Billy Paultz Reconsidered

Andrew Quarless and Willie Harriott, Penn State players cited last week for underage drinking, are back with the team, according to unnamed sources quoted by Blue-White Illustrated.
The Penn State sports-info office neither confirmed nor denied.
Elsewhere on the police blotter:

A Centre County judge dismissed four charges against Penn State safety Anthony Scirrotto, including the two big ones […]

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The Phillies just beat the Pirates 11-6. They had 16 hits, six extra-base hits including two home runs, one of them a three-run homer. They had one meaningless sacrifice and no stolen bases. Twice they had the man-on-second, nobody-out situation and tried to make the stupid baseball play of the hitter giving himself up to move the runner […]

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back in the news (hooray!).
He’s done an interview with a web site called MN1.com that included phone calls from viewers.
Here’s my favorite:
Caller: “Remember when you played for the 49ers?”
Simpson: “Yeah.”
Caller: “Yeah, did you kill Bill Walsh?”

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reputation as an innovative genius is probably overdone, since he borrowed heavily from Sid Gillman and Paul Brown. As Salon.com’s King Kauffman points points out here, Walsh fit the system to the talent. If he’d had Dan Marino, he’d have gone about it a lot differently.
What I loved about Walsh was that a soft-spoken, professorial […]

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… that halfway through this sporting summer, Pac Man Jones would look, comparatively, like Desmond Tutu?
… that the commissioner having the relatively stress- free summer would be the guy who runs the NHL?
Observations:
Every time you watch a game people bet on, there’s a chance the betting is impacting the integrity of the outcome. A very […]

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Courtesy of Sunday News intrepid Internet journalist Casey Kreider, here’s the full indictment.
Also, here’s a theory on what’s exactly wrong with this guy: He’s simply a simp.

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JoePa, to Ray Fittipaldo of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, on the possibility of renewing the Penn State-Pitt rivalry:
“Financially, we have to have seven home games. Now, if Pitt would say tomorrow that we’ll play twice up at your place and once down here … The last time we came to Pitt, they charged more […]

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End of the 1st quarter at Hersheypark Stadium….
This is supposedly an Ohio JV team, with the real Blue Chippers playing in that state’s North-South game tonight. But Ohio looks quicker on the edge (as we grid wonks say) and bigger up front, at least when it’s on offense vs. Pennsylvania’s defense.
B.J. Cunningham, an Ohio WR […]

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there was almost a Lancaster-Lebanon League player in the Big 33 game. Wilson High School WR, and three-sport athlete, Josh Smith was originally chosen to play in the game. He’s headed to the University of Pittsburgh to play baseball, and when he suffered an arm injury this spring he opted out of the game.
They still […]

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I wrote this in a preview of the Big 33 game that appeared in last Sunday’s (June 10) paper:
“Incredibly, there isn’t an Ohio State signee on the Ohio roster. Or the Pennsylvania roster, for that matter.”
Not that incredible, according to reader Ken Rankin of Millersville, who points out that for the second straight year the […]

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