The Owls will look to improve their record to 3-1 today versus Maryland.
The Owls will take on the Terps on Capital One Field at Byd Stadium today at 12:30.
The Owls will try to capture their third win of the year after losing to Penn State last week. The Terps will try to improve to 2-1 after dropping last week’s game to West Virginia.
Stay tuned to TTN for halftime and post-game blog updates and a full game recap later.
Homecoming just got a whole lot better.
American rapper, singer, actor, and R&B artist Kid Cudi will be performing at the Annual Homecoming Concert this year, it has been announced.
Kid Cudi’s Man on the Moon: The End of the Day (2009) and Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager (2010) both charted in the top five in the US Billboard 200. Kid Cudi’s 2008 single “Day N’ Nite” also charted in the top five.
American electro-pop band Passion Pit performed at Homecoming last year.
If the Owls had been able to hold on and win their game against Penn State on Saturday, the victory would have been viewed by a record audience.
The game, which was televised nationally on ESPN, had a 1.6 national rating. That means the game was aired in approximately 1,610,910 households and was viewed by nearly 2 million people, both Temple football records.
The game was also a record draw at Lincoln Financial Field. The attendance of 57,323 was the second-largest in Temple football history and the student attendance of nearly 11,000 was a Temple record.
The Owls’ next game this Saturday against Maryland will air on ESPN3 in addition to being broadcast on 1210 WPHT-AM.
On an 85-degree day, what more could someone ask for than free Snapple?
A truck parked on the corner of Cecil B. Moore Ave. and Broad St. is giving away free 16 oz. glass bottles of Snapple.
The giveaway is apparently apart of an ad campaign in partnership with Maroon 5.
The truck is adorned with a large graphic of the band with a slogan reading, “And tea will be loved,” playing off Maroon 5’s hit, “She Will Be Loved.”
The Owls’ upcoming football game against Penn State will be broadcast on national television.
The game is set to kick off Saturday at noon on the Owls’ home turf at Lincoln Financial Field. ESPN will broadcast the game live nationally, with Dave LaMont commenting and Ray Bentley providing color analysis.
Saturday’s matchup will represent the sixth meeting between these two teams in the past six years and the second one for the Owls at home.
The Nittany Lions have won all five games in the most recent series and haven’t lost to the Owls since 1941.
Lancaster County Produce is open for business.
The produce stand, located just off the corner of Cecil B. Moore Ave. and Broad St., is run by residents of Lancaster County, Pa. and sells high-quality fruit, vegetables, baked goods, and cider for a cheap price.
Most fruit was priced at a meager $1.50 per pound. I purchased four onions and four peaches for under $5.
The stand will be open in the same spot every Thursday from 2-6 p.m.
It didn’t take long for junior running back Bernard Pierce to make an impact on the Owls’ 2011 season.
Pierce was named the Mid-American Conference Offensive Player of the Week for his effort against Villanova in the Mayor’s Cup last week. Pierce rushed for 147 yards and tied a career high with three touchdowns in the Owls’ dominating 42-7 defeat of the Wildcats.
1210 AM WPHT, the longtime radio home of Temple athletics, have expanded their athletic coverage to incude broadcasts of the entire football and men’s basketball seasons.
“We are excited to be able to not only continue, but strengthen our relationship with WPHT,” Director of Athletics Bill Bradshaw said. “This deal enables fans in the greater Delaware Valley and beyond the ability to follow Temple Athletics on one of the strongest commercial radio stations in the country.”
The multi-year agreement will go into effect this Thursday night when the Owls kick off their football season against the University of Villanova in the Mayor’s Cup at Lincoln Financial Field, and will extend throughout the 2011-12 athletic season.
KYW Newsradio announcer Harry Donahue will do play-by-play for both football and men’s basketball. Former Owls quarterback Steve Joachim will do color analysis for football, while Assistant Athletic Director John Baum will provide color analysis for men’s basketball.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 shook Temple campuses across Pennsylvania mid-Tuesday afternoon.
The earthquake struck nearly thirty-five miles northwest of Richmond, Va., but tremors have been reported to be felt in states all throughout the Northeast.
Temple Ambler confirmed reports of an earthquake via Twitter. The official Twitter of Ambler declared the magnitude of the earthquake a 5.8 via a seismometer installed on campus just last year.
A TU Alert message was sent out to students nearly an hour after the earthquake struck to report that no damages to facilities have been found.
Former men’s basketball power forward Lavoy Allen has played his entire basketball career in Pennsylvania. He now has a chance to continue playing in his home state on the professional level.
The Philadelphia 76ers selected Allen with the 50th overall pick in the NBA draft tonight.
Allen was born in Morrisville, PA and attended Pennsbury high school in Bucks County. Allen finished his career at Temple as the Owls’ all-time leading rebounder (1,147) to go along with the third highest blocked shots total in school history (213) and the eighth highest win total (98).
Allen becomes the second Temple athlete to be drafted by a professional Philadelphia sports team this year; the Philadelphia Eagles drafted former Owls’ safety Jaiquawn Jarrett in the 2nd round of the 2011 NFL draft in April.
