Penn State head coach Bill O’Brien addresses the media after Saturday’s 24-21 overtime win against Wisconsin.
A first-year head coach, O’Brien talked about what he was thinking before Wisconsin attempted a game-tying field goal to force a second overtime and more.
Erie Times-News sports reporter Duane Rankin captures Sam Ficken’s game-winning field goal of 37 yards in Penn State’s 24-21 overtime win against Wisconsin at Beaver Stadium on Saturday.
Kyle French missed a 44-yard field goal wide left that would have forced a second overtime.
Erie Times-News Sports reporter Duane Rankin captured Wisconsin’s game-tying touchdown with 18 seconds left in regulation to force overtime against Penn State at Beaver Stadium on Nov. 24.
Curt Phillips hit Jeff Duckworth for a 4-yard touchdown pass on 4th-and-goal. The Badgers lost the game in overtime, 24-21.
Erie Times-News sports reporter Duane Rankin captured Penn State entering Beaver Stadium for the final time in this 2012 season.
The players wore No. 42 on their helmets for senior captain Michael Mauti, who is out with a knee injury. The Nittany Lions beat Wisconsin in overtime, 24-21, in their season finale.
Riding a two-game winning streak, Mercyhurst takes on Slippery Rock in an PSAC West game Saturday at 1 p.m. at Tullio Field.
The Lakers (2-1, 1-0) lost 28-21 to the Rock (2-1, 1-0) last season.
First-year head coach Bill O’Brien fielded questions from the media after the Nittany Lions lost their 2012 season opener, 24-14, to Ohio at Beaver Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
Replacing the late Joe Paterno, O’Brien constantly blamed himself for not doing a good enough job.
Erie Times-News sports reporter Duane Rankin takes you right up to the moment Penn State entered Beaver Stadium with its first-year coach Bill O’Brien for the 2012 season opener.
Check out ESPN reporter Mark Schwartz filming it. Penn State wound up losing to Ohio, 24-14, Saturday afternoon.
Erie Times-News sports reporter Duane Rankin caught up with Penn State legend and NFL Hall of Famer Franco Harris before the Nittany Lions played their 2012 season opener against Ohio at Beaver Stadium.
The Bobcats beat the Nittany Lions, 24-14.
Erie Times-News staff writer and columnist John Dudley on Monday was presented with the 2012 George Heaslip Media Award during the PSAC West football media day at Slippery Rock University.
Edinboro sports information director Robert Shreve, left, and PSAC associate commissioner Will Adair, right, present the George Heaslip Media Award to Erie Times-News staff writer John Dudley during Monday's PSAC West football media day at Slippery Rock.
The PSAC’s sports information directors present the award annually to a media professional for meritorious service in covering the conference’s student-athletes, coaches and teams. The award is named after former Cheyney sports information director George Heaslip.
Dudley has been a Times-News staff writer since 1999, covering sports ranging from the youth level to the NFL. For most of the past decade he has been the newspaper’s lead sports columnist. He has written extensively about PSAC football, men’s and women’s basketball and wrestling.
Dudley is a graduate of Cambridge Springs High School and Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. He also served as the sports editor of Brown Thompson Newspapers before joining the Times-News.
Drew Astorino
Today, Penn State senior safety Drew Astorino, an General McLane graduate, had a media conference call and talked about Joe Paterno resigning today.
Paterno had a team meeting with the players at 11 a.m. today to tell them he’s resigning at the end of the season.
“He just told us he put in a letter of resignation,” Astorino said. “He thinks that would be best for Penn State, best for his family and best for everybody else. He doesn’t want to put Penn State or anyone else through a war, fight or media war against anybody. He said he’s (been there) for Penn State more than anything for the past 61 years and he’s just always wants us to remember that this team will always be a team and always be together. Not just for the next so many games. Not just next year. We’ll be a team for the rest of our lives and he wants us to never forget that.”
This comes on the heels of former Penn State assistant Jerry Sandusky having been indicted on charges of sexually abusing eight boys over 15 years.
Coming out of the meeting, Astorino also said he got the impression Paterno is going to coach the rest of the season. The Nittany Lions (8-1) play their final home game of the 2011 season Saturday against Nebraska.
