• The First Game as an Alum

    The First Game as an Alum

    | Posted by Kristin Goett

    It was unfathomable to me when I attended my first game as a freshman - Penn State vs. Eastern Michigan (a 45-7 win) – that there would come a time when I would head to the games as an alum....

  • Fight on State

    Fight on State

    | Posted by Dawn Meyer

    I so wanted to see us come out swinging on Saturday. To paraphrase Saquon’s postgame interview: ‘jab, jab, jab, and a haymaker when they’re leaning the wrong way.’ I wasn’t in the stadium but the reaction to the opening kickoff...

  • Game Ball & Helmet Stickers: Rutgers

    Game Ball & Helmet Stickers: Rutgers

    | Posted by Eric Herrold

    Just as the doctor ordered, a good dose of Sweet Home Happy Valley was all this family of Blue and White needed to remedy those two losses; even if it did take a little longer than normal to get that...

  • Pregame Predictor: Sweet Home Happy Valley

    Pregame Predictor: Sweet Home Happy Valley

    | Posted by Eric Herrold

    Home sweet home as the saying goes, and boy do we need it. Two weeks spent traveling on the lonely highway. We almost lost our minds in the process, but nothing cures a broken heart like some home cooking and...

  • No. 16 Penn State is Ready for Homecoming Against Rutgers

    No. 16 Penn State is Ready for Homecoming Against Rutgers

    | Posted by Kristin Goett

    This is one of the most wonderful weeks of the year in Happy Valley – Homecoming Week. Coming off the tail of two difficult weeks, the No. 16 Lions are ready to host Rutgers and capture a win at Beaver...

  • Onward and Upward

    Onward and Upward

    | Posted by Kristin Goett

    With this past weekend’s harrowing loss to Michigan State, Penn State (7-2, 4-2) dropped to No. 16 in the FBS rankings. This was a hard hit to many fans who had already grown used to seeing our Nittany Lions in...

  • Fair Weather

    Fair Weather

    | Posted by Dawn Meyer

    I secretly love a real life pathetic fallacy, as if all of nature understands and expresses the same emotions I’m feeling. When everything's going my way and there's not a cloud in the sky, I'm all the happier. When it...

  • So Close, Yet So Far Away

    So Close, Yet So Far Away

    | Posted by Eric Herrold

    Well folks, welcome to the knock-down, drag-out, mud-slinging slugfest that is the Big Ten in November. More specifically, the heavyweight division they call the Big Ten East. Last year, we ruled the roost (not counting that beat-down in Ann Arbor,...

  • Pregame Predictor: Back with a Vengeance

    Pregame Predictor: Back with a Vengeance

    | Posted by Eric Herrold

    So here we are again with our backs against the wall. No matter how far we come, we always manage to fall back down to earth. It’s been six excruciating days since it all came crashing down in Columbus, but...