Jay Paterno
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Summer Concert Memories: Elvis Sunglasses, Michael Stipe and Me
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Summer in America has always meant touring artists crisscrossing the country to put on great shows. This summer those concert tours are another one of the annual rituals lost to us. Like missing sports, missing concerts is not life or death. But in their absence it seemed like a good time to…
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2020 Vision for College Football is Still Blurry at Best
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If you think anyone has a clear 2020 vision for college football this fall, you’d be wrong. Everyone is facing massive uncertainty. This column is not advocacy one way or the other, only an example of how tough this will be — and this is just hitting the biggest questions that remain.
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1987 Fiesta Bowl Broadcast Is a Chance to Re-experience a Story for the Ages
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On Friday night at 9:30, NBC Sports Network will re-air one of the greatest games in all of college football history: the Jan. 2, 1987 Fiesta Bowl between Penn State and Miami. Because NBC did the original broadcast, you haven’t seen this game on ESPN or the Big Ten Network. This is a rare treat…
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Building Your Historical Penn State Offense? Don’t Let Recency Bias Hold You Back
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On this Twitter account was a square with pictures of 25 different players. There were five each at quarterback, running back, tight end and two rows of receivers. Every player was assigned a dollar amount from $1 to $5 and the challenge was to build an offense of 5 players with a budget of $15.
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Keeping the Faith
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Last Friday night in an eerie apocalyptic scene, Pope Francis ascended steps in an empty Saint Peter’s Square that was built to hold 300,000 people. While no one was there to hear his words, they were spoken to a city and world in need of inspiration.
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Pandemic Poses Huge Challenge for College Town Economies Already Facing Changing Dynamics
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The coronavirus pandemic and subsequent shutdown will hit our local economy very hard, and there is no way to know just yet when it will end. But is the near-term pandemic damage just a harbinger of change in the economics of higher education and for college towns? In State College it is a big quest
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The Seeds of Penn State Basketball’s Current Success Were Sown a Year Ago
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When the poetry of the 2019-20 Penn State Basketball season is finally completed and written for future generations, it must begin with the prose of the 2018-19 season as the starting point.
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A New Year, a New Hope
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Our rescued miniature schnauzer is learning to be a family dog. After a few weeks she barked for the first time and started to play outside and wag her tail. She remains skittish at times but each day the bonds of trust pave a little more over the years of neglect.
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Dr. King’s Dream vs. 2020 Vision
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This week we observed a national holiday created to honor the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. But does our 2020 society truly honor a man who asked us to lift our eyes to the horizon and dream of unity through non-violent change?
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Now More Than Ever, Social Media Companies Must Be Held Accountable to Truth
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It should concern everyone how easily a social media lie repeated often enough gains factual equivalency. And once lies are cloaked as truth it becomes nearly impossible to tear them from the minds of people choosing to believe them. If we have no standards of truth we have lost the currency that en