By now you've probably heard their names. You may even know their faces. But just who are Derrick Williams and Justin King?

The Penn State baseball team has arrived at a crossroads in Big Ten play.

It's crunch time now, and the Penn State women's tennis team has one last shot in the regular season to prove that it can compete strongly with its Big Ten foes.

Last week, the Penn State women's track team rolled over some of the top competition in the world, including Olympians Marion Jones and Joice Maduaka. Tomorrow, it will look to keep the momentum going at the Nittany Lion Relays.

When Jay-Z was a "hustler now," his "self esteem went through the roof, man, I got my swag."

Sometimes, it just happens, regardless of how hard a player works. Sometimes, despite how badly that player desires to be out there on the field battling with his teammates. Sometimes, that which seems so simple, is entirely out of that player's control.

Penn State has always been about linebackers.

Penn State men's lacrosse coach Glenn Thiel has been coaching in Happy Valley for the past 26 years, so obviously he is good at what he does. But if he were to consider another career, soothsayer may be a good one for him.

Last weekend's 5-2 victory against Minnesota had the then-No. 62 Penn State men's tennis team thinking they would be firmly "on the bubble" for the NCAA Championships.

The Blue-White game is not the only Penn State sporting event happening on campus tomorrow.

The New Penn West conference resembles Major League Baseball's American League East division. Penn State sits atop, like the Yankees or Red Sox, talent-rich and respected.

The big dance is here. Yep, that's right it's time for women's golf Big Ten Championships and Penn State is thick in the middle of the action that will take place at the University of Michigan this weekend.

Stick around for a few minutes after tomorrow night's men's volleyball match and it will look like a family reunion. Parents, siblings, girlfriends all flock to Penn State's home matches, with some even making the trip to road contests as well.

Utah finished the regular season in first place in women's gymnastics. And the Utes are on the way to finishing the postseason that way too.

Junior college point guard David Jackson became the Penn State men's basketball team's most recent commitment yesterday when Penn State coach Ed DeChellis received his letter of intent.

It's a big weekend for the Penn State women's lacrosse team, which faces two American Lacrosse Conference opponents.

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Do you think the university should offer fewer 8 a.m. classes?

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Tomorrow, Bruce Trinkley will stand in front of the Penn State Glee Club for the final time. After 35 years and over 700 performances, Trinkley will retire from Penn State.

The rapidly approaching summer weather has signaled a change in State College moviegoing: the reopening of the Starlite Drive-In, 1100 Benner Pike.

For all of you die-hard Boston Red Sox fans out there, my heart goes out to you.

Chloe does Yale is ex-Yale Daily News columnist Natalie Krinsky's first, and if popular reviews are any indication, presumably last novel.

Four people sit in a restaurant chatting over cocktails and soon two of them come up with a story, two stories, actually, about the same fictional person.

There's hurt and rage in every resolute syllable Martha Wainwright liberates from her pain. It's a scratched, scarred voice, one that pleads, on the very first track, "I have no reason to be alive. Oh give me one."

In 2002, 24-year-old Jonathan Safran Foer published his first novel, Everything Is Illuminated, which became a bestseller and won the Guardian First Book Award in addition to being The New York Times Notable Book for 2002.

The fifth annual MasquerAIDS Benefit semi-formal will take place at 7 tonight in the Days Inn, 240 S. Pugh St. Bringing together music and casino games, the event aims to raise money for the AIDS Project of Centre and Clinton counties and foster local awareness about the disease.

The All American Rathskeller, 108 S. Pugh St., will feature Brian Lubrecht at 8 p.m. and Katsu at 10:30 p.m. Specials include $2 Captain and cola and happy hour from 8 to 10 p.m. (237-3858).