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Penn State’s Paterno proves his way works – Post-GazetteA great article about Joe Paterno’s return to glory. We learn that on the day after Penn State’s final 2004 game Graham Spainer, university president, Tim Curley, athletic director, and two others came to his house to ask him to step down; Paterno was not having any [...]

For those of you keeping score, the 2005 AP Coach of the Year (Patriot-News), is 79 years old today.
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MICHAEL ROBINSON – Through his eyes – CDTQuarterback recounts Penn State’s march to Big Ten championshipIn a development that will no doubt thrill the anti-sportwriter WWN readership, Penn State senior quarterback Mike Robinson pens a column about this past football season.
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CDT: PATERNO HURT PSU FANS WITH PC ANTICS
Paterno’s actions snubbed fans, not just media – CDTRemember Joe Paterno holding players out of the press conference while I was away? Associate Editor Walt Mills does and he scolded Paterno in a recent column.

IT IS TIMES LIKE THIS THAT I MISS BOB HOPE
Remember all those Bob Hope Christmas Specials? Okay, neither do I, save for one thing — Brooke Shields and the AP All-America Football team. Actually, I could care less about Shields, but I thought it was cool that Bob would have all the first team All-Americans [...]

QB Mike Robinson finished fifth in the Heisman voting (50 Yard Lion on pennlive.com), which about where he should have been. No New York invitation though.
Paul Posluszny won the Butkus Award (CDT) for being the nation’s top linebacker, which kind of surprises me. I figured A.J. Hawk would win it because he is a senior [...]

PLAYER SHUFFLE
Bowden Heats Up the Stove – The PostDC baseball champion Tom Boswell analyzes the overall moves made by Jim Bowden this year, but does make a frightening point right up front–with no owner and a ballpark deal gone completely awry, Jim Bowden is the best thing the Nats have right now, for better or [...]

AN ANGRY JOE!
Angry Paterno trashes media- The Patriot-NewsNewsflash: JoePa doesn’t like the media! This was never more evident than yesterday when he lambasted the media. As an alum, I can’t help but love it when JoePa gets mad–but then again, it’s mostly at football games that it’s exciting to see that side of him.
Even after [...]

Coaching matchup dominates Orange Bowl hype – ESPN.comIt’s official! Penn State is going head-to-head with Florida State in the Orange Bowl! My father called me tonight to tell me the news, and personally, I was hoping for a Notre Dame matchup, but I can easily wait until September to clobber the Irish again. But truth [...]

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