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Frank: More Ways to Enhance Your Game Day!
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“Hello, old chap, you got to work, hey?”Tom wheeled suddenly and said:“Why, it’s you, Ben! I warn’t noticing.”“Say—I’m going in a-swimming, I am. Don’t you wish you could? But of course you’d druther WORK—wouldn’t you? Course you would!”Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said:“What do you call work?”“Why, ain’t THAT work?”Tom resumed his whitewashing,…
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Penn State’s Matt Campbell Praises His Offensive Coordinator: ‘It Wasn’t the Plays’
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The Penn State running game has been taking a pounding — on and off the field, and all over social media — two games into coach Matt Campbell’s regime. On Tuesday, Campbell said don’t point your finger at his offensive coordinator, Taylor Mouser. “Now you’ve got to make me say something nice about Mouse,” said Campbell,…
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Hook: The End of Summer and the Start of a New Era
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Labor Day has come and gone, meaning summer is now unofficially over. But that unofficial line of demarcation of summer – Memorial Day to Labor Day – has lost the meaning it once had. Both Penn State classes and the local school districts start before Labor Day. And although Penn State’s spring semester ends before…
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Penn State vs. Temple: Lots Has Happened Since That Day in 2015
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If Penn State vs. Temple is any sort of college football measuring stick of time, place and circumstance, let’s look at the trajectory of both schools since the Nittany Lions lost 27-10 to the Owls back on Sept. 5, 2015, at The Linc. Lots has happened since That Day. 4,025. That’s the days from that…
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Top 10 Ways Penn State’s Rocco Becht DOM-inated Against Temple
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PHILADELPHIA — Penn State quarterback Rocco Becht is the glue. The eraser. The motivator. The fighter. The cheerleader. The playmaker. The spark. The Nittany Lions’ slow-starting 27-9 victory over Temple here at Lincoln Financial Field on Saturday proved all of that. And more. For two games, the Iowa State transfer has been the best player on…
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The Rhyme, Reason and Rhythm of Matt Campbell Football
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Matt Campbell is doing Penn State football his way. Which is quite different than how his predecessor did it. Now, in some ways, what was old is new again. Not a surprise for many reasons, given that Cambell grew up as a fan of PSU football and has a bachelor’s degree in history. The latest…
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Paterno: Penn State Football’s Past and Present Meet
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Last week, Penn State opened a new football exhibit in the All-Sports Museum at Beaver Stadium. That exhibit included a recreation of Joe Paterno’s office which immediately drew attention from people in the media near and far. But they missed the emphasis of this new area of the museum. That exhibit is not about one…
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Yours, Mine and Ours: ‘We’re All Penn Staters Now’
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As Matt Campbell pieced together the 2026 Penn State football staff and roster, it was a classic case of yours, mine and ours. The Nittany Lions were the Brady Bunch of college football, sans Alice. They welcomed 62 newcomers to Happy Valley — 40 transfers and 22 freshmen. Only UCLA, which cleaned house (speaking of…
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Battista: How Many Hats Does a Man Need?
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A couple years ago my wife and I were shopping at Dick’s Sporting Goods, and I saw a really nice U.S. Ryder Cup hat that was regularly $45 on sale for $15. I really wanted to buy the hat. My wife intervened and asked a nearby clerk, a young man, “How many hats does a…
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Matt Campbell Is Good for Penn State. And Vice Versa
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Two things can be true: Matt Campbell is good for Penn State. Saturday was proof positive of that — on, going onto and off the field. Also, though: Penn State is good for Matt Campbell. He said as much after his team’s 45-0 thrashing of Marshall on Saturday, his first game as the Nittany Lions’ head…