The Penn State basketball team is 8-6. Michigan is 7-6. The two Big Ten Conference teams meet in Happy Valley, Pa., on Thursday (7 p.m., ESPN2), and Nittany Lions fans sound impatient, at least they do at PennStateCentral, a blog for followers of Penn State sports.

A post by Lions1997 sounds like a wounded fan: "We all know by now that last year they won a record number of games 927) and their first national tournament championship (NIT). But the past is the past, and this team is just downright awful."

Don't want the fans' rants? The blog PennStateHoops.com pulls in articles from various news organizations.