Columns
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Why Penn State Football Fans Love Julian Fleming. And Vice Versa
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Whenever I post a video or story about Penn State wide receiver Julian Fleming, it gets the kind of heavy traffic that no one else on the Nittany Lion roster or coaching staff receives. I mean, you’re reading this, aren’t you? For good reason. Fleming has been a household name around Penn State football country…
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Penn State’s Offense Is an All-Time Total Success vs. Lowly Kent State
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Penn State’s offense had 718 yards against poor, poor Kent State on Saturday in Beaver Stadium, winning 56-0 after scoring a solitary first-quarter touchdown against the Golden Flashes-in-a-pan for the game’s first 15 minutes. It was the most total yardage in a single game by a Nittany Lion offense. Ever. Through 135 seasons of Penn…
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Op-Ed: Who Needs Democratically Elected Penn State Trustees Anyway?
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Now that we’re all back for another school year, it’s time to catch up on things that happened over the summer. Did you see that the Penn State Board voted to eliminate democratic trustee elections by the alumni? You might understandably have missed this, given that the board thoughtfully scheduled a special meeting right in…
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Pet-Eating Immigrants: Something Borrowed, Nothing True
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Newcomers make old-timers nervous, especially if the newcomers are different from the old-timers, whether those differences are skin-deep, culinary, linguistic, religious or cultural. When I moved to California’s Sierra Nevada foothills in the 1980s, the locals looked at “flatlanders” like me with a jaundiced eye. But nobody complained to the county supervisors about us, probably…
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1994 Penn State Title Snub Causes 2024 Anxiety
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I have a little anxiety. Thirty years ago today, Sept. 17, 1994 – which was a Saturday that year, not a Tuesday – the No. 8-ranked Penn State football team beat Iowa in Beaver Stadium by the score of 61-21. It was the Nittany Lions’ second year of playing football in the Big Ten, having…
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Penn State Football: Nick Singleton Is Back. 10 Reasons How and Why
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Welcome back, Nick Singleton. Good to see you. And great to see you go, go, go. After a somewhat desultory 2023 — save for the final three-game stretch — Singleton has returned to form as a powerful, explosive, happy and fun-to-watch running back for the eighth-ranked Nittany Lions. In two disparate victories to open 2024,…
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Happier Hours and Canned Cocktails in Pa.
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Changes to Pennsylvania liquor laws that will go into effect this month include more time for happy hours and ready-to-drink cocktails for sale at retail outlets.
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A Golden Gopher in Happy Valley
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It was a beautiful fall weekend in Happy Valley for the first home Penn State football game of the 2024 season. It was a highly anticipated weekend for the Battista family’s plan to get all five of us (six including Barkley) together for a fun time back “home” with family and friends (and to do…
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Post-Olympics, Kyle Snyder Sets His Sights on the Future
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He had a chance to become just the fourth American freestyle wrestler ever to win two Olympic gold medals. He had a chance to preserve his own remarkable string of winning a medal in 10 straight Olympic Games or World Championships. And he had the last chance to preserve his nation’s phenomenal streak of winning…
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Penn State Football After Bowling Green: Good-Byeing, Buying and Selling
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After Penn State narrowly escaped an upset at the hands of Bowling Green Saturday in its 2024 home opener in Beaver Stadium to win 34-27, Penn State has an early-season bye week coming up on its schedule. BG surprisingly led 24-20 at halftime, but the Nittany Lions emerged from a Jekyll first half to rebound…