Columns
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A New Era With New Questions: What Will Be?
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Blue-White Weekend is a step to understanding what we will be at Penn State. No one can say exactly what this fall will bring, but there are a couple of certainties about what we will be.
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Matt Campbell’s Scouting Report for Penn State Football’s Blue-White Practice
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For first-year head coach Matt Campbell’s Penn State football team, the second time inside Beaver Stadium this spring will be the charm. At least when it comes to Nittany Lion […]
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Battista: The True Golf God
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“What I’m doing here at 7:30 this morning is far more important than what Scottie and I do at 1:50 this afternoon.” – Ted Scott, PGA Caddie If you’ve ever […]
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Opinion: There’s Plenty That’s Not ‘Happy’ About Our Valley’s New Casino
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So here we are. The new gambling casino at the Nittany Mall will hold its test days on April 24 and 25. If things go according to plan, the facility’s […]
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Frank: TMI Re BPH
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Meet my pal Foley. Foley and I met two weeks ago and we immediately became attached to each other. In fact, we became inseparable. Though I did not realize it […]
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Hook: The Car Line Kings
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Back in early 1999 my wife and I moved from Orlando, Fla., to Bucks County, Pa., in part so that our then 4-year-old daughter could attend school in what we, […]
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Paterno: Dangerous Times for the First Right of the First Amendment
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It’s been said that in polite society it is unwise to talk politics or religion… We’re about to test that theory. In the forests of “Penn’s Woods” springs enter streams […]
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Battista: Our Last Easter At MeeMaw and PapPap’s
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I recently wrote a column titled ”Farewell, Home Sweet Home” about my emotions surrounding my parents putting my childhood home on the market. Well, it got real, real fast last […]
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Local Historia: The Penn State Coach Behind the World Cup’s Greatest Shock
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Bill Jeffrey and the night American soccer stunned the world
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Frank: The Luftmensch’s Guide to Educational Reform
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My academic home at Penn State is the College of Communications, but at heart, I’m a humanities guy. My bachelor’s degree was in Creative Writing, the English department’s home for […]