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    RIP Lou Holtz - 89

    My father worked with Lou's brother-in-law Dan who was a very good football player growing up in eastern Ohio. Every year my dad would drive from Bucks County with Danny for a Notre Dame home game where they had sideline passes. And every year he would regale me with stories of Lou, and make my...
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    Reclassing? Reclassifying? An interesting article in today's Wall Street Journal about parents holding their straight A students back to repeat 8th

    I too was an end of year kid. At 17 I graduated high school at 6 ft, 165 lbs. and finished my freshman year at Penn State at 6' 6" and 215 lbs. Played guard on a bad high school basketball team.
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    OT: Cool math fact, about prime numbers.

    Thanks for reminding me why I was a Liberal Arts major, Jim.
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    RIP Sonny Jurgensen

    I played in a CYO All-Star basketball game in Lower Bucks County in late December 1963 or early 1964 and the Philadelphia Eagles shared our locker as they were playing a game right after us. When we walked in after our game, I saw Sonny Jurgensen sitting on the bench in nothing but his jock...
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    Need help with a cleavage issue

    Do you ever need a substitute teacher?
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    Book(s) you are currently reading.

    George Marshall: Defender of the Republic by David L. Roll He was a native son of Uniontown, PA., ranked first in his class at VMI, the Chief of Staff of the Army during WWII (there was no Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time), the first Five Star General in US history, special assistant to Truman...
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    40 Years Ago Today Challenger Exploded - Where were you?

    I had been watching the launch from my room in a Reno casino and left to meet a colleague in the lobby. The explosion happened as I was in the elevator so I arrived to see a commotion in the downstairs area to discover what had happened.
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    Diego Pavia's Official Height at Senior Bowl Significantly Shorter Than Vandy Listing

    Son was listed as 6’5” as offensive tackle at UPenn. He was really 6’7” and enjoyed the look on opponent’s defensive line when first lining up against them.
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    Grading Krafty

    No, and your ad hominem attacks contribute nothing. Kraft's decision to pull the plug when he did, and without a back up coach to announce, was the proximate cause of so many kids who would have stayed committed to Penn State during the fall to recommit resulting in a signing class of two...
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    Rob Reiner RIP

    In addition to his Dick Van Dyke work, Carl Reiner was Mel Brooks's writing partner and lifetime best friend. In addition to writing for a number of TV shows, they did the 1000 year old man skit together in the 1950s.
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    New Coaching Staff

    I just saw he is from the same Mount Union tree that Nick Siriani came from.
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    Grading Krafty

    He should also be judged on his impact on recruiting, and unfortunately it is not possible to give him less than an F.
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    What would James Franklin's Creamery flavor be called?

    Rocky Road
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    FC: Investigation Underway After Penn State Campus Building (Susan Welch LA Building) Evacuated

    When I was in grad school in the mid 1970s I lived a block away from the corner of North Allen and Park Ave near the old Business Administration Building. The neighborhood around there was constructed over many limestone caves and had been the scene of a number of large sinkholes as a...
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    Franklin s Legacy

    Franklin was able to beat the teams he was expected to beat until he couldn't. He lost this team and that was as clear to Kraft as it was to the majority of fans.,
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