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Penn State Has Two Historic Roadmaps for Beating Ohio State in The Horseshoe
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How difficult is Terry Smith’s job as Penn State’s interim head coach, taking his on-the-ropes 3-4 Nittany Lions to The Horseshoe to face undefeated and top-ranked Ohio State? Well, Penn […]
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An Important Voice of the Past Rises to Guide Us Once More
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Eighty years ago this week (Oct. 25, 1945) Angelo Paterno rose to speak to an audience in New York City. World War II had concluded just weeks earlier. The awful […]
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A Memorable Celebration of Life for a True Servant Leader
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It was the perfect fall weekend to travel into Happy Valley to get together with friends and family, including my two oldest children, as it was “Family Weekend” at Penn […]
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PSUPoorman’s Top 10: Intriguing Questions After Penn State’s Loss to Iowa
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IOWA CITY, IOWA — Penn State and Iowa almost always play it close. Five of their last seven games have been decided by six points or less. Including here on Saturday […]
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The Vibe in Iowa City? Nice, With Sides of ‘I Love When the Circus Comes to Town’ and ‘Penn State Is Going to Obliterate Us’
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IOWA CITY, IOWA — Iowa Nice. After spending parts of Friday inside Kinnick Stadium, walking the massive and bucolic University of Iowa riverside campus, and hanging out downtown, that’s my […]
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Willie Morse: Hall of Fame Comes Calling for State High Legend
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All sorts of commendations and congratulations will go to each person inducted into the Centre Country Sports Hall of Fame this Sunday. And that is altogether appropriate for these remarkable […]
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Penn State: What Have We Become and What Will We Be?
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“I don’t want Penn State to become the kind of a place where an 8-2 season is a tragedy. You can’t tell kids that a football loss is a tragedy. […]
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A Black Panther, a Softball Injury, Artificial Intelligence and Me
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Was it only last year that we profs were policing artificial intelligence as a newfangled form of plagiarism and buying blue books like it was 1975? Now we’re Tokyo train […]
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Hook: Reading the Signs
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So… that was a great weekend to get out of town, huh? Granted, we had plans for over a year to attend a wedding on Oct. 11 in western Maine, […]
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Op-Ed: Recognize, Respect and Respond to Climate Change
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It is dangerous not to respect your opponent. Never underestimate their capabilities. Last week, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told our top officers, “No more climate change worship.” Following on President Trump’s […]