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7/25 Episode of Poor Man’s PTI: No Racist Tweets

Post author By Editor
Post date July 26, 2012
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RJ and Vin discuss the NCAA sanctions against Penn State, getting kicked out of the Olympics, baseball races, and the Batman shootings.

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This week’s topics include:

Penn State punishment
Athlete kicked out of Olympics for racist tweets
Ads on NBA jerseys
Baseball talk / shutting down Strasburg.
The Batman shootings

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Tags jerry sandusky, joe paterno, MLB, NBA, Olympics, penn state, podcasts, poor man's pti, spotlight

Podcasts

7/18 Episode of Poor Man’s PTI: Looking The Other Way

Post author By Editor
Post date July 19, 2012
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Ryan and Vin discuss the death penalty for Penn State, the NFL arrest database, and which Dream Team is better.

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This week’s topics include:

Death Penalty for Penn State
Dez Bryant and the NFL arrests database
Jeremy Lin goes to Houston / Jason Kidd goes to jail
Highest paid athletes
The 92 Dream Team vs the 12 Dream Team
Who Who? The Libyans, that’s who!

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Tags dream team, jerry sandusky, joe paterno, NBA, Olympics, penn state, podcasts, poor man's pti, spotlight

College College Football

Long Live The BCS

You can thank the 1987 Fiesta Bowl. You can thank Don Myers. You can thank Sunkist. Hell, you can even thank Penn State and Miami. The highest rated game in the history of college football put the BCS on the map and controversy on the horizon.

For the past 6-8 years, teams from non-BCS conferences have started to make some noise: Utah, Boise State, BYU, Hawaii and TCU for the most part. These teams have started to match the perennial powers of college football and even win against them. These teams are so intimidating that 2 teams from non-BCS conferences were ranked in the top 6 for the first time in BCS existence. Are they deserving of such a ranking? Perhaps. And to a lot of college coaches, preseason rankings are irrelevant, and for the most part they are correct. The BCS conferences flux during the season; rarely do a handful of teams run the tables.

However, a non-BCS conference team such as this year’s Boise State and TCU are very likely to go undefeated. The competition of their respective conferences is somewhat pitiful. This means for these teams, preseason rankings are everything. Boise has a clear path to the national title game, as does TCU. No BCS conference team can say that.

Tags bcs, Boise, College Football, penn state, TCU

College Football

Penn State Class of 2009 (Offense)

Post author By kevinrmcguire
Post date February 7, 2009
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Signing day has come and gone and it is time to look at the future of Penn State’s offense. Nittany Lion fans should be happy with where the team is heading as the Class of 2009 is one of the finest Penn State has had in a while, and the offense may have the corp of a future offensive attack that will be a threat in the Big Ten.

QUARTERBACK

Kevin Newsome is already enrolled at Penn State so his story was already written before signing day. Newsome was recruited by offensive line coach Bill Kenney, swaying him away from Michigan and Virginia Tech. With the departure of Pat Devlin the addition of Newsome eased the concerns of many Penn State fans. At 6 foot 3 inches and 217 pounds Newsome is in the same mold as Daryll Clark and Michael Robinson. We all have seen the success those players have had running the offense and Penn State fans are anxious to see how Newsome does in the same offensive scheme.

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College Football

Penn State Class of 2009 (Defense/Special Teams)

Post author By kevinrmcguire
Post date February 6, 2009
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Penn State is introducing a talented recruiting class this year even without Jelani Jenkins, one of the top linebacker prospects available who chose Florida over Penn State. Penn State may not have the top caliber players for the defensive positions they need to fill but with some time to mold this could be a vastly improved unit.

While the focus of Penn State’s recruiting class was largely on offense in the class of 2009 there was still an emphasis on the secondary. Of the eleven defensive recruits Penn State is bringing in seven of them are in the defensive backfield.

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College Football

From Penn State to State Penn

Post author By alexferguson60
Post date May 3, 2008
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If there’s anyone with bigger problems in the world of college sports than Penn State’s Joe Paterno, then we’d like him or her to put their hand up.

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College Football

2007-8 Bowl Preview

Before the National Championship game on Jan 7th, there are tons of bowl games to look forward to as too much turkey and way, way too much Bud Light give you nothing but bowl games to watch on the TV. Alex Ferguson looks at the ones to pay attention to….

Tags penn state, texas arizona state

General Sports

How To Save Penn State’s 2007 Season

Post author By Blue and White
Post date September 25, 2007
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Dear Joe,

First off, I want to congratulate you on your 42nd year as head coach of Penn State and 58th overall. You have stood the test of times and even told NFL teams to look somewhere else because of your commitment to Penn State. You are the definition of class, on and off the field. You are a living legend with 366 career wins, second all time and you just happen to be at the ripe old age of 80.

Tags College Football, joepa, morelli, penn state

College Football

College Football Week 10 Thoughts

Post author By dolphinfan
Post date November 9, 2006
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Joe Pa Takes One for the Team
I’ll admit that I am not in any way a Joe Paterno. I think that, like Bobby Bowden, his best coaching days are far behind him and he is holding the Penn State football program hostage. However, whenever a 79 year old guy takes a tumble like this, has surgery the next day and still plans on being on the sideline this weekend you have to give him due credit.

Paterno’s injuries were a broken shin bone and torn knee ligaments.

Mountain Climbers
I’ve been on the West Virginia band wagon since last season. I picked them to play Ohio State in the BCS Championship game but Louisville brought all of that to a screeching halt Thursday night with their 44-34 win over the Mountaineers.

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College Football

Penn State Season Preview

Hands down, Penn State was the biggest surprise in college football last season. Outside of State College, you would be hard pressed to find anyone who thought that Penn State would be one of the top three teams in the country last season. This season Penn State, who lost a slew of starters from last season, will have to prove that last season was no fluke and their young stars can keep them at the top of the Big Ten and college football.

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