Jay Paterno
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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1994 Penn State Football Team Created Indelible Memories
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Speeding home Sunday on Route 322 on the first day of fall, the FM radio was tuned to a local station carrying the Steelers game. As they went to commercial […]
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Coach Walz Is Deserving of the Title
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Highlighted during vice presidential candidate Tim Walz’s introductory bio and speech at the Democratic National last week was the Minnesota governor’s career as a high school football coach. As the crowd […]