Billy Paultz Reconsidered

OK, so Joe was in the now-infamous traffic incident. Road rage is subjective, but something did happen. (Yes, it only takes about three days for an incident to become infamous. That’s the hyper-speed media world we live in.)
There’s weirdness on both sides of this. On one hand, I can’t imagine that Joe gave anybody the […]

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You have probably heard by now the rumor that Joe Paterno may have been involved in a road rage incident Friday on the Penn State campus that drew campus police.
There is a police report that suggests such an incident took place, but names of involved people were not released. So why are some saying Joe […]

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Regarding yesterday’s post on Charlie Manuel and Joe Torre… never mind.

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I suspect the Yankees are going to dump Joe Torre for several reasons- Seven straight postseason failures and three straight first-round losses. The fact that viable successors - Don Mattingly, Joe Girardi - are out there. Torre’s been there 12 years; that might just be too long for anybody in that job.
Which brings us to the […]

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Item: State College police are investigating a fight in the early morning hours Sunday at the Hetzel Union Building on the Penn State campus. At least 10 people were involved, several of them rumored to be football players.
Also Sunday, Penn State players Joe Suhey and Ryan Breen, both true freshman, were cited for underage drinking. […]

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and then I got sick, which is the reason for a two-day hiatus from blogging. Obviously, there’s a lot of ground to cover…
Not buying the popular opinion that the Phillies just got steamrolled by a mega-hot team and there’s nothing they could have done.
Baseball at its core is about the battle between the hitter and […]

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from Happy Valley: The Altoona Mirror reported in Friday’s edition that Austin Scott, Penn State’s senior tailback, would not dress for today’s game with Iowa. The paper cited a source close to the program who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Penn State spokesman Jeff Nelson said this morning that Scott, “would not dress for today’s […]

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This game is about as compelling, given everything else that’s going on in sports, as reruns of “America’s got Talent.”
Both teams can pretty much forget this season with a loss. But Penn State is at home and has much better athletes.
The Lions get by.

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 Lots of questions Tuesday about Anthony Morelli. Lots of defending Morelli by Joe:

“No, I’m not considering a quarterback change.  I think overall he played well.  I think he’s got to get some more help.  I think people have got to make some catches in the clutch.  I think Anthony has to shake off some things.  […]

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This will be seen, nationally, as more a Mets’ collapse than a Phillies’ triumph. That’s natural. Is 1964 remembered more for the Phillies losing or the Cardinals winning?
OK, but a couple of points:
1. If the Phillies’ had been reasonably healthy - not injury-free, just around the big-league average - they were clearly at least a […]

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