Thank you, Terry...! OK, Hana hou...One more time: PENN STATE 41 ARIZONA 7

I knew it! When USC beats Hawaii by an equally lopsided score this Saturday, will we find it as omnipresent as the dispatch from Happy Valley? (BTW, does Paterno ever age? He looks the same as he did when I was a kid 30+ years ago...he must use those cool shades to hide wrinkles somewhere!)

I still think that Dick Tomey is a better football coach than Larry Price...even if it does come across as sour grapes on my part for Price being a more successful (Hell, successful at all) radio personality than I was...

No one ever said Larry Price (with a PhD?!) was any good at coaching. That is why he is a morning talk show guy in Honolulu instead of a real college coach! (And, he is no way better at it than you are, John...they just pay him more and it is beyond me why!) OK, time to record Penn State's embarrassment of riches... Penn State 70 Akron 24 For Those of you who think we ran up the score intentionally, six Penn State players who had never made touchdowns did so yesterday. There was no way except for evacuating the field that we could NOT have had such a score. Paterno does not run up scores. (He looked that old when I first met him all those years ago...he started out looking like that! Maybe he has a painting in his attic...?!)

Thanks for the vote of confidence on what once passed as my "career." Somehow I knew that I the Penn State score would be here, but that it would be up to me to post the final tally of the Rainblows' (no, that's not a typo) debacle last night. Southern California 62 Hawaii 7

(closing John's html tags again Terry can be happy with his Longhorns win over stuffy Stanford!

The intelligence shines enough and humor posting is enough

Joh, Dear, we all do it, even after three years after having mastered it. Join the crowd!

I promise I did spell your name right...it is not one of my better days. There is a decided lack of domestic tranquility in the immediate surroundings... John....John....John....John...

The Horns travel to New Jersey this weekend. home of backup quarterback Chris Simms. Maybe he'll play again if the Major can rack up a big score.

Playing Rutgers, aren't they? Good season-spoilers, but I think the Horns wil do very well against them. Penn State plays their old nemesis, Pitt, who has never gotten ove the loss of Jackie Sherrill as head coach. Did not care for him, but he sure turned out some powerful