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Archive for November, 2011
Friday, November 11th, 2011
Just how good are the New Orleans Saints? When they're firing on all cylinders, as good as anybody in the NFL I'd contend. But the consistency certainly is troublesome for Saints fans. How else do you explain getting blown out on the road by a previously winless St. Louis Rams ...
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Friday, November 11th, 2011
We’ve had all angles covered here on SRI regarding the child sex abuse scandal rocking the Penn State campus. After hearing the heinous allegations against Jerry Sandusky and the apparent bare minimum that Joe Paterno, Graham Spanier, Mike McQueary, Tim Curley and Gary Schultz all put fourth to protect the innocent ...
Posted in College Football, Penn State Nittany Lions | 1 Comment »
Friday, November 11th, 2011
Todd Blackledge certainly knows what it means to be a part of the Penn State family. The former quarterback was a three-year starter who led the Nittany Lions to a national championship in 1982. Like everyone else, the current ESPN analyst has been stunned by this news and says, while ...
Posted in College Football, Penn State Nittany Lions | 3 Comments »
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
The child sex abuse scandal at Penn State is heinous, it’s disgusting, and it’s something that I will never be able to forget. There are so many people guilty of not doing enough, there are so many questions that still remain, and the real story is about the children who ...
Posted in College Football, Penn State Nittany Lions | 10 Comments »
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
The Penn State scandal and Joe Paterno's firing have rocked college football and will continue to be the major story for some time. That said, on Saturday, there's still a game to be played as the Nittany Lions host the Nebraska Cornhuskers. And someone has the dubious distinction of having ...
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Thursday, November 10th, 2011
I wouldn't say that Stanford football coach David Shaw was necessarily stumping for his team here, but he certainly got in a bit of a dig on some of the other teams around the Cardinal in the national rankings. Asked about how Heisman Trophy front-runner Andrew Luck has been playing, ...
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Thursday, November 10th, 2011
Joe Paterno spent 62 years at Penn State University, he guided the Nittany Lions to 409 wins, and the Big Ten Championship Trophy has his name on it. Yet Joe Paterno’s legacy is forever tarnished and his squeaky clean image that was built on “honor” will forever be stained. Paterno ...
Posted in College Football, Penn State Nittany Lions | 7 Comments »
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
Something has gotta give on Thursday Night Football. The Oakland Raiders come into San Diego with a two-game losing streak while the Chargers have a three game losing skid of their own to snap. With identical 4-4 records at the halfway point of their respective seasons, Oakland and San Diego ...
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Thursday, November 10th, 2011
The last few times we've gone through the painstaking challenge of first being able to just understand what Mike Tyson is saying, and then transcribing it, the conversation was much more light hearted and easy-going. In the wake of Smokin' Joe Frazier's death this week, Tyson is a bit more ...
Posted in Boxing, Mike Tyson | 2 Comments »
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
We've heard from former players, colleagues and other relevant folks as the sex scandal rocking the Penn State campus has unfolded rapidly this week. Let's turn now to a Penn State professor, Malcolm Moran, a former sports reporter for Newsday and the New York Times who is now the Knight ...
Posted in College Football, Penn State Nittany Lions | 1 Comment »