Mark Brennan

6 days ago | 247sports.com | Mark Brennan

With the dust of the 2025 NFL Draft having settled and most rookie minicamps starting Friday, it's time to take a look at how things figure to shake out financially for the five Penn State products who were selected. This was the latest example that, while NIL money is great for college football players, those stars who have actually proven themselves score the REALLY big money.

2 weeks ago | chroniclesmagazine.org | Mark Brennan

Revolt of the Rich: How the Politics of the 1970s Widened America’s Class Divideby David N. Gibbs Columbia University Press 392 pp., $30.00In the 1970s, neither my friends nor I would have flinched if any of the fathers in our upper-middle-class social circle had gone out for a beer with the gas station attendant who changed their oil. Our mothers shared a cup of coffee with the cleaning lady before going grocery shopping. Such interclass encounters didn’t register with us kids.

2 weeks ago | 247sports.com | Mark Brennan

The 2025 NFL Draft began on a high note for Penn State, with defensive end Abdul Carter and tight end Tyler Warren going in the first 14 picks. But it slowed down a bit for former Nittany Lions after that, with three more going in the final 243 picks. How did that impact the Lions247 Penn State-specific mock draft? It is fair to say our full-time staffers were not nearly as close in the final 243 selections as they were in the first 14.

2 weeks ago | 247sports.com | Mark Brennan

Dozens of recruiting prospects were on hand for Penn State football's 2025 Blue-White Game at Beaver Stadium Saturday. This is the exclusive Lions247 photo gallery of many of the young athletes who spent time on the sideline before the game, watched from the stands during the game, then returned to the field for the postgame. One of the biggest names was a target who is the brother of a current Nittany Lion.

2 weeks ago | 247sports.com | Mark Brennan

Penn State football wrapped up spring practice 2025 with the Blue-White Game at Beaver Stadium Saturday. The White held on to beat the Blue, 10-8, but this afternoon was less about the two teams gunning for victory than it was about giving fans a look at James Franklin's Nittany Lions. But since it was not televised, well, if you weren't in the stands, you did not get to see Drew Allar, Nick Singleton, Kaytron Allen, Zakee Wheatley and the rest of the squad working out.