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Penn State has yet to make a decision on the future of highly regarded recruit Zayd Issah, a source told the Tribune-Review Monday. Issah, who signed with the Nittany Lions in February, was charged last week with using counterfeit money at a McDonald’s in Harrisburg. A cryptic message Issah wrote on his Twitter account Sunday [...]

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State opened spring practice, ironically enough, on a day when a storm socked Happy Valley with snow. Reporters were allowed to watch the first half of practice, and here are some observations followed by Bill O’Brien answers to three questions at a news conference that preceded practice.   – Nothing will [...]

How dare someone question Penn State Board of Trustees member Kenneth Frazier – and by extension the Freeh Report. Frazier made that message clear Thursday when he launched a diatribe against a Harrisburg lawyer during an open session of a Board of Trustees meeting. William Cluck had the gall to question the Freeh Report as [...]

Penn State is again the team to beat in the Big Ten Wrestling Championships, which will be held Saturday and Sunday at Illinois’ Assembly Hall. The Nittany Lions, ranked No. 1 by Intermat, have three projected No. 1 seeds in the two-day tournament that they have won the last two years. Penn State also has [...]

Penn State quietly announced on Wednesday that Dr. Wayne Sebastianelli will no longer serve as the primary physician for the football team. The change was made public on the day Penn State released the news that associate athletic director for football administration Fran Ganter will retire after spending more than 40 years at the school [...]

It is not that he broke his silence. Adam Taliaferro did offer his strongest comments regarding fallout from the Jerry Sandusky scandal and the Freeh Report since getting elected to the Penn State Board of Trustees last April. Taliaferro, whose football career was cut short by a catastrophic injury in 2000, told the Tribune-Review that [...]

There are no surprises among the Penn State players who have been invited to the NFL Scouting Combine, which takes place later this month in Indianapolis. Linebackers Michael Mauti and Gerald Hodges, defensive tackle Jordan Hill and center Matt Stankiewitch are among the more than 300 prospects that will be poked and prodded by every [...]

Here are excerpts from Bill O’Brien’s news conference Monday, the first day of the spring semester at Penn State: Q: When you go through something that goes public like talking with NFL teams is that something that goes away for the foreseeable future or does it come up again on an annual basis? A: No, [...]

The buyout clause in Bill O’Brien’s contract was widely believed to be one of the biggest obstacles to the Penn State coach leaving for the NFL. Joe Linta, who represents O’Brien, said that never factored into O’Brien’s decision to stay at Penn State after he received interest from a handful of teams, including the Browns [...]

Leave the absurdity of Twitter to best capture the absurdity of the week that follows the conclusion of the NFL regular season. The coaching carousel starts spinning as NFL bosses are whacked like stoolies in a Mob flick, even ones like Lovie Smith, who is coming off a 10-win season and has been to a [...]