What makes a lion "Nittany," anyway? According to the Penn State website, before 1904, the school didn't even have a mascot, save for a work mule named "Old Coaly" that helped in construction ...

Indiana University Student Government recently passed a bill to make the bison the official mascot of the Hoosiers. IU ...

I thought we were talking like either a real lion from Mount Nittany or the bedraggled mascot that Penn State trots out to games on Saturdays. Since actual, honest-to-goodness nittany lions could ...

The creature disappeared as IU's official mascot in 1969 ... Penn State game, showing a bison peering down at a Nittany Lion. For the Indiana vs. Oregon matchup, IU football's post featured ...