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OT: Top Ten Fraternity houses at PSU [link]

link here - but pasted below:

Greek life: a combination of outrageous parties and overpriced Vineyard Vine tanks. The Greek culture celebrates unity in brotherhood and sisterhood, and Penn State University is no exception. PSU takes Greek Life to the next level, mostly due to the immaculate housing they are provided with. Some look like they’ve been pulled right out of a storybook fairy tale, except what goes on inside the houses is definitely not fit for publishing. Sorority houses are not allowed in the state of Pennsylvania, but with 45 fraternity houses at Penn State, there will be no shortage of Greek social life here.

10. Delta Sigma Phi
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Delta Sigma Phi’s house is quite different from the rest. The pink walls create a calming presence on an otherwise intimidating walk through Frat Row. The smooth walls are rare as are the seemingly endless rows of windows facing out into the world. The patio behind the house provides a setting where privacy is not an issue and kicking back with a brewski is welcomed. ΔΣΦ is unique (come on, pink walls) which is why it ends up in spot number 10.

9. Alpha Tau Omega
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The entire Alpha Tau Omega house has an almost presidential look to it. The columns stand tall creating a balcony for a third floor lookout. It’s located on East Fairmont, just minutes from downtown State College and most classrooms. The yard is well kept and destruction is minimal due to its picturesque elegance. The fraternity displays all awards in a glass case for all to see inside. ΑΤΩ evokes an elegant simplicity.

8. Alpha Gamma Rho
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Located right on Fraternity Row, Alpha Gamma Rho’s house displays the stereotypical white columns and southern glow that seems to be a common look among houses. However, the brothers really keep it tidy and clean and that cleanliness sets it apart from other house. Alpha Gamma Rho brother Trevor Stauffer said this house is pretty unique to the brotherhood. It was built in 1968 after being burned down in 1966, making it not as old as some of the other houses in State College. “We spend time out on the porch and patio chilling, grilling or watching the town go by,” he said. “It’s perfect.”

7. Delta Upsilon
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Delta Upsilon’s house looks like it came from a magical woodland forest. Walking up to the arched door makes you feel like Sleeping Beauty will be right there to greet you. Picture-perfect pines surround the house creating beautiful scenery for those exhausting day longs. ΔΥ recently constructed a large wooden fence around the whole property to engage in more private parties, and now the day longs can be even longer. Located right across from downtown, this frat house is on point.

6. Beta Theta Phi
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Although the ΒΘΠ house is alcohol-free, the charming red brick house will not disappoint. It’s right on Burrowes, making the house a perfect setting to hang out on the lawn or porch and people watch as students make their way to class. Established in 1888, Beta Theta Phi is the second oldest fraternity at Penn State. Although they were kicked off during the 2009-2010 academic year, they reestablished their chapter in Fall of 2010 with a newly renovated establishment. This house is perfect for short walks to class. Oh, and not to mention the free campus Wi-Fi.

5. Sigma Chi
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This house is really interesting. I mean, what is in that turret? Archers ready to defend the house? A princess, locked away, waiting for her prince? Let’s hope not. Sigma Chi is a well-known frat with parties on the weekend and celebratory day longs when the weather’s nice out. With 240 active Chapters, ΣΧ is the 2nd largest Fraternity in the nation. The unique Tudor-style architecture earns Sigma Chi bonus points.

4. Sigma Alpha Epsilon
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ΣΑΕ is huge. It doesn’t even look like it should be qualified as a house, maybe like a frat mansion of some sort instead. The massive lawn and the back of the house cannot be captured in a picture. The fact that this place has a governor’s driveway on the side proves its worthiness as a mansion. President of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Peter Mathews said he loves living with 45 of his closest friends down the hall. “Being up on a hill looking over Beaver Ave and seeing everyone that visits Penn State pass by is really cool,” Mathews said. “The physical structure of the house is defined by the character that lives within.”

3. Sigma Phi Epsilon
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Sigma Phi Epsilon’s house reins as number 3 on the list with its pinkish sand walls and red-shingled roof. It’s an enormous Spanish style house right in the middle of Happy Valley. Sigma Phi Epsilon brother Raul Silaghi said the house has been standing for over 100 years and constantly gets renovated and repaired for maintenance purposes. “It’s really the brothers, not the location or style of the place, that make the house special,” he said. “Although the Spanish villa always caught my attention.” Silaghi described ΣΦΕ as a great place to really enjoy the frat culture that Penn State has to offer.

2. Chi Phi
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Chi Phi looks like Snow White used to live here, gently tucked away with a nice front lawn, trees in the backyard and perfectly-placed stones over ever inch of the houses outside walls. ΧΦ is a good distance from campus and downtown, but living in a place like this is well worth the walk. The brothers invested $1.7 million in renovating the house complete with their own personal library, multiple clubrooms and a fresh bathroom revamp for the ladies. The curvature of this house adds to the unique factor.

