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September 2010, Cover Stories, Sections
$80 Million Gift Will Launch Penn State Hockey
With the Nittany Lions set to field a D-I hockey team, CBS College Sports Network analyst Dave Starman reports happy days are at hand for Happy Valley hockey fans.
Sources involved with the process have confirmed to both USCHO.com and CBS College Sports Network that there will be a gift of between $80 million and $90 million donated by Penn State alumnus Terry Pegula to start the program.
Pegula, who recently sold his natural gas company, East Resources, for close to $5 billion, will deliver to the school what it always felt it needed — a Division I hockey program to fill seats in a new building from October through mid-March. To read more, click here.
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