Last weekend at the Penn State Open, it was every man for himself. This weekend, it is everyone for the team for the Penn State men's track and field team. But one thing remains constant, and that is the Nittany Lions' approach to each meet.

After last Saturday's performance, the Penn State women's gymnastics team was all smiles. When practice began on Monday, however, the Nittany Lions were all business as they prepared to host Cornell (2-6), Missouri (2-4) and New Hampshire (3-2) at 7 tomorrow night in Rec Hall.

For most of the members of the Penn State women's indoor track team, today's New Balance Collegiate Invite represents the first meet away from the Nittany Lions' home track. But for freshman sprinters Dominique Blake and Shana Cox, the trip to the New Balance Track and Field Center at The Armory in New York City is just a trip home.

For the first time this season, the Penn State women's indoor track squad will not be running in the familiar confines of the Horace Ashenfelter III Indoor Track at the Multi-Sport Facility. This weekend, the Nittany Lions take to the road as they travel to New York City to compete in the scored New Balance Collegiate Invite today and tomorrow.

Tomorrow at the McCoy Natatorium, four Penn State swimmers and one diver will say goodbye to the pool they have called home during the past four years.

Maintaining performance and seizing opportunities will be the keys to a successful trip this weekend when the Penn State men's gymnastics team travels to Las Vegas for the Winter Cup.

This season, Icers coach Joe Battista has had a tough time figuring out which version of his team will show up from game to game.

There are a number of things that are awful enough to make anyone's stomach turn.

When he looks at his squad these days, Penn State men's volleyball coach Mark Pavlik sees a different, much-improved team from the one that lost back-to-back five-gamers against Hawaii and Brigham Young to start the season. This weekend's matches at the Hall of Fame Classic in Springfield, Mass., will give the Nittany Lions an opportunity to show that improvement to a team Penn State has already faced.

If you're looking for a sure bet, take Bradley at 184-pounds this weekend. It's a lock.

The Nittany Lion football team will culminate spring drills with one of the highlights of the Penn State sports calendar, the Blue-White Game, on Saturday, April 23.

Penn State University and Rec Hall have been chosen as one of four host sites for the 2005 NCAA Tournament Regional Championships to be held in December on dates still to be determined. Penn State joins the Qwest Center in Omaha, Neb., and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Maples Pavilion and Stanford University and the G. Rollie White Coliseum and Texas A&M University as the four pre-determined sites.

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There's not much to say about Low's new album The Great Destroyer. It's not quite memorable, but not quite forgettable. It's pretty enough. It's ... nice, I guess. I like it. Yes, I quite like it.

Former Blur guitarist Graham Coxon is on his own and has found happiness ... in magazines, that is.

A lot of people who haven't seen Sideways ask me if it's really about wine. I usually say "yes and no," mostly to annoy them, but also because it's true.

Being an electronic artist is a pretty anonymous job.

The American dream is one of our most popular ideologies.

Roustabout!, located at The Darkhorse Tavern, 128 E. College Ave., features a triple threat of high-energy acts tonight.

Bar Bleu, 114 S. Garner St., will feature half-priced happy hour from 6 to 8 p.m. and $4.75 Coors Light pitchers until midnight (237-0374).