About Zombie Nation

The Blog

Zombie Nation was founded in May 2007 as a Penn State football blog. It is our goal to provide solid analysis, opinion, and uphold a commitment to honor the Penn State football tradition.

The Blogger

Mike Pettigano has worked for several years in the newspaper industry, as a reporter, photographer, assistant editor and eventually editor of a local paper in Northern Virginia.

As you would expect, Mike is a Penn State alum -- Class of 2006, Journalism. Entering senior year, he was accepted into the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism at Penn State. Mike also did some radio broadcast work in college.

A four-year member of the Penn State Marching Blue Band, Mike attended his first game in 2002, when UCF came to Beaver Stadium. He never missed a home game, and was fortunate enough to attend games in Columbus (2004), Ann Arbor (2002, 2005), East Lansing (2005), West Lafayette (2003), Champaign (2005), the Fed Ex Orange Bowl (2006) and the Capital One Bowl (2003).