By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN On Nov. 18, after a one-point overtime win over UC-
By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN Next fall, the Youngstown State football team won’t
With about a minute left in the most lopsided win for the Youngstown State women’s basketball team in five years, the Penguin pep band started to feel a little frisky.
By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN Brandi Brown only needed to travel 2,400 miles to
By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN In the days after Youngstown State’s football team
By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN The biggest offseason of Eric Wolford’s head
Youngstown State saw its playoff hopes disappear with a stunning last-second loss to Missouri State
By Joe Scalzo scalzo@vindy.com Youngstown When your leading scorer is practicing his free
By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN Youngstown State quarterback Kurt Hess was sitting
It took 11 seconds for Youngstown State to get its first dunk, 22 seconds to force its first turnover and 26 minutes to tie the school record for 3-pointers in a game.
By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN His press conference had just finished and as YSU
By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN After Heidi Schlegel’s freshman year was lost to a
More than 6,000 fans were holding their breath, the Steubenville cheerleaders were covering their eyes and 21 of the 22 players on the field — and 100 more on the sidelines — were watching their playoff lives come down to a 5-foot-7, 140-pound kicker that had missed three extra points the week before.
By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN When YSU coach Eric Wolford compares his program to
By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN On Dec. 30, 2010, Ashen Ward exploded for a career-
By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN On Sept. 24, North Dakota State played at Minnesota
By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN At this time last year, the question keeping YSU
By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN Last season started with a buzz-kill. This year just
Much of the summer talk around YSU’s football program centered around the Penguins’ 29 new defensive players and how much better they’d be on that side of the ball.
By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN The last time Youngstown State beat Northern Iowa in
By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN Last season, Youngstown State coach Eric Wolford got
Early in the fourth quarter of Saturday’s 27-19 loss to North Dakota State, Northern Iowa senior quarterback Tirrell Rennie — aka the Missouri Valley Football Conference offensive player in 2010 — suffered an ankle injury and did not return.
With the Green Bay Packers off last weekend, former Penguin cornerback Brandian Ross came back to Youngstown State for the first time since the spring, watching practice and taking in Saturday’s 56-14 win over Western Illinois.
By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com Three days after finishing up the best season of his four-year
By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN Imagine you’re a Division I-caliber football player
By Joe Scalzo scalzo@vindy.com boardman A few minutes after polishing off a 14-0 victory over
By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN On the way out of Tuesday’s press conference,
By Joe Scalzo scalzo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN You should drink eight glasses of water per day.
By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN Picking the worst loss of YSU’s 2010 season is like
On Monday afternoon, the Youngstown State coaches brought senior linebacker Deonta Tate into the football offices and told him he was no longer part of the team.
By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com canton Coming off a big win over a GlenOak team that was
By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN In 1996 and 2001, the Youngstown State football team
By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN On Oct. 13, just a few days after arguably the most
By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN The first time Alejandro “Popo” Salinas traveled to
By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN YSU senior cornerback Josh Lee called Saturday’s win
By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN The last time Youngstown State won a road game, Eric
By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN The Youngstown State offense sometimes seems like a
By Joe Scalzo scalzo@vindy.com Youngstown YSU men’s basketball coach Jerry Slocum doesn’t do
SIU’s season mirrors the Penguins’ By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com Youngstown State’s win over
By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN Over the last three weeks, Youngstown State’s place
By Joe Scalzo scalzo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN
By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN Youngstown State’s playoff hopes died suddenly
By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN Three weeks ago, Youngstown State’s defense had a
By Joe scalzo scalzo@vindy.com howland With his band playing the “Superman” theme song and
By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN For the Youngstown State football team, Halloween is
— college football — By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN There’s a temptation for
By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com When former Liberty running back Fitzgerald Toussaint came to
By JOE SCALZO scalzo@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN On Tuesday morning, YSU football coach Eric Wolford
At Saturday’s home game against South Dakota State, Youngstown State will honor the 1991 national championship team — the school’s first.
By Joe Scalzo scalzo@vindy.com hubbard The Hard to Please Hall of Fame already features worthy