Sunday Musings

There's a bit of flak over Nickleback playing with the Lions on Thanksgiving Day, less than that of Tia Tequilla and David Bowie playing during their Bi Week festivities today. I'm not sure what the flak is over; I'm all in favor of adding to the secondary, which is one of the Lions weak points.

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On a more somber note, JoePa's longtime defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky, has been busted for child molestation, charged with sexually abusing a half-dozen boys over the better part of a decade; Sandusky is now persona non grata on campus. Penn State AD's is up on perjury charges for covering at least one incident up a la Jim Tressell, except that illicit tattoos aren't a felony and hold the legal requirement of reporting them. Paterno is not part of the case, as he did report the one abuse case he was aware of.

Sandusky had retired back in 1999, but was part of the campus community and used the facilities to run football camps, which gives a would-be abuser access to a lot of nice-looking athletic boys to work with.

One only wonders how many alumni of Linebacker U got the same treatment from Sandusky, or if he was only interested in middle-school aged kids like some priests (and others, to be fair to the Catholic Church) we've seen in the last decade.

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I'm not a Washington Times guy, but I appreciate this Wesley Pruden piece on Herman Cain. We're a week into the current harassment mess, and we've yet to see Cain be accused of anything coherent. If someone came forward to say that he complemented someone on part of their anatomy in a crude way and spelled out exactly what was said, that would be one thing, but you can say "I'm going to church tonight" and make some people uncomfortable.

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Have we seen the last of the NBA? It leave a bit of a hole in the sports calendar, as only hockey fills in the weekday spots now that baseball is done and college basketball is still a few days off from kicking off, unless Tuesday MAC games get you juiced.

Some semi-organized barnstorming, or some sort of ad-hoc league could emerge. During the summer, you had all-star teams from various summer leagues going up against each other. An organized circuit of such teams could prove to be a viable alternative to the NBA; if properly marketed and given a good TV contract, it could make the players involved a good living, and might even build to near-NBA levels once things matured.

Comments

[Alan]

To the barnstorming, the players are not that mature.
To the charges: Sandusky: Paterno got him out on allegations and in so doing took himself out of fact finding. Paterno cleared, AD not.
Cain: If there was truth it would out in specifics with dates and with NAMES! The lack of both say one thing, NOT GUILTY

[Alan]

One day after, finally a woman comes out where she can be checked out. She supposedly is a Reoublican, but has a Chapter 7 banrupcy on her past.

[Alan]

In two days we find out JoePa knew more than we thought, so his resignation fits, he was also fired for the rest of the season, no word on McQueary . He is being scoriated in spite of reporting it up, attending a meeting including the president and the effective head of the Campus Police(Schultz) and being told Sandusky lost his keys and had been dealt with, all in 2002 March. The sportscasters roped him and said should not coach, but what did he do wrong other than prevent a perp(Sandusky) from changing his story that night to remove McQeary and obscure the truth, which Sandusky would have done. No official word from the Board on him, the firings were unanimous, so he was not even a subject of the meeting lest they would have announced that too.