Lift for Life set to kick off
Over the past seven years, the Penn State football team has been raising money for the Kidney Cancer Association through the annual Lift for Life. Over that time, nearly $400,000 has been raised for...
View ArticleA look at the Lift for Life
Dozens of Nittany Lions endured a grueling day of physical tests for a good cause Friday during the Penn State Football Uplifting Athletes Eighth Annual Lift for Life. The event was a benefit for the...
View ArticleLift for Life a success
The totals are in, and the Penn State football team’s Lift for Life event was again a rousing success. The seventh annual event brought in $98,461.35 for the Kidney Cancer Association. “You really...
View ArticleUplifting Athletes names officers
The Penn State Chapter of Uplifting Athletes, composed of Nittany Lions’ football players, elected a slate of new officers recently, as well as set the date for the ninth annual Penn State Lift for...
View ArticlePenn State Lift for Life set for Friday
It’s the Nittany Lion offense versus defense for a good cause Friday as the 10th annual Uplifting Athletes Lift For Life to benefit the Kidney Cancer Association gets under way at Penn State. Penn...
View ArticleRemember this Nittany Lion? The Lift for Life Man of Steel
Surely, John Shaw still has painful memories of those Lift for Life workouts in Holuba Hall. A new era of Penn State football means a new era of Lift for Life. The annual midsummer’s workout...
View ArticleMeeting the toughest Penn State father around
I caught a glimpse of the man walking across the bleachers at Penn State’s Lift For Life event last week. I figured it was him. He looked like an ex-Marine and narcotics cop. The kind of...
View ArticlePenn State Lift for Life changed one family’s life
Six years ago, the Willie family knew nothing of Penn State. Today, they have a home decor that includes pillows, flags, posters and even wall-to-wall logo carpeting. All because the football team and...
View ArticleEric Shrive making his Penn State mark off the field
Eric Shrive came to Penn State as one of the top offensive line recruits in the nation. Four years later, he’s made a far larger impact off the field, and here’s why: Shrive has raised nearly...
View ArticlePenn State’s Lift for Life event set
Surely, former Nittany Lion John Shaw still has painful memories of those Lift for Life workouts. The 11th annual Penn State Football Uplifting Athletes “Lift For Life” is slated for Friday, July 12,...
View ArticleZach Zwinak barrels through Lift for Life … recovering wrist and all
Back in early May, the prognosis on Penn State starting tailback Zach Zwinak seemed iffy and a bit worrisome. He had suffered a significant wrist injury in the Blue-White Game a couple of weeks before...
View ArticleBen Kline to lead Penn State’s Uplifting Athletes, “Lift for Life”
Dallastown’s Ben Kline (38) will now lead the Penn State football fight to defeat kidney cancer.Ben Kline’s football season is over early but his off-the-field work is just beginning. First and...
View ArticlePenn State football chat, 8 p.m., Tuesday, July 15
We’re chatting Penn State football on a new night this week, and it’s the perfect time to catch up on all of the happenings from last weekend’s Lift for Life event.Tight end Jesse James was one of the...
View ArticleA star off the field, will Ben Kline help Penn State on it?
Ben Kline hasn’t played a football game in nearly two years. Down to his final season of eligibility, he’s nowhere to be found on the Penn State depth chart heading into Week Three vs. Rutgers. While...
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