Penn State recruit wins McDonald's three-point shootout

Penn State recruit Maggie Lucas won the three-point shootout at the McDonald's All-American Powerade Jam Fest on Monday night in Columbus, Ohio...

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Lucas, who attends Germantown Academy near Philadelphia, scored 22 points in the final round to win the competition over Tennessee signee Meighan Simmons (13) and Florida State recruit Natasha Howard (12).

The 5-8 shooting guard is rated as the 34th-best prospect for the Class of 2010 by Scouts, Inc.
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Butler's Brad Stevens to Penn State?

Sadly, the subject line of this post it little more than a whistful flight of fancy for the staff at Penn State Clips...

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But if Brad Stevens can take Butler to the Final Four in a state with three "power conference" teams (Indiana, Notre Dame, and Purdue), couldn't he do the same in State College?

And it's not like Stevens is a one-year wonder. Three years as a head coach, three conference championships, three NCAA appearances, an 88-14 record (.863), and 5-2 in NCAA Tournament games.

There are six teams left in the field. Here are the percentage of people who picked each of them to reach the Final Four in the ESPN brackets...

• West Virginia: 18.7%
• Duke: 16.9%
• Baylor: 2.6%
• Michigan State: 1.1%
• Tennessee: 0.5%
• Butler: 0.3%

Duke is the lone #1 seed left. There have been on two seasons in which the #1 seeds were shut out of the Final Four...

• 1980: #2 Louisville, #5 Iowa, #6 Purdue, #8 UCLA
• 2006: #2 UCLA, #3 Florida, #4 LSU, #11 George Mason

Right now we have #2 West Virginia, #5 Butler, #5 Michigan State or #6 Tennessee, and #1 Duke or #3 Baylor.
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Drunk Pitt fan gives mouth-to-mouth to dead opossum

This HAS to be a Pitt fan...

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State police have charged a Pennsylvania man with public drunkenness after he was seen giving mouth-to-mouth "resuscitation" to a long-dead opossum along a highway.

Trooper Jamie Levier says several witnesses saw 55-year-old Donald Wolfe, of Brookville, near the animal along Route 36 in Oliver Township (about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh) around 3 p.m. on Thursday.

The trooper says one person saw Wolfe kneeling before the animal and gesturing as though he were conducting a seance, while another saw the mouth-to-mouth attempt. Levier says Wolfe was "extremely intoxicated."

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Penn State QB Daryll Clark living in Jay Paterno's basement!

We were amused to learn of Daryll Clark's living arrangements while he preps for the NFL Draft...

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ESPN's Adam Rittenberg got the skinny from Penn State quarterbacks coach Jay Paterno, who has five children...

"He's actually living in my basement right now while he's working out. So he's around quite a bit.

"I haven't made him babysit yet, but that may happen."

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Autistic Teen 48 for 48 In NCAA Bracket

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An autistic teenager from the Chicago area has done something almost impossible.
Nearly 48 games into an upset-filled NCAA tournament, 17-year-old Alex Hermann is perfect.

"It's amazing," he says. Truly.

The teenager predicted that Northern Iowa would beat the Kansas Jayhawks. He picked Ohio to knock off Georgetown. And Cornell to knock off Wisconsin.

In fact, he picked every game through the first two rounds correctly. The odds of anybody doing that? One in 13,460,000, according to BookofOdds.com. It's easier to win the lottery. Twice.

Go here to read -- Autistic Teen Picks First Two NCAA Rounds Perfectly

Go here to see his complete bracket -- his has Purdue going all the way.

Is Penn State's record of 102 straight victories in danger?

Penn State women's volleyball owns the all-time NCAA Women's record with 102 consecutive victories. But that record is in jeopardy...

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Rising star Darcy Dorton confirmed that she tore up her knee in late February. She had surgery on Tuesday.

The freshman outside hitter on the Penn State women's volleyball team said the injury occurred when she was coming down from a hit and her knee just gave out. She continues to attend classes and practices, sporting a full-leg brace and riding a motorized scooter across campus.

It looks likely the streak will end sometime this year. And there's a looming threat from the East on the horizon.

The UConn women's basketball team blew out 8th-seeded Temple in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. It was their 72nd straight victory, 30 wins behind Penn State.

How bad was it? The Lady Huskies led by 43 points (55-12) at the half!

Penn State has had some close matches during their streak. Not so for UConn, who have won every game by double digits.
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Hitler's Bracket Busted as Kansas Goes Down

We're huge fans of parody videos made from clips of the Hitler movie Downfall. (As an aside, the original is terrific and you should add it to your movie list today if you haven't seen it.)

Now Hitler has found out that Kansas lost to Northern Iowa...

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More trouble for RichRod? Michigan's last wolverine dead

The only known wolverine in the wilds of Michigan has been found dead in the Thumb area, near where it was first spotted in 2004...

