The NCAA is a small, private nonprofit corporation. They only have control over member schools according to the bylaws they have laid out. None of these deal with criminal charges, and indeed, the NCAA is woefully unequipped to deal with criminal cases. They have no business and indeed, no right conflating criminal…

I think you are being a bit harsh honestly. I remember in November 2002, when I went down for one of the huge protests of the impending Iraq invasion, Susan Sarandon was the only big name lending their voice to the movement (that day at least). She gave a great speech and was clearly knowledgeable about the BS…

I used to read Grantland and thought Bill Simmons was a perfectly fine sports/culture talking head because he didn’t seem to take his role all that terribly seriously. At some point, toward the end of his time at ESPN, it became more and more clear that he thought he was just about the most important and loved guy in…

Dates back to the Great Depression - most of the state/country was not doing well of course, but The Valley Between Bald Eagle Ridge and Tussey Mountain was doing pretty well (state funding for PSU) so they abandoned the previous cumbersome moniker.

Fantastic article. I grew up in Trump town in central PA (dead factory, 95%+ white, etc), left for ten years for college, grad school and whatnot. I recently moved back to reconnect here while I figure out what I want to be when I grow up (haha).

As someone who grew up a non-Yinzer in an awful Black’n’Gold-tinted, trashy white people infested, central-PA hicktown, I learned a long time ago to recognize the condescending “Bless Your Heart”-esque nature of Stillersfans generously informing everybody that they don’t even need to brag about all their effing rings…

Looks like PA

They will need to change this next year for sure. What is to stop a team from intentionally sending a guy across early on every important field goal, purposefully making sure they get a piece of the ball but also absolutely wrecking the kicker’s legs? They will get the 5-yard offsides, sure, but the other team not…

I’ve been hanging around PSU waaaay too long, and I’ve never for a second gotten the impression that grad students are somehow higher on the ladder than undergrads. I’ve never seen this anywhere really. Grad students are the perpetual bottom-feeders of the university system, since they aren’t even paying customers. …

Ummm... all the students at PSU have access to these lawyers - one of the names on this list represented me for my (minor) legal troubles while at PSU.

Well, I sure weren’t no fancy ol football player, but when this PSU alum ran afoul of the law in Happy Valley, I made the call to my main man, Tony “Naked Tony” DeBoef. Great lawyer. Called Naked Tony because he always ran the 5ks in naught but a tiny pair of shorts.

Sorry to have to correct you, but Foles’ transcendent year was under Kelly. Not saying he can’t do well with Reid - I’m an Eagles fan and will always think highly of Reid’s handling of QBs - but he was middling in limited action in his rookie year after Reid drafted him.

And you’re also just now moving the goalposts. NONE of your originals posts in this thread mention the word “title” once.

And how is the title poor? They present data backing up the claim, tho I would argue “terrible” is probably dramatizing things a bit.

Ummm.... shit products succeed all the time because of marketing, buddy. Think of bottled water (less pure than most municipalities), multivitamins (zero evidence of any health benefits unless you have a scurvy issue) or whey protein.

What is meaningful in the article is that they (1) had a hypothesis, and (2) collected data regarding that hypothesis, and finally (3) decided whether the data did or did not support the hypothesis (in this case, yes it did - they rejected the null hypothesis of “there is no difference in customer experience for uber…

As a PSU alumnus (and State College local), I was about to call you mean names for disparaging Happy Valley. And then I remembered that, less than 36 hrs ago, 1000s of drunk morons tore down light poles, set fires and tried to flip cop cars over because..... football game.

It is only wrong because technically, it’s not “never”. This does happen rarely, and it is largely condemned (think Nixon’s enemy list).

As soon as he drew his gun on them on public property and attempted to detain them (by his own account), it becomes felony kidnapping. I believe that, in Florida, gunning your car at somebody threatening you with deadly force would be covered under Stand Your Ground.

“He cared about his players going to class and graduating” - this is the crux of it really. Joe was known and revered for pushing his players to excel in the classroom more so than on the field.