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THE BIG QUESTION
Which area high school basketball teams are impressing you the most as the season starts towards the playoffs?
New Eagles' coach Chip Kelly (Associated Press file)
CHIP SHOTS
CHIP KELLY IS STILL a question mark, but Andy Reid being gone is nothing but a blessing for the Eagles. Reid won only because of Ray Rhodes' draft picks and Jim Johnson's great defenses. Good luck, Chip Kelly. Good riddance, Andy Reid.
CHIP KELLY WILL NOT SUCCEED in Philadelphia, LeSean McCoy will never put up Hall of Fame numbers, and Michael Vick will continue to get hurt. Why, you ask? The offensive line, I respond.
JEREMY ELLIOTT AND TOM FLYNN are typically representative of the central Pennsylvania sportswriter attitude: bash the guy and accentuate the negative before he even has had a chance.
WORK IN PROGRESS
I THINK IT'S RIDICULOUS to list the highest pointtotals posted by high school players in a column. Basketball is supposed to be a team game, and these "top scorers" may not even the best or most important players on their teams. You're just encouraging kids to do things to get to see their name in the paper.
#1: YOU RUN Saturday listings for TV basketball and stop at noon, and there's no paper until Sunday? #2: Give us more straight news -- I'm tired already of reading columns and opinions.
YOU JUST COULDN'T HELP yourself: You run a feature called "Penn State Numerology," and then you manage to put in a negative about a player who never even gave a commitment to Penn State. And Johnathan Walton: You can kiss my Nittany Lions. We don't need you.
WHY DIDN'T YOU RUN THE Penn National race results from Wednesday in Thursday's paper? And yet now we have plenty of room for comics and puzzles.
Penn National runs only on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday in January and February
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SUNRISE, SUNSET
TODAY THERE MAY HAVE been a first in the paper: a story about the Outdoor Classic and the Alumni Game for the Bears -- and it was entirely positive!
OUR SOCIETY AND CULTURE are beginning to crumble. Pete Rose, Bill Clinton, Jerry Sandusky, Barack Obama, Lance Armstrong, Manti Te'o: all heroes, all placed on pedestals, and they lie, lie, lie. And we still believe in them, and we still love them. Watch our society crumble.