The Pittsburgh Steelers, my favorite NFL team since the days of my youth in the steel city, won the sloppily played and sloppily officiated Super Bowl XL in Detroit Sunday night, beating the Seattle Seahawks 21-10. My elation over the victory was clouded by unease over the spectacle itself. Performances could have been better all around. One extreme example of the mediocrity of this Super Bowl is the poor performance of winning quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, whose quarterback rating wound up in the low 20s. At the game’s conclusion, I puzzled over who possibly could be chosen as MVP, as there were really no standout performances. Hines Ward, who had some fair to middlin’ numbers, got the nod as the stealth MVP. In any case, this was not the most entertaining of Super Bowls, in spite of my team winning. [Read more…]
My Take on the Senior Bowl
The Senior Bowl marks the absolute end of the college football season. This annual “classic” in Mobile is a showcase for college seniors to audition for the NFL. Three Penn Staters displayed their talents in this year’s edition: Tamba Hali, Anwar Phillips, and Michael Robinson. [Read more…]
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A Man’s Right to Choose
With the Alito confirmation vote close at hand, we’ve been subjected to the great abortion debate once again. This whole “a woman’s right to choose” thing has gotten on my nerves for years, but only recently have I started to think about why men can’t demand similar “rights.” I’m not talking about the sub-debate about whether a woman having an abortion should or should not be required to notifiy her husband. That’s another debate for another time. What I wish to talk about here is a man’s right to choose what he does with his body and where he puts parts of it. [Read more…]
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