Mike Poorman

Penn State athletic director Pat Kraft, we have learned, doesn’t mess around. And neither do the construction crews and cranes operators that were working on Saturday to feverishly finish some early key elements of the multi-year, multi-hundred million dollar renovation of Beaver Stadium. Time is of the essence. While downtown State College and the central…

Penn State head coach James Franklin is often seen out and about in town or on campus. Stopping by his favorite Starbucks on West College Avenue (“two venti iced quad sugar-free vanilla lattes with oat milk”), dining with recruits, near-daily walks through downtown State College and along the campus borders. And, seemingly more often than…

James Franklin’s pool of coaches for practice and game day just got bigger, thanks to new rules established by the NCAA. As a result, Penn State staff analysts like former two-time All-American and ex-NFL linebacker Dan Connor — Penn State’s all-time leading tackler — is now eligible to help coach players like Tony Rojas and…

You hear it. I hear it. James Franklin hears it. Marques Hagans, entering his second season as Penn State’s wide receivers coach, hears it. “Let’s be honest: I hear it. And I think the guys hear it as well,” Hagans said on Thursday, during a media availability prior to Lift For Life. “I’m not going…

On Thursday, James Franklin played Meet The Press for the first time in two months — 61 days, to be exact, a span from post-Blue-White Game to a session with mostly local media Thursday afternoon in Holuba Hall. Franklin had been literally coast-to-coast since then, from California for Big Ten meetings to various NIL fund-raising…

Penn State will be in the College Football Playoff in 2024. At least that’s the way the preseason prognosticators, including the top two sports books, see it. That’s right now, anyway, with spring practice over, the transfer portal closed, spring semester completed and a paltry 118 days until Penn State kicks off its season on…