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Defending Penn State's 2009 out of conference football schedule.

Why the Big Ten should not play a round-robin.

The season is almost upon us which means in a few days we'll have actual football games to break down and discuss. So Ron Cook has to get his last ditch jab at Joe Paterno in just under the wire. ...

I've been stewing for the last few days over the out of conference basketball schedule that was announced last week. It's apparent to me that the administration has no clue about how to create a...

Last week the Penn State basketball program announced their 2008-2009 non-conference schedule. Behold it in all its glory. Nov 14 William & Mary Nov 17 New Jersey Institute of Technology Nov...

Cupcakes.  Everyone has them, nobody likes them.  Feldman put together a relatively arbitrary list of schools with the easiest OOC schedules.  While putting these schools in order seems kind of...

Alright folks, we're really scraping the bottom of the barrel here looking for Penn State news. Oh for the days when we were bringing in a new recruit every other day. If things don't pick up I'm...

First off my apologies to The Big Eleventh. Last week he sent out these questions and we had planned on posting them yesterday. But then with the holiday weekend and all the recruiting news going...

Nice writup today in the Washington Post about Penn State's big weekend with insight into Darrell Given's decision to decommit from Ohio State and select the Nittany Lions. As for Givens, it was...