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Tickets on Sale Monday for Penn State-Indiana Football Game at FedEx Field – Intercollegiate AthleticsAt 10 a.m., tickets for Penn State Nittany Lions vs. Indiana Hooisers at FedEx Field in Landover, Md. go on sale through Ticketmaster. This is the first Penn State football game in the Washington, D.C. area since 1993.
I already got [...]

I’m not big on rumor-mongering, but when it involves Penn State playing close to D.C., I jump. PSUGirl heard on Twitter that West Virginia is being recruited by the Washington Redskins to host Penn State in a 2011 game at FedEx Field in Landover, Md. That would be two seasons in a row that the [...]

More coverage of the announcement of Penn State vs. Indiana at FedEx Field in Landover, Md. has poured in.
KEVIN McGUIRE – Penn State football coming to Washington D.C. in 2010 – The Philly ExaminerLet’s credit McGuire with having the story up first, on a non-subscription site at least.
IU to play Penn State at FedExField [...]

NEW POST 12:36 p.m.
Indiana to make $3 million by moving Penn State game to DC – Hearld-Times, Bloomington, Ind.Sadly, the link above is limited to subscribers, but the headline is an exciting one. Kevin McGuire (krmcguire)tipped me off on Twitter about it.
Details have emerged on The Crimson Quarry, SB Nation’s Indiana blog about it.
Indiana sells [...]

LANDOVER, Md. — Friday night, Erica, Fritz, Sam and I went to see the Steelers vs. Redskins game. We all know that the Redskins won, 17 – 10 (The Post) which means that about 50% of Redskins fans are now looking forward to playing in February. I have posted a photo gallery too.
Some other thoughts [...]

Erica and I are going to tomorrow night’s Redskins vs. Steelers game with Fritz and Sam. While I could care less about either team, it is an opportunity for Sam (and to a lesser extent, Erica) to see his favorite team and Fritz has always wanted to go to a Redskins game and I [...]

Watson Declines GM Position In D. – The Post
Bob Watson turned down the GM job for the perfectly reasonable reason of not wanting to be an interim GM waiting for new ownership. However, Pat Gillick, most recently Seattle’s GM, is willing to take that chance.
More from The Wash. Times:Watson doesn’t want to be D.C. team’s [...]