who temporarily claimed the starting job last season and spent most of the second half splitting time with Sean Clifford, announced...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — E.J. Liddell scored 22 points, including the tiebreaking free throws with 59.7 seconds left, and No. 13 Ohio State held off Penn State, 83-79, on Wednesday night. The Buckeyes (13-4, 7-4 Big Ten) squandered a 12-point first-half lead but rallied from a seven-point deficit in the second...

Penn State football landed a commitment from Harvard graduate transfer guard Eric Wilson, who made the announcement via Twitter on Wednesday morning. “A lot can happen in a few months, especially in 2020,” he wrote on Twitter. “Unexpected changes have led me to commit to Penn State where I will...

Despite the loss of revenue for Penn State athletics due to the coronavirus pandemic, athletic director Sandy Barbour said that the university will not cut any of its athletic programs. “That’s not something I’m interested in. It’s not something I’m looking at,” Barbour said Tuesday afternoon, speaking to reporters for...

Penn State has been well-represented in the Super Bowl over the years. This will again be the case when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers take on the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LV at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla., on Feb. 7. For the 50th time in the history...

Penn State announced Sunday it will travel to Ohio State in Big Ten Conference action Wednesday. The game will tip at 7 p.m. at Value City Arena. This game replaces the scheduled Michigan at Penn State games because of coronavirus issues in the Michigan program. Michigan announced all its athletic...

The Penn State men’s basketball team’s game with Ohio State, postponed from Jan. 5 because of covid-related issues, has been rescheduled for this Wednesday at 7 p.m. The game will be televised on the Big Ten Network. It takes the place of the Nittany Lions’ originally scheduled game with Michigan...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Izaiah Brockington and Myreon Jones scored 17 points apiece, Jones making three clinching free throws in the waning seconds, and Penn State held off a resurgent Rutgers, 75-67, on Thursday night for its first Big Ten win this season. Seth Lundy chipped in 16 points with 10...

UNIVERSITY PARK — The Big Ten Conference reprimanded interim Penn State basketball coach Jim Ferry and fined the university $10,000 for comments Ferry made following a loss to Purdue. Ferry, named interim coach last fall after Patrick Chambers resigned following an internal investigation into inappropriate conduct, was called out by...

Penn State’s 2020 football season — and the days that followed — were marked by change, personnel upheaval and something that is rarely experienced by the Nittany Lions and difficult for coaches, players and fans to accept: A losing record. For the first time since 2004, Penn State (4-5) lost...