Archive: November, 2011
Frank Fitzpatrick, Inquirer Sports Columnist
Joe Paterno is really not a saint. Penn State is not Harvard. Happy Valley is no Eden.
Those were myths. Paterno and the university, aided by an adoringly complicit media, created them, disseminated them, and benefitted from them for decades.
Most believed them. But some, particularly the coaches and schools whose troubles provided a convenient contrast to that pristine Penn State image, bristled at what they perceived as unwarranted, unchallenged arrogance.
Frank Fitzpatrick, Inquirer Sports Columnist
For the local golf industry, when it rains, it pours.
Literally.
A season of foul weather and flooded courses has added more storm clouds to what already was a gloomy forecast for local course operators.
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