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PHILADELPHIA — Prior to kickoff yesterday, the Temple Owls played the theme from “Rocky” a movie about an underdog Philadelphia boxer who goes the distance against the heavyweight champion but loses.
Temple followed that script yesterday — they went the distance, but lost in the end.
Penn State traveled to the city of brotherly love for its [...]

Joe Paterno wanted to “beat the hell out of Alabama.” The opposite happened. Onto the damage report…
The two-headed quarterback of Rob Bolden and Matt McGloin couldn’t get much going and generally confirmed the “if you have two quarterbacks you don’t have a quarterback.” Bolden had a decent first drive (though 3 timeouts in the first [...]

Adam Collyer at Black Shoe Diaries is running Blue White Roundtable now and here are questions preceding game 1 of the 125th season of Penn State football. The Nittany Lions take on the Sycamores of Indiana State.
BSD: Let’s get this out of the way right now – how does everyone feel about Robert Bolden and [...]

The last two monrings, I walked out of my condo and felt the late summer air and realized that “it’s beginning to feel a lot like football.” Yesterday was Penn State Football Media Day too.
First off, the new jerseys without trim are a major downgrade. Now, onto other less important things:
Joe Paterno’s Media Press Conference [...]

After being delayed, Penn State Football Media is today. The two primary storylines:
How is Joe Paterno doing? This has been the primary storyline for how many years now? Up until about 10 days ago, the apparent answer would have been “much better” but then he got knocked down by Devon Smith, who checks in a [...]

Matt McGloin and Rob Bolden (he’s staying) both think they should be the Penn State’s starting quarterback.
Bolden

McGloin

McGloin got taken out of context though by PennLive.com, as Linebacker-U points out. By the way, the blog’s publisher now works two cubes down from me.
Put me down as on #teambolden. I think I have seen enough of McGloin [...]

All the chatter I have been hearing about John Beck (DC Sports Bog, The Post), the Washington Redskins quarterback who has taken a leadership role during the NFL lockout reminds me of something or somebody. A third-stringer thrust into the role of starter, said to have the confidence of his teammates and a tendency toward [...]

Remember the 5 questions about the Nitttany Lions I posted on Friday? Let’s run through them again:
1. Has a quarterback been decided upon?
No, not by Joe Paterno at least. Watch this video of Rob Bolden and tell me if you think the quarterback situation has been solved though:

By the way, neither he or Matt McGloin [...]

Here are the same Nittany Lions storylines that happen annually at the Blue White Game:

1. Has a quarterback been decided upon?
Of course not, Rob Bolden and Matt McGloin are both getting most of the reps at starter, but Joe Paterno will not name one of them the starter. Bolden, who tried to leave the program [...]

Penn State looking for QBs to step forward – ESPN
I have not been on the “Jay Must Go” bandwagon for this most part, but after the Capital One Bowl and Matt McGloin’s 12 interceptions (not really, but it could have been), I was unhappy that Rob Bolden, the true freshman who started the season as [...]