Mike Poorman

Expect a reasonable facsimile of a real football game when Penn State takes the field — and both sidelines — for the annual Blue-White Game in Beaver Stadium on Saturday. The scrimmage is the 15th and final official practice of the spring — as permitted by the NCAA — and though termed a practice, Penn State head…

Nolan Rucci may have taken the long way home — three football seasons in Madison, Wisc.— but now he’s in Happy Valley, where both of his folks made big names for themselves as Penn State athletes in the early 1990s. It is only 124 miles from Grosh Field, home of Rucci’s Warwick High School football…

Julian Fleming’s last reception as a Buckeye came with just three plays remaining in Ohio State’s 30-24 loss to Michigan in both teams’ regular season finale last Nov. 25. It wasn’t pretty. The Buckeyes had exactly 60 seconds to drive 81 yards and score a touchdown, to tie The Game in The Big House. On…

Andy Kotelnicki has been a college football offensive coordinator for almost two decades. Born and raised in Litchfield, Minn. (pop: 6,537), he’s been almost everywhere, man. Kansas, Buffalo, Wisconsin-Whitewater, University of Mary, Wisconsin-River Falls, Western Illinois…Penn State. The U of Mary is in Bismarck, N.D. The population of Whitewater, River Falls and Makomb, Ill. (home…

Penn State football held its first official practice of the spring on Tuesday. And boy, was it spring. Creeping toward 70, it might have been the nicest day of weather in Happy Valley in 2024. Only 172 days until the season opener at West Virginia. The sun, it seems, was shining on the Nittany Lions.…

“So,” I asked dapper strength coach Chuck Losey at Penn State’s winter-workout-ending Max Out Day on Thursday, “how has Drew’s winter been?” Drew is, of course, Nittany Lion quarterback Drew Allar, now heading into his third season at Penn State and his second as a starter. Allar is still, as ESPN.com recently pointed out, a…