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Allar chosen for Manning Award watch list

UNIVERSITY PARK – Penn State senior quarterback Drew Allar was named to the Manning Award watch list on Thursday. The Manning Award was created by the Allstate Sugar Bowl in honor of the college football accomplishments of Archie, Peyton and Eli Manning. It is the only quarterback award that includes the candidates’ postseason performances in its balloting. The winner will again be selected by a voting panel, which includes national media and each of the Mannings, after the postseason. Drew Allar · Sr. · QB · 6-5 · 238 · Medina, Ohio · Medina Named to the Davey ...

MacBean, Herr earn college soccer honors

LONG BEACH, Calif. – The Penn State women’s soccer program garnered a wide array of national attention from TopDrawerSoccer.com in its preseason releases, with the Nittany Lions landing the No. 6 overall team ranking while securing one Best XI Team selection and a pair of preseason top-100 players in the organization’s releases Tuesday. Penn State picked up the No. 6 national ranking according to TopDrawerSoccer’s preseason release, the highest rated program in the Big Ten Conference and the highest ranked team in the nation outside of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Nittany ...

Black Bears tame Spikes, 8-0

GRANVILLE, W.Va. – Dan Tauken’s double and early opportunities kept the State College Spikes in Wednesday’s game, but the West Virginia Black Bears went wire-to-wire to claim an 8-0 win at Kendrick Family Ballpark. Tauken, who entered the night in the MLB Draft League’s top ten for hard-hit rate, laced his two-base hit down the right-field line in the second at 104.4 miles per hour to put the Spikes (11-15 2nd Half) in the hit column. However, he was stranded there as the inning ended. State College had another chance in the third, down 3-0, after loading the bases with one ...

Davis launches homer in Spikes’ 4-3 defeat

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Jakobi Davis went deep in the eighth inning to tie the game with his first State College Spikes home run, but Drew Collins won it for the West Virginia Black Bears with a walk-off double to take a 4-3 decision on Tuesday night at Kendrick Family Ballpark. In a potential MLB Draft League Championship Game preview, West Virginia (18-6 2nd Half) staked a further claim to first place in the league’s Second Half standings to open the three-game set against the Spikes (11-14 2nd Half), the league’s First Half Champions and title game hosts. The Black Bears took ...

Lady Lions listed third in preseason poll

ROSEMONT, Ill. – Penn State women’s soccer landed a trio of student athletes as Big Ten Conference Players to Watch in the 2025 season, with the Nittany Lion program also selected to finish third in the league in a preseason poll of the league’s coaches, with both announcements made ...

Penn State ranked second in CFB preseason rankings

By MAURA CAREY Associated Press The AP Top 25 college football poll preseason rankings are now. Texas took the No. 1 spot for the first time in an opening poll, narrowly edging out Penn State by just five points in the closest preseason vote since 1998. Defending champion Ohio State ...