MOON TWP. — The payoff for the Northeast Conference is that its champion will get an automatic berth into the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision playoffs beginning in 2010. The price the NEC is paying for getting that guaranteed bid is giving a l… more »

First, it was Duquesne. Now, Bucknell will face its second consecutive Pittsburgh school to open the college football season with a trip today to Robert Morris. The Colonials will be meeting the Bison at Joe Walton Stadium for the first time. Both te… more »

Tim Landis likes to talk about the kind of kids Bucknell has. They are different. Different in a good way. Football players at Bucknell, like most in the Patriot League, are really student-athletes. They personify what it means to put academics befo… more »

LEWISBURG -- Bucknell quarterback Marcello Trigg is a big fan of at least one of the changes new Bucknell offensive coordinator Harold Nicolas made to the Bison's spread option, lining him up in the shotgun rather than under center. "It's a whole lot… more »

Duquesne, in its first season as an associate football-playing member of the Northeast Conference, opens its schedule today at Bucknell, seeking a stop to a five-game losing streak to the Bison on their home field. "I think our kids feel real good ab… more »

Holy Cross quarterback Dominic Randolph was named the Patriot League's Offensive Player of the Year last fall after becoming the all-time leader in passing yards and total offense per game. He completed 297 of 482 passes for 3,604 yards and 30 touchd… more »

Ashley Ingram is ideally suited to coach undersized offensive linemen in a triple-option offense. That's because Ingram was one himself. Ingram played offensive tackle in an option system at both Miller County High in Colquitt, Ga., and the Universit… more »

Brandon Besant is a Bucknell Bison. Say that fast five times. Besant, the former all-star for the Herman Green Griffins, has accepted a full-ride scholarship valued at $47,000 annually to play football and study at Bucknell in Lewisburg, Pa.… more »

For the first time this decade, neither Lehigh nor Lafayette were in the top three when the Patriot League released its preseason football poll on Wednesday. The Mountain Hawks, coming off their first losing season since 1997, were picked to finish f… more »

For Frank DeNick, summer vacation couldn't be finished soon enough. DeNick, who just completed his senior year at Immaculata High School, is anxiously awaiting the start of training camp in August at Bucknell University, where he will continue his fo… more »

Eastern promises: Freedom HS and Liberty HS (PA) graduates, headed to UNH and Bucknell respectively, are hoping to finally beat a team from western half of state. Joey Orlando always just found a way. He was a two-way starter on a Liberty football… more »

Using her Bucknell contacts through football, Ms. Timko-Miller is now working for the NFL. The adage of "you never know until you try" certainly applies to Josselyn Timko-Miller. The 30-year-old Clearfield Area High School graduate had a vision for w… more »

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Kansas and North Carolina are regulars at the top of college basketball polls. They were recognized on another list Thursday. The men's teams at the two national powers, which met in the Final Four earlier this month, were includ… more »

FCS-bound Orlando (UNH), Hamscher (Penn), and Carter (Bucknell) will play in East-West All Star Game. Liberty's Joey Orlando and Whitehall's Matt Hamscher are both getting one last opportunity to make standout plays on both sides of the ball. And Emm… more »

LEWISBURG -- Sam Nana-Sinkam has spent his entire football career, which began as a high school sophomore, trying to help the school name on the front of his uniform develop an identity. It took three years at Manheim Township High School, but Nana-… more »