Jay Paterno

In 1994 I found a $15 edition of “Touchdown” written by Amos Alonzo Stagg in a New Haven used bookstore. Stagg coached the University of Chicago’s powerhouse teams from 1892 through 1932. (Chicago, a founding member of the Big Ten dropped out of the conference in 1939) Using what Stagg wrote in 1927,…

Some days, writing this column, it seems like there isn’t much to write about. This is not one of those days so let’s get right to it. Students to March for Prevention Next Wednesday September 25th Penn State students will march to prevent child sexual abuse. They are partnering with Darkness to Light…

Maybe it was because that week our media was dominated by an attention-grabbing dance at the MTV Video Music Awards involving a foam finger — a video I have yet to see and refuse to waste my brain cells viewing.

I realized that my father will never have that moment, that time on the field or before a game telling the stories of old plays, and critical moments and laughing.

If you want the market to rule college athletics then make college athletics only about the money and end the system as we know it. Forget academics and pay athletes with a salary cap in place.

Investigate the story of The Central Park Five, or Ruben Hurricane Carter or Penn State’s Rashard Casey. All of them were accused, arrested, charged and later found to have been innocent. The Central Park Five and Rubin Carter served years in prison they will never get back.

Watching an honored tradition unchanged for decades I noticed the dome of the Capitol and the Jefferson Memorial in the distance. It was not lost on me that everything across the river was only possible by the sacrifices of those resting on the quiet green hills of Arlington National Cemetery.

This debate requires discretion rather than grandstanding; it will have to err on the side of more secrecy rather than less secrecy. This is a time when we must trust in our government officials to make the right call.