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Primarily about Penn State football, this is a tale told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

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Nittany Lions Zip Past Zipless Zips, 52-Zip

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First Opening Shutout in Over 10 Years

The #6 Penn State Nittany Lions (1-0, 0-0 Big Ten) roared back from their soporific summer, pulverizing the penurious Akron Zips (0-1, 0-0 MAC) at home in St. Joe Memorial Stadium at Beaver by a convincing score of 52-0. Convincing of precisely what, I don’t know, but hell, it ended the football drought, and that was something, already! Moreover, this win started the season with a bang, being the first opening day shutout since the Lions administered a similar shellacking to FIU (59-0) in 2007. [Read more…]

Akron Zips-a-Dee Doo Dah

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PSU hosts Akron Zips in Season Opener

Fear the RooWelcome to the 2017 season, my five loyal readers!* It’s not quite Fall, but football is in the air, anyhow, and the Akron Zips are singing songs of the south from old Disney movies we’re not allowed to watch anymore. [Read more…]

Walter P. Kubany, Central Florida Penn Stater

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Walter P. Kubany (1945-2017)
Walter P. Kubany (1945-2017)

Walt Kubany, a contemporary of this turkey at Penn State and a fellow Central Florida resident, passed away on August 2, after a long battle with cancer. He was 72.

I was Walt’s neighbor across the hall on the third floor of East Hall E (now known as McKean Hall) at Penn State during the 1964-65 academic year. Walt’s roommate was Vernon “Jake” Krause. Most of Walt’s campus life seemed to be related to ROTC and Pershing Rifles, but he was a huge Nittany Lions fan. Time and tide intervened, as did Vietnam, and I caught up with Walt perhaps 15 years ago — actually he found me via this blog. I discovered that we were once again living in close proximity to each other, now in Central Florida.

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