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STONE HARBOR, N.J. — After 75 years, Henny’s in Stone Harbor was sold and closed in 2008. It was going to be knocked down and turned into a resort hotel. Well, the financing for that apparently dried up and the space reamins. Two different restaurants, Blackfish and the White Heron Grill (I think) came and [...]

Penn State Players All Worried They’re Going To Be The One Who Accidentally Kills Joe Paterno – The Onion
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“Every day we go to the field worried about which one of us will accidentally bump into Coach, cause his entire body to fall apart, and kill him,” senior defensive end Jack Crawford said. “There’s no doubt [...]

Last night, the Washington Nationals got ahead of the Chicago Cubs in the first inning, but as seems to be the case whenever they get the early lead, the lost. The bright spots: Ryan Zimmerman extended his hitting streak to 18 games and Jayson Werth homered to left. Not so brights spots: Ross Detwiler solidified [...]

After being injured in a collision with Devon Smith (who is shorter and lighter than me) Joe Paterno has been released from the hospital and cleared to return to practice (Intercollegiate Athletics). I’m sure Twitter will be ablaze with reports about whether Paterno goes to practice today. Tomorrow is Media Day, so he should be [...]

John Walton, the radio voice of the Hershey Bears got the call-up to the big club this week (Capitals Insider) — he was signed as the new radio voice of the Washington Capitals. Walton has been at the Caps top minor league affiliate for a number of seasons, several of them AHL championships and is [...]

A fairly optimistic preseason for Penn State football took a wrong turn yesterday when coach Joe Paterno was knocked over by a wide receiver, likely 5′ 7″ Devon Smith. Details are of course sketchy, but Paterno apparently has a hairline fracture in his arm and/or hip. Pelvis was initially included in the injuries. Yikes. Nate [...]

I just heard Charlie Slowes and Dave Jageler say that tonight’s Washington Nationals at Chicago Cubs game has been postponed. The make-up date is this Thursday at 2:20 EDT. Day baseball! Hopefully, WGN will have the game, but if not, trusty MLB Gameday Audio. Actually, if I can synch that up with the television, I’ll [...]

Vacation is over for me and I am getting caught up with the Washington Nationals. It seems they pretty much won every other game after that dreadful series with the Florida Marlins. I caught the finale of that series by bicycling to Nationals Park from Alexandria. It was camp day, I saw my cousin and [...]

STONE HARBOR, N.J. — Seven days on Seven Mile Island has come to an end. I’ll have a bit to say about my annual pilgrimage down the Shore, plus returning to regular coverage of the Washington Nationals and Penn State Nittany Lions. Until then though, this sums up how I feel about leaving the Jersey [...]