It’s taken from Mount Nittany, a mountain ridge near the campus. And school legend holds that a student suggested the Nittany ...

Kroenke Sports and Entertainment, which owns the Denver Nuggets, recently began their search for the team's next mountain lion mascot. Those interested in the job have to fit a specific criterion ...

The reality of the Nittany Lion isn’t nearly as exotic or mysterious as its name might indicate. Penn State’s longtime mascot is a common mountain lion, the kind that roamed the mountains near ...

and then-coach Hugo Bezdek banned the mascot from the field. It wasn't seen again until 1939, and that's when the costume resembled the mountain lion version seen today.

The Denver Nuggets mascot, Rocky the Mountain Lion, earns more than $600,000 a year. The average salary of a NBA mascot is $60,000. Yeah, that is not a typo. Meet the Denver Nuggets mascot ...

Q: How did the UVM come to embrace it as its mascot? A: In 1926 the Vermont ... Alexander Crowell poses with a catamount, or mountain lion, that he shot and killed in November 1881.