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Penn State Running Back Saquon Barkley Is Young And Strong
Here is Saquon Barkley, freshman running back at Penn State, lifting a great deal of weight like it’s no big deal:...
Allen Robinson Got A Tattoo Of His Own Highlight-Reel Catch
If you’re a Penn State fan, you probably remember current Jaguars receiver Allen Robinson’s leaping catch that set up the game-tying touchdown in the 2013 Homecoming game against Michigan. From this point forward, you will also remember that catch if you ever see Robinson with his shirt off:...
Christian Hackenberg Thanks Everyone But His Coach While Declaring For NFL Draft
Penn State lost to Georgia in a bowl game this afternoon. It was an ugly game made uglier by star Penn State QB Christian Hackenberg leaving the game in the second quarter with an injury. His backup threw a cool touchdown, but other than that, nah....
Jerry Sandusky Is Getting His Pension Back
Jerry Sandusky will spend the rest of his natural life in prison for molesting and assaulting numerous boys over a 15-year period, all met via his Second Mile foundation. The day he was sentenced, Pennsylvania’s State Employees’ Retirement Board cut off his sizable pension from his years of service ...
Saquon Barkley Hurdles Over And Through Three Defenders For The Touchdown
Penn State is putting a royal whooping on the Illinois Fighting Illini today in Happy Valley, thanks in part to this Saquon Barkley hurdle-smash touchdown. This particular leap defies easy prepositional classification, on account of the number of defenders he got through here, but it was a great loo...
The Blue Jays' Pitching Was So Bad They Had A Position Player Take The Mound
Here is how ugly things were for the Blue Jays tonight: Cliff Pennington, the Jays’ utility infielder, came in to pitch in the ninth. According to Elias he became the first exclusive position player to pitch in the postseason, and it went about as well as expected. In one-third of an inning Penningt...
Keegan-Michael Key Dresses Up As James Franklin, Surprises Penn State Football Team
Penn State alumnus and comedian Keegan-Michael Key returned to campus for homecoming week, and he pretended to be head coach James Franklin for the football team’s meeting. The players loved it, particularly when Key imitated Franklin’s handshake....
Flavia Pennetta Wins U.S. Open, Promptly Announces Her Retirement
Flavia Pennetta took down Serena slayer Roberta Vinci in straight sets 7-6, 6-2 to win the U.S. Open final, the first singles Grand Slam title of her career. Immediately afterward the 33-year-old used her acceptance speech to announce her retirement from professional tennis. ...
Penn State Has Already Reached The Symbolic Burials Portion Of The Season
I’m all for football teams carrying out batshit rituals that are meant to exorcise bad vibes, but I feel like going to the Let’s Meaningfully Bury Some Shit well just one week into the season is a little much. Penn State would disagree:...
Deadspin 25: Penn State, Which Will Hopefully Suck A Little Less
Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. We st...
Sentient Lacrosse Stick/Kicker Trolls Big Ten, Commits To Penn State
This here is Quinn Nordin, and today he committed to Penn State. Below, you’ll find a video he and a friend put together announcing his commitment, set to “Coming Home.” It makes no real sense in the first place—he’s from Michigan—and involving some sort of small, fixed-wing aircraft makes it even m...
Wild Last-Second Comeback Wins 174-Lb. DI Wrestling Title For Penn State
You don't need to know much about wrestling to get what happened here. We start with six seconds left in a match for the 174-lb. Division I national championship, with Penn State's Matt Brown down by a point to Pitt's Tyler Wilps and rules about how you're not allowed to delay the match or lock hand...
Sean Penn Is Way Too Weird To Be Your Next Great Action Hero
If nothing else, The Gunman gives us a scene in which Sean Penn goes surfing. Of all the mysteries of centuries of American film, one that has always vexed me in particular is, "How did the doof who played Spicoli turn into that guy?" If you haven't watched Fast Times at Ridgemont High recently—an...
Flavia Pennetta Can Return Any Shot Maria Sharapova Hits
Flavia Pennetta took down second-seeded Maria Sharapova 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells because of hard work like this. Pennetta returns what could have been a winner, returns an overhead smash, and probably would've returned a second overhead smash if an official hadn't gott...
Penn State's D.J. Newbill Hits Buzzer-Beater With Hand All In His Face
D.J. Newbill might not be a household name, nor will he likely become one during the coming NCAA Tournament his Nittany Lions probably won't make, but he is the Big Ten's leading scorer and is capable of moments like this buzzer-beating three that gave Penn State the win over Minnesota....
Dustin Penner Loses TV Gig After Rape Jokes
Free agent Dustin Penner, who has probably reached the end of his shelf life as an NHL player, isn't having much more luck with TV. Scheduled to be a part of TSN's trade deadline coverage, he's now off the schedule thanks to some ill-advised tweets....
ESPN Suspends Keith Olbermann For Penn State Tweets
Last night, Keith Olbermann got into it on Twitter with Penn State fans and students—originally over, of all things, the school's annual pediatric cancer fundraiser. (His tweets are embedded below.) It was weird and unnecessary, and now ESPN has taken Olbermann off TV for the rest of the week....
Penn State Fans Are Passing The Hat To Pay The Basketball Coach's Fine
The Big Ten Conference announced today that they fined Penn State men's basketball coach Pat Chambers $10,000 for remarks he made after the team's loss to Maryland Saturday. Now, some Penn State students are trying to crowdfund the fine for him. Please don't do that....