Billy Paultz Reconsidered

7:01 p.m. - We are underway from the WAMU (no, I don’t know what that means) Theatre at Madison Square Garden. A few notes while the idiotic video montage runs….
1. The Sunday News’ Eric Stark will call in from time to time from the Sixers’ draft party at the Wachovia Center. Starkie reported a while […]

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The Jockstrap Chronicles NBA draft live blogfest begins tonight at 7 p.m., featuring a cast of several, including correspondents at NBA draft HQ in New York and at the Sixers’ soiree for season-ticket holders in Philly.
Live e-mail dialogue (mgross@lnpnews.com) encouraged, even if you’re not a draft nut. We’ll be talking about the league in general, […]

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Took the kids to see “Live Free or Die Hard,” last night. We had fun and you will too, if you remember to leave your credulity in the car.
Plot summary: Evil computer geeks shut down the country’s infrastructure and try to drain its financial resources. Bruce Willis stops them, destroying much of said infrastructure in the […]

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To step into the real world for a moment, allow TJC to be the last blog in the universe to commend to your attention the Washington Post’s mega-series on Dick Cheney.
Among the revelations therein are that when convenient to his Machiavellian whims, Cheney has argued that he, as nominal Vice-President, isn’t part of the executive branch […]

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JoePa, to Ray Fittipaldo of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, on the possibility of renewing the Penn State-Pitt rivalry:
“Financially, we have to have seven home games. Now, if Pitt would say tomorrow that we’ll play twice up at your place and once down here … The last time we came to Pitt, they charged more […]

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Notes on a (triumpant?) return from vacation….

If somebody told you in April that in late June, Freddy Garcia, Brett Myers, Tom Gordon and Jon Lieber would all be on the DL, and Garcia and Lieber likely done for the year, you’d be wondering if the Phillies could catch the Nationals, not the Mets.

Considering their run-prevention […]

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I know it was three days ago, gimme a break, I’m on vacation….

The defense for Jim Furyk hitting a driver on the 17th hole on Sunday is that he’s one of the best golfers in the world, and he certainly knows his own game better than anyone.

It’s a real argument. I’m not dismissing it. The problem is it’s the […]

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End of the 1st quarter at Hersheypark Stadium….
This is supposedly an Ohio JV team, with the real Blue Chippers playing in that state’s North-South game tonight. But Ohio looks quicker on the edge (as we grid wonks say) and bigger up front, at least when it’s on offense vs. Pennsylvania’s defense.
B.J. Cunningham, an Ohio WR […]

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there was almost a Lancaster-Lebanon League player in the Big 33 game. Wilson High School WR, and three-sport athlete, Josh Smith was originally chosen to play in the game. He’s headed to the University of Pittsburgh to play baseball, and when he suffered an arm injury this spring he opted out of the game.
They still […]

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Expect light blogging on the Jockstrap Chronicles for the next 8-10 days. I’m on vacation from Sunday through June 25
Light doesn’t mean non-existent, though. I’ll be at the York Revolution’s first-ever home game tonight, and the Big 33 game Saturday. If something comes up, even next week, I may not be able to resist.

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