1. Sigma Pi
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ΣΠ is number one on our list as the best looking Greek house at Penn State. The outside is truly incredible with multicolored stone walls, large window fronts and lavish balconies. The combination of the Tudor wooden slats and cobble stone walls makes for another unique storybook fantasy house, but the size of this place would fit a lot more than seven dwarfs. The aesthetics of this immaculate castle is not what usually comes to mind when someone says Frat House, making Sigma Pi a structural work of art. With the largest front porch at Penn State, their tailgates and day longs can’t be beat.

Abby Wambach

So she gets a DUI. Puts out a big apology which sounded sincere, taking responsibility, then pleads not guilty. I understand the not guilty to get lesser and I will even excuse the DUI, she made a mistake, but why apologize like you did?

Now she openly admits prior drug use, adding on to her to discriminative tweets about the USMNT calling up Americans not born in this country.

Got to ask, why are we still using role model when we discuss her?

OT: USA-Guatemala

I was at the match last night. Second row to the left of the south goal. What a blast. Glad Mrs. KG and I went. We had a great view of the first two goals. The US came out like angry hornets. They were not able to keep up that pace the entire game, but they were up 3-0 by that point.

A bonus--got to meet and talk with Kasey Keller for a bit pregame. My old Gladbach/Keller scarf didn't hurt.... I've been a Gladbach fan for over 40 years, so getting to meet a former player was very exciting for me.

Corbett, PSU "Cover Up" & where that narrative came from

I re-read Brad Bumsted's book "Keystone Corruption" yesterday - and this line stood out to me.

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The State has yet to prove a "cover up" at PSU. If there was one, it is more likely to be at Second Mile, but since Lynne Abraham scuttled that - we'll never know, will we?

Why go in trying to "prove" an institutional cover up at PSU to begin with? Where did that come from? Don't you "follow the facts" and take them "wherever they lead you"? And I'm not talking about Louis Freeh's "facts" - the facts have us going off campus to a children's charity that fell under the auspices of the OAG - not to Joe, Tim, Gary or Graham.

I don't think we give enough of a look at parallel prosecutions that Fina and his fellow gunslingers in the OAG were involved with. Makes me wonder also if that cat Patrick Blessington might have had a helping hand in shaping the PSU narrative.

Spencer Lee - what am I missing?

Yes - yet another Spencer thread... and apologies in advance as i'm sure this was covered ad nauseam ever since Spencer laced up his shoes as a toddler.......but i'm seeing a lot of "PSU projected lineups" that assume Spencer is coming to the good side... And as much as I am trying to be as subjective as possible, what am I missing?

I know we all of course want Spencer Lee in the PSU fold... But it seems all the more clear from everywhere that I'm reading (mostly on these boards) that he's all but a sure PSU signee.. - If we take out our "PSU-Bias", is there something I'm missing about why Spencer signing with PSU isn't going to happen?.. - It seems that its been a 2-horse race between Iowa & PSU.. - But looking at Iowa's recruiting class - getting Mejia and Renteria doesn't make much sense if they were holding out for Spencer. - Both from a roster POV & $$.

Assuming below projected 125 rankings are correct -

1) Spencer Lee (JR) - ??
2) Justin Mejia (JR) - IOWA
3) Ramon BY (Soph) - ??
4) Austin DeSanto (JR) - ??
5) Jason Renteria (JR) - IOWA
6) Brandon Cray (SR) - Maryland
7) Nick Raimo (FR) -

From Spencer's POV - he probably shouldn't and wouldn't care who he would be sharing 125 with.. But from the school's perspective, it seems like PSU is ALL IN on Spencer.. And if PSU isn't, who else are we going after that could fill in for Suriano as he moves up.?

What am I missing? (besides the fact that we all are hinging our bets on a 17 year old to make the biggest decision of his life;) -

btw.. if and when we get Spencer and regardless of how Suriano plays out - I'm going to always miss and think about our Nico...True Champion in every sense, regardless of the hardware.

Salute to the Champions.. All the respect and admiration to those who made it happen.. starter, not starter, coach, family, friend and fan.... championships don't happen by accident.. its a collective effort done mostly when the cameras are off... - WE ARE..

Articles for Tuesday

enjoy


Black Shoe Diaries: Recapping No. 1 Penn State at NCAAs
(a nice recap, with a look at what happened vs. what they had predicted, plus the surprises at each weight and who returns at each weight, etc.)

