At one point or another, every team has to deal with injuries. Most of the time that comes toward the latter part of the season, after a team has already established some continuity. For the Penn State men's lacrosse team, injuries have not even allowed it the luxury of finding out what kind of team it can be.

As the Penn State men's volleyball team treks to Newark, N.J., this weekend for the Golden Dome Classic, its offensive attack will feature a smorgasbord of weapons. Such was not always the case for the No. 5 Nittany Lions, who used to rely quite heavily upon their middles, Keith Kowal and Nate Meerstein, to rack up the points.

At the beginning of the season, Penn State wrestling captains Eric Bradley, Adam Smith and Josh Walker talked about how the team may need to rest up toward the end of the dual meet season to prepare for the Big Ten and NCAA tournaments. This time last year, Smith and Bradley were worn down, and both exited earlier than they liked in the NCAA Tournament.

The 14th-ranked Penn State women's gymnastics team will be going national this weekend without even leaving the comfort of State College.

In considering the writing of the record book, the members of Penn State's 200-yard medley relay team acted as editors to their own work.

It only counts for a single point in the final score, but doubles points in any college tennis match can be huge.

A tough schedule is nothing new for the Penn State softball team. Last season the Nittany Lions (0-0) opened their season against the best softball schools in the nation.

Spring break is coming two weeks early for five members of the Penn State women's golf team as they head to Dorado, Puerto Rico, to compete in the Puerto Rico Lady Classic from Feb. 20-23.

Even though it was way back when his Afro was in full effect, Joe Battista can still vividly remember his senior day as an Icer.

After losing 15 of its last 17 games, saying that the Penn State men basketball team is frustrated would be the understatement of the season.

The Penn State baseball team's streak of mediocrity may finally be coming to an end -- but it's still going to have to find its identity first.

Penn State alumni gathered yesterday afternoon at Beaver Stadium's media room for a panel discussion to promote the College of Communications' Center for Sports Journalism.

The Penn State ACHA Division I Icers have already clinched the No. 2 seed in the national championship tournament, but they're still playing for something else.

Before each of their last few home contests, a different member of the Lady Lions has asked the crowd to stand until Penn State scored its first bucket in a taped message played on the scoreboard.

Good Charlotte would be proud. Proud of the men's gymnastics team that is, for holding on. The team suffered a minor setback last weekend falling to Illinois by less than half a point, but hopes to come back strong against Michigan this weekend.

There won't be any grand ceremony, torch carrying or Celine Dion singing at this Olympic competition.

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Consider me a (slightly) changed man.

Golly, can it be? Something's emerged from Texas that doesn't suck, that actually deserves a high approval rating?

Ramón just wants to die.

The Documentary is good. You can dance to it, bop to it, whatever.

My appreciation for country music was non-existent until I started to come home to it blasting from my new roommate's laptop a couple of years ago.

Back in 1996, when ska-punk bands were snatching up record deals and stealing radio airplay, Orange County's Goldfinger became the most successful of the bunch with its self-titled debut album, which fused fast punk with reggae and even a touch of metal. That album and its follow-up Hang-ups placed Goldfinger on just about every current pop-punk band's list of influences. After those two albums, however, it seemed as if Goldfinger forgot what it wanted to sound like. The band's last two records, although good, were all over the place musically. On the band's fifth album, Disconnection Notice, Goldfinger successfully pulls off a consistent sounding pop-rock record.

What's the deal with Jerry Seinfeld? Prime-time TV's favorite comedian left the world of Soup Nazis, picky dating and coffee shops in his past and is now back to pursuing his stand-up comedy career. And after viewing his show last night at 7 in Eisenhower Auditorium, I think most would agree: he's still got the touch.

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