Billy Paultz Reconsidered

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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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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Observations in the wake of a wild football Sunday…
Chargers-Colts: OK, I was spectacularly wrong about the Chargers, who have both the hot team thing going on and the gritty underdog thing and are, remember, the same bunch that went 14-2 last year.
But would anyone on earth have given them a shot without Philip Rivers and LT […]

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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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Penn State DT Chris Baker, LB Navarro Bowman and DB Knowledge Timmons were hit with criminal charges Thursday stemming from an Oct. 7 fight on the Penn State campus.
Baker, who also faces charges from his role in an April fight in State College, was charged Thursday with felony aggravated assault. So was Bowman.
Timmons, from York will […]

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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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On Sept. 15, Temple trailed at UConn 22-17 with 40 seconds left when, on a fourth-down play, the Owls hit a wide receiver-to-wide receiver pass that would have given them the lead.
The receiver was ruled out-of-bounds in the end zone. He wasn’t. The play somehow wasn’t overturned on replay. UConn this survived, 22-17. It is […]

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