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3 years

James Franklin has twice said in his current zoom conference call, when asked about distraction of his future being in the news, that his focus is on Illinois. The next opponent is Ohio State, but, hey…

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@HeartlandSignal Typical towel boy for Trump.

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@JoJoFromJerz 60 Minutes has a long history of profiling the twisted and evil. Mike Wallace interviewed dictators (Ayatollah Khomeini, Vladimir Putin, Jiang Zemin) and murderous mobsters (Mickey Cohen, Jimmy Frattiano). It’s not the subject, it’s the questions. Let’s see how Stahl did first.

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I know Steve Schmidt is responsible for some bad decisions as a political operative. He can be volatile and reckless. But he’s owned up to some mistakes. And he speaks for me here. I wish a centrist third party was viable. What if we had a Lincoln Party? Are there enough of us?

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I meant it

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Photo by NOAA’s Mike Coniglio on Monday in Imperial, NE.

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The Big Ten's officials have basically told Iowa communications personnel that the Freiermuth overturn was a "judgment call" and that's that. No explanation of how the process toward the decision was made and none will be forthcoming.

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@jacknicklaus I’ve had to listen to this guy’s gibberish my whole life. We went to the same high school. What he knows about is... golf. Hard to find a more prosaic and simpleminded person who’s had a greater opportunity to understand the larger world and yet grasps only his tiny sliver of it.

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That was a really, really high-level ballgame. And PSU played at max. Just couldn't quite make enough shots. All credit to Texas. What a good, fundamentally sound team. And what a wonderful season for PS. You can be sad at this defeat but not mad. Lions played to end of season.

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1 year

Am told by reliable source, Micah Shrewsberry now in talks with Notre Dame. I believe Penn State made its pitch. Whatever is going to happen, stay or go, will happen soon.

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5 years

No idea how you overturn that Freiermuth TD call. The replay official is Tom Kissinger. Can't explain what he thought he saw. We are now working on assigning a pool reporter to ask the officiating crew how they came about the decision, referee O'Neill, Kissinger or combo.

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3 years

what a damn football game. Top 5 ever for me.

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5 years

Just to reiterate: A Penn State media relations rep told reporters in press box midway through the 3Q that McSorley had a broken foot. So, if he indeed does, this is a legendary performance.

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@AmericanAir @sportsiren (AI wrote this response.)

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At NO POINT did I think Penn State was winning that game. I repeat... HOL-LEE SHIT! Historic game in program history. I am vibrating trying to type this.

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4 years

Big hire for James Franklin in snagging Kirk Ciarrocca from Minnesota. No OC dissected PSU’s defense better all season. His symbiosis with Tanner Morgan was Moorhead/McSorley stuff. And he has West Shore roots.

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6 years

Don’t you wish Gus Johnson was doing this game?

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1 year

Best intel I have at this point indicates three most likely VCU players to follow Mike Rhoades to PSU are, as prefaced on Wednesday, top-level rising-SR PG Adrian “Ace” Baldwin, plus rising-SOs 6-7 Alphonzo “Fats” Billups and 6-10 PA-native Christian Fermin.

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7 years

Penn State didn't blow the game as much as Ohio State finally decided to win it.

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1 year

So much of a draft is the organization that chooses you. It can determine so much of your development and growth. How terrific for @JalenPickett7 he was recognized by @nuggets GM and Penn State grad Calvin Booth and gets to join the reigning NBA champions.

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7 years

Joe Moorhead made Penn State football fun -- not just for the players but the fans who watched them

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8 years

Temple sign with protesters behind it: "HE TURNED HIS BACK, SO WE'LL TURN OURS."

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3 years

Would really like to know what's up with Iowa fans booing when PSU players get hurt. They think PSU players are faking to get a rest? Because Iowa's offense is not exactly hectic-paced. That's Mustipher's back-up Dvon Ellies that's down.

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2 years

Penn State’s 74-59 win @ #17 Illinois was first ever 15+ road win vs ranked B1G opponent in PSU’s 30+ seasons in the conference.

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2 months

@howardeskin If you know anything about forecasting (yeah, I know, you don’t) this was a really tough call. This is how close heavy rain has been all damn day, drenching south Jersey. It’s been raw damp and generally shitty at CBP anyway. Phillies made the right call. Friday will be gorgeous.

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2 years

Look at this scummy conman run when he tries to feign empathy and then his act isn’t bought.

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Excellent, persistent interviewing from @Stone_SkyNews . This is how it's done.

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Cincinnati, not OSU, making College Football Playoff is a sweet smirk for Ohio’s quirky corner | Jones

Cincinnati, not OSU, making College Football Playoff is a sweet smirk for Ohio’s quirky corner |...

I would know. I attended both schools back when the notion of the Bearcats reaching a college football pinnacle at the Buckeyes' expense would have been laughable.

