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Black Shoe Diaries Q&A With Lou Prato, Part Two
Enjoy part one here. Yesterday Lou discussed this years Penn State team, NHL, Icers, Michigan State, and Nebraska. Today he'll cover great Penn State books/authors and also technology in this generation, have kids really stopped reading newspapers? QBsneak12: You seem to be the most prolific...
Worst Homecoming Games of the Joe Paterno Era - by Lou Prato
BSD - Whenever we come across an event where we struggle to put it into historical perspective, the guy to turn to is renowned Penn State football historian Lou Prato. In the wake of Saturday, a lot of people have called the loss to Illinois "the worst homecoming ever". To offer some perspective,...
Greatest Penn State Upsets of All Time - The 1987 Fiesta Bowl
One would be hard pressed to point to a game that featured two teams that were more polar opposites of each other. On one team the players came from some of the toughest neighborhoods of the inner cities of south Florida. The players on the other team came mostly from the blue collar mining towns...
Penn State Loses Historical Landmark - by Lou Prato
BSD - If some of you read GoPSUSports.com regularly, you may have noticed our good friend and renowned Penn State historian Lou Prato has been contibuting regular columns about Penn State history. When Lou asked me if it would be okay to reprint these articles on BSD, well, who am I to refuse. So...
Greatest Penn State Upsets #2 - 1981 Pitt
At one point in the 1981 season Penn State was ranked #1 and Pitt was ranked #2. But State suffered losses to Miami and Alabama to fall out of the top ten. Pitt kept winning, but their schedule wasn't nearly as difficult as Penn State's. Nittany Lion linebacker Chet Parlavecchio couldn't resist...
Greatest Penn State Upsets #4 - 1990 Notre Dame
All of the buzz around Penn State prior to the 1990 season centered around the Lions joining the Big Ten in a few years. Of course, many people realized that this meant many traditional rivalries would have to be put on hold, and in 1990, Notre Dame was arguably the biggest rival on the...
Greatest Penn State Upsets #3 - 1956 Ohio State
When Penn State traveled to Columbus to meet the Ohio State Buckeyes in 1956, it had been 44 years since the two teams met in a game that ended in a forfeit and all-out brawl. Not many of the 82,000 fans in attendence were there in 1912, but some of the Buckeye old timers remembered the disgraceful...
Greatest Penn State Upsets #5 - 1994 Citrus Bowl
Some of you may have heard that Penn State has a big game this weekend. Alabama is the #1 ranked team in the country and nobody is giving the Nittany Lions a chance to even keep the score within a touchdown. So to have a little fun and show you all that sometimes the "experts" get it wrong and...
Message From Lou Prato
BSD: During our discussion with Lou Prato last week, Lou told a story involving Mike Ditka, Pitt, and a motel room. Well, he had a chance to talk to Joe Paterno this past weekend and got the story straight from the legend's mouth. So he asked me to pass along this message to all of you. I wanted...
Penn State History: The Gamble That Saved The Grand Experiment
When Rip Engle unexpectedly stepped down after the 1965 season, there was no surprise to see Joe Paterno named the next head coach. Paterno had been offered the head coaching job at Yale the year before, but he was quietly told by officials at Penn State they wanted him to take over for Engle...
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