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Penn State Football After Dark: Homecoming Contest Begins a String of ‘Night Shift’ Games
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Under coach Matt Campbell, Penn State football practice is held early in the morning, with coaches and players arriving at Lasch Building before the sun comes up. For the next month or so, they’ll now be playing football after it sets. “I told our guys we’re on the night shift for a while,” Campbell said…
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Homecoming 2026: Penn State, WE ARE the World
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It is Homecoming at Penn State. And while the weekend spins on the axis of a football game, it is so much more than that. It is a time for students to celebrate with a parade and events forging friendships and memories that will last long after their time here. It is time for alumni…
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Can Penn State’s Rocco Becht Be Another Brock Purdy?
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When it comes to former Iowa State quarterback and current San Francisco 49er star Brock Purdy, can Penn State’s Rocco Becht be QB Too? The answer is yes, at least at the college level. It’s a Purdy darn good idea. Purdy was the top QB at Iowa State from 2018-21, starting the final 46 games…
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A Penn State Hockey Legend Who Should Never Be Forgotten
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“Dr. Lawrence ‘Larry’ Hendry, 81, a distinguished chemist, pioneering entrepreneur, and passionate sports enthusiast, passed away August 30, 2026, leaving behind a legacy of profound scientific and athletic contributions.” This was the opening paragraph of the formal obituary of my friend and former Penn State hockey coach Larry Hendry. His professional successes are amazing, but…
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A 3-0 Start May Be SOP for Penn State, but for Matt Campbell It Means ‘Opportunity is Now Here’
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Penn State is off to a 3-0 start against an anonymous and fairly rag-tag trio of non-conference, non-combatant opponents. That’s typical for the Nittany Lions of the past decade or so. They began their seasons 3-0 in eight out of James Franklin’s final nine seasons. (The outlier? COVID 2020.) To begin his tenure in Happy…
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There’s No Catch to Koby Howard’s Success at Penn State: It’s All About Hard Work
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The numbers that Penn State wide receiver Koby Howard has put up in the initial three games of the 2026 season are mind-boggling. So is the work that has gone into making them happen. THE STATS: In the 14th-ranked, 3-0 Nittany Lions’ trio of non-conference games, the second-year receiver has 13 touches for 364 yards,…
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A MAC Team on the Road Against a Ranked Power 4 Foe? For Matt Campbell, Been There, Done That
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Matt Campbell has been in this situation before. Just not at Penn State. And not on the highly-favored team’s sidelines. In 2015 — Campbell’s fifth and final season as head coach at Toledo — Campbell took an unranked team. From the MAC (Mid-American Conference). On the road. Early in the season. To play a ranked opponent.…
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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…