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Watching the Oregon vs Oregon State game tonight flashed me back to the simpler days when bowl games were few, prestigious, and didn’t need the name of a company selling package delivery services, pizza, weed eaters, or car care to be viable.
The Oregon students were waving roses at ...
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Big changes at the top of highly visible college football programs, Turkey readers!
Earlier, we mentioned that Charlie Weis is out at Notre Dame. Now, ESPN is reporting that venerable Florida State head coach Bobby Bowden will retire at the end of this season. Details here .
Of course, ...
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Nope, you won’t see it here. This Turkey will remain above the fray. No speculation about which bowl Penn State will be going to and which opponent they will face. I’ll just harangue you with some diatribe about the BCS miasma and tell you what I’d like to see happen. No ...
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The storied head football coaching history of the University of Notre Dame is replete with legendary names such as Knute and Ara. More recently, the monikers of Fighting Irish coaches — as well as their won/lost records — have come down to earth, with a Tyrone and a Charlie taking ...
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I’ve had some correspondence with a good friend who is a long-time season ticket holder, who upgraded to Mount Nittany Club seats when they became available. He is, like many other old timers, thoroughly pissed off about the Penn State’s Athletic Department’s Beaver Stadium ...
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The Beaver Stadium season ticket morass came to the fore this week, dominating the Penn State Official Athletic Site .
This money grab in the midst of an economic recession inspires me to use the Yiddish term chutzpah, which roughly translates to, “You gotta lotta balls!”
In ...
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This will be brief due to the hour, but I wanted to express my delight that the Nittany Lions made me look like an idiot. Yeah, I predicted that they would lose, as I had given up any hope of special teams competence, and I still wasn’t comfortable with the offensive line and the ...
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Michigan State Spartans
Joe Paterno
I wish to relegate yet another hackneyed sportswriter cliche to the literary garbage can to accompany “it is what it is” and “controls one’s own destiny” in that abominable collection of shoddily written detritus. Today’s trite construct is:
“If ...
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Joe Paterno’s got me worried. He says that he’s going to go out there and show them how he did it at Brown, where he still holds the record for most yards gained on punt returns in a single day. Perhaps the Nittany Lions would be better off with Joe ...
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In an article posted last night on PennLive.com, David Jones of the Patriot-News amplifies upon the earlier report regarding the Penn State administration’s intention to charge additional fees for season ticket holders and to relocate the student section at Beaver Stadium.
Jones takes ...
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Forgive the John McEnroe rip-off quote in the headline, please. I couldn’t believe what I had read about Penn State’s plan to hit up season ticket holders for a new ongoing annual fee of up to $600 per seat. They also intend to re-purpose (I cannot stand that word, but it somehow ...
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Oh, sure, this Turkey thought that Penn State would get off to a slow start on Saturday. After all, it was a 12:00 P.M. start, and those are problematical. Furthermore, the troops had to be demoralized after the big loss at home at the behest of the Buckeyes the previous week. Indiana, in the ...
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Indiana Hoosiers
Troubled former Nittany Lion and Kansas City Chief running back Larry Johnson has a new home, and it will be with Carson Palmer, Chad Ochocinco, and the rest of the AFC North leading Cincinnati Bengals. After his expected signing, he will be relegated to the fourth string and will be paid the ...
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Cincinnati Bearcats
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Two more big games to go. Yeah, on paper, the opponents look pretty sappy and I know you’re feeling a letdown after the crappy performance against Ohio State. Sappy and crappy are not a great combination, but there are lots of reasons to stick around and watch the Nittany Lions play ...
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Todd over at The Lion’s Den has taken a list of NCAA head coaches’ salaries published by USA Today a step forward by calculating the cost of each win this year. This academic exercise reveals that Penn State and Pitt are getting head coaching bargains. I guess we already knew ...
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Troubled and troublesome former Nittany Lion and two-time Pro Bowl running back Larry Johnson, Jr. is no longer a member of the Kansas City Chiefs as of today, reports Adam Schefter of ESPN. This is his first day back from a two-week suspension.
In a tersely worded statement Monday, the ...
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Iowa was a pretender. Penn State was a pretender. They both went down today, while Ohio State showed that they can play football.
This Turkey had nagging suspicions each time he sat down to preview a game this season, suspicions that Penn State had not yet played a decent football team. That ...
