Billy Paultz Reconsidered

The plan for tonight had been to do a full-blown live blog for the all-star game, but there’s a bit too much chaos at chez Gross (involving an ink stain; don’t ask) for that to be practical. So we’ll just watch the game and jump in from time to time.
Meanwhile, in other news:
One of the many excellent […]

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The Phils and Blue Jays are evidently in serious talks about A.J. Burnett. I’ll be looking for Blue Jays scouts (Jim Fregosi?) when I go to Reading to watch Brett Myers pitch Saturday. Reading has some legit prospects, but since the Big Club’s catchers are a 35 year-old and Carlos Ruiz, I’d strongly advise against […]

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Penn State basketball player Stanley Pringle believes loving others really begins with loving oneself. Pringle has announced his candidacy for the Al Bundy Scholarship.
Pringle’s explanation: “This is how I chill.”
Yo Stan: This is how everybody chills. Just not in a college library. That’s really the newsworthy part of your story. Not the act. The venue.
Let’s […]

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This is from a piece on Pryor’s signing by Mike White of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
“I would’ve had Penn State higher and would’ve considered them more if I knew coach Bradley was going to be the head coach when Joe Paterno retires,” Pryor said.
He’s not the only one.

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So Terrelle Pryor is going to Ohio State, as has been long suspected.
Not sure this is a bad thing for Penn State. They have a quarterback for next year. They have a QB for the year after that. Drop Pryor into Happy Valley and you immediately have a QB controversy, probably with players taking sides, etc. […]

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BPR is back after a holiday vacation with considerable blog stored in its hump…
Alamo Bowl: Please understand that This Space is not a fan of Anthony Morelli. He was not a good major-college quarterback, and wasn’t close to what Joe Paterno and his staff portrayed him to be.
His performance in San Antonio included a lot […]

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Michigan made a great hire, it says here, better than Les Miles would have been. Rich Rodriguez can coach, he can recruit, and he’s a master of the spread-option offense, the simplest and most effective way to play college football right now.
Supposedly Rodriguez was already on the phone to Terrell Pryor, the QB of Pennsylvania […]

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Tim Tebow should and apparently will be given the Heisman Trophy Saturday.
Even though it goes far beyond the numbers they’re staggering- 29 touchdowns passing and 22 running, 838 rushing yards (nearly 1,000 if, as the NFL does, you count sacks as passing yardage), 260 passing yards a game. He’s completed 69 percent of his throws […]

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So the Patriots got caught cheating three months ago, and their reaction - their coaches’ reaction in particular - was to turn this season into a crusade to stick it to the world and show everybody. This has led to the unsavory spectacle of guys ecstatically spiking the ball after touchdowns that put their team […]

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In retrospect Penn State’s season might have begun to wobble as early as week three, when Buffalo scored three TDs in the fourth-quarter dregs of a blowout, badly victimizing the Lions’ secondary and pre-season All-American CB Justin King in particular.
The Penn State coaches had apparently figured they could leave wideout coverage to their corners, man-to-man, […]

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