The Nittany Lions, who already play neutral-site games in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, have added an additional neutral-site game for next season. Penn State is now scheduled to play Cornell at Madison Square Garden in NYC as a part of The Frozen Apple.
Penn State baseball took two of its three games to kick off the season against Gardner-Webb, giving the Nittany Lions its first winning record after its opening series since 2011.
I met with Ken Hickman, the director of the Penn State All-Sports Museum, to talk about documenting the past, present, and foreseeable future of Penn State athletics.
It was a day filled with victories at the Bryce Jordan Center -- the Lady Lion Pink Zone passed the $1 million milestone for its breast cancer efforts over the past eight years; the event brought in the sixth largest crowd in BJC history; and to top it all off, the Lady Lions defeated the Wisconsin Badgers 78-68.
Penn State athletics lost just shy of $6 million during 2012-13 per a financial report released Friday (the press release cleverly referred to it as "expenses exceeding revenues" instead of a loss, of course).
An NCAA Championship re-match, three bouts with both wrestlers in the Top 10, and three consecutive matches with bonus points against No. 5 Oklahoma State made for an exciting match for the Nittany Lions in Rec Hall, as Penn State closes up its regular season schedule.