Billy Paultz Reconsidered

The Nits have announced their football captains for next year, all seniors: DE Josh Gaines, S Anthony Scirrotto, C A.Q. Shipley and WR Derrick Williams.
This doesn’t matter much, but is slightly noteworthy for a couple reasons: 1. Scirrotto was arrested and suspended from the team early last season as the central figure in a much-publicized […]

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Penn State issued the following succinct statement about its five suspended football players:
The five players that did not participate in spring practice are now permitted to work out with the team in the weight room and training facilities.  Their playing status remains unchanged and will be reviewed after each of them resolves certain academic and/or […]

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Manheim Central grad Mike Byrne, a Division 1-AA All-American offensive tackle, was signed to a free agent contract with the Miami Dolphins Sunday.
“Going into the draft Mike knew the Dolphins had shown the most interest and their offensive line coach [Mike Maser] was in daily contact with me,” Jim Ulrich, Byrne’s agent, told the News-Journal […]

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The Barnstormers’ season-opening win was impressive for a number of reasons. Two of them: 1. They scored 10 runs while getting nothing from cleanup hitter Matt LeCroy, late of the Minnesota Twins; and, 2. Without overextending starter Zack Parker, who went six innings, they used only three pitchers, all of them effective and none of […]

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… the Phillies blowing out Cole Hamels looks like genius compared to some of the stuff the Brewers have pulled lately.  They have 14 pitchers on the roster. They have exactly three bench players, and one of them is a backup catcher (Mike Rivera) and the other two are lefthanded hitters (Craig Counsell and […]

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… it’s April, and he was over 100 pitches headed into the eighth inning in Milwaukee last night. Given that, you’d hope the Phillies’ ridiculous 5-4 loss to the Brewers might shut up the “pitch counts don’t matter,” crowd, or at least give those folks pause for thought.
Yeah, like that’s gonna happen.
The irony is this […]

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This is from a transcript, provided by Penn State sports information, of JoePa’s press conference before the Blue-White game. The questions are in bold, Joe’s answers in regular type, and my comments in italic. Maybe I’ll do this for every Joe presser during the season…
How has the Blue-White Game evolved since your first Blue-White […]

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I haven’t done nearly enough in this space to promote “The Low Post,” the webcast Eric Stark and I are doing (with invaluable help from producer/camera/sound/lighting guy Paul Franz) on Lancasteronline.com.
We’d like to make this thing much more interactive. If you have a question, comment, criticism or quarrel you’d like us to address, e-mail it […]

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Pat Flannery, who announced his retirement as head basketball coach at Bucknell Friday, is the only great coach I’ve been friendly with, and gotten to see up close. He is absolutely the most competitive human I’ve ever been around. He was so competitive, in fact, that the game ate at him and threatened his health.
I saw […]

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Evidently a Denver sports bar held some sort of contest Monday night and the winner got to write the lede of the AP Rockies-Phillies game story:
“Now that there’s no playoff pressure, the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Colorado Rockies with relative ease.”
Oh sure, NOW you win in Colorado, you choking pieces of sewage…
On second thought, maybe a […]

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