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Penn State Finds Itself at a Familiar Fork in the Road: Can the Lions Find Their Way Past Ohio State?

by gordie | Oct 29, 2024 | College Football

James Franklin is in his 11th season as Penn State’s head football coach, and every one of them seems to unfold in similar fashion. Early on the Lions play The Teams They Will Beat – Bowling Green and Kent State this season, Delaware, Massachusetts, Ball State, Idaho...
Life After Football’s “Expiration Date”: How Former Oregon State Player Kesi Ah-Hoy Has Found a New Direction

Life After Football’s “Expiration Date”: How Former Oregon State Player Kesi Ah-Hoy Has Found a New Direction

by gordie | May 1, 2022 | College Football

Vacationed in Hawaii for the first time recently, with my wife and some friends. Did the luau thing, the whale-watch thing, the beach thing and the volcano thing, and one day did the Oahu thing, too. Flew there one morning from the Big Island and clambered aboard a...

How Much is Life Really Worth to a Football Coach Like Brian Kelly?

by gordie | Dec 12, 2021 | College Football

A decade ago, a governmental agency deemed a young man’s life to be worth exactly $77,500. His name was Declan Sullivan, and he had literally been lost in the machinery of big-time college football one October day in 2010. Sullivan, then a 20-year-old student...
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