Monthly Archives: July 2008

More trouble at PSU

By Joe Miegoc | Published: July 30, 2008 | Comments closed
News came Wednesday that Penn State defensive tackles Chris Baker and Phil Taylor were permanently dismissed from the football team. This just three days after an ESPN “Outside the Lines” report on the legal troubles that has surrounded Joe Paterno’s once-proud program over the past six years. No reason was cited for the dismissal of [...]
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Westbrook in, J-Roll out

By Joe Miegoc | Published: July 24, 2008 | Comments closed
Brian Westbrook smartly showed up to Eagles training camp Thursday when the rest of the team was required to be at Lehigh for a mandatory meeting later that night. Pro Bowl guard Shawn Andrews did not report, but his agent cited personal reasons and not because of an issue with his contract. Westbrook, who has [...]
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Eagles chatter

By Joe Miegoc | Published: July 18, 2008 | Comments closed
With rookies and selected veterans scheduled to report for Eagles training camp at Lehigh just three days away more interesting tidbits continue to surface. Yesterday it was the news that disgruntled cornerback Lito Sheppard had fired his agents Peter Schaffer and Lamont Smith and planned to sign with uber-agent Drew Rosenhaus. Today, it was learned by the Philadelphia [...]
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Lito in the nest?

By Joe Miegoc | Published: July 17, 2008 | Comments closed
A story written by Les Bowen in today’s Philadelphia Daily News appears to assure that disgruntled Eagles cornerback Lito Sheppard will report to training camp at Lehigh on time next week. Sheppard, who has missed a total of 14 games in the last three seasons due to injuries, is unhappy with a contract extension he signed [...]
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What’s on tap

By Joe Miegoc | Published: July 15, 2008 | Comments closed
There’s plenty going on here at the Record. My long-awaited story (or at least it feels that way to me) on the construction at Pleasant Valley will be in Wednesday’s paper. The school will be the first area high school to have FieldTurf on its football field and is also getting an all-weather track. I took [...]
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Up next

By Joe Miegoc | Published: July 14, 2008 | Comments closed
There’s plenty going on this week. After writing a story on former East Stroudsburg South soccer standout and current Temple defender Cori Gallagher, I’m set to talk to former Eastburg South star and Stanford redshirt freshman linebacker Max Bergen on Monday. And soon after that I’m hopeful of talking to his position coach Andy Buh [...]
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Newest Nittany Lion

By Joe Miegoc | Published: July 11, 2008 | Comments closed
Portsmouth, Ohio offensive lineman Nate Cadogan verbally committed to the Nittany Lions on Friday. Cadogan, whose brother Gerald Cadogan is Penn State’s starting left tackle, chose the Nittany Lions over Purdue along with offers from Cincinnati and Syracuse among others. Cadogan, who is Penn State’s 16th verbal commitment for next year’s class, is rated as a [...]
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Cleaning it up

By Joe Miegoc | Published: July 11, 2008 | Comments closed
With the help and advice of Pocono Record Web guru John Misinco, my blogs will be much shorter and cleaner. I’ll also be linking articles here from Pocono Record writers and other writers around the world that I think you’d be interested in checking out if you haven’t already. Record sports writer Mike Kuhns wrote an [...]
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