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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Mike Kern
Championship weekend in college football
Posted 12/01/2011
Mike Kern: LSU-Georgia isn't the only big game this weekend, even if that's obviously the matchup most people will be fixated on. Actually, it's just one of nine games that have postseason implications
Video: Aiken, St. Joe's shut down Drexel
Video: Which teams will play in the BCS title game?
Photos: Potential replacements for Joe Paterno
Mike Kern
Temple's Pierce a weekend warrior
By Mike Kern, kernm@phillynews.com
Posted 11/28/2011
PLAYERS OF THE WEEKEND Local: Bernard Pierce, again. The junior ran for a season-best 189 yards, most of it after halftime, and three touchdowns (18, 25 and 69) on Friday in Temple's 34-16 win over visiting Kent State.
Mike Kern
Looks as if it will be an all-SEC title game - 11/23/2011
by Mike Kern, kernm@phillynews.com
Mike Kern: And so it's come down to this. Third-ranked Arkansas is at No. 1 Louisiana State. Maybe all of the upsets are out of the way. Or it could be a repeat of 2007.
Mike Kern
Temple grounds down Army - 11/21/2011
By Mike Kern, kernm@phillynews.com
Mike Kern: Bernard Pierce, who sat out Temple's last game, carried 21 times for 157 yards and three touchdowns in the Owls' 42-14 win over Army on Saturday. Matt Brown added 133 and two scores on eight attempts.
Mike Kern
Will unbeatens vie for the national title? - 11/17/2011
by Mike Kern, kernm@phillynews.com
Mike Kern: This can all be very simple if Louisiana State and Oklahoma State win out. Then you'd have the lone unbeatens from BCS conferences playing for the national title on Jan. 9 in New Orleans.
Mike Kern
Penn's out but Del-Val plays on - 11/14/2011
PLAYERS OF THE WEEKEND * National: Texas Christian's Casey Pachall hit Josh Boyce with a two-point conversion pass with just over a minute left to hand unbeaten Boise State its first home loss in forever.
Mike Kern
For Stanford, just another 'big game' - 11/10/2011
by Mike Kern, kernm@phillynews.com
STANFORD HAS WON its last 17 games, 13 by double digits. That includes a 40-12 wipeout of a Virginia Tech team that brought an 11-game winning streak into last January's Orange Bowl. The Cardinal's lone loss in its last 22 was 13 months ago, 52-31, at Oregon, where they led, 21-3, after a quarter. The Ducks got to play for the national title, while Stanford had to settle for No. 4 in the closing poll.
Mike Kern
Who will take the reins next year? - 11/10/2011
Mike Kern: Penn State's next football coach must be somebody willing to take over for a tainted icon and deal with all the repercussions of this unprecedented child sex-abuse scandal. This story line isn't going away anytime soon.
Mike Kern
Penn still in Ivy title chase - 11/07/2011
By Mike Kern, kernm@phillynews.com
Mike Kern: Billy Ragone passed for a career-best 254 yards and three touchdowns in Penn's 37-9 win over Princeton. The Quakers now head to Harvard needing a win to keep their threepeat chances intact.
Mike Kern
LSU-Alabama is SEC's first 1-2 game - 11/03/2011
By Mike Kern, kernm@phillynews.com
THEY FIRST MET in 1895. And they've been playing every year since 1964. This is the 75th meeting. And the largest. There might not be a close second.
Mike Kern
Brown rains on Penn's parade - 10/31/2011
By Mike Kern, kernm@phillynews.com
Mike Kern: In a driving rainstorm, Penn saw its 18-game Ivy winning streak - the second-longest in league history - come to an end in a 6-0 loss at Brown. They hadn't been shut out since 1997.
Mike Kern
Kansas State rolls back the clock - 10/27/2011
By Mike Kern, kernm@phillynews.com
Mike Kern: With Bill Snyder back at the helm, Kanas State is 7-0 and ranked eighth in the BCS standings, heading into Saturday's home game with No. 11 Oklahoma, which was just upset at home by Texas Tech.
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Mike Kern | Time again for BCS debate - 10/13/2011
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Mike Kern | Temple's Pierce gets TD record - 10/10/2011
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Mike Kern | 10 teams with college football title potential - 10/06/2011
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Mike Kern | Owls find MAC tougher than ACC - 10/03/2011
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Mike Kern | Unpredictable Big East football - 09/29/2011
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