STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) 鈥� Tony Rojas was thinking way too much last season. It was a side effect of playing hurt. On almost every play, the Penn State linebacker鈥檚 subconscious would remind him of the pain soon to follow should he lead with his ailing right shoulder. While it wasn鈥檛 ...
James Franklin and Mike Tomlin have plenty in common for the 2025 football season. Both are winning but highly criticized head coaches who will be feeling the pressure with high expectations locally. Tomlin鈥檚 Steelers don鈥檛 open up until next week but when it comes to the area鈥檚 ...
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. 鈥� Frank Andrews was 17 and sitting quietly in church when the tears started to fall. "I didn鈥檛 know what was going to happen to me," he recalled. "I was a very severe stutterer, and I didn鈥檛 know what would become of my life." That moment of uncertainty marked the ...
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Brownsville鈥檚 football program has struggled mightily in recent years and hasn鈥檛 had much stability at the head coaching position. A year ago, the Falcons鈥� third as an independent, David Martin III began the season as coach and former coach Von Braddock stepped back in on an interim ...
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