It's been a slow week in the Valley.
With the start of the NFL games this week, many students at Penn State have been going out to watch their favorite teams play.
A few 3rd and 4th string players from the Nittany Lions were spotted at some sports bars in downtown State College during the Steelers and Titans game. It was cool to see their love for the game.
I guess the 1st and 2nd stringers didn't want to go out that night. I'm sure that they were going over plays and strategies for the BIG game against Syracuse on Saturday.
I had recently ...
I don’t know if you’ve heard, but there’s a bit of a debate raging on a la carte television—allowing you, the cable television consumer, to pay for only the channels you’re actually interested in watching.
Consumer groups like it, because it saves the consumer money, but the cable channels don’t, because small cable channels would be more likely to find an audience if cable companies pushed them on companies.
But really, the large cable channels would be hurt more than the small ones, because channels most people find useless, like Oxygen, wouldn’t be picked, saving money for smaller channels people might have ...
You think Al Davis has got problems? How do you think it feels to have a shoe thrown your way while you are giving a speech in another country? How do you think it feels to have an elected official shout out during a press conference that can be viewed around the world?
While we demonstrate a loss of respect for each other, the international community is watching.
For example, how do you think a senior citizen feels who has accomplished an American dream, only to discover that some people of a younger generation know little about the struggle to get where ...
(This story is intended to be an inspirational tale)
Has it been eight years already?
I realize that many of my articles have a tendency to be a form of gonzo history, in which I insert myself into the bigger picture of history.
That might be because my AP History teacher (as a senior in 2001) would always tell me to see, "the forest from the trees." Later that year, I could not help but notice a single dead tree within a forest along Old San Jose Road through the Santa Cruz Mountains.
I was in New York on September 1, 2001, which is ...
Even though I walk in the valley of the shadow of death, I will not falter, for You are with me.
Psalm 23
On September 11th, 2001, four airplanes were hijacked by terrorists from the group Al Qaeda. The planes were destined for the Pentagon, either the White House or the Capitol Building, and the other two were to strike the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
Three of the planes made it to their destinations. The one heading to the White House was brought down in Pennsylvania by brave passengers.
2,993 people died that day. America was forever redefined.
One week later, a ...
The media really is a powerful tool. Not only does it expose our interests, it also has a very heavy influence on our perspective in our general lives. However, it can be abused, and very easily.
Basically, the good and the bad balance out, and as an aspiring journalist who is constantly monitoring sports press to learn tricks of the trade, I learned of its powerful influences this past week.
I am no tennis fan—as a matter of fact, I can honestly say I would watch bowling before I watched tennis—but for the past week it was all I watched.
Why? The media ...
It is a day which still replays vividly in my mind as if it happened recently. All the sights, the sounds, and moods from those 24 hours on a Tuesday, a mid-September date in 2001, are fresh and poignant.
September 11, often referred to as 9/11, was one of the darker chapters of our world's fickle history. However, nobody could have predicted that horrible chain of events on the morning of that tragic date.
Eight years ago, I woke up and began getting ready for another routine, monotonous day at Bellingham High School in southeastern Massachusetts. I was a 10th ...
Yes, never judge a book by its cover...for on Thursday it was determined that South African running champion Caster Semenya is a he. No, wait—he's a she. Actually, she's both. Man, this is confusing.
Semenya has been dogged by questions about her gender since easily winning the 800-meter gold medal last month in Berlin at the world championships. A test has since confirmed that Semenya has both sets of sexual organs.
That's right, as Ripley would say, believe it or not, this 18-year-old has both male and female organs. Yep, if someone told Semenya to go screw herself, I suppose she actually ...
South African runner Caster Semenya, 800m gold medalist at the Berlin World Athletics Championship competition, recently underwent a gender verification test after questions were raised due to her commanding win last month.
According to sources close to the investigation, the examination revealed that Semenya lacked ovaries and a womb but had internal testis and three times the normal amount of testosterone than considered normal. The final verdict circulating is that while she is female, she is not 100% female.
These results bring into question several issues. Will she be stripped of her medal, and to what extent did Athletics South Africa (ASA) know prior ...
In an article published by the Sydney Morning Herald, South African runner Caster Semenya has been said to have both male and female sex organs.
The 18-year-old runner and recent gold medal winner has been under continuous scrutiny about her gender. While having undergone numerous examinations, including blood, chromosome, and gynecological tests, the Herald reported that she is technically a hermaphrodite.
What is the next step? What is going to happen to Semenya? Is she going to be stripped of her medal from her 800m victory? Is she going to be punished? How will the IAAF handle this very delicate ...
