Rose Garden: The Wizard (and Other Characters) on the Record
Since Penn State won its fourth consecutive NCAA Women’s Volleyball championship, alot of attention has been focused on Head Coach Russ Rose. We’ve wanted to post some of…
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Penn State Earns Big Haul of Big Ten Awards
Brown, McClendon, Wilson, D’Errico, Balza and Rose Cop Big Ten Honors Penn State capped off a tough, but successful Big Ten season — in which the Nittany LIoins captured their eighth-consecutive Big…
Read MoreMatch Preview: Penn State v. Stanford in Nike Big Four Classic
The Matchup: Penn State vs. Stanford Game Time: Saturday, September 11th: (6:30 p.m. ET) The Coaches: Both Penn State’s Russ Rose (1007-159, .864), and Stanford’s John Dunning (704-147, .827) are among the…
Read MoreGame Day Update – Penn State v. Florida
When: Friday, September 10, 2010 7:30 p.m. ET Live Webcast: Live Video Live Stats: GameTracker Last December, when Penn State met Florida in the NCAA Sweet Sixteen, the…
Read MorePenn State [Sinks][Swamps][Sweeps] Pirates
What’s the appropriate sports cliche to use with Pirates? The obvious choice is “sinks.” But that’s, well, rather too obvious. You can’t “sweep” them, can you? Well, yes,…
Read MoreBig Ten Math Tricks: Dividing 10 by 2 to get 6
It shouldn’t be surprising that it took the Conference that Can’t Count (aka “The Big Ten”) months and months to settle on its new Two Division setup. As…
Read MoreMatch Previews: Carolina Classic
The Penn State Women’s volleyball team opens its 2010 Season on Friday, August 27th in Chapel Hill, North Carolina at the Carolina Classic, hosted by the University of…
Read More2010 Penn State WVB Schedule
The reign, the streak, and other things. For the Penn State Women’s Volleyball team, the 2009 season might be called “The Year of the Streaks” — as in…
Read More2010 Penn State Roster
We’ve edited this post, because we concluded it’s original lede (a scene from a crowded train in Tokyo) led discussion in the wrong direction — whether there will…
Read More“Nine” — The Freshman Class
Russ Rose on whether winning championships gets “a little harder as the streak goes on and the pressure mounts”: The competition gets harder and harder. I don’t think…
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