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ELYSBURG — The Nittany Lion will be on hand for the 16th Penn State Day at Knoebels on June 14. Six regional alumni chapters are sponsoring the event, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Pavilion 5.
Olympic gold medalist and Penn State Nittany Lion Wrestling Club member Kyle Snyder was arrested last week in a prostitution sting. Snyder, 29, was one of 16 men charged during a Friday, May 9 ...
Earlier this week, Fink became the seventh Nittany Lion to earn First-Team All-Conference recognition and the first since 2020 while becoming the first unanimous selection Penn State has ever had.
And school legend holds that a student suggested the Nittany Lion mascot as a rival to Princeton University’s tiger. The Nittany Lions went in to halftime of the Orange Bowl up 10-3 on Notre Dame.
Richie Woodham, general manager in charge of wines at Lionne and 1855 Lounge in the Nittany Lion Inn, browses the inventory on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025.
He's been begging my wife, he's been begging me, to go to the tattoo parlor to get the same tattoo of the Nittany Lion I got on my arm when I committed my junior year to go to Penn State.
And what, exactly, is a Nittany Lion? Heading into its Orange Bowl matchup against Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff semifinals Thursday, here’s a closer look at why Penn State is ...
The first Nittany Lion mascot costume a student sported in 1921 was of an African lion, mane and all, which came from a campus theater production of "Androcles and the Lion." ...
The Nittany Lion would later appear in other places on campus, most notably with a statue, the Nittany Lion Shrine, by sculptor Heinz Warneke that was dedicated in 1942.