Bernard has been at the Philadelphia Daily News for 23 years. His primary beats are boxing, which he has covered for nearly 20 years, and Penn State football. During his career, he has served as four-term president of the Boxing Writers Association of America; received the Nat Fleischer Award from the BWAA in April 1999 for lifetime achievement; been inducted into the Pennsylvania Boxing Hall of Fame (2005), and received 63 local, state, regional and national writing and public-service awards, including two firsts and a second in the APSE (Associated Press Sports Editors) writing contest.
LYNNE CARTER remembers watching television a little more than 3 years ago, after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, and being moved by the scope of property damage and human despair inflicted upon the region by one of America's greatest natural disasters.
IF YOU COMPARED No. 6 Penn State with Wisconsin position by position, the Nittany Lions probably would receive more checkmarks for areas of superiority - with one major exception.
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FOR DECADES, the Big Ten Conference's football image was straight out of longtime Ohio State coach Woody Hayes' "3 yards and a cloud of dust" mantra. Prototypical Big Ten players were the toughest of the tough. Hard cases like Illinois' Dick But
- I HAVE NEVER seen Eddie Chambers or Kassim Ouma play basketball, but, in a sense, they are on a mission not unlike that which Kobe Bryant and LeBron James undertook in the Beijing Olympics.
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FOR SEVERAL YEARS, Joe Paterno argued that the Big Ten Conference's 12-games-in-12-weeks schedule was a torture test that did not allow an opportunity for weary student-athletes to stop and catch their breath. The Penn State coaching icon was adamant in his belief that a bye week would benefit all league teams.
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PLAYERS OF THE WEEKEND National Vanderbilt safety Ryan Hamilton had three interceptions, scored a touchdown on an interception return and helped keep host Ole Miss out of the end zone with a goal-line tackle as the surprising Commodores upset the Rebels, 23-17. Vandy is 4-0 for just the fourth time since World War II, and has vaulted into the national rankings for the first time since 1984, at No. 21.
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ONCE UPON A time, fullbacks were an integral part of many offenses. Think Bronko Nagurski, Jim Taylor, Larry Csonka ...
- SOMETIMES, the most interesting dramas in boxing are not the ones played out in the ring, but behind the scenes.
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TYLER AHRENHOLD says the first time he knew something was really wrong with him came during the summer between his eighth- and ninth-grade years. He was getting sweaty and loving it at Penn State's football camp, the closest thing to heaven that the active, athletic kid, who dreamed of playing for the Nittany Lions, could imagine.
- ON FRIDAY NIGHT, welterweight prospect Rock Allen returns to action against Gilbert Vera in Grand Prairie, Texas, which sounds more like the setting for a Louis L'Amour novel than for a professional boxing card.
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IN FOOTBALL, they say inclement weather is the great equalizer. It can be that way in life, too. Hurricanes are indiscriminate destroyers; they can submerge vast tracts of homes and businesses, or turn them into targets for falling trees and flying debris. Storm surges and howling winds play no favorites.
- IT IS ONE of the more tried-and-true formulas for making professional boxing matches. You take an aging former champion, pair him with an undefeated prospect, and bingo! It's always easy to sell experience vs.
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