Home and Home with Heels?

North Carolina and head football coach Butch Davis are looking for a schedule upgrade. 
So they have contacted Penn State among others in an effort to land some quality non-conference opponents. 
Among the other schools contacted by the Tar Heels are Big Ten rivals Ohio State and Michigan as well. 
Here’s what works about this possibility. Penn State [...]

Stumping for help

Over the past few days you’ve read all the stories about Joe Paterno (again) stumping for a 12th team to join the Big Ten to create a conference title game. 
This time, (specifically earlier this week) Paterno, in Fogelsville for “An Evening with Joe” gathering at a Holiday Inn, said forget Notre Dame, get Pittsburgh, Rutgers [...]

Paterno earns seven figures

 
 
In a piece of info that should surprise absolutely no one, Patriot-News reporter Jan Murphy writes that Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno earns seven figures annually. 
The story also discusses the salary of University of Pittsburgh coaches Jamie Dixon and Dave Wannstedt
 
According to Murphy’s story: 
The information provided by the universities is for 2007-08 and [...]

Athlon says PSU is No. 7

Ahhhh yes, the best time of the summer, when all of the college football preview magazines hit the newsstands. 
The best of the bunch is and always will be Phil Steele’s publication, but for the time being, Athlon is chiming in with their countdown of the Top 25. Steele by the way is counting down his [...]

Paterno: Don’t add Irish

Penn State head coach  Joe Paterno met with the media in Fogelsville tonight at an alumni event. Per the AP, Paterno said he wants Big Ten expansion, but does not want that 12th team to be Notre Dame. 
Paterno stumped for Pittsburgh or a “team in the New York market,” as the addition. 
Colleague Mark Wogenrich, of [...]

Kuntz talks gold

Colleague Tom Ash who does a great and tireless job of covering track and field for the paper, was in Shippensburg yesterday for the PIAA Track and Field Championships. 
He covered the boys scene and caught up with Trinity product and in-coming Penn State recruit Christian Kuntz after Kuntz took gold in both the 110 hurdles [...]

Timpson coming back to PA?

 
From the “where are they now” file…
 
Colleague Jeff Reinhart of the Lancaster New Era had this little nugget on his blog over at Lancasteronline.com…
Per Jeff’s blog: Timpson, sources tell me, has coached in his home state of Florida. The former Nittany Lions’ wideout played in the NFL for the Eagles, Bears and Patriots. You might [...]

Pederson talks PSU series

Here’s a link to tomorrow’s story (you know how newspapers today are, we write for the web and post ASAP), about Pitt AD Steve Pederson discussing the possibility of another series (or not) with Penn State.

Pitt AD comments on series renewal with PSU

University of Pittsburgh AD Steve Pederson is in the area tonight with men’s basketball coach Jamie Dixon and a few others from the Pitt athletic department, for a fan/alumni function at the Hotel Hershey. 
Pederson took a few minutes out from the meet and greet to address all things Pittsburgh, including the chit-chat of the PSU-Pitt [...]

Cumulus Media picks up PSU

For Penn State fans in the Central PA area, the Nittany Lions have a new radio home.
Cumulus Media Harrisburg, owners of 93.5 WTPA and ESPN 1400 AM, announced this afternoon that they have picked up the rites to Nittany Lions football and men’s basketball beginning this fall with the home football opener against Akron.
The agreement [...]