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Penn State Football Players Say They Want a Bowl Game: Is That Guaranteed or with Duke’s Mayo?
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The Nittany Lions weigh in: O-lineman Will Fries says, “The opportunity to compete against another team and get another game in for Penn State…I would love the opportunity.” Adds QB Sean Clifford: “We want to get as many wins as we can this year.”
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Brent Pry’s Penn State Defense is Starting to Look Like Itself (But is He?)
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Penn State’s defense is starting to look like itself. After giving up a school-record 30 or more points in five consecutive games to start 2020, the Nittany Lions have yielded just 24 points in their last eight quarters — 17 vs. Michigan and 7 last week vs. Rutgers. No surprise that Penn State…
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Great Leadership Got Our Country Through Its Most Challenging Times. We Need It Again.
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For five minutes put aside personalities and political allegiance. It’s time for some truth about leadership. As COVID-19 cases explode, as the death toll mounts, look back about 11 months, and ask yourself if we were led to greatness by the leadership from our federal government.
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To the Finish Line, and Beyond
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So much for my prognosticatory powers. Before the start of Fall semester, I predicted Penn State would shut down by Oct. 1. I wasn’t being contrarian. Hardly anyone I knew expected undergraduates to heed administration warnings to “Mask Up or Pack Up.” Reports were pouring in from around the country of students…
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One Wish for the 2020 Holidays
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I don’t know about you, but I would gladly give up my own selfish wishes to help everyone to get healthy and back on their feet financially.
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Axemann Brewery: Making Customers Comfortable and Keeping the Focus on Local
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Are we really stuck at home? Is there a place we can go to have a meal or enjoy a beverage that doesn’t put us at risk? One of the many local businesses that is working hard to keep their patrons safe is Bellefonte’s new Axemann Brewery.
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Penn State Football: Will Levis’ Run at Quarterback
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For Penn State right now, where there’s a Will, there’s a way. One of the Nittany Lions’ biggest offensive strengths is Levis and his straight-ahead, coming-right-atcha battering ram runs.
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Penn State Football: The Points of Kirk Ciarrocca’s Offense
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How much of Penn State’s offense this season is Kirk Ciarrocca’s and how much of it is a Rahne/Moorhead/Franklin warmed-over pandemic casserole, thrown together under dire circumstances? We won’t know until 2021.
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In a Strange and Challenging Year, a Word of Support for Student-Athletes
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Instead of looking ahead, why don’t we look back at this past weekend to the Thanksgiving holiday to see if we had any positive experiences and thoughts?
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Penn State Football: Franklin is the Victor in Battle of the Jimmys
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Penn State’s 27-17 victory over Michigan was a salvation of sorts for James Franklin, who got his first win of 2020, while the loss put Jim Harbaugh — nearing the end of Year 6 of a seven-year deal — one step closer to leaving Ann Arbor.