Jay Paterno
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From a Hometown Hill
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Last week, after two weeks of procrastination, I made time to head out to Tussey Mountain, throw on my skis and live a little. It was sparked recently when I caught up with a childhood friend who asked if I’d been out to Tussey Mountain this winter. Regretfully, I hadn’t. Pete is a kindred skiing…
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In America, It Can Be Festivus Every Day
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While it can’t be Christmas every day, there is one holiday ritual celebrated daily: the Festivus “Airing of Grievances.”
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We Owe Our Youth Thanks — and a Better Response — for Bearing Burdens of COVID-19
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As in-person instruction returned to Penn State in these COVID-strained times, we’d be wise to remember our students. Across this country a generation of young people are being asked to shoulder a difficult burden in our cause. The toll of these times was evident during Tuesday night’s televised Presidential Town Hall. A mother with her…
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The Wonder of the Radio
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Recently a friend was telling me about a new app that allowed him to listen to radio stations all over the world from a funk station in Amsterdam to a Paris jazz station to a U.S. station that played all 1920s music. It got me thinking… As a kid, my parents did not allow us…
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Can We Rise to the Challenges of Our Time? Our Youth Are Watching How We Respond
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In challenging times it’s helpful to evaluate the current moments in our nation’s history as steps on a far longer timeline. There have been times like this before and as history arcs from present to past we have continually risen above the challenges. Those lessons are important for the young people in our country. Some…
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Say Goodbye to College Football as We Know It
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The short-term greed that got us the 2020 season will ultimately be the flood that breached the levee. Professionalism is headed to your favorite college football program. The flood will carry terms like Name Image Likeness, one-time transfer rules and fair market value in 2021. These things will ch
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Remembering Penn State Football’s ‘Snow Bowl’ from Behind the Scenes
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With the heavy snow last week before Penn State’s home game, a lot of people were thinking back to other Penn State snow games. For Penn State fans of a certain age, “The Snow Bowl” means one game only: Penn State vs. Michigan on Nov. 18, 1995 . That game became the stuff of…
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Great Leadership Got Our Country Through Its Most Challenging Times. We Need It Again.
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For five minutes put aside personalities and political allegiance. It’s time for some truth about leadership. As COVID-19 cases explode, as the death toll mounts, look back about 11 months, and ask yourself if we were led to greatness by the leadership from our federal government.
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Lessons Learned from a 2000 Penn State Football Team That Faced Difficult Times
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Thanksgiving is one of those moments for reflection. As we look back on our past there are hard moments and happy moments, and we are thankful for all that has molded us.
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Hey John King, CNN and the World: Here’s Who We Are…
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Last Wednesday, as election results were reported ever so slowly, the eyes of the country and the world turned to Pennsylvania via CNN’s John King and his magic wall. And right there in the middle of the state, an island unto itself, was a lone blue county standing out dramatically in a sea of red