Billy Paultz Reconsidered

More trouble for JoePa: Wide receiver Chris Bell has been kicked off the team after being arrested for threatening another player with a knife Monday night.
University police filed a report on an incident that took place at the Nittany Lion Training Table, the athletic dining room. Bell had apparently threatened freshman defensive end Devon Still, […]

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Now here’s a class I could guest lecture: “Joe Paterno, Communications and The Media.”
Mike Poorman, who conceived the course and will teach it, is an old friend. I don’t think Joe is quite as crafty and calculating in his dealings with us as Mike does. Still, Joe’s been doing what he does, in the same […]

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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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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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In football, Michigan State has long been the infuriating problem child of the Big Ten family.
The Spartans are, or have been, talented and occasionally brilliant. They’ve also been wildly erratic, prone to off-field issues, underachieving and in general need of a Ritalin prescription.
At least that’s the educated perception.
Maybe that’s over with, or at least changing, […]

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When I was a kid there was a heavyweight title fight between champ Larry Holmes and a colorful stiff named Chuck Wepner.
Holmes methodically beat Wepner senseless. They called the fight in the sixth or seventh or whatever. Afterward Howard Cosell interviewed Wepner, who said he was disappointed they called it because, “I felt like I […]

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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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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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