Columns
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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 […]
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Ode to the Hungry Eye
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I woke up at 2:30 one morning last week feeling like I was being stabbed in the eye. I wasn’t, of course, so my next thought was that some particle […]
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Hook: Remember the Jacob Ghaners of Your World
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We’ve lived in Ferguson Township on the west side of Happy Valley for over a decade, which means that I’ve driven West College Avenue to get home many times over […]
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Paterno: The Story of a Penn State-Yankees Connection
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With Penn State headed to play a game in Yankee Stadium, let me tell you a story of an enduring Yankee/ Penn State connection. In July 1985 the USFL spring […]
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What Would You Do if You Won the Powerball?
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Like most of you, I have had that dream of what I would do if I actually won the lottery. I’m not talking about the $100 people occasionally win from […]
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Frank: The Real Reasons Behind This Season’s Football and Structural Failures
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I know that an informed citizenry counts on us newshounds to get to the bottom of things, so to the bottom of things I herewith get. Many of you remain […]