{"id":754,"date":"2005-12-11T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-11T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/2005\/12\/754.html"},"modified":"2005-12-11T13:36:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-11T13:36:00","slug":"754-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2005\/12\/754-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ON PENN STATE FOOTBALL&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<li type=\"square\">QB <b>Mike Robinson<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/weblogs\/pennstatefootball\/index.ssf?\/mtlogs\/penn_50yardlion\/archives\/2005_12.html#099062\"><b>finished fifth in the Heisman voting<\/b><\/a> (<i>50 Yard Lion on pennlive.com<\/i>), which about where he should have been. No New York invitation though.\n<li type=\"square\"><b>Paul Posluszny<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centredaily.com\/mld\/centredaily\/13380211.htm\"><b>won the Butkus Award<\/b><\/a> (<i>CDT<\/i>) for being the nation&#8217;s top linebacker, which kind of surprises me. I figured A.J. Hawk would win it because he is a senior and Poz is just a junior, but I cannot argue with the decision. Posluszny is just excellent, period. Looks like that <i>Sports Illustrated<\/i> cover story went a long way&#8230;\n<li type=\"square\">So it is the Orange Bowl against Free Shoes University&#8230;okay, I can get excited &#8212; a chance for Joe Paterno to pick up some wins on Bobby Bowden. One drawback &#8212; I don&#8217;t really know any Seminoles to make some sort of wager. I had been hoping for Miami (my cousin went there), but they laid an egg against Georgia Tech. I was then hoping for Virginia Tech, but <b>Marcus Vick<\/b> must have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/5989204\/\"><b>thinking about underage girls again<\/b><\/a> (<i>MSNBC<\/i>) and the lost the ACC Championship to the seemingly inferior FSU. Oh well, should be fine either way. 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