The Nittany Lions still hit the ... there and it's really not a light lift, either," wide receiver DaeSean Hamilton said. "We gotta get every rep. If not our weights go down.

What makes a lion "Nittany," anyway? According to the Penn State website, before 1904, the school didn't even have a mascot, save for a work mule named "Old Coaly" that helped in construction ...

Penn State’s longtime mascot is a common mountain lion, the kind that roamed the mountains near the school’s State College campus until the late 19th century. One of the Nittany Lions ...