Jay Paterno
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After Further Review: Like It or Not, the Super Bowl Halftime Show Was Great Art
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Super Bowl Sunday was a great day for the Eagles and their fans. But there was this other thing on Super Bowl Sunday that was almost as big: the halftime show. And like it or not, there is no denying that as artistic expression it was a work of great art. Allow me to explain……
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A Time to Remember Our History, and to Speak Out
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Monday, Jan.27, was Holocaust Remembrance Day and marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. It is a day to remember an era that represents the very worst of man’s inhumanity to man. The raids, the roundups, the deportations, the killing of millions and millions of people is a sin which marks all…
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A 12-Team Playoff History: What Might Have Been for Penn State Through the Years
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With the end of Penn State’s 16-game season amid a 12-team College Football Playoff run, it’s a good time to look back and play with what might have been for Penn State if the 12-team playoff had been the norm in the modern post-World War II era of college football. First let’s start with setting…
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The 12-Year War: When Penn State vs. Notre Dame Was the World
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Penn State vs. Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl national semifinal game… the words alone send chills along the spine of any college football fan. But for Penn State fans of a certain age, the match-up between Penn State and Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl has an extra meaning, a mystique and a nostalgia…
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The Start of One Era… The End of Another
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This weekend marks the start of a new era in major college football as a first round of home-field games will be played in the first 12-team playoff. Saturday that era’s beginning includes a game at Beaver Stadium between Penn State and SMU. This new era of playoffs, big money and big paydays are the…
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What Penn Staters Should Know About Oregon
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As Penn State gets ready to play Oregon this weekend for the Big Ten title, it is an opponent and a school that is new to Penn Staters and the conference. I made the trek out to Eugene to see the Ducks play Ohio State in October and came back with a new understanding of…
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A Sunday Hike as Winter Nears Stirs Thoughts of Joy and Sorrow
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This past Sunday the hiking trail opened to a plateau near the geographic center of this great commonwealth. In a distant mountain gap, fog sat over Bellefonte a few miles away. Gunshots pierced the silence. Down below and to my left I saw the orange vest and hat of a bird hunter. Into the open…
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The Morning After
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The world woke up as a very different place on Wednesday morning. I woke up as a white man who will be on the edge of old age when the next presidential election comes around. My rights haven’t been and likely won’t be curtailed. I won’t have to wonder if I’m being profiled. I won’t…
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Paterno: My Father Believed in Building, Not Bullying
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Jay Paterno can’t speak for what his father’s views might be on the current state of national politics, but he knows the values he believed in.
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A Quiet October
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Local residents awoke on Sunday morning to find a quieter town. Most fans had pulled out to head home after a glorious Happy Valley day of tailgating with friends and family that reminds you of how good it can be here. That quiet will be here for a while. On just the sixth day of…