Columns
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Ivan Maisel’s New Memoir Is a Gift and a Lesson for All
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The respected and talented college football writer Ivan Maisel this week released a book that is a gift and a lesson for all of us. “I Keep Trying to Catch His Eye: A Memoir of Loss, Grief and Love” recounts the loss of Ivan’s son Max to suicide in February of 2015 and the path…
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After 52 Years in Prison, He Wakes Up Smiling
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Irvin Moore is living in his first apartment and working his first job. Someday, if he can save enough money, he hopes to buy his first car. Irvin Moore is 75. At 22, he killed a man who sold him bad heroin. So at the age when he might have gotten that first job, apartment…
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Coloring Outside the Lines
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This column will probably make every HR person, risk management professional and compliant “C” person from the DiSC behavior self-assessment cringe. It will, however, make “movers and shakers” and “disruptors” smile. Why? Because we are going to chat about folks who like to “color outside the lines” and why those of us who do, or…
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Why Penn State Football’s Loss to Illinois Stung So Much
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This could be why so many people are not cutting Coach James Franklin much slack after Penn State’s nine overtime loss to Illinois on Saturday: Penn State was a 24-point favorite. Illinois entered the game with a 2-5 record. And in the lead-up to the game even first-year Illini Bret Bielema said many of his…
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Where Are All the Workers?
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The rumors were the labor market was suffering from a shortage of workers because of the additional unemployment compensation paid due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Extended unemployment benefits ended for everyone on Sept. 5, 2021, so economists and others believed the labor market would rebound after the extra $300 a week expired. Schools were back…
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Penn State Football in No Rush to Get Running Game Going
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When it comes to a 100-yard rusher — the coveted century mark that has been a signature stat in football for over a century — Penn State is ofer-2021. Penn State’s running game has mostly stalled since Journey Brown busted out for 202 yards and two TDs against Memphis in the 2019 Cotton Bowl. In…
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Information Tactics Used to Battle COVID Could Help Against Heart Disease, Too
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For the last 18 months one of the least desirable jobs in journalism has belonged to Geoff Rushton, the editor of this website. Seven days a week he creates the article on this site that reports the number of COVID cases that Centre County and Pennsylvania added the previous day. He updates the graphic with…
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Penn State Football: Meanwhile, in Southern California…
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With the 2021 college football season at its halfway point, the coaching carousel is starting to spin faster. And State College is part of that circus — at least among the national media. It was reported on Sunday that LSU and Ed Orgeron have agreed to part ways after this season. That means two of…
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College Football Needs to Tighten Game Lengths
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During another lengthy TV timeout at Beaver Stadium in the third quarter of the Penn State-Auburn game, a friend commented on how games seemed to be getting longer and longer. Obviously college football still has four 15-minute quarters but it certainly seemed to be taking longer to play the games. There can never be enough…
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After Two Years, a Father-Son Reunion
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Don’t kill Dad. That’s what Sylvie told Ethan on the eve of my trip to Utah. It wasn’t out-and-out patricide my daughter was worried about, but an excess of derring-do. The centerpiece of our last father-son outing was the steep, narrow trail to Angel’s Landing in Zion National Park – the scariest hike I’ve ever…