The storm in State College, PA is barely a week old and you don’t need to be a brilliant seer into the future to predict tumultuous times at Penn State for many days ahead. University trustees announced late Wednesday night that school president Graham Spanier and Joe Paterno, the man whose name graces, or perhaps [...]
There’s an old adage that the lacrosse community epitomizes that occasional “small world” scenario. How many times have you been in conversation with so-and-so, and that person knows so-and-so due to some degree of proximal separation, and all caused by lacrosse’s doing? Well, I can’t tell you how many times this phenomenon has unfolded before [...]
June 30, 2010 – “Oh, oh here she comes. Watch out boy, she’ll eat you up. Oh, oh here she comes, she’s a maneater…” -Hall and Oates By Norman Rey I was going to pass. It seems every time she puts down ink, I have something to say. Perhaps I am developing the same type [...]
June 11, 2010 – The dust-up between New York Post columnist Phil Mushnick and ESPN/Yankee mouthpiece Michael Kay was over Mushnick’s protectively veiled claim that Kay’s lifting of newspaper information verbatim and using it as his own was dishonest. It had to do with Mushnick being “critical” of Dave Winfield’s ESPN television analyst skills and [...]
May 28, 2010 – Two Texans will dominate the news in your future. Both have to do with performance enhancing drugs and the hubris of being placed on a pedestal for most of their lives. The only new information that will emerge is about the technology athletes go through to mask PEDs and how backward [...]
