Jay Paterno
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State High Football 2022: Someday, the 13 Will Outweigh the 1
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State College Area High School’s undefeated football season came to an end on Dec. 3 with a loss to Harrisburg in the state semifinals. As the senior players walked around the field after the game, for most of them the realization that this will be the last football game they played began to take hold.…
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Building a Team vs. Building a Program
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In the current age of college football there has been a lot of talk about the transfer portal, NIL and a world where every player is a free agent available to the highest bidder. That has created varying approaches for coaches to build rosters and teams. It has taken on the look of Major League…
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We Cannot Let the Seed of Hate and Discord Take Root
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Seventy-seven years ago this week, my grandfather Angelo Lafayette Paterno stood up in a ballroom in New York City to give a short speech promoting religious and racial unity. It makes me immensely proud to know my grandfather in 1945 was a man speaking for diversity and equality, for a cause whose time had not…
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New Co-Host Leads to the Ultimate Interview Guest List
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Last year I helped co-create the weekly Penn State football show “Nittany Game Week,” so you can imagine my surprise when I found out last week that I am being replaced. Yes, it appears that the show I helped start with Todd Sadowski from FOX 43 in York and my old Penn State colleague Tom…
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College Football: Massive Change Now Highlights Challenges for Universities
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Universities playing major college sports have rapidly hit the point where the numbers have become so big, the dollars so high, that schools need to admit that the current model is no longer representative of the old amateur athletics model. These universities are in the sports entertainment business. And the most important talents in that…
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A Passion for College Football Rooted in Tradition and Memories
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Each year as college football begins again, we are reminded of a love rooted in tradition and childhood memories forged across decades. The first cool late August morning gets our attention. It makes us think of fall Saturdays. I was almost 5 years old with my bleacher ticket in hand headed into that first game.…
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Fall Semester Returns, Welcoming the Latest Chapter of Storied Legacy
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The quiet of summertime in State College is but a few hours from being jetted into hyperspeed as the students return for the fall semester. After two long years of COVID protocols, social distancing and hybrid/remote learning there is a desire for a full return to normalcy. But this fall is a time of continuing…
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The Quiet Moment After Arts Fest Is Bittersweet
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Monday after Arts Fest concluded here in State College, I drove down College Avenue in the early morning. Outside of one small business an employee was busy hosing down the sidewalk. On Allen Street, I could see the backhoes and workers starting to dismantle the temporary landscaping and stages that had been set up for…
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Things I Love About America
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With the Fourth of July just having passed, it is time for a more light-hearted look at things to love about America. So here is a partial list of things I love about America in no particular order… Start with Food: Coca-Cola: Not Diet Coke or Coke Zero, no cans, no plastic bottles. Ice cold…
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January 6 Hearings Shine a Light on the ‘Vast Carelessness’ of Powerful People
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” – From F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” In the novel “The Great…