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.
IF THERE IS a lesson to be learned from this week's elections, it's that it isn't always possible to spend your way into high office. Several multimillionaire candidates who sank sizable chunks of their personal fortunes into their campaigns were observed giving late-night concession speeches to comparatively underfunded victors.
THE NOV. 14 MEGAFIGHT between WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto (34-1, 27 KOs) and Manny Pacquiao (49-3-2, 37 KOs) is November's must-see event, but there is a wide variety of options for discerning fight fans to choose from this Saturday.
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THERE ARE TIMES, Ako Poti admits, when he gets just a bit homesick for the familiar customs, food and faces he left behind.
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MAYBE IT ALL came too soon and too easily for A.J. Wallace. When you're an instant sensation, starting out at the top, as it were, there really isn't any place to go but down.
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ONE OF THE more memorable phrases from British Prime Minister Winston Churchill came during an Oct. 1, 1939, radio broadcast about Russia, but it could just as easily be applied to the forever perplexing Bernard "The Executioner"
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TRY TO IMAGINE you've just seen "Titanic," 1993's Academy Award-winning film about the doomed luxury vessel. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet still head the cast, but they are never in any scenes together, thus no romantic sparks fly.
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TO MANY FOOTBALL players, the phrase "head games" might simply involve trash-talking at an opponent in an effort to psych him out.
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HARD TO BELIEVE, but Thursday marks the 10th anniversary of the professional boxing debut of Laila Ali, who was just 21 when she followed in her daddy Muhammad Ali's footsteps and whacked out a Denny's waitress named April Fowler in one round in Verona, N.Y. Guess you could call it a Grand Slam Special.
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PENN STATE COACH Joe Paterno is a boxing fan. He must be, because he compares his team's present circumstances to that of a fighter who, after a few easy victories over soft opposition, finally finds himself in a tough spot, hurt and on the canvas.
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IT HAS BEEN quite a metamorphosis for Penn State quarterback Daryll Clark, who in 21 months has gone from mostly runner to almost exclusively passer.
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dn The Nittany Line:
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SENIOR CORNERBACKS A.J. Wallace and Knowledge Timmons are vying for the same spot in Penn State's starting lineup, but, as individual competitions go, this one couldn't be any friendlier.
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