Penn State’s attempt to secure the PIAA basketball and individual wrestling championships has encountered a glitch.

TOWSON, Md. — Penn State notched its first NCAA Tournament victory since 1999 by defeating No. 8 seed Towson 15-8 on Saturday.

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State’s Kristen Nieuwendam was named Big Ten women’s Track Co-Athlete of the Week on Wednesday while Joe Kovacs was chosen men’s Field Athlete of the Week.

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State will be sending five gymnasts to the Visa Championships based on their performances at the U.S. Men’s Qualifier last weekend at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo.

RICHMOND, Va. — Six Penn State student-athletes earned honors from the CAA on Friday.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The third-seeded Penn State women’s lacrosse team dropped its opening round game of the American Lacrosse Conference Championship, falling 13-12 to No. 6 seed Johns Hopkins on Thursday.

UNIVERSITY PARK — Five members of the Penn State women’s lacrosse team received All-American Lacrosse Conference honors Wednesday.

UNIVERSITY PARK — The semester is over and summer is calling, but Penn State men’s swimming and diving team members are still pumped over the team’s best season in 10 years.

UNIVERSITY PARK — Drexel scored the final two goals of the contest and the third-seeded Dragons upset the No. 2 Nittany Lions 13-11 in the semifinals of the Colonial Athletic Association men’s lacrosse tournament on Wednesday. The loss snapped Penn State’s five-game winning streak.

FRENCH LICK, Ind. — Elyse Archambault took 13th while Penn State finished 11th as a team at the Big Ten Championships on Sunday.

Penn State's Miles Chamley-Watson breaks some stereotypes that you may have about a fencer: humble, reserved, distinguished. That's not to say Chamley-Watson is not an exemplary fencer, but he walks and talks with a swagger that may better resemble an NBA or NFL athlete.

After dismantling BYU in the opening contest of the Final Four tournament,the Penn State women's rugby squad took down host Stanford by a score of 32-12 on Saturday to secure the 2012 National Championship.

Sometimes things look grim. Nothing goes right. It's a total loss. That is a loser's mentality. One who quits when the going gets tough. But that's not Penn State baseball.

PITTSBURGH - Perched high on the 17th floor of the Omni William Penn Hotel, just a short distance from Pitt's home stadium, Heinz Field, Penn State coach Bill O'Brien quickly addressed a subject that almost always gets the locals buzzing: the Nittany Lions' dormant rivalry with the Panthers.

PITTSBURGH-- While most Penn State fans might associate cold and snow at Beaver Stadium with a late November football game, men's ice hockey coach Guy Gadowsky and football coach Bill O'Brien hope they'll someday have pucks on their minds, too.

For the second year in a row, Penn State will matchup against Boston College in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge. The...

ALTOONA — There's been a lot of chatter in the past few weeks about a new playoff system in...

The sun was shining Saturday as football head coach Bill O'Brien tossed out the first pitch at Beard Field for Penn State softball's season finale against Ohio State.

Last May, Penn State launched a project to replace the two scoreboards at its football stadium, and new scoreboards were originally slated to be installed by the start of the 2012 season. However, Associate Athletic Director for Facilities and Operations Mark Bodenschatz said that will not happen.

BETHELEM -- At the eighth stop on the Coaches Caravan in Bethelem on Tuesday, coach Bill O'Brien -- joined...

Garrett Sickels had no problems with Penn State's hiring of Bill O'Brien, to say the least.

More than any other quality, spring football is about renewal. That is true every spring on every campus, but never more so than in 2012.

Art Monk and Dave Casper were named to the College Football Hall of Fame on Tuesday, leading a class of 17 players and coaches.

ACC commissioner John Swofford said at the conclusion of the league's spring meetings that he has had several positive discussions with Florida State president Eric Barron.

Jerry Sandusky again asked a judge to throw out the child sexual abuse charges against him on Wednesday, arguing that some counts are too vague to defend and others involve alleged victims whose identities have not been determined.

Notre Dame linebacker Carlo Calabrese has been charged with a misdemeanor count of intimidation for allegedly making threatening remarks to a police officer after quarterback Tommy Rees was arrested.

How about a national championship game in Detroit? Or Minneapolis? What about Boston or New York?

A 22-year-old University of Idaho football player was fatally shot at a weekend party in Los Angeles, authorities said.

Big Ten officials came out in favor of keeping bowl games as sites for college football's planned playoff on Tuesday, preferring to keep the Rose Bowl as the conference's postseason tradition.

The Big West may have indirectly helped keep Big East football together for the short term by reversing its December decision to consider Boise State for membership in all other sports.

Quarterback Cooper Bateman of Salt Lake City, ranked No. 61 overall on the ESPN 150, committed to defending national champion Alabama Wednesday.

Clemson freshman running back Mike Bellamy was ruled academically ineligible and won't return to school next fall.

The NFL, its players' union and the NCAA are donating money to provide new helmets to youth football players in low-income communities.

Florida defensive tackle Leon Orr violated the terms of his deferred prosecution agreement for his misdemeanor marijuana possession charge by getting cited for knowingly driving with a suspended license on Monday.

ESPN executive chairman George Bodenheimer will receive this year's Distinguished American Award from the National Football Foundation in a Dec. 4 ceremony in New York, the organization announced Tuesday.

Florida A&M University's famed marching band is being suspended until 2013.

Joliet Catholic junior running back Ty Isaac committed to USC on Tuesday, according to his father.