The BLS Podcast

In this week's Nittany Lion Sports Report, with Bob Long and Tyler Gehlhaus, we discuss Penn State's emotional and gutty win over Iowa on the road at Kinnick Stadium, including the play of Sean Clifford, the Noah Cain show, the defensive effort, and yes, the officiating (Start-18:30). We also preview the Michigan game and College Gameday in Happy Valley this weekend (18:30-31:50), and then Bob goes to the whiteboard to break down the Michigan rushing attack against Penn State's run defense, a strength-vs-strength matchup (32:20-37:15). We then welcome Christian Iannarone, who works with the Philadelphia Eagles and Lincoln Financial Field on the Gameday Operations staff, to tell his story and make his guest picks (37:45-Finish).

Bob Long and Tyler Gehlhaus interview Steve Batterson, who covers the Iowa Hawkeyes for the Quad City Times. Check out the interview as Penn State prepares to take on Iowa this weekend.

In this week's Nittany Lion Sports Report, with Bob Long and Tyler Gehlhaus, we begin the show with a discussion on a nasty letter sent from a Penn State fan to safety Jonathan Sutherland, and how the Penn State community has rallied around Sutherland and the rest of the team as a result. We also then interview Steve Batterson, who covers the Hawkeyes for the Quad City Times (Start-26:15). We then previewed the Hawkeyes and discussed the keys for Penn State to win its first key road test of the year (26:15-36:40). After the break, Bob goes to the whiteboard for the weekly "Blitz" segment, breaking down the Penn State defensive line and how it can run sets to confuse the Iowa offensive line (37:10-43:00). After the break, we welcome guest picker Maura Long to the show to try to take down current leaders Rob Stott and Tyler Kern (43:30-Finish).

Bill Wasylenko, the La Salle Football Historian, hosted the halftime show during La Salle vs. Father Judge on Homecoming Weekend. He interviewed Bob Long of Bob Long Sports, to help tell the story of how BLS came to be, and what Bob is doing outside of broadcasting La Salle sports.

97.5 The Fanatic hosts Marc Farzetta and Jamie Lynch announce that they will join Bob Long Sports on a special evening for high school football. Marc and Jamie will be color commentators for La Salle College High School vs. Archbishop Wood football on October 18, 2019! This clip first aired on The Farzetta & Tra Show on 97.5 The Fanatic WPEN on October 4, 2019.

In this week's Nittany Lion Sports Report, with Bob Long and Tyler Gehlhaus, we discuss Penn State's dominating win over Maryland, and preview the upcoming game against an injury-depleted Purdue team (Start-19:20). Bob then goes to the whiteboard for the weekly Blitz segment, breaking down Sean Clifford's improvements in footwork and progressions (19:35-26:05). We then welcome Bruce Badgley of Small Player/Big Play app, and of Berks County broadcasting, to be our guest picker and to describe his experiences in Central PA broadcasting football and covering future Penn State football players (26:21-Finish).

In this week's Nittany Lion Sports Report, with Bob Long and Tyler Gehlhaus, we discuss Penn State's position-by-position outlook as it heads out of the bye week and into Big Ten play. We also look back on the Pitt game and preview Maryland and the dynamic duo in the backfield for the Terps (Start-32:14). Bob then goes to the whiteboard to break down Sean Clifford's struggles and why poor footwork has led to an elimination of half the football field from a progression standpoint (32:24-38:42). We then bring our guest picker, Rob Stott, on the tell his story of his role as Color Commentator for La Salle College High School football, as he looks to overtake Tyler Kern as the clubhouse leader at 5-1 (38:50-Finish).

In this week's Nittany Lion Sports Report, with Bob Long and Tyler Gehlhaus, we discuss Penn State's 45-13 win over Buffalo, breaking down the struggles of the defense in the first half and going position-by-position to re-examine where we are from a depth chart and potential standpoint with some of the young stars of the team. We also have a discussion on the Pitt Panthers (Start-30:20). Bob then went to the whiteboard for the "Blitz" segment, breaking down Maurice Ffrench and how he could provide issues for the Penn State defensive secondary (31:00-35:35). We then welcomed our guest picker, Dan Green, a chef at A.Kitchen+Bar, one of the best restaurants in Center City Philadelphia (35:40-Finish).

In this week's Nittany Lion Sports Report, with Bob Long and Tyler Gehlhaus, we discuss Penn State's 79-7 season-opening win over Idaho, breaking down position-by-position and evaluating the 2019 season going forward (Start-33:35). We then do the weekly whiteboard segment, breaking down the depth and the position battles across the offensive (33:45-39:50). Finally, we welcome Chris Pierangeli as our guest picker this week! Hear his story as a local high school soccer and track and field coach, and see if he can take down current leader Tyler Kern, who went 5-1 in week 1 (40:00-Finish).

In this week's Nittany Lion Sports Report, with Bob Long and Tyler Gehlhaus, we discuss the upcoming storylines and preview the season for Penn State (Start-11:55). Next, Bob goes to the whiteboard for the weekly "Blitz" segment, this week focusing on the Depth Chart (12:00-22:00). We then discuss the young contributors that could make an immediate impact in their true freshman year, as well as other redshirt freshmen/true sophomores creating depth for Penn State (22:10-32:05). We make our college football picks (32:10-39:35). We then bring on Tyler Kern of Bob Long Sports - he is a color commentator for La Salle College High School football broadcast....as our first guest picker! Check out our picks for the weekend (39:35-Finish)!