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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...

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C'mon, now. We all would have been thrilled to watch Pearl's 17-16 Auburn team tear up the tourney, right?...

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So you're saying poor school districts like Aliquippa, Clairton, Steelton and Harrisburg won't be able to complete with other public schools in their...

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It's a shame. As far as undercoached, we've seen D2 coaches move up the ranks and be very successful in football and basketball. A lot of guys at the...

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Nailed it. The days of seeing star big men such as Ethan Porterfield and Dustin Sleva stay around for four years are likely over for us. And the more...

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It's not the only reason, but I'd sure say it's the biggest as they're located in an urban area that is by far the largest in Pa. And as you say the easy...

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Apparently there was a fire at a nearby electrical relay station. My borough just had a water main break about a half-block from my house. Our infrastructure...

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There are a lot of tall guys who seem to think they are three-point shooters now. Some of them actually can shoot them, some can't. Some guys don't seem...