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I am only getting to my obituary for Joe Paterno now because I wasn’t sure what I could add to the thousands of tributes already out there. I’m going to try and fill in something that I think has been overlooked. That aspect was also a little hard to find online until late last week.
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Closing Statement…for now from Jay Paterno
To the surprise of no one, Jay Paterno is leaving the Penn State Nittany Lions coaching staff by mutual agreement with new head coach Bill O’Brien. The former quarterbacks coach issued a statement on his blog which is worth reading. Nobody, probably including him, expected him to remain after his [...]

Every year, I go places and list them. The primary criteria are 1.) Having a sit-down meal 2.) spending the night in that location.
Alexandria, Va.
Arlington, Va.
Burke, Va.
Fairfax, Va.
Falls Church, Va.
Franconia, Va.
McLean, Va.
Reston, Va.
Vienna, Va.
Annapolis, Md.
Baltimore, Md.
Columbia, Md.
Crownsville, Md.
Ellicot City, Md.
Poolesville, Md.
Avalon, N.J.
Ocean City, N.J.
Stone Harbor, N.J.
Wildwood Crest, N.J.
Woodstown, N.J.
Belleville, Pa.
Burnham, Pa.
Harrisburg, Pa.
Hershey, Pa.
Hummelstown, Pa.
Lewistown, Pa.
Mercersburg, [...]

I was saddened to learn that one of my former professors, Jeanne Hall, died this past week.
Dr. Hall was a film professor — I only had her for COMM 150, the introductory film course. However, I knew her a little bit. In fact, even before I took her class, she introduced herself to me [...]

The branding of Penn State athletics (if not the whole university) is probably going to go through a major overhaul following the Jerry Sandusky scandal (just named AP’s #1 sports story of the year – pennlive.com). The familiar “chipmunk” logo may be phased out.

Twitter user @CasaNoVApsu knows what he wants in a new brand identity [...]

I think residents of the borough of State College may be rethinking their shortsighted decision to not enact a bear tax. No tax = no bear patrol.
State College police follow black bear out of downtown without incident – CDT
There he goes again, seeking out food or perhaps employment. It was barely 4 years ago that [...]

UPDATED: Maybe the story didn’t quite go down like it was originally reported:
Penn State Pools Closed Over Break To Everyone, Not Just SuePa – Onward State
So, maybe somebody pulled a fast one on the Patriot-News reporter Sara Ganim, perhaps as “revenge” for breaking the Jerry Sandusky story. We’ll see.
ORIGINAL POST:
It just gets worse at my [...]

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 [...]

A story in the Post-Gazette, Penn State Creamery is as good as it gets answers why Penn State’s Creamery ice cream is not sold off campus:
Opening ice cream stores elsewhere would force the Creamery — the largest university creamery in the nation — to compete with graduates of its own course.
And that would clash with [...]

Longtime radio broadcaster Pat Boland dies – CDT
Pat Boland, a name and voice familiar to the Penn State and State College communities succumbed to brain cancer. He was 42. I remember Boland mostly for his radio work with Phil Grosz of Blue White Illustrated and pre- and post-game of Nittany Lions games.
h/t @scrappled

UPDATED 07.06.2011
Radio reporter [...]