Billy Paultz Reconsidered

Too obvious to be interesting, so let’s talk about this.
I just don’t understand the argument for Devlin. He’s from Downingtown, which is sort of the Philly area and thus presumably explains the above link, but still.
Nobody knows how good either Clark or Devlin will be, since neither has played much. But Clark is obviously more […]

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A tiny annual treat of covering college football is picking up one’s copy of Phil Steele’s annual preview magazine. In addition to being fun to peruse, for sportswriters it’s an essential tool, really 119 team media guides plus much more, an exhaustive effort that annually blows away its competition by prediction accuracy or any other […]

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One interesting thing about the Penn State investigation on “Outside the Lines,” was the contrast between what Joe said and what University president Graham Spanier said.
Confronted with the raw numbers - 46 players arrested since 2002, 27 of them found guilty of something - Paterno went into knee-jerk defensive mode, using the word “witchhunt,” several […]

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I wrote this last night during the Barnstormers’ game and then got occupied writing alternate ledes to that 10-9, six-error, 217-minute mess of a game. Random observations while getting ready for the Barnstormers game with Newark at the Clip…
ESPN’s “Outside the Lines,” is reportedly planning a look at some of the off-field issues with Penn […]

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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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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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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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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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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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