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Mike Kern will turn 49 in April. Born in Holmesburg, he has lived in Northeast Philly all his life, and now lives in Torresdale. Went to Lincoln High School, then Temple University. Came to the DN almost right out of college, started as part-time clerk, graduated to full-time clerk, promoted to sports writer on Feb. 1, 1982, when the Bulletin folded and the DN started covering suburban high school sports. That was my beat for five-six years. I began covering the colleges at that point. In 1991 I also took over the golf beat. Have been the national college football writer since 1993. Have won numerous national writing awards for golf and basketball, for stories on Tiger Woods and John Chaney, mostly. Was the Pa. Sports Writer of the Year in 2003. Became a member of Lincoln's Wall of Honor that same year. Was president of the Phila. Sports Writers Association for two years. Married for 24 years, he has a daughter, 23, and son, 21, both seniors at Temple.
 
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Posted 11/19/2009
WHERE'S THE BEEF? For the most part, it's been that kind of season. Things obviously could change in the closing weeks, but right now it looks sort of like 2005, when Texas and Southern Cal seemed destined to face each other from the jump. Only this time it's Texas and whoever gets out of the SEC.
 
Penn State's Quarless sees effort pay off
 
Villanova earns high marks for graduating athletes
 
Michigan State looms large in Penn State's BCS bowl future
Posted 11/16/2009
Players of the Weekend National Former walk-on Devin Barclay, who played with four teams in Major League Soccer from 2001-05, kicked a 39-yard field goal in overtime to give Ohio State a 27-24 win over visiting Iowa and a trip to the Rose Bowl. At 26, he's the oldest player on his team, and had been the backup until Aaron Pettrey was injured 2 weeks ago.
If Notre Dame loses at Pitt this week, the Irish would be 35-25 under Charlie Weis. Which, as irony would have it, is the same record Bob Davies had when he was fired after the 2001 season, his fifth.
PLAYERS OF THE WEEKEND National Matt Hogan kicked a 51-yard field goal as time expired to give Houston a 46-45 win over Tulsa. Before that, he hadn't made one longer than 34.
TODAY'S QUESTION, class, is: Can Southern Cal's loss at Oregon have any effect on Penn State getting into a BCS bowl?
PLAYERS OF THE WEEKEND National Case Keenum threw for a career-best 559 yards and five touchdowns, the last a 28-yarder to Patrick Edwards with 21 seconds remaining, to lead Houston past Southern Mississippi, 50-43.
Critical weekend for two teams with national title visions. Actually they're all critical, when you're dealing with what amounts to 12 or even 13 one-game seasons.
PLAYERS OF THE WEEKEND National Alabama's Terrence "Mount" Cody blocked a Tennessee field goal on the last play, his second block in the fourth quarter, to preserve a 12-10 win and the Tide's unbeaten record.
ENTERING THE second half of the season, seven teams (sorry Kansas and South Florida) remain unbeaten. So, what are their long-range prospects?
PLAYERS OF THE WEEKEND National Caleb Sturgis, who didn't even start the season as Florida's kicker, kicked a 27-yard field goal with 9 seconds left to give the defending national champions a 23-20 home win over Arkansas.
CHARLIE WEIS is in his fifth season at Notre Dame. So why is the Kodak moment of his tenure still the 34-31 loss to Southern California in his sixth game? Sure hope you weren't leaning toward possibly last December's 49-21 Hawaii Bowl win over, well, Hawaii. Sorry.
PLAYERS OF THE WEEKEND National Mason Foster intercepted a pass that deflected off the foot of a wide receiver and ran it back 37 yards for a touchdown with 2 minutes, 37 seconds left to give Washington, which trailed by 12 with 3 minutes to go, a 36-33 win over visiting Arizona.
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