Good Morning Happy Valley: February 4, 2022
Good morning Happy Valley and Happy Friday. It was another rather quiet day in Happy Valley as we near the finish of this first week of February.
The Penn State women's basketball team was the only team in action on Thursday as they traveled to Lincoln to take on the Nebraska Cornhuskers. The Nittany Lions kept it close with one of the Cornhuskers through three-quarters of play but a 23-point effort in the fourth quarter for Nebraska would put the game away in a 76-61 defeat for Penn State. The Nittany Lions fall to 9-12 on the season and 3-8 in Big Ten play.
Former Nittany Lion Micah Parsons wins the Butkus Award
Micah Parsons simply put together one of the best rookie seasons we have ever seen out of a defensive player and this week he was awarded with the Butkus Award, annually given out to the league’s best linebacker.
Parsons finished the season for the Dallas Cowboys with 84 tackles, 20 tackles for a loss, and 13 sacks.
Parsons also made some headlines on Thursday night when he beat Kansas City Chiefs WR Tyreek Hill, Dallas Cowboys CB Trevon Diggs, and Cleveland Browns RB Nick Chubb in the NFL Pro Bowl Skills Competition’s Fastest Man Race.
Pair of Nittany Lions take place in East-West Shrine Bowl
A pair of Nittany Lions took part in Thursday night’s East-Weat Shrine Bowl. LB Ellis Brooks and DT Derrick Tangelo. Both players had strong weeks of practice by all accounts but could not find any stats for the game for defensive players. That being said it was a highly entertaining game which featured a massive comeback by the East team that fell short in a 25-24 victory for the West.
In case you missed it...
Below you can find everything we published here on Nittany Nation on Monday. Please note that some articles are subscriber-only articles. Subscriber-only articles will be denoted as such.
PSU Hoops' Micah Shrewsberry, Jalen Pickett preview Wisconsin (Ralph)
Nittany Nation TV: Rivals chats with five-star DE Dani Dannis-Sutton (Friedman)
2023 QB JJ Kohl on new PSU Offer: "It was a really special moment" (Lammers)
Good Morning Happy Valley: February 3, 2022 (Callaghan-Croley)
Stories from around Happy Valley
Oh, Hello: Three-Star 2022 OG Vega Ioane Commits to Penn State (Koerbler - Black Shoe Diaries)
Meet The 2022 Class: DE Dani Dennis-Sutton (Koerbler - Black Shoe Diaries)
How James Franklin Plans to Address Penn State's Run Game (Wogenrich - All Penn State)
Penn State wrestling stays No. 1 after win over No. 2 Iowa as UNI cracks top 25 (Scovel - NCAA.com)
Former Penn State defensive lineman announces transfer decision (McGuire - Nittany Lion Wire)
Baltimore high school football star with Penn State offer was killed Wednesday morning after his car collided with a train: report (Linder - Penn Live)
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