Do you talk with your mouth full?

Apparently Joe Paterno does.
He did it yesterday at his spring practice press conference.

I saw the footage on sportscenter. If I find it, I'll post the video for you to see with your own eyes.

It was embarrassing.
An 81 year old man, talking to the media, eating food, talking with food in house mouth.
It was just plain old bad manners.

Now some of you are thinking, .
Fair enough, I don't claim to be Mr. Manners.

But if you're at a press conference, representing Penn State, do you really eat during it?
I mean, come on, this is just plain ridiculous.

For more detailed recap, of what was said, (in a rather cavalier attitude, I might add), read the Pittsburgh Post Gazette's recap here.

Tim Curley, what are you doing?

ESPN just reported that Ohio State has signed a home and home with Tennessee.

While Penn State has upcoming OOC games with UVA, Syracuse, and Alabama, check out who Brutus has on the upcoming schedule (in addition to UT):


2008/2009 - USC

2010/2011 - Miami

2012/2013 - Cal'

2014/2015 - VT

2016/2017 - Oklahoma

Tim Curley, what are you doing? Is Andy Geiger (OSU's AD) really that much better than you? Is he really that much better at putting a deal together?

Corky's son goes wild

Patrick Roy's son Jonathan decides that he has to apply the beatdown in a hockey brawl. It's pretty obvious that the other goalie isn't really interested in fighting, so I'm not really sure what Corky Jr. was thinking.

No matter what he was thinking, he really doesn't show any mercy to the guy that he pummels:

Ron Cook hits the nail on the head

Ron Cook wrote an article today that pretty much hits the nail on the head with respect to the Paterno contract situation, and the Terrell Pryor ramifications.

I pretty much agree with the entire article.

Dennis Dodd weighs on the JoePa contract situation

Dennnis Dodd throws out his opinion on the JoePa contract situation. I found this paragraph the most interesting:

What complicates matters is that Paterno, at least publicly, still is sharp. He stunned the recruiting world by basically getting No. 1 prospect Terrelle Pryor to delay his decision past signing day. But Pryor's high school coach Ray Reitz rocked some worlds himself recently when he said if assistant Tom Bradley were the head coach, the player would have signed with Penn State by now.

I have a feeling that this will end in e)

Long time, no Stella update

Just got back from a work trip to LA. It was a seminar conference that Dreama and I wanted to attend, so with "Grangela" living only 6 miles from the seminar location, we thought we would take advantage of the free babysitter.

Things went great the Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Uncle Brandon arrived on Saturday, we had a nice steak dinner, and Stella stayed up late (too late, until about 9:30pm) so Grangela could show her off to some friends.

Lack a sleep made for a grizzly baby, and on Sunday, Stella endured a pretty big meltdown.
Upon return to Vancouver (after receiving some nice abuse from United Airlines for having the audacity of traveling with a baby), Stella seems to be back to her normal self.

I think that she was going through withdrawal from not getting watch any hockey or soccer while in LA. Look at how happy she was today, getting to watch the Champions League game with her Grandad and his Italian friend Alberto, who was choked to see Inter Milan get knocked out.



Four English teams in the final 8 again. Too bad that the National team stinks.

Beano weighs in JoePa

Click here to listen to the latest ESPN podcast featuring Ivan Maisel and Beano Cook.
Beano tells us what he hears is going to happen with JVP's short term situation, based on a conversation with Neil Rudel of the Altoona Mirror.

The Dreama Scenario at PSU

Well, according to our buddies at LaschOut, there was a Bill Cowher sighting in State College this past weekend.

Many have asked me, in the past few years, who would be my #1 choice to take over for JVP. I had always replied "Bill Cowher", and, inevitably, the follow up question would always be "Okay, who REALISTICALLY do you want to be PSU's next head coach", as if landing Bill Cowher was a total longshot.

Well, who really knows why Cowher was in State College this past weekend.
What we do know about Bill Cowher is:

1. He really wants to enjoy his family life and his teenage girls in HS/college
2. He would have all of PA on lockdown, from a recruiting perspective
3. He already has a ton of cash in the bank, so does he really need a huge multi million dollar contract to keep him happy?>
4. If his daughter does attend PSU, as is suggested by some of the comments in the post, then wouldn't being head coach at PSU be a nice way to stay close to the family.
5. Being a college coach is a heck of a lot less stressful than an NFL head coach.

Maybe I'm dreaming, but all of a sudden, the Cowher to PSU fantasy doesn't seem to be as much of a long shot.