• Dreams and Expectations

    Dreams and Expectations

    | Posted by Dawn Meyer

    Throughout my life, people have complained that my standards are too high, that I hold myself and others to standards that can’t possibly be met. It’s true. I’m always striving for better. I’ve never, ever been content with mediocrity. I...

  • Game Ball & Helmet Stickers: Season Finale

    Game Ball & Helmet Stickers: Season Finale

    | Posted by Eric Herrold

    Before we get rolling, I must post a disclaimer. Forgive me if I wear my heart on my sleeve today, but right now my emotions are running high. First, there’s unbelievable pride in a squad that has won 10 regular...

  • Pregame Predictor: Turtle Soup

    Pregame Predictor: Turtle Soup

    | Posted by Eric Herrold

    Well, now that we're all fat and happy, who’s ready for a little football? A heaping bowl full of turtle soup as a post-Thanksgiving Day reward sounds pretty good. The season of great expectations has one final stop to make...

  • No. 10 Penn State Readies for Final Game of Season

    No. 10 Penn State Readies for Final Game of Season

    | Posted by Kristin Goett

    As much as fans don’t want it to end, yet another season of Penn State Football will wrap up this weekend. The No. 10 Lions (9-2, 6-2) are traveling to College Park this weekend to take on the Maryland Terrapins....

  • An Addition to the House that Joe Built

    An Addition to the House that Joe Built

    | Posted by Kristin Goett

    Just like that, the last home game of the year has come and gone. No. 11 Penn State defeated Nebraska in a high scoring game where the final score was 56-44. Although there is still one regular season game left...

  • Grateful

    Grateful

    | Posted by Dawn Meyer

    In 2012, I went to the Senior Day game. It was the first time I’d ever attended a game and didn’t watch Joe Paterno run out of the tunnel. For years that had been as much of an important part...

  • Game Ball & Helmet Stickers: Nebraska

    Game Ball & Helmet Stickers: Nebraska

    | Posted by Eric Herrold

    They came, they saw, they conquered. I had already planned that as my opening sentence and late Saturday night, senior Grant Haley validated my notion by tweeting a picture of the senior class on the Beaver Stadium field one last...

  • Pregame Predictor: Curtain Call

    Pregame Predictor: Curtain Call

    | Posted by Eric Herrold

    It was August 29, 2014; James Franklin’s debut in Dublin, Ireland and a redshirt freshman blazed his way into our hearts with a series of acrobatic grabs and game-saving receptions. His name? DaeSean Hamilton, and he now stands alone atop...

  • No. 10 Penn State Football Sends of Seniors at this Weekend’s Stripe Out

    No. 10 Penn State Football Sends of Seniors at this Weekend’s Stripe Out

    | Posted by Kristin Goett

    It’s hard to believe that the regular season is already coming to a close. It still seems like just yesterday the season opened with intense anticipation, and Penn State delivered a shutout trouncing of Akron for the first home game...