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I can't speak for black people, but I think the old Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben depictions were stereotypical in a way that was uncomfortable for many of...

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If you have time for some sympathetic thoughts this week, please save a few of them for former Millersville head football coach and Ship assistant football...

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As I posted somewhere on the basketball site, one of our great-granddaughters (yeah, I'm old) is a standout basketball player who will be going into eighth...

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"The idea of playing at the Yinzer Stadium is neat, but it's hard to get past 800 people in a 63,000-seat stadium. It's like a Cal basketball game."...

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Pa. geography can be a nightmare for some programs, whether small or large. State College is playing in the Mid-Penn against mostly Harrisburg area schools...

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That is a good point. What is good for one school should be good for another in the same situation....

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I don't know what league Southern Columbia is playing in now, but if the member schools believe something shady is going on they need to provide the basis...

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The vote in the state House would seem to indicate quite a few people find the present system unsatisfying....

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You'll have a true public champion and a true private champion. You can't have a true overall champion when some participants are playing by different...

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LOL. Sorry if I wasn't strong enough on it for you. Cynical covers a lot of ground, as any reading of H.L. Mencken will show....

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If you have separate playoffs, obviously the winner of the tournament for boundary schools is the best in that category in Pa. Same with the winner of...

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Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be cynical about the process at this point....

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Well, a 178-23 bipartisan vote on anything is a level of "endorsement" almost unheard of these days. It would seem to be a strong suggestion...

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That sort of thing doesn't work nearly as well outside large urban areas, where a kid can travel to another school simply by changing his bus route. The...