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1 year

As I’ve been suggesting for more than a week, or pretty much since Mike Rhoades came to @PennStateMBB , PG Adrian “Ace” Baldwin, by far his best player at VCU and A10 POY, has announced he’s following his coach to PSU. That’s the first domino. Let’s see if more fall.

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4 years

I know this is something @PennStateMBB fans have never had to consider before, but your team very likely will be featured on CBS' NCAA selection committee's early-reveal show on Saturday. My old friend @jppalmCBS will be on. He's quite optimistic PSU will be among top 16 unveiled

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4 years

Occurs to me the last couple of years every time I listen to @KirkHerbstreit , at least for me, he’s entered Madden territory as a game analyst — as good as it gets. Nothing like Madden in style, mind you. Just totally professional, cogent, attentive, succinct, fun. The best.

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6 years

WHAT is Rahne doing? Why would you not just run Sanders between the tackles against a defense that's ready to raise the white flag? This is ASININE. They used :19 in 3 plays.

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4 years

I’m retweeting this half because of the kid’s remarkable story and half because of the amazing job @kevinkugler does telling it during a single short timeout.

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1 year

@JoJoFromJerz And if you can’t create a meme without an obvious syntax error, you’re probably semiliterate.

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4 years

This is the Joe Moorhead we all know and why I’ll always root for him to succeed. Beautifully and genuinely expressed... OPINION: A Joe Moorhead story you haven’t heard | |

starkvilledailynews.com | Serving Starkville, Oktibbeha County & Mississippi State University

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1 year

So there it is. Seth Lundy goes to the Hawks at #46 , completing the first time two Penn State players have been selected in one NBA Draft. Jalen Pickett earlier went to the Nuggets at #32 . Landmark moment for a rising program.

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8 months

Whenever ⁦ @JahanDotson ⁩ has joy, me too. One of the most enjoyable people to cover ever at PSU.

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JD Byers, who’s been on Mike Rhoades’ staffs at Randolph Macon, Rice and VCU for 12 yrs and had planned on joining him at PSU, has decided to instead take an opportunity he couldn’t pass up, joining staff at Virginia Tech. Byers’ wife is head volleyball coach there. 1/

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7 years

How a jaded college football columnist was redeemed when his nephew became @VT_Football QB

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5 years

1. BREAKING: Former Penn State director of athletic medicine Dr. Scott Lynch has filed a lawsuit against the university, athletic director Sandy Barbour and football coach James Franklin among others at PSU.

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@magelarocque @JoJoFromJerz She’s stupid enough not to have even grasped what was going on. She can’t see the finished product. We will see.

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1 year

@Michele_Tafoya Don’t you have a Trump rally to get to?

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1 year

@sportsiren I don’t like the poor sportsmanship of either one of them. This isn’t “confidence,” this is trashiness. Clark started it, Reese finished it, what went around came around. But I won’t be a fan of either one of them personally going forward because of it.

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6 years

I don't know how you play football anymore. Taylor was already low for the tackle. Pennix lowered his head as he approached. Ridiculous targeting call.

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3 months

@BrennaGreene_ The AD looks just how I envisioned him.

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5 years

Doesn't matter what happens from here out. PSU has fought like alley cats.

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3 years

Can't remember a game where one injury meant so much. As I've said all year, PSU cannot afford injury to #14 . You could warn Iowa fans not to get too giddy -- until you look at their team's remaining schedule. All West division plant food. OK, well, I guess live it up, farmboys.

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4 years

The number of game management gaffes by Penn State under Franklin the past few years really is astounding.

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4 years

Patterson's 6 FGs is all-time bowl record for FGs -- in any bowl.

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4 years

WHY are you spiking the ball with first-and-goal and a timeout left with 0:26? You just give away a shot at the EZ for no reason. PSU wraps up Les Miles Award for Clock Mismanagement for 2020. PS 17, MI 7, 0:15 2Q.

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3 years

Know what nobody’s talking about regarding that epic Saturday night? The officiating. I thought it was masterful during Gonzaga-UCLA. Made a generational game even better. Ron Groover, James Breeding, Jeff Anderson, take a bow.

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7 years

Enduring USC band's "Conquest" after gut-punch loss is a special slice of hell for Big Ten fans

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4 years

1. Patrick Chambers has been the subject of Penn State internal investigation for the past several months, led by PSU athletics integrity officer Robert Boland, PennLive has learned. Interviews with many former players and coaches have centered around Chambers’ treatment of them.

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4 years

Penn State busts into AP Top 25 basketball rankings for first time in 24 years: also #18 in NCAA’s first NET rankings

Penn State busts into AP Top 25 basketball poll for first time in 24 years; also #18 in NCAA’s...

