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Penn State Football: Ranking the Coaches as Players. Who is No. 1?
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Which Penn State football coach was the best college football player? We rank them, No. 1 through 11
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A Lesson in Growth for Pennsylvania from the Beehive State
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The U.S. Census Bureau recently released initial data from the 2020 census count. As of April 1, 2020 the population of the United States of America was 331,449,281, a 7.4% increase from 2010. On a local basis this is good news for those folks in Happy Valley who are adverse to growth and want our…
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Penn State Athletics: Barbour Opens the Door to Adding a Women’s Varsity Sport. Could it Be Crew or Rugby?
in Columns, Local & Penn State Sports, Local News, Penn State Sports, Penn State Wrestling, Sports News—
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Sandy Barbour, the head of Penn State intercollegiate athletics, said she is open to the possibility of the university adding an additional women’s varsity sports team. The revelation came during her Zoom press conference on Saturday, after I asked her about the athletic program’s challenge — and legal responsibility — of meeting its Title IX…
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Two Weeks from Penn State Football and a Season of Emotions
in Columns, Latest Penn State News, Local & Penn State Sports, Local News, Penn State, Penn State Football, Penn State Sports, State College—
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Despite all the excitement, it’s not going to be an easy year. For James Franklin it’s something he contemplates as we make our way past Beaver Stadium on a walk across campus earlier this summer. People might buy tickets, there’s little doubt about that – but will they show up? Franklin quips that someone is…
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Reason for Not Requiring Vaccinations? Penn State Would Rather Not Say
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When an organization offers a non-explanation as an explanation, you can’t help suspecting that it doesn’t want you to know the real explanation, probably because it’s embarrassing. For the past week, I’ve been trying to get someone to answer a simple question: Why no COVID vaccine requirement at Penn State? Hundreds of universities across the…
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‘Things Will Be Great When You’re Downtown’
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So go downtown/Things will be great when you’re downtownNo finer place for sure, downtown/Everything’s waiting for you!-“Downtown,” written by Tony Hatch and performed by Petula Clark, 1964 British songwriter and producer Tony Hatch was inspired to write his international No. 1 hit song after visiting New York City for the first time. While no one will ever confuse…
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As Sandy Barbour Begins Year 8 at Penn State, She Talks Conference Expansion & Media Rights
in Columns, Local & Penn State Sports, Local News, Penn State, Penn State Football, Penn State Sports—
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Sandy Barbour recently began her eighth year as head of Penn State intercollegiate athletics — she was hired on July 26, 2014 — with little fanfare. Penn State’s vice president for intercollegiate athletics, Barbour has largely been the under-the-media-radar in 2021. Not that there isn’t plenty to talk about in what has been an unprecedented…
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Stephen Barnes Is Circling the Globe to Create an International Family at Penn State Law
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Who would do it if Stephen Barnes would not? Who else would travel the world, directly touching 25 nations as Penn State Law’s assistant dean for graduate and international programs? Who else but Stephen Barnes would constantly trick his body to overcome jet lag? (Barnes has collected 271 airline boarding passes during six years in…
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Big, Hoofed Animals Help Little Falcons at Spring Mills Farms
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SPRING MILLS — Four years ago, two falcon nest boxes were installed on Windermere Farm owned by the Allebach family in Spring Mills. Within weeks, the smallest falcon — the American kestrel — moved into both boxes to lay eggs and, two months later, produce seven new falcons to fly off and make their own…
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Penn State Should Rethink Football Mobile Ticketing Policy
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Along with probably tens of thousands of other Nittany Lion football ticketholders, I received a momentous email from Penn State Athletics at a little after 5 p.m. last Wednesday. It was an email that continued the process of what many of us hope is a return to hanging out in Beaver Stadium with 107,000 of…