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The female wolverine was found by hikers at the Minden Bog in the Minden City State Game Area Saturday.

Todd Rann of Marysville and Morgan Graham of New Baltimore spotted what they thought was a dead beaver, partially submerged in the water near a beaver dam. Rann pulled it from the water and realized it was a wolverine. The pair called the Report All Poaching hot line. Department of Natural Resources and Environment Conservation Officers Seth Rhodea and Bob Hobkirk responded immediately and retrieved the animal.

[Clips comment: We're pretty sure this was the conversation before the hikers pulled the dead wolverine from the water: "Hold my beer and watch this!"]

The officers reported no visible signs of trauma.

DNRE wildlife biologist Arnie Karr, who originally verified the animal was a wolverine after it was treed by coyote hunters in 2004, said the carcass will be sent to the DNRE veterinary lab for necropsy. The department plans to have the specimen mounted and displayed, probably at the visitor center at nearby Bay City State Recreation Area., Karr said.

The animal was the first wolverine ever actually verified in Michigan. Biologists say that if wolverines were ever native to Michigan, they were extirpated about 200 years ago.

Michigan's last (and only) wild wolverine, photographed in 2004

[Hats off to ImPoster for alerting us to this story!]

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Penn State rejects CBS request to move Alabama game, will play in prime time

We are less-than optimistic about Penn State's chances against Alabama on September 11th, but at least the entire nation will get a chance to watch the beatdown in prime time...

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Bama is the defending national champions and loaded.

We don't even know which inexperienced quarterback will start for us.

Oh well, it's on the schedule, so we might as well play...

CBS cannot show a game Sept. 11 because of its U.S. Open tennis coverage, so ESPN will have the luxury of televising Alabama-Penn State, Tennessee-Oregon, and Georgia-South Carolina on its family of networks.

CBS executive vice president Mike Aresco expects ESPN to televise Alabama-Penn State in prime time and realizes that's a good one that got away.

"The U.S. Open pretty much goes all day with the women's final that night," he said, "so even if we tried to compress everything to do Alabama-Penn State, you would have to severely compress the tennis. What if you have rain delays? So we never even went to the tennis people.

"We explored moving that game a week earlier, but Penn State didn't want to, which we understood. It's going be tough enough with a new quarterback going in to play the defending national champion."

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Super Soph Linebacker eying Penn State, others in Big Ten

The recruitment of James "Biggs" Ross Jr. will likely be an epic, multi-year battle among The Usual Suspects of the Big Ten...

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In his first year of high school football after starring for the Detroit Police Athletic League's Westside Cubs, Ross emerged as a standout performer for Orchard Lake (Mich.) St. Mary's. The 6-foot, 210-pounder had 103 tackles, five sacks, five forced fumbles, seven fumble recoveries, and an interception while keying the defense for a team that went all the way to the state title game.

How does Ross view himself?

"I emulate a Ray Lewis on the field. I like how he plays, and I try to imitate everything that he does. It really fits me how he plays."

Ross, who already has an offer from Michigan State, visited Michigan for a recent Junior Day...

"The visit was real good. The coaches were talking and then they came over. I knew something was up. I was supposed to call them earlier that week, but didn't.

"When Coach (Rich) Rodriguez came and talked to me for a while, he told us why they wanted to talk to me earlier in the week. He said I had an offer. It was just lots of love.

"Basically just the facilities they had, everything - it all really surprised me. I did not know it was like that up there."

Ross's dad is a Michigan fan, so he's a lock to be a future Wolverine, right? Not so fast, my friend!

"I was always an Ohio State guy. I kept it to myself. It really wasn't that big of a deal. My family always gets mad when I bring up Ohio State. They just say that I do not understand the success that Michigan has had."

And what about Linebacker U?

"There is another school, Penn State, that we're looking at. They recruited Rob Bolden from our school and he committed to them as a quarterback. So Coach Vanderlinden has been talking to me. I actually sent him my highlight tape and he said he really liked it."

The bottom line? Stay tuned!
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ESPN2 to air 2010 Blue-White Game at Penn State!

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.--One of the nation's premier spring football events, Penn State's Blue-White Game presented by AAA, will be televised live by ESPN2 on Saturday, April 24. Kickoff is set for 2:00 p.m. in Beaver Stadium.

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The Blue-White Game will be the first Big Ten Conference spring football game broadcast by ESPN. Previous ESPN spring football telecasts include Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Oklahoma. In addition to the Blue-White Game, ESPN will cover the spring games at LSU and North Carolina in the coming months.

The Blue-White Game is one of the nation's most popular spring football contests. The attendance record has fallen each of the past three years, with an estimated crowd of 76,500 flocking to the 2009 contest. An estimated 73,000 fans attended in 2008 and 71,000 in 2007. More than 40,000 fans have attended the game in 11 of the past 14 years, with rainy conditions during the other three contests.
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