The Nittany Lions (9-2) made their first appearance in the AP Top 25 since 1996 with a #23 ranking after beating #4 Maryland and Alabama last week at the Jordan Center. More important

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4 years

The rise and demise of Comcast SportsNet as told by those who worked there and loved it best

The Philadelphia-based cable sports channel had its day and then some. But, like other forms of old media, its model was knocked sideways by various online options. And its recent NBC-Universal...

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4 years

Y'know... I would've overturned it. I thought it was clear enough. But Penn State has only itself to blame. Never should've come to this.

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2 years

There is nothing — NOTHING — more rare and coveted for a college football reporter than getting to watch an entire day of games without having to work. Also, wife is visiting relatives out-of-state. 0% chance of chores or honey-dos. This is like a total solar eclipse. Nirvana.😁

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10 years

Every single word of studio analysis of Iowa win AT UNC was about UNC. So typically ESPN to feed the bigger fan base, no matter the result.

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What we now know about how to fight the delta variant of COVID | Read this. It’s totally apolitical, just the truth from a virologist who understands it.

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3 years

I’ve seen all I need to. I think the best thing Penn State can do is sign Jim Ferry. His teams played their asses off all year. They played connected, passionate basketball. Anything else is a total restart. And why?

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Penn State fans should be proud of @Goony_38 's video, no matter whether they agree with it.

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After graceless Calipari postgame interview, national % of those who want to see UK lose rises from .998 to .999.

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6 years

Still trying to process Barkley running by that WA safety who had a major angle on him. WOW.

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5 years

My conversation last evening with @JayBilas on the Fair Pay to Play Act and where major college sports are headed now...

Jay Bilas on Fair Pay To Play Act: “Only folks who have a problem with it are also yelling at kids...

The former Duke basketball player, longtime ESPN analyst and active attorney in Charlotte believes the new California state law allowing college athletes to market themselves for profit is a waters...

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2 years

It doesn’t matter what the score ends up here (it’s PU 60, PS 57 now). That Penn State has hung in against a vastly bigger and fresher Purdue team without Greg Lee and has the result in some doubt at 4:36 is amazing. Three nights of tenacity.

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Gotta also give Penn State credit for almost spotless COVID management. While other programs have had major outbreaks, PSU has lost almost nobody week-to-week. Maybe the players have remained in on season at this late date partly because they feel good about that.

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You'll never see a Penn State season like 2016, so forget the end of the Rose Bowl and appreciate it

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5 years

How does Maryland’s 22-year-old QB respond to a 59-0 rout from Penn State? Better than one 62-year-old might

How does Maryland’s 21-year-old QB respond to a 59-0 rout from Penn State? Better than one 62-yea...

Josh Jackson endured a season's worth of punishment and disappointment in Friday night's 59-0 loss to the Nittany Lions. But his old soul can handle the pain.

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@CraigRutledge @Super70sSports Yes. It was narrated by Jeremy Schaap and entitled “42-to-1”.

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2 years

@Steggy But what did Mom know that she didn’t say? And what *else* was hiding in that dresser drawer?

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@will_levis I found out when I moved to suburban Phila in 1998 that I had never really had pizza in all my 3+ decades living in the Midwest. The I-95 corridor does pizza. The rest of the country does Yum Brands.

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A tradition like no other: Ranking the coaches behind the mic at 2021 Big Ten Football Media Days, worst to first | Jones

Ranking the coaches behind the mic at 2021 Big Ten Football Media Days, worst to first | Jones

After a year away due to COVID, the Big Ten's annual dog-n-pony show to kick off the football season returned, this time on the spacious and socially-distanced floor of Lucas Oil Stadium in Indiana...

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2 years

I remember a chance airport encounter in 2004 with the father of a mightily struggling Robbie Gould (16-29 FGs, 3 missed EPs his final two PSU seasons, 2003-04). Dad said with utter confidence: “He’s gonna be fine.” I walked away thinking: Well, at least his dad believes in him.

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@Brett_McMurphy I have never once called a coach I’m interviewing “Coach.” That’s included Bob Knight, John Wooden, John Chaney, Joe Paterno, Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Steve Spurrier, Bo Schembechler, Bobby Bowden and Nick Saban. Never a complaint. But Deion Freakin Sanders demands it? Right.

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Penn State's upset of Ohio State was about James Franklin's belief and a team that believed in him

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5 years

Has anyone on this staff ever heard of ball-controlling a lead? With your best back? Who's been in the game 6 snaps?

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2 years

My Heisman ballot: 1. Bryce Young; 2. Aidan Hutchinson; 3. David Bell.

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Hey, anyone remember this?😁

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Embrace it, Penn State fans: After blitzing Purdue 88-76 at Mackey, the Lions are fighting for a Big Ten basketball title

Embrace it, Penn State fans: After blitzing Purdue 88-76 at Mackey, your Lions are fighting for a...

