Mike Poorman

Penn State football was on full display Saturday, from an NIL-sponsorship autograph session in Holuba Hall to an unprecedented but appreciated open practice – replete with live scrimmage reps – on the Lasch practice fields. A steady drizzle that began at the start of practice intensified as the evening ultimately turned into a wet and…

Gerry DiNardo spilled the beans just three minutes in the Big Ten Network’s hour-long show on Tuesday night recapping its visit earlier that day to Penn State football’s summer training camp. Drew Allar is Penn State’s starting quarterback — in so many words, anyway. DiNardo, 70, is a long-time analyst for BTN, and has been…

This was the beginning of my conversation – verbatim — with Penn State football co-captain Dom DeLuca on the Beaver Stadium playing field during the team’s media day on Sunday: Me: “Did I see you hold for snaps at practice the other day?” Dom: “You might have. Yeah.” Me: “Were you also handing out Gatorade…

Penn State’s football team began summer camp late Wednesday afternoon in preparation for a 2023 season that is already highly anticipated. And heated, even though the temperatures never hit 80. The first four periods of Day One practice on the fields outside Lasch Building and Holuba Hall were open to the media (26 members were…

James Franklin says he believes that when the College Football Playoff expands from four to 12 teams in 2024, the Big Ten Conference could get as many as six teams invited. That’s the 16-team Big Ten, which expands next season with the addition of USC and UCLA. That’s right — six. 6. As in a…

With the firing of Pat Fitzgerald at Northwestern this week, James Franklin is now the second-longest tenured head football coach in the Big Ten Conference. Iowa’s Kirk Ferentz, hired in 1999, is the dean of Big Ten coaches. He will be 68 on Aug. 1. Fitzgerald, who became the Wildcats’ head coach in 2006 at…

No. 1. That pretty much sums up who KeAndre Lambert-Smith is — and aspires to be — heading into Penn State’s 2023 football season. The fourth-year wide receiver began his Nittany Lion career wearing jersey No. 13. Then he switched to No. 1 at the start of the 2022 season. Watching K.J. Hamler, wearing No. 1,…

Can Penn State beat both Ohio State and Michigan in 2023 — most certainly the surest path to the College Football Playoffs? It might be the single most important question of the upcoming season, right up there with, “Can Drew Allar be great?” Beating the Buckeyes and the Wolverines in the span of four games…

After Penn State went a surprising 11-3 in 2016, winning the Big Ten and losing a scintillating nail-biter in the Rose Bowl, the Nittany Lions remained locked and loaded for the 2017 season. James Franklin’s fourth squad at Penn State that year returned an experienced and deep roster that had 359 career collegiate football starts,…

It is Thursday, May 25, and Penn State’s 2023 night-time season-opener vs. West Virginia on Saturday, Sept. 2 in Beaver Stadium is now just 100 days away. Penn State head coach James Franklin, entering his 10th season at Penn State with four top 10 finishes in the past seven campaigns, has already laid down the…