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For Thursday’s “First Call,” Trace McSorley expands his horizons. Can the NHL do what the NFL can’t? A youth umpire brings about parental chaos. Max Scherzer’s black eye is a golden moment. What’s next? Penn State product Trace McSorley may be returning punts for the Ravens. McSorley has always wanted...

The Big Ten announced Penn State senior Jason Nolf received the conference’s Medal of Honor award, given annually for athletic and academic excellence. Nolf is a three-time NCAA wrestling champion. The kinesiology major finished with a record of 117-3. He finished with 60 pins, 27 technical falls and 16 major...

An eagerness to commit before playing a down of football as a high school senior may have caused three four-star Penn State recruits to de-commit this month. OT Grant Toutant will start his Official Visit to Ohio State this weekend• 6’7” 320lbs• former Penn State Commit pic.twitter.com/suhqSePidf— Buckeye Edits (@BuckeyeEdits15)...

The Pitt and Penn State women’s basketball teams will play Dec. 5 at Bryce Jordan Center in University Park as part of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. It will be the first time they’ve met in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge. Penn State leads the all-time series 29-13, including victories in the...

Penn State men’s basketball coach Pat Chambers received some good news this week when star forward Lamar Stevens decided to return for his senior season. Stevens is an All-Big Team Conference first-team forward. He’s the conference’s top returning scorer and rebounder. The 6-foot-8 senior averaged 19.9 points and 7.7 rebounds....

Pennsylvania’s top 2020 prospect is not only leaving the Keystone State. He’s set to sign with the Buckeyes. Julian Fleming — the No. 1 wide receiver and No. 6 overall prospect in the 2020 recruiting class — chose Ohio State over Penn State on Friday, an expected yet difficult pill...

The last scheduled game between old rivals Pitt and Penn State will be nationally televised by ABC and will begin at noon Sept. 14 at Beaver Stadium. The game is the last of a four-game series between the schools. Penn State won two of the first three, 33-14 in 2017...

Miles Sanders was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles less than five weeks ago, and the former Woodland Hills High School and Penn State star running back signed his NFL entry-level contract less than three weeks ago. Perhaps his first major purchase wasn’t for himself. Sanders bought his mother a new...

Freshman Matt Brandau scored a career-high seven goals, and Yale held on to defeat top-seeded Penn State, 21-17, in the NCAA Division I semifinals on Saturday at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field. Yale jumped to a 10-1 lead in the first quarter — tying an NCAA semifinal record for most goals...

Former Penn State quarterback Tommy Stevens decided where he will spend his final year of college football. Stevens will join the Mississippi State, the fifth-year senior announced on his verified Twitter account Friday. The Mississippi State athletic department confirmed the news. Hail State! ? pic.twitter.com/5sftwixC57— Tommy Stevens (@TMS_II) May 17,...

The Penn State lacrosse team is No. 1 in the country and just one win away from the Final Four over Memorial Day weekend. In Philadelphia, by the way. The Nittany Lions won their first-round game, 25-10, over UMBC last week. That was the first NCAA tournament win in school...

CHICAGO — Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith was talking to reporters Tuesday about who might replace retiring Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany when Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez walked behind him. “Someone like a Barry Alvarez,” Smith said coyly. “He’d be a prototypical candidate.” As Alvarez playfully grabbed him...

DeAndre Thompkins was asked Friday by a cluster of Philadelphia Eagles reporters to pitch himself, to describe his game to his new fan base. The former Penn State wide receiver stood by his locker at NovaCare Complex, smiled and said: “Speed. Route technician. Return man.” The first two might help...

In Monday’s “First Call,” a Duquesne Duke has a memorable moment at Seahawks camp. Also: the NCAA Lacrosse tournament will have a local flavor, a NHL game seven, and rumors about the NFL taking the combine on the road. The more you can do When you’re a rookie free agent...

Penn State freshman Chelsea Bisi was named the softball team’s Offensive Player of the Year. The Derry graduate, who had two doubles Saturday against Indiana, hit .319 with 46 hits, 10 doubles, 13 home runs and a team-high 37 RBIs. Congratulations to our team award winners! ?Offensive POY: @chelseabisi25?Defensive POY:...

In Thursday’s “First Call,” Gronk’s acting debut. What the future holds for Trace McSorley in Baltimore. A bad break in Cleveland. And a bad fate for the Islanders? McSorley mash-up So, what are the Baltimore Ravens going to do with former Penn State quarterback Trace McSorley? It sounds like …...

A total of 11 teams at Penn State, Pitt and West Virginia earned NCAA Public Recognition Awards for outstanding academic progress based on scores from the 2014-15 through 2017-18 school years. The awards are presented annually to teams finishing among the top 10 percent of their respective sport. Among the...

Penn State added a big piece to its 2020 recruiting class Monday, getting a verbal commitment from four-star offensive line prospect Aaryn (A.J.) Parks. Parks, who attends National Christian Academy in Fort Washington, Md., became the fifth offensive lineman to commit to the Nittany Lions and is the highest-ranked of...

Penn State senior Bo Nickal won five consecutive matches on his way to winning the 92 kg U.S. Open National Championship in Las Vegas. He defeated 2018 197-pound NCAA champion Mike Macchiavello in the semifinals and then beat Hayden Zillmer, 13-3, in the finals. Nickal, who recently became a three-time...

Miles Sanders patiently waited his turn behind Saquon Barkley for two years instead of transferring out of Penn State to a football program that could have used his considerable skills right away. That’s just the kind of player and person Sanders is. “Coming out of high school, I was a...

Penn State’s Trace McSorley sensed a quick kinship with Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson. They met two years ago at the Maxwell Awards, will be working together soon and have been similarly adamant about playing quarterback after college. The Ravens on Saturday drafted McSorley in the sixth round, specifically calling...

Throughout his career, Penn State quarterback Trace McSorley was a winner on many levels, starting four state championship games in Virginia and earning MVP honors in the Big Ten title game in 2016. But the captain of the Nittany Lions fell into the sixth round of the draft, the 197th...

A continuing trial into corruption in NCAA basketball took a turn into college football Tuesday, when a former Pittsburgh financial adviser said he paid players from several major football programs, including Pitt and Penn State. Marty Blazer, an informant for federal investigators into their probe of payments made to college...

Tommy Stevens is out, and Sean Clifford is in. Stevens — Trace McSorley’s longtime backup and for years the record-holder’s presumed successor — is in the transfer portal and will leave Penn State. Stevens’ father informed the Centre Daily Times late Thursday afternoon that No. 2’s time in Happy Valley...

After receiving more than two dozen Division I offers, Parkland junior offensive lineman Nicholas Dawkins has chosen to continue his football pursuits at Penn State. The 6-foot-4, 300-pound guard made his decision final Monday afternoon and announced it on his Twitter page. Dawkins tweeted, “Mom I’m staying home!!”, and that...