Again shorthanded without flu-ridden second-leading scorer Myreon Jones and missing star Lamar Stevens for most of the first half with foul trouble, the Nittany Lions bombed the Boilers with 14 treys...

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4 years

That's a really good win for PSU, the sort of game they often would not have outgutted teams for a year ago.

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6 years

None of this makes any sense. You are showing no confidence in either QB. Either McSorley is hurt or he's not. Either you want Stevens to take over to "provide a spark" (or protect McSorley as it gets ugly), or you don't. Nonsense.

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Micah Shrewsberry left Penn State for Notre Dame because Indiana means basketball and home | Jones

Micah Shrewsberry tells me why he left Penn State for Notre Dame: Indiana means basketball and home...

The Indiana native got a big boost in his basketball coaching salary. And some might question that he's making a lateral move to another "football school." But it's the pull of his home state where...

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6 years

McSorley now has 18 career games with at least 1 rush and 1 pass TD.

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How do two “football schools” treat basketball? Nebraska will pay Fred Hoiberg>3 times more than Penn State pays Pat Chambers

How do two ‘football schools’ treat basketball? Nebraska will pay Fred Hoiberg 3 times more than...

By the measuring stick of NCAA tournament wins, Nebraska (0) has even less basketball tradition than Penn State (9). But under new AD Bill Moos, it just put the Big Ten on notice that it is serious...

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7 years

This is gonna be a train wreck the rest of the way. Remember when K sent his guards crashing into anybody in red the last 5:00 vs Wisconsin?

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4 years

PSU has announced that the @PennStateMBB game tomorrow against Minnesota is a sellout, the first at the 15,261-seat Jordan Center in 9 years since 03/01/11 vs Ohio State.

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7 years

I don't understand on what grounds the interception was overturned. Did not see any replay that showed conclusively the ball hit the ground.

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Penn State leaps to #9 in AP Poll, highest ranking in program history (now #17 NET, #11 KenPom)

The Nittany LIons equalled the ranking achieved by the 1996 and 1954 teams, which finished 2nd in the Big Ten and reached the Final Four, respectively.

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Crowdsourcing time. If you are, or you know, the identity of this Penn State student being tossed from the 1993 Iowa game by Big Ten referee Sid Rodeheffer (simply for yelling something Sid didn’t like), please DM me. Preparing column on B1G basketball at Rec Hall in the ‘90s.

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Penn State Football Coach James Franklin pressured me to clear injured players to play, ousted team...

Dr. Scott Lynch claims in a lawsuit that he was removed as the football team's orthopedist for complaining about Franklin's alleged interference in medical decisions.

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The best (and worst) coaches to interview in a career chasing Big Ten football and basketball | Jones

The best (and worst) coaches to interview in a career chasing Big Ten football and basketball |...

A mailbag question inspired these dual lists of my most and least favorite coaches to talk to in three decades of covering B1G sports.

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3 years

Y'know, it's the end of a spent season. Your team is 2-5 with little to no bowl prospects -- and maybe no desire to attend one, anyway. Why not have a little fun and start flinging it downfield on 1D instead of this constant, dreary incremental sticks-to-sticks stuff?

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Can't believe what we're seeing. What this team is capable of when it gets it going from 3. I don't think any of Funk's 3s have been <24'. And the next to last one was 30' if it was an inch. Thinks they're all going in. And they've all been clean looks. PS 59, TAM 36, 11:46

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I ran into @GrantWahl once at a match in Hershey — recall nothing about who played, do recall meeting him. He acted as though we’d already been friends, fully explained answers to my rudimentary questions, then offered his cell number if I needed help in the future. I used it. 1/

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Nobody on TBS talking about Edwards maybe being out of bounds on the catch. THAT is the major question.

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7 years

My annual ranking of Big Ten football coaches at the Media Days mic

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How a high school hockey team defied politicking parents who tried to fire their beloved coach, then skated to the state title game

How a high school hockey team defied parents who tried to fire their coach, then skated to the...

Dave Hendricks had led Downingtown East to back-to-back state championships when he was abruptly dismissed in August by a club board dominated by JV parents unhappy with their sons' playing time....

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2 years

@SInow @theMMQB How self-important can this dope be? Like when his pal Trump said trying to have sex during AIDS was his Vietnam.

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Penn State’s ascent to 6th place and .500 in B1G is astounding and tribute to Rhoades’ patience | Jones

Penn State’s ascent to 6th place and .500 in B1G is astounding tribute to Rhoades’ patience | Jones

The Nittany Lions' third straight win, an 89-79 comeback victory over Iowa in which they scored 33 points in the final 9 minutes, got them back to .500 in the conference. Considering where this team...

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I saw this day coming back in December. Which is why I asked Pat Kraft if he was prepared to do what was necessary to retain Shrewsberry. He talked a good game. And returning to IN was a factor for Shrewsberry. But this is a big L for Kraft, especially after all this rhetoric:

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