Now that the World Horseshoe Pitching Championships have come and gone from the York Expo Center (read about the men's champion and women's champion), Carl "Red" Arnold of Jacobus has checked in with some local horseshoes history.
Arnold writes: "I doubt if there are many people who would remember the Smoketown Horseshoe Team shown on this enclosed pictured. ..."
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One exchange from a Joe Paterno question-and-answer session with the Reading Eagle's Rich Scarcella:
Q: Can you picture what Saturdays in the fall would be like for you if you weren't coaching?
A: Geez, I don't even think about that. I haven't gotten the slightest idea what I would do. When it comes time for me to decide I'm going to get out of it, I'll look around. I have very simple tastes. I have a whole bunch of grandkids. They're getting to the point where they're human beings and I'm starting to enjoy them. I don't know what I'm going to do.
(UPDATE: You can now read the Daily Record's version of this compelling story here.)
Zach McLain, a 2005 Dallastown High School graduate who was a two-time Daily Record/Sunday News all-star diver while competing for the Wildcats, is the subject of a lengthy new article on ESPN.com.
Normally, that would seem like a pretty sweet accolade for an athlete.
In McLain's case, however, it was a hellish -- and ultimately inspirational -- journey that led the national media to focus on his story.
McLain broke four vertebrae in his neck and suffered a huge gash in his head while diving at a swimming hole near his grandparents' cabin in Wellsboro, Tioga County, in July 2007. But, amazingly, just six months after the accident, McLain returned to competition for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point's diving team.
"It's a story of victory in the sense of an individual who was dealt a challenge of life," Army diving coach Ron Kontura told reporter Adam Rittenberg for the 1,600-word story.
McLain's tale was also told by The NCAA News in February.
Associated Press photographer Julie Jacobson captured this amazing play involving New York Yankees outfielder Johnny Damon during the New York vs. Boston game at Yankee Stadium this afternoon:
The latest twist in the Sasquatch Saga ...
(for past updates on this story see this and this.)
... is that Field & Stream has come up with the brilliant (marketing-wise) plan of offering $1 million to the first person who takes a verifiable photo of a sasquatch using a trail camera.
Click here for the full details on their contest.
Do you have a great photo that you've taken of Penn State coaching legend Joe Paterno?
Or perhaps a great story about an encounter you had with JoePa.
Or perhaps you just want to compose a tribute to the Nittany Lions' legend.
We want to collect your Paterno photos and stories, for use in future publications.
E-mail your submissions to cotto@ydr.com or mail them to: Chris Otto, York Daily Record/Sunday News, 1891 Loucks Road, York 17408.
E-mailed photos should be scanned at the highest resolution possible.
Include your full name and hometown, and a phone number where you can be contacted.
Here's a YouTube clip of the final moments of Penn State's victory over Miami in the 1987 Fiesta Bowl. NBC's Charlie Jones, who died Thursday at age 77, is the play-by-play man here. He's the guy who makes the famous "Intercepted Giftopoulos!" call at the end.
I think it's safe to say that this story, from our sister newspaper in Hanover, is going to create a firestorm of controversy...
By KATHARINE HARMON
Evening Sun Reporter
A New Oxford man thought he was saving a fawn when he scooped it up off a road in Maryland and took it home to nurse it back to health after its mother was hit by a car.
William Albert bottle-fed the fawn in his 218 Reba Drive garage and called around to see if any wildlife-rehabilitation centers would take the baby deer.
Albert also called the Pennsylvania Game Commission to help him find a place to send the deer, but when a wildlife officer showed up at his house a short while later, he took the deer and had it killed.
Now, Albert says the officer -- who arrived at the house before Albert did, just 10 minutes after Albert called -- was on his property without his permission or a warrant, and the deer definitely shouldn't have been destroyed.
For the rest of the story, click here to go to the Evening Sun.
Sports broadcaster Jim McKay has died at age 87.
In this long and compelling clip posted by the Archive of American Television on YouTube, McKay discusses perhaps the most-remembered most of his journalism career, the tragedy at 1972 Munich Olympics.
I don't mean to sound like an old fogey, but that was not the CBS I grew up with on Saturday night.
In the network prime-time debut of mixed martial arts (which you can read much more about on Ted Czech's blog), a bald and bearded fellow named Kimbo Slice rolled around with a fellow named The Colossus.
Mr. Slice was finally declared the winner when Mr. Colossus’ cauliflowered left ear nearly came off in revolting fashion, following a barrage of punches from Mr. Slice.
(What’s next, CBS? Richard Dawson sending Jim Brown out to kill people on national TV?)
Anyway, I dug up some info on Mr. Slice, who is apparently the Next Sports Superstar (tm):