SportsGrid: Cael Sanderson Builds A Wrestling Power At Penn State

The Journal News: MSG puts wrestling center state in NYC

Columbus Dispatch: Martin, Snyder overcame huge challenges for titles

The Lantern: Myles Martin and Kyle Snyder return to Ohio State as NCAA champions

The News-Gazette: Martinez recalls Madison Square Garden experience

NorthJersey.com: Nick Suriano's journey didn't come without sacrifice

Uniontown Herald-Standard: Pittsburgh Wrestling Classic has local flair

Weight Changes Next year...

Let's here everyones thoughts about who will move up, or down, next year?

I see the following: 133: Gulibon moving down to 133, NaTo moving up to 133.
141: No changes...maybe Taylor from Wisconsin or that guy from N Dakota State, very long, both of them.

149: Heil possibly moving up, only because he might not be able to hold 141...of course if he moves up he knows what is waiting for him, so that could very well force him to pull weight again next year.

157: Sorenson possibly moving up, although he also knows he is in a position where he's damned if he don't, damned if he does...

165: I cannot see Imar being able to hold 157 for one more year, just cannot see it.

174: Both Isaac and Bo Jordan are possibles here, due to Martin moving up next year to 184.

184: I also cannot see Martin being able to hold 174, he was immense at 174 to begin with as a freshman. Of course he knows Dean is waiting, so we might see another year of battles with Nickal v Martin...and Martin is very good, but he knows he got fortunate last night. This ain't Dake/Taylor, Martin lost the first three to Bo, and one of them wasn't close. Rasheed to 184 also to battle it out with Mouse for the spot, iron sharpens iron.

197: Dean ain't moving anywhere with that freak Cox waiting, and Cox isn't going anywhere with Snyder waiting. Sammy Brooks is a possible though, to head up here.

Hwt: Not sure who is heading up here, but one look at Cox and I have zero clue how that guy gets down to 197. MacIntosh's second round opponent though, that dude was a HOUSE, can't see him staying at 197.

Mythbusters.....

1) Bubba hates Cael...debunked...see yesterdays tweet
2) Cael could only win with the double class ....debunked....see 2016 trophy
3) Ruth and DT were once a generation type scorers.....debunked ....see nolf, nickal and add a zain
4) Cael wins only with top 10 talents.....debunked....see Conaway and the former English/Brown/Lawson

Myths still out there.....
1) the NLWC is actually a paramiltary organization
2) Willie is secretly a PSU recruitor
3) the PSWC loans out its IT people to Flo during the offseason, cause they have the best tournament site on the web
4) Cael cant coach

Dear HR Posters; re Nico

Dear Hawkeye Report Posters,

I get that you are disappointed about Thomas Gilman’s loss in the finals. I even get that you wanted another stalling call in the third period against Nico. Nico wasn’t about to be aggressive with that lead and risk a repeat of what happened to him in the finals against Delgado.

But the over the top besmirching of Nico’s reputation by suggesting that he is a staller is uncalled for and incorrect. I don’t have the exact statistic but I am certain that during the entire season Nico was called for stalling fewer than five times. In sixteen dual matches he scored 72 takedowns while yielding 1. The facts simply contradict your assertions.

If Thomas or Corey achieve their goal as seniors next year, you will understand the joy that we feel over Nico, after second, second, and third finishes, finally having his unbelievable hard work pay off. He is an outstanding young man, a great student and an aggressive wrestler who is always moving forward in wrestling and in life.

Too funny, ESPN in their closing shots shows 2 Cornell wrestlers, Ringer, Gwiz, Montana guy...no PSU

Pretty laughable considering that PSU has finalists in half of the finals, leads the team race by over 30 points, etc... ESPN are such @ssholes about PSU, they've done everything they can to low-ball how badly PSU and Pennsylvania wrestlers are dominating this Tournament and tonight's session. ESPN is run by lowlife douchebag's -many of them jealous dicks from SorryExcuse and other "little brother" former Eastern Independent Majors in the Northeast. Didn't show a single PSU finalist in their closing shots despite PSU having 5 finalists??????
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NCAA Session 6 Thread

5 PSUers in Championship bouts, and the team title already locked up. Pretty hard to top that.

Post your comments, reactions, frustrations, thoughts, etc. about the matches.

As has been my tradition for past NCAA threads, I will not be posting PBP of the finals. My apologies to those that are not able to watch the matches on ESPN, but I've done my duty getting us through the previous 5 sessions. I'm going to sit back and watch these matches. I'll post the scores, unless someone beats me to it. If you can't watch the TV broadcast, then either tune in to the Audio stream, or point your browser to the PSU Wrestling twitter feed. Links to both can be found in my pinned post at the top of this board.

Here's hoping we see a lot of PSUers getting their hands raised tonight.

Let's have some fun!
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