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Correction to Tribute to Joe Post

January 30, 2012 Current Events

Originally, in the Tribute to Joe post, I improperly deduced that Joe Paterno had been diagnosed with cancer before his first broken pelvis incident, because of some ambiguity in Jay Paterno’s speech. My conjecture has been subjected to the keen eyes and minds of my readers, who have shown it to be false. What I [...]

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Tribute to Joe: Phil Knight Speaks His Mind

January 27, 2012 Current Events

Former Penn State head football coach, the late Joe Paterno, was memorialized on Thursday afternoon before a packed house of more than 10,000 at Bryce Jordan Center, where the Nittany Lions play basketball. The event was as emotional as we expected, but it was replete with humor, with hitherto unknown Paterno vignettes, and with one [...]

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Posnanski: Joe Didn’t Die of Broken Heart

January 24, 2012 Current Events

If Joe Paterno died of a broken heart, then I’m a 98-pound weakling. Go ahead and kick sand in my face.

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Stop SOPA

Thumbnail image for Stop SOPA January 18, 2012 Current Events

Software piracy has been going on for a long time. How many of us know someone who has an illegal copy of Photoshop or Microsoft Office? That was bad enough, but now the pirates are increasingly cutting into Hollywood’s revenues, so suddenly congress, which must have considered the computer industry a bunch of geeks, is [...]

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