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Hannon discusses YSU’s playoff hopes

BEAVER TOWNSHIP – For the past 35 years, Bob Hannon has taken his perch in the catbird seat high atop Stambaugh Stadium serving as the eyes for his radio audience as he brings to them the play-by-play of Youngstown State football. Prior to the 2022 season he had missed just one game, that coming 10 years earlier in 2012 when he traveled to Columbus to watch his daughter, Melinda, compete in the state high school golf tournament. Due to illness, however, he was forced to miss the final six games last season but after treatment and a longer than expected recovery process, he is back ...

Penguins get elusive 1st road win, top Indiana State 19-7

In pursuit of its first postseason bid since 2016, Youngstown State kept its playoff hopes alive on Saturday. It wasn’t pretty, but the Penguins did what they needed to do in order to earn their first road win of the season, defeating winless Indiana State 19-7. “I felt our guys stayed ...

Ohio State rallies to beat Rutgers 35-16

PISCATAWAY, N.J. — No. 3 Ohio State has been finding ways to win the close ones all season, and they added another one against a team they have traditionally blown out. Cornerback Jordan Hancock woke up the Buckeyes early in the second half with a 93-yard interception return for a ...

Youngstown State visits Indiana State in hopes of 1st road win

YOUNGSTOWN — Win or lose, Youngstown State’s offense has been firing on all cylinders this season. Through eight games, the Penguins are 10th in the FCS in scoring offense at 36.9 points per game. Remove the game against FBS opponent Ohio State, and YSU is averaging 41.1 points, which ...

Calhoun recaps YSU’s summer, previews ’23-’24 season

BEAVER TOWNSHIP – A year ago, national publications ranked the YSU basketball team as high as second and as low as sixth with their preseason Horizon League prognostications. Head coach Jerrod Calhoun, who heads into his seventh season at the helm, guided his team to a 24-10 overall mark last year – it was the first 20-win season for the Penguins since going 22-7 in 1976-77 – winning the league’s regular season title after posting a 15-5 ledger en route to their first ever conference crown. This year, those same prognosticators have taken note that 12 newcomers now dot the ...