Columns
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Frank: And the Award Goes to…Me!
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María Corina Machado, Venezuela’s opposition leader and last year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, presented her prize to President Trump on Thursday during a meeting in the White House. – New […]
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Hook: After Southern Dominance, Why Northern Schools Are on Top of College Football
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For the majority of the 21st century, the south has ruled major college football. With the exception of Ohio State in ‘02 and ‘14, up until 2023, the northernmost school […]
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State High Wrestling: Coach Jason Nickal Is Bullish on the Future
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Jason Nickal may be a newer name among Centre County’s high school wrestling coaches, but for anyone with the slightest awareness of local mat endeavors, his name rings a bell. […]
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Paterno: What’s Happening in College Football Is Not a Sustainable Business Model
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“We need to find one of these really rich people in this city to step up and stroke a check and I’ll do everything I can to make you the […]
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Battista: Can I Survive The Elimination Diet?
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It’s that time of the year when we give all our good intentions to complete our New Year’s resolutions another try. I can probably say I have realistically been setting […]
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Frank: Greetings From Hellscapes of Immigrants and Couch Monsters
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I’m sitting in a coffeeshop in Portland, Oregon, on the first workday of the new year. My granddaughters have gone back to school, my daughter has gone back to work […]
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Hook: Portal Pondering
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Let’s talk about the transfer portal. Because it certainly seems like the primary topic of conversation around Happy Valley these days, doesn’t it? Which football players are leaving the Penn […]
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Paterno: Separation of Church and State Is Both American and Christian
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With the first dawn of the new year it is natural to look ahead to 2026. Much will be made of “America 250.” Many of the loudest promoters of this […]
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The Transfer Portal Opens on Friday: A Penn State Football Primer
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The NCAA calls it “the notification-of-transfer period,” when student-athletes officially inform their school, and hence, the NCAA that they are interested in changing schools. We all know it as the […]
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A Battista Family Christmas Vacation
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The holidays really are among the best times of the year for our family. Although, there is a certain amount of stress involved in coordinating our travel plans from South […]