Jay Paterno
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Dan Rooney: A Big Life Lived Quietly
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Mr. Rooney was a man of his generation, and as more and more giants pass each day, we’d all do well to learn from their lives. Whether you knew him or not, even from a distance you could learn from him.
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Trout Season Is So Much More Than Just the Catch
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April often features the year’s most demented weather patterns as Old Man winter finally and reluctantly releases his grip on Pennsylvania’s valleys, mountains and streams. It can be 75 degrees one day and 38 and rainy the next. Or worse yet, that last snowfall arrives. April also means the official opening of trout season…
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Oh What a Night
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For Penn State Coach Guy Gadowsky, Saturday’s story began six years ago.
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The Other National Zoo Has Turned Into a Circus
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Most of my adult life I’ve tried to remain analytical and fair, but everyone has their limits. For many of us in this country, the political show in Washington has now crossed that limit.
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An Extraordinary Life Cut Short Still Offers One More Lesson
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Sometimes in life we’re blessed to meet people of the rarest quality. Sunday we lost one of those people when Darryl Hammond died at age 50. But in his life he gave us the realization that our truest measure is the impact we make on others.
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Judge Not the ‘Snowflakes’
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Older generations have always judged succeeding generations as failing to measure up to the standards that their own had to meet. Today is no different, but now we have a condescending label to lob at today’s youth: “Snowflakes.” We’ve tagged them as “special snowflakes” needing “safe places” where they can avoid “trigger words”…
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To Speak for the Dead
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Five years ago today, I stood at a podium at the Bryce Jordan Center to eulogize Joe Paterno — a husband, a father, a friend, a coach, an honest critic and a grandfather.
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There Is No Transfer of Power… We The People Will Always Hold It
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As one president prepares to leave office and another prepares to ascend next week, many people talk about the peaceful transfer of power in American politics. At every Presidential Inauguration some celebrate and others are downcast, but this year it seems to be more pronounced.
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Suing for an 8-Team College Football Playoff
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Since the start of the College Football Playoff in 2014, the four-team format has been a catalyst for endless online and in-person arguments, filling hours of talk radio and television debate. In 2016 discussion has moved toward talk of an eight-team playoff. It’s not hard to imagine litigation in
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Safe Space Nation: It’s Not Just for the Kids
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During the election and in its aftermath there has been steady criticism about “safe spaces” on college campuses. While cocooning students away from potentially offensive ideas or opinions may seem a juvenile exercise, this holiday season has taught me that “safe spaces” aren’t just for the kids. Holidays are a festive time for getting…