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Movies help gear up for high school football season

August 29, 2008

Some of life’s great lessons can be learned, not in victory, but in defeat. If someone asks you what is the single most important thing about sports, how would you answer? Hopefully not with the word ‘‘winning.’’ The best answer, from this perspective, is really simple: To try your best. Sometimes in sports, your best isn’t good enough. The opponent is just better than you. And that’s OK. As long as you did everything you could to try to win. This is why my favorite high school football movie is ‘‘Friday Night Lights.’’ It’s based on a true story about a team from Odessa, Texas, that plays in the 1988 state championship game — and loses. It’s not that I wanted the team to lose. Like any good movie, you get to know the characters and hope the best for them, and it certainly would have been a fine film had the team won. It’s so much better, though, because it’s one of the rare sports movies where the team doesn’t find some incredible way to win at the end.

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Jay Paterno needs Clark to start, succeed

August 24, 2008

Daryll Clark should and most likely will be Penn State’s starting quarterback this season.

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A day in the life of Matt Capps

August 20, 2008

Welcome to the life of a closer, courtesy of Matt Capps.

The star of the Pirates’ bullpen, Capps will make a rehab appearance for the Curve tonight at Blair County Ballpark.

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Ups and downs: The top — and bottom — moments from the Curve season

August 17, 2008

This has been a forgettable season on the field for the Curve, but as so often happens, bad seasons typically produce more interesting story lines than good seasons do.

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JoePa, PSU exposed by ESPN

July 28, 2008

Sunday morning was not Joe Paterno’s finest hour, or half hour as it were.

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Some PSU alums regret bowl decision in ’69

July 20, 2008

Joe Paterno had to wait a long time for his first national championship, and some of his former players regret a decision they made that cost Penn State a shot at the title in 1969.

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