William World News William F. Yurasko's blog v.14 – Nats, Penn State, Redskins, greater DC , travel, more

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The Student Book Store is now selling replica signs of Happy Valley bars and landmarks. What a great idea! There are wooden replica signs of several bars, including Cafe 210 West (not pictured), Shandygaff, Adam’s Apple, The Gingerbread Man, The Darkhorse, Sharkies, The Phyrst, The Brewery and others. There are [...]

The Harrisburg, Pa. market, which includes Hershey, has been named the #1 minor league market by Sports Business Journal. It had that distinction in 2009 as well. The Harrisburg Senators AA-Eastern League baseball team are an affiliate of the Washington Nationals. The Hersey Bears are the AHL affiliate of the Washington Capitals. While the Bears, [...]

PHILADELPHIA — Prior to kickoff yesterday, the Temple Owls played the theme from “Rocky” a movie about an underdog Philadelphia boxer who goes the distance against the heavyweight champion but loses.
Temple followed that script yesterday — they went the distance, but lost in the end.
Penn State traveled to the city of brotherly love for its [...]

Yuengling brewery goes from surviving to thriving – AP/Patriot-News
Yuengling lager is the beer that is most likely to be in my refrigerator — all my friends like it (probably a little more than me) and I think they’ll enjoy the story I linked to above.
As I have said before, there is a lot to like [...]

MERCERSBURG, Pa. — I typically get in one day of skiing annually and I was concerned that was going to be too warm when I went out way back on February 12 — I thought we’d be skiing in “white mud.” Thankfully, despite 42° temperatures, the conditions at Whitetail in southern Pennsylvania were surprisingly [...]

I think the fellow who does the TollRoadsNews blog must have gotten stuck in traffic going from the Pennsylvania Turnpike to Interstate 70 recently because he has a pretty angry post up about the non-direct connection. For the unfamiliar, Breezewood is the eastern end of the I-70/76 concurrency. I-70 splits off from the Pennsylvania Turnpike [...]

Getaways: Centralia, Pa., is one smokin’ hot town – We Love DC
Local blog welovedc.com is actually promoting a trip to Centralia, Pennsylvania as a getaway. The former village sits atop a coal mine fire that has been burning since the 1960s. It is suggested as a photography destination. Yeah, I’m going to be the loyal [...]

Over the next couple of weekends, NPR is running a series called I-95: The Road Most Traveled. I-95 is the busiest interstate corridor with 100 million people living along it. I drive on about 3 miles of it every week day and have spent countless hours cruising up to New Jersey (though not much lately) [...]

Thankfully, I have been able to avoid Katy Perry’s “California Gurls.” Bliss. Anyway, I saw the following video the other day from a link on twitter — Pennsylvania Guys.

They didn’t miss much, though they mispronounced Shenandoah — its Chen-Doe. Overall, they pretty much nailed the entire state.
So, is there going to be one [...]

Yup, it was about the wings, always the wings at the State College hooters.