Billy Paultz Reconsidered

for the Akron game is out, and it contains a few surprises, at least to me.
1. Chaz Powell, the guy who was supposed to fill Derrick Williams’ role, is not starting on offense. He’s listed on the second team at one of the WR spots, behind Brett Brackett. The other first-team wideouts are Derek Moye and […]

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I’m down with the Barnstormers, who if nothing else get me out of the office on Saturday nights. It’s an excellent ballpark in a nice downtown location, and it seems like a well-run, quality organization.
But this is their fifth year and they’ve had exactly one winning half-season. It’s taken nearly three and-a-half hours tonight to play six and-a-half […]

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There are now only three cable providers in Pennsylvania not carrying the Big Ten Network, and Lancaster County’s Blue Ridge Cable is one of them.
Penn State spokesman Jeff Nelson said last week there has been little movement in discussions between Blue Ridge and the BTW. 
More than 75 percent of Pennsylvania cable homes have access to the […]

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After Roger Ebert first saw “Pulp Fiction”, Quentin Tarantino asked him what he thought of it.
“It’s either the best film of the year or the worst film,” Ebert said, later admitting to his readers that, “I hardly knew what the hell had happened to me.”
That’s about it. Tarantino flicks are soggy with audacity and wit but not […]

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So there was Tiger Woods, in the press room, saying that if Y.E.Yang hadn’t chipped in and I’d made that putt and he’d done this and I hadn’t done that…
In short, there was Tiger talking like every golfer who’d come close and fallen short since the beginning of time.
I was glad to hear Tim Rosaforte, […]

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The Phillies are 3-8 since they got Cliff Lee, and Lee is 2-0 since he got here. Perhaps the explanation is that the Fightins can’t get over their shock and awe over the Lee deal.
We could be seeing the beginning of the end of Jamie Moyer’s remarkable career, although Orel Hersheiser says a six-man rotation, […]

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The health care “debate” has become so inane and dense with bull***t that I’m resisting the urge to write something big and comprehensive about it, lest my head explode, indeed lest it explode because I cut a hole in the door of a microwave oven and stuck my head in, a la J. O. Incandenza […]

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You probably heard about this, the U of Hawaii football coach dissing Notre Dame, yet another flap wherein somebody says something, and the world spends days deciding how offended it should be by it.
Carroll makes one very good point:
(I get so impatient with all those non-apology apologies about racial slurs and gay slurs - “it […]

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Here’s a list of the top 50 current MLB players according to one blogger.
It’s not a great list- its author thinks errors, fielding percentage and Gold Gloves measure defense; badly overrates batting-order “protection” (see-Adrian Gonzalez); and conflates or confuses flashes-in-the-pan vs. consistent long-haul performers etc., etc.
Still, the overall selections aren’t terrible and, you know, lists are […]

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Pal and Penn State food guru Frank Bodani on the scenic route to Happy Valley. Keep this to yourselves, though. Don’t want to ruin it.

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