Local & Penn State Sports

The Orange Bowl stage is set. Penn State will face Notre Dame, a program that outlasted Georgia for a 23-10 victory in the Sugar Bowl on Thursday and will look to return to the national championship for the first time in over a decade. The Nittany Lions, a rookie in the College Football Playoff, will…

Penn State’s 31-14 win over Boise State on Tuesday at the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Arizona, was a night filled with historic achievements and season superlatives. Improving to 8-0 all-time in the Fiesta Bowl, the Nittany Lions won their second College Football Playoff game and advanced to the CFP semifinals for the first time. They’ll…

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Jake LaMotta took so many punches he earned himself a middleweight boxing championship and a movie about his life. He was known as “The Bronx Bull,” and he was sent to the canvas just once in 106 fights. LaMotta’s face would swell as his lips cracked with blood, but rarely did his…

No. 6 seed Penn State slowed down Boise State’s star running back Ashton Jeanty and turned in a strong ground game of its own to defeat the No. 3 seed Broncos 31-14 Tuesday night in a College Football Playoff quarterfinal at the Fiesta Bowl. The Nittany Lions now will head to the Orange Bowl on…

Penn State entered the locker room with a 17-7 halftime lead over Boise State and a looming question mark entering the final two quarters of Tuesday’s Fiesta Bowl. Will standout defensive end Abdul Carter return to action? Carter, who was named the Big Ten’s defensive player of the year this season, was banged up on…

PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. — The sun sets over the Camelback Mountain and leaves a cool breeze in its wake. The desert is quiet, for now. But on Tuesday, it will erupt in a frenzy. The College Football Playoff has made its way west, where Penn State and Boise State will face off in the Fiesta…

PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. — James Franklin held a Penn State helmet and posed for a picture alongside Boise State’s Spencer Danielson. Between the two coaches was the coveted Fiesta Bowl trophy. Franklin and Danielson are at different points in their careers, they run programs on opposite sides of the country and play in two incomparable…