Frosh Bolden tabbed Penn State starting QB

Frosh Bolden tabbed Penn State starting QB

STATE COLLEGE, Pa.

Penn State coach Joe Paterno tabbed freshman Robert Bolden the starter for the Nittany Lions’ opener Saturday against Youngstown State.

In Paterno’s 45 years as head coach, even this is a novelty.

A team spokesman said this is the first time Penn State will open the season with a true freshman as the starting quarterback. It’s also the first start for a true freshman quarterback under Paterno for any game since Wally Richardson in 1992.

Bolden barely beat out returning sophomores Matt McGloin and Kevin Newsome an impressive feat given that the touted freshman only joined the team this summer.

Prep football shuttle

POLAND

The Poland athletic department will be offering a shuttle service for Friday’s football game against Austintown Fitch, starting at 5 p.m.

The shuttle location will be the vacant lot located behind Handels Ice Cream on the corner of Ohio route 224 and Clingan Rd.

The shuttle drop off and pick up location will be on the visitors’ side of the stadium.

The shuttle will end approximately one hour after the completion of the game. The shuttle service is complimentary.

Football celebration

cortland

The Lakeview High School Athletic Department will celebrate the 15th anniversary of the 1995 Bulldog football team that make the OHSAA playoffs.

The event will be celebrated at the Poland football game on Sept. 17.

The 1995 squad was the first team in school history to participate in the postseason.

For details contact coach Tom Pavlansky at thomas.pavlansky@neomin.org or (330) 637-4921 or contact Athletic Director Michael DeToro at michael.detoro@neomin.org or (330) 637-8821.

Clijsters advances to third round of US Open

NEW YORK

Defending champion Kim Clijsters advanced to the third round of the U.S. Open with a 6-2, 6-1 victory over Sally Peers.

The second-seeded Clijsters needed only 56 minutes Wednesday night in Arthur Ashe Stadium to defeat her 19-year-old opponent, an Australian qualifier whose previous encounter with the Belgian star came when she got her picture taken with Clijsters several years ago.

Clijsters, who came out of retirement to win the U.S. Open last year, is trying to become the first woman to successfully defend her title at Flushing Meadows since Venus Williams in 2001.

Bolt: Sprint rival Gay ’hates my guts’

LONDON

Olympic champion Usain Bolt said American sprint rival Tyson Gay “probably just hates my guts” because he has dominated major championships. Bolt won both the 100 and 200-meter titles at the 2008 Olympics in world-record times, and helped Jamaica win gold and set another world record in the 4x100-meter relay.

A year later, he again set world records in the 100 and 200 at the world championships in Berlin.

“I think Tyson sits at home and cusses me,” Bolt told BBC radio on Wednesday. “He just really gets upset because every time he runs fast, I run faster than he does. At the world championship he ran 9.71 and that’s the fastest a US athlete has ever run and he was still cussing.”

Vuvuzelas banned from Champions League

NYON, Switzerland

UEFA has banned fans from bringing vuvuzelas into stadiums for European Championship and Champions League matches.

UEFA says the plastic trumpets “are not appropriate in Europe” because they drown out fans’ traditional songs and emotional responses to action on the field.

UEFA says all 53 European soccer nations have been told to enforce the ban at national team and club competition matches.

Vuvuzelas provided the World Cup soundtrack in South Africa, where every match was accompanied by a low-pitch drone likened to a swarm of buzzing bees.

Vindicator staff/wire reports