Billy Paultz Reconsidered

After perusing reader e-mails and coverage from other media outlets, I’m convinced the defense is getting off easy in the wake of nPenn State’s 27-20 loss to Illinois.
Illini QB Juice Williams threw two bad interceptions- one by overthrowing a receiver who was somewhat open in the end zone, and another by apparently trying to throw […]

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Consider this analysis by Stewart Mandel of Sports Illustrated: “Ron Zook is not known as the world’s savviest coach, but even he can watch a tape (Michigan’s win over Penn State last week) and follow a blueprint. Hand off over and over to Rashard Mendenahll (134 yards per game), play your base defense and wait […]

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from Citizen’s Bank Park, where it’s incredibly hot for late September, a thunderstorm is an apparent possibility, and the Phillies’ umpteenth must game is about to begin.
The Phillies didn’t seem tight, during BP and all the pre-game stuff, but they did seem, let’s call it quiet. The exception, it goes without saying, was the relentlessly […]

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Naturally, there were a lot of questions for Joe Tuesday about the offense, in the wake of its awful performance in the Michigan game.
I want to be careful here. You hate to draw too much from these press conferences. It’s not fair to JoePa or anybody else to put every word under a microscope.
So, I’ll […]

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Nittany Nation is profoundly disappointed right now, and my sense is it goes far beyond the mere fact of a loss.
People can’t understand why Penn State can’t join the 21st century and fire its weapons. And that’s another thing, another frustrating thing: Not only is this not 1974, it’s not 2004, either. Penn State does have […]

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Tough, interesting game to try and figure.
You could make the argument that Penn State’s defense is better than Michigan’s offense, Penn State’s offense is better than Michigan’s defense, and the Lions are at least even on special teams.
So, Penn State wins, right?
Except that we don’t know who the Nittany Lions are yet, because they haven’t […]

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Here are the highlights of what Donovan McNabb said in an interview with HBO’s “Real Sports” that aired Wednesday:
“There’s not that many African-American quarterbacks, so we have to do a little bit extra. Because the percentage of us playing this position, which people didn’t want us to play … is low, so we do […]

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Joe Pa isn’t worried about whether or not Chad Henne plays at QB for Michigan.
“For all I know, they could put [RB Mike] Hart at quarterback, or direct-snap the ball right to him,” Paterno said at his weekly teleconference Tuesday.
“I don’t think you [prepare for two QBs]. I think you worry about what kind of […]

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If Penn State wins out there Saturday, I’m fully expecting JoePa to invite 50 Cent to the postgame podium.
In other news….
Dave Jones of the Harrisburg Patriot-News is a pal and a terrific writer with whom I generally agree on Penn State matters, so much so that I sometimes open the Patriot Sundays after Penn State […]

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You know how sometimes you’ll be watching a basketball game and it feels like a certain player is doing nothing, and then you look at the box score and he somehow scored 20?
I swear, that’s how it is with me and Anthony Morelli. When I looked at the final stats from Penn State-Buffalo and saw […]

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