GAME NOTES: The final game in the opening round of the 2010 Big Ten Conference Tournament pits the 11th-seeded Penn State Nittany Lions against the sixth- seeded Minnesota Golden Gophers. Neither team has ever won this event, and they come in with a combined 13-22 tourney mark all-time.

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State's annual Blue-White Game football scrimmage will be televised live by ESPN2 on Saturday, April 24. Kickoff is set for 2 p.m. at Beaver Stadium.

OMAHA, Neb. — Headed by Big Ten champion Cyler Sanderson, four of Penn State's six qualifiers have been seeded for the upcoming NCAA Wrestling Championships to be held March 18-20 at the Qwest Center.

Glass-half-full Penn State fans can look at the last six games and say that the Nittany Lions beat everyone except the Big Ten champions.

UNIVERSITY PARK — Five second-quarter goals propelled visiting Villanova to 5-3 halftime lead as the Wildcats held off Penn State 11-7 in men's lacrosse Tuesday night at Bigler Field.

When Taran Buie signed his letter of intent in November, Penn State had apparently wrapped up its recruiting for the Class of 2010.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Brad Pataky had stitches below his eye. Frank Molinaro's face was bleeding. Cyler Sanderson wrestled with a bandage around an entire leg.

BEAUMONT, Texas — Despite sophomore Jordan Steranka's second home run in as many days, the Penn State baseball team couldn't overcome Lamar's six-run fifth inning in falling 8-3 on Sunday at the YMBL Cardinal Classic.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Penn State's Cyler Sanderson and Purdue's Colton Salazar started training together as five-year-olds in Wasatch, Utah, far away from the glare of major events such as the Big Ten Championships.

UNIVERSITY PARK – There was a lot of discussion of luck Saturday following Purdue’s 64-60 defeat of Penn State in the Bryce Jordan Center.

Adam Lynch was not chosen as one of the 330 wrestlers to participate in the 2010 NCAA Wrestling Championships.

In the sixth inning, the flood gates opened for the Penn State softball team

Penn State will be the first Big Ten school to have its spring game televised by the ESPN family.

The Penn State men's tennis team (11-1, 1-0) defeated Coastal Carolina (8-3, 3-0) Tuesday afternoon by a score of 7-0.

Sophomore Joey DeBernardis crossed home plate in the ninth inning to stop Penn State from being shutout, but the run mattered little in terms of the final score.

The Penn State men's lacrosse team (0-4) lost 11-7 to Villanova (3-1) Tuesday at Jeffrey Field.

Two days after pitcher Jackie Hill helped propel her team to a victory, her defense unraveled around her.

Penn State wrestler Cyler Sanderson's Big Ten title helps get himself out from under his brothers' shadows and puts him in contention for an NCAA title.

Juniors Talor Battle and Drew Jones were recognized by Big Ten media members and coaches Monday night.

The crowd was just looking for a reason to explode. Rival Michigan was in the building, and the Rec Hall faithful had not sent the perennial Big Ten champs home with a loss in more than two decades.

In the grand scheme of the 2010 season, the win was meaningless. There was nothing tangible on the line, no titles to be won. The two teams will even meet again in less than three weeks.

The Penn State women's golf team finished the Rio Verde Collegiate with a total of 958 (+106) and a 15th-place finish overall.

The No. 13 Penn State women's lacrosse team fell to No. 9 Virginia on Sunday 13-8.

Lamar defeated the Penn State baseball team 8-3 Sunday to sweep the two-game series.

Only 90 seconds separated the No. 2 Penn State Icers from their second appearance in the national semifinals in as many years.

Senior wrestler Cyler Sanderson won the 157-pound title, and Penn State finished fifth out of 11 teams at the Big Ten Championship Saturday in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Penn State senior Cyler Sanderson won the 157-pound Big Ten title Sunday in Ann Arbor, Mich.

The Penn State men's tennis team defeated Purdue, 6-1, Sunday afternoon at the Indoor Tennis Center in the team's Big Ten opener.

The Penn State softball team won 4-2 in extra innings after rallying to overcome a deficit.

The No. 6 Penn State men's gymnastics team scored a season high, defeating No. 7 Minnesota and No. 11 Temple Saturday night in Rec Hall.

Mark Ingram and Toby Gerhart, the top two finishers in the Heisman race, lead ESPN.com's All-America team.

Mack Brown finally won big when he quit wanting it so badly. The Texas coach realized there was more to life than simply trying to pile up accomplishments so high that even a deceased man could see them.

Oregon quarterback Jeremiah Masoli faces a burglary charge in connection with a theft at a campus fraternity house in late January.

Wisconsin junior running back John Clay will miss all of spring practice as he recovers from surgery to relieve pain in his ankles.

The head of college football's Bowl Championship Series says Congress "has more important things to do" than look into his group's revenue distribution.

Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick says the possible expansion of the Big Ten could create changes in major college football that force the Fighting Irish to give up their football independence.

A Texas college football coach has apologized for applauding his players for removing campus newspapers from their racks because of a story about the program.

The NCAA has given Texas and Maryland a one-year reprieve from a new rule that limits off-campus football recruiting by a coach designated as the head coach-in-waiting.

A high school quarterback in Southern California said he still has a full scholarship offer from Utah despite being expelled after an altercation with his baseball coach.

Michigan athletic director David Brandon says there's nothing in the NCAA allegations hovering over the football team that has put coach Rich Rodriguez job status in question.

The first Pinstripe Bowl will be played at Yankee Stadium on Dec. 30 and will be televised by ESPN.

A quarterback competing for the starting job at the University of Georgia has been released on bond after his arrest in south Georgia over the weekend on charges related to underage drinking.

Michigan State receivers Mark Dell and B.J. Cunningham were sentenced to 18 months probation and 150 hours of community service Monday for their roles in an on-campus assault in November.

Notre Dame and Maryland will play at FedExField in Landover, Md., on Nov. 12, 2011, the Irish announced on Monday

Mike Leach has been scheduled to answer questions under oath later this week in the former football coach's lawsuit against Texas Tech.

President Barack Obama honored the national championship Alabama football team at a White House event where the president proclaimed, "The Tide is back."

Boise State senior safety Jason Robinson has been suspended indefinitely for violating team rules.