Penn State Phryday

Yinzers,

There was a small ray of sunshine in the torrential downpour of losses in the Penn State Nittany Lion basketball season. Like I stated last post, the Nittwits got their first Big-10 win against Northwestern a little over a week ago. This past Saturday, the Penn State up-ed their win streak to an astonishing 2 games. They defeated Michigan 55-51 in Ann Arbor, giving them their second win in Big-10 play. Taylor Battle led the way with 14 points and Andrew Jones added 10 of his own. It looked like the Nittany Lions were actually playing basketball these days.


That was short-lived, however. Wednesday night, the Buckeyes of Ohio State rolled into the Beej Center with their #9 ranking. Funny story about that game: the athletics department was giving tickets away...that is what this season has come down to, giving tickets away. In the HUB, there was a station to "shoot for tickets." It was a Playskool basketball hoop set up approximately 6 feet from a line. Once they realized no one wanted to shoot for tickets, they just began handing them out to whoever would take them. The game itself ended up predictable with the Buckeyes beating up on the Nittany Lions 75-67. Taylor Battle had another 22 and David Jackson had 13 of his own. Penn State is now 10-17 (2-13). The Nittany Lions' next game is Sunday at home against Northwestern.


The Penn State Icers hockey team also has their last home series of the season this weekend. Tonight at 9:00 and tomorrow at 3:30. The #1 Icers will take on the club squad from Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh. The Colonials have a rising NCAA division I team, but they also have a NCHA division I hockey team. Hopefully the Icers can cruise through this weekend and make it back to the club frozen four, and maybe not choke in the semifinals this year.


Other big news this weekend, as it is State Patrick's Day tomorrow. For those of you who do not know about State Patty's day, it was started in 2007 when the holiday of Saint Patrick's Day fell over Spring break. A ton of PSU students got a few local bars to open up at 8:00am for some day drinkin' specials. It was a prosperous relationship in 2008 and 2009. It all came to a screeching halt this year however. Only a few bars are opening at all tomorrow and they are only opening for either normal or shortened hours and there will be no bar specials. The PSU community as a whole is upset and skeptical. These bars claim they are looking out for the safety of the students this year, but everybody knows they are just brown-nosing to the PSU administration and the State College borough. The borough has been against the event from the beginning since this one day showcases the "college" part of State College. The administration is upset in response to the death of a Penn State student in the fall semester due to a drunken stagger over a wall and down a staircase, leading to the student's death. The administration began cracking down on the fraternities (since that is where the kid got his alcohol), limiting their parties. Now since the fraternities can't have their fun, they do not want anyone to have fun. It was reported in the Daily Collegian that the Inter-fraternity Council is siding with the borough and PSU administration to end State Patty's Day. In the end, it just leaves me pissed off because once again, one kid ruined it for everyone and it just made the fraternities more pissy and moany than they already were. The problem would be solved if morons were executed.

Happy State Patty's Day,
B Brog