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www.weareallbadgers.comAll Your Badgers Are Belong to Us???

In researching this week's opponent, I happened across a site called We Are All Badgers (We Are All Not Locked Up!) I'm still not sure what it is.

Witnessing this exercise in pointlessness was a race of black and white (and shades of grey) nocturnal mammals, collectively (and unfortunately) known as Twonks (a versatile derogatory term). Belying their scrotum of a name, the Twonks seized this golden opportunity and officially adopted the name Badger for themselves. This changed the course of history for the Badgers (nee Twonks) and saw their fortunes take a dramatic turn for the better.

Recently, you may have seen some of our supporters (identifiably clad in official weareallbadgers t-shirts) hiding in bushes with big guns. If so, DO NOT BE ALARMED - they are only partaking in the exciting new blood sport of squirrel hunting. Of the grey (or gray) kind, of course. WeAreAllBadgers supports the red squirrel! You may well know of the plight of the red squirrel, bruised and battered by it's larger grey cousins, they are being driven to extinction. The future of our beloved British red squirrel rests with us - the human race. We must begin hunting and slaughtering their grey kinsfolk. Given our history of mass genocide and the virtual annihilation of anything that moves, that shouldn't be a problem. The grey squirrel slaughtering campaign has begun!

I did not know anything about this squirrel problem. I wish they were as upset with Wolverines!

BadgerQuest is here! Take control of Smelly Jenkins and his Enormous Fungal Growth and lead him through the Dungeons of Randomness for an adventure of the highest order. You must save Betty the Badger from certain doom but you will be tested to your limits. Are you brave enough to take the challenge? With over 40 ways of dying it would be rude not to!

MILLCREEK TOWNSHIP, Pa. - McDowell quarterback AJ Fenton took some postgame congratulations from some students still hanging around Gus Anderson Field Friday night. Fenton's Trojans had just wrapped up hosting the #3-ranked team in the nation, the Gateway Gators, the first time a nationally-ranked Pennsylvania team played a game in Erie County since 2000.

Penn State running back Evan Royster talks about the absence of coach Joe Paterno on the side line as well as playing on the road.

JOE HERMITT/The Patriot-NewsWill Penn State QB Daryll Clark lead his Nittany Lions to victory at Camp Randall and add his name to Heisman hopefuls?

This is the game that Penn State fans throughout the midstate have been waiting for?

The game where we learn if the Lions' 6-0 start and swift rise to No. 6 has been a schedule-aided mirage and if the Blue and White can mount a serious BCS challenge.

The Patriot-News staff believes the Nittany Lions will be up to the task. Flounders, Jones, Horvath and Hermitt all believe the Lions will prevail on the road.

Find out which three believe the game will be decided in the fourth quarter and which contributor believes that tonight is the night Daryll Clark's name is mentioned for that trophy with the stiff-arming running back.

Can't wait until 8 p.m. for your questions to be answered? Re-read this week's Patriot-News Penn State coverage and drive yourself crazy in anticipation. Links below.

Once Cumberland Valley jumped out to a 21-0 lead Friday night, the Eagles let off the gas a little, but still had little trouble with a one-win Carlisle outfit and cruised to a 42-13 victory at Chapman Field.

The Eagles used three Mike Frenette touchdowns and 199 passing yards from QB Nate Rhodes to wipe out the Thundering Herd at Champan Field.

Tank Miller rushed for two touchdowns in the final eight minutes Friday to rally East Pennsboro to a 26-21 comeback victory over visiting Milton Hershey.

Miller scored on runs of 10 and 16 yards as the Panthers came all the way back from a 14-0 halftime deficit.

Cedar Cliff's Sean Kelly scored on third-period touchdown passes of 58 and 25 yards in the third quarter to allow the Colts (4-3) to pull away from Altoona 24-7 Friday night.

Kelly's 58-yard pass from slot Quinn Bower with 4:00 left gave the Colts a 14-0 lead. They had scored the game's lone first-half touchdown on a 73-yard fumble return by Ahren Whitman.

Matt Koveleski caught one touchdown pass and returned an interception for another score -- all in the opening quarter -- as host Mechanicsburg wheeled past Big Spring 49-10 in a Cumberland County football scrap Friday night at Memorial Park.

The victory was the seventh in as many tries for Chris Hakel's Wildcats, who led 35-3 at the halftime break. And when Devon Hensel blasted over from the 2 early in the second half, Mechanicsburg kicked in the mercy rule for the third straight game.

Tarik Leftenant, QB Jake Zeigler and Erik Lewis also rushed for touchdowns for the Wildcats, while Trevor Barr returned an interception 90 yards in the fourth quarter for Mechanicsburg's Homecoming capper.

MICHAEL FERNANDEZ, The Patriot-News Line Mountain's Jordan Welker catches a pass against Upper Dauphin's Jordan Feidt for a touchdown.

The Line Mountain defense held Upper Dauphin to 123 yards of total offense in pitching 13-0 shutout in Twin Valley Conference action.