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Double-barrel QB news for PSU, and it's very good news.

We never always knew JayPa could do this, and wooooooooooo!  Welcome Robert Bolden to the Nittany Lions.  Let's be clear right at the top.  This isn't some scrubbish Plan-C quarterback that...

When do you play a quarterback? When do you pull him?

As the plaudits reign down on JayPa and the the Penn State college football team, superstitious Happy Valley residents are frantically signaling with their arms like Peyton Manning trying to shush...

When you have a team with so many weapons, one of the challenging things isn't necessarily being able to use them all, but threatening to.  For those reasons, I love this set: The concept is...

I have absolutely no idea how this year's Penn State team is going to be.  None. Some people believe Penn State is a 10+ win team and a darkhorse national championship contender.  Others have...

Pat Devlin:  Focused Quarterbacks: They're important. This is the second in a short series in which we will try to decipher which quarterback will give the team the best chance to win. Ladies...

Quarterbacks: They're important. This is the first in a short series in which we will try to decipher which quarterback will give the team the best chance to win. Up First: Daryll Clark E...

Derrick Williams is going to be here in 2008,  seriously.  "The real Derrick Williams will be there this year," Williams said yesterday at the Big Ten preseason news conference. It wasn't...

Good for you.  Cory Giger of the Altoona Mirror was able to collect some good player and coach quotes about the new playbook that might help us understand this new high definition offense. Jay...