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Penn State football chat week 9
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Hey, Students! On Nov. 7 Attendance Is Mandatory…And I Will Be Taking Attendance – statecollege.comThe “best student section” in the nation is getting called out by Joe Battista Executive Director, Nittany Lion Club and former Icers coach. The students aren’t showing up for kickoff or even filling their section. Preach it JoeBa, preach it!

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Ask Boswell: Redskins, MLB, Nats, Caps and More – The Post“Washington Post sports columnist Thomas Boswell will be online Thursday, October 29, at 11:00 a.m. ET to take your questions about the MLB playoffs, the Redskins, the Nats, the NFL, the Caps and the latest sports news and his recent columns.”
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Baez to receive close to $75K – ESPNJose Baez, who was the Washington Nationals top instructor in the Dominican Republic prior to the Smiley Gonzales scandal won a wrongful termination suit against the team. He’ll get close to $75,000 in lost pay an severance. No comment from the Nats.
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Joe Paterno News Conference – Intercollegiate Athletics

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Up until yesterday’s Q&A with We Love DC, I was unaware of 1,001 Rules for My Unborn Son. Written by D.C. resident Walker Lamond, the blog presents rules for a male to grow up and live by with a late 1950s/early 1960s white collar urban sensibility of masculinity and style. There is a lot to [...]

GeoCities’ time has expired, Yahoo closing the site today – L.A. TimesGeoCities is officially closing today. That’s $3,000,000,000 Yahoo! probably wishes it could get back. I should have done this post as a popup with a watermark as tribute.
PREVIOUSLYGeoCities: Not dead yet, but soon – 04.24.2009
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Well that’s a relief, the last of the losing streaks from my time as an underclassman finally ends. It should not have taken this long for Penn State to win at Michigan, but it did. Hopefully, the Michigan and Ohio State demons have been purged. Now all that is left is Iowa.

I am thrilled that [...]