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Talor Battle was just a toddler growing up in Albany, N.Y., when he sat with his mother, Denise Murphy, and watched her favorite team, the Steelers, play the Oilers in the NFL playoffs on New Year's Eve 1989. During the broadcast, an NBC announcer mentioned that quarterback Bubby Brister had given his mother a black-and-gold Cadillac for Christmas. 'Talor had been a huge baby, about 11 pounds [at

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Talor Battle spent the past year beating up on opposing Big Ten point guards and, more recently, his little brother in one on one.Who's got next?The rest of the world.Battle took a break from training this month at his old high school gym at Bishop Maginn and at Siena to try out for USA Basketball's World University Games team at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado

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12-member U.S. Team will compete in Belgrade, Serbia July 2-11June 18, 2009UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.; June 18, 2009 - Nittany Lion point-guard Talor Battle (Albany, N.Y.) was among 12 players to earn on a spot on the 2009 USA Basketball Men's World University Games Team following three days of trials at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Col.'I am just very happy for Talor and for

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Welcome to SportsNation! On Monday, Penn State men's basketball coach Ed DeChellis stops by to chat.DeChellis led Penn State to a historic season for the school capturing its first basketball national championship by winning the NIT. In the process, the Nittany Lions won a school record 27 games while equaling a school record 21 wins in the regular season.Send your questions now and join

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Pat Boland is currently doing a live broadcast on ESPN 1450 WMAJ from the Bryce Jordan Center before tonight's Coach vs Cancer reception. He's currently interviewing Tom Hovasse and has already had Joe Crispin, Freddie Barnes, and Pete Lisicky on. ... Mark Brennan has joined and is co hosting with Pat. They expect to have Jarrett Stephens, Geary Claxton, Glenn Sekunda, Brian Allen, and Ed

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It's hard to believe this is the 46th year New York recruiting expert Tom Konchalski has put out his annual pre-summer Eastern Survey for the top 200 rising senior and prep school prospects in the East.Here's a look at the players Konchalski selected as elite 5 star prospects:C.J. Aiken, 6-9 power forward, Plymouth-Whitemarsh, Pa. High; [list edited] ... Taran Buie, 6-2 g, Albany, N.Y. Bishop

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PIAA basketball is staying at Penn State's Bryce Jordan Center for the next three seasons. ...

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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.; May 20, 2009 - Nittany Lion point-guard Talor Battle (Albany, N.Y.) has accepted an invitation to join 15 of the nation's top collegiate players at the 2009 USA Basketball Men's World University Games Team training camp to be held June 16-24 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo.Battle, a rising junior who was a first-team All-Big Ten, USBWA and NABC

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BWI: Can you describe your game?[Sasa] Borovnjak: I play a lot in the post because I was 4/5 on my high school team so I have real good skills to post up guys and all.But, if some guy is really stronger than me or taller, I take him outside and I have a quick first step so I can play from outside one on one and take him to the hole or step up and shoot.I got those skills for dribbling and a fast

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BWI: What was it like seeing Penn State succeed this year along with your own accomplishments?Frazier: A lot of people would ask, Why did you choose Penn State? You always get that but as the season went on and Penn State was winning games and won the NIT, everybody was like, Now I know why you chose Penn State. It wasn't really where I had to explain because Penn State and the team and Talor [

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BWI: What is Jermaine [Marshall] like?Coach Scott Slayton: As a player, he's very versatile. He can play a number of different positions. In fact, he's played all five positions for us at some point over the course of his career. He's extremely unselfish. He cares obviously first about team moreso than any kind of individual glory, although he had a lot of accolades passed down to him through

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[Coach Wayne] Jones: Yeah. Tim [Frazier] is by far one of the best all-around guards in this country. Tim has one of the best understandings of the game of any kid I've ever coached. Tim is as quick with and without the basketball as any guard probably in this country. He led us in just about every statistical category that we had this season. He was named the No. 1 player in the state of Texas.

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BWI: Is [Sasa Borovnjak] a kid that's ready to contribute right away or do you think he needs a redshirt year?[Veritas Christian Coach John] Jordan: I think the way he scores with his size he'll be able to contribute right away. I really do and I say that from a standpoint where I just had a 7-2 kid go to Clemson and hardly played this year and he's a top fifty kid. But Bobo wasn't ready. He

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Jamelle Cornley and Geary Claxton recently ascended to fourth and sixth place, respectively, on Penn State’s all-time scoring list with a combination of consistency, athleticism and drive. Being matchup nightmares for opposing defenses didn’t hurt, either.Wednesday, the Nittany Lions signed another player who could leave Big Ten defenses scratching their heads. Bill Edwards Jr., a 6-foot-6, 225

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Ohio Senior Player of the Year becomes fourth signee in class of 2009May 6, 2009UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.; May 6, 2009 - Ohio Senior Player of the Year Bill Edwards (Middletown, Ohio) signed a National Letter of Intent to play for the Nittany Lion basketball team at a Wednesday morning press conference at Middletown High School bringing the number of signees in Penn State's 2009 recruiting class to

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MIDDLETOWN — Bill Edwards Jr. reached to the middle one of three hats placed on the table in front of him Wednesday morning, May 6, and announced his college decision.“I want to thank my teammates, family and friends for helping me get through this,” the 6-foot-7 Middletown High School senior forward said as held back tears. “It’s been a hard decision for me. It’s been hard on my family answering

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Penn State has a lot of players on the current roster capable of playing the small forward spot – David Jackson, Jeff Brooks, Billy Oliver, Chris Babb or Cammeron Woodyard – but no one who has proven he can provide consistent offensive production.So even though coach Ed DeChellis had said earlier this spring that the Nittany Lions planned to give their final remaining scholarship to a big man,

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Middletown senior forward Bill Edwards has committed to play basketball at Penn State, Middletown athletic director Gary Lebo said this morning.Advertisement“He just announced – 11:15 – Penn State University,” Lebo wrote in an e-mail."

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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.; April 23, 2009 - Penn State men's basketball coach Ed DeChellis received a National Letter of Intent from 6-9, 230-pound forward Sasa Borovnjak Thursday, one week after the NCAA late signing period began on April 15. The native of Belgrade, Serbia had officially committed to the Nittany Lions last week, but his official letter had to travel to Serbia and back for his

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Before its win Sunday against Ohio State, the Penn State women's lacrosse team had an unexpected visitor in its locker room.Nittany Lion basketball star Jamelle Cornley was there to provide the team with some inspirational words before its Senior Day matchup with the No. 13 Buckeyes.Cornley said he was approached by lacrosse head coach Suzanne Isidor and asked to speak to the team before the game

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Penn State’s coaches and returning players held a team meeting last week. It was what wasn’t said by a couple of unnamed players that bothered head coach Ed DeChellis.“I thought they had an opportunity to exert their leadership and they didn’t do it,” he said.DeChellis called the players into his office early the next morning and reminded them that more than distribution of points will change

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For the record, Taran Buie very much enjoyed watching his older brother, Talor Battle, and Penn State defeat Baylor in the NIT championship game in Madison Square Garden earlier this month. But although Buie committed to the Nittany Lions just hours after the game, he wasn’t swayed by the outcome. The decision had already been made, just not verbalized.“That wasn’t the night,” Buie said this week

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Penn State coach Ed DeChellis disappeared not long after the Nittany Lions wrapped an impressive 27-11 season by beating Baylor in the NIT championship game April 2.The architect of the winningest single season in school history stayed secluded with his family and politely rejected most requests to publicly talk about this past season's magical run.It was a time for DeChellis to silently savor

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... You can't get to here from there without a lot of slogging through the wilderness. And Penn State men's basketball was nowhere; it had a lot of slogging to do.The best thing you can say after the Nittany Lions' 27-11 season is that the program is no longer dead in the swamp but clearly heading toward civilization.This was the second consecutive season in which State made significant

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Dick Jerardi is returning to the radio booth in 2009-10.From Great Santini's post, New Commitment, on the forum:"I was reading some articles on Philly basketball a few days ago and I came across an article written by Dick Jerardi. As usual, nicely written. At the end of the article, his e-mail address was listed. So I sent him an e-mail and told him how much I enjoyed listening to Steve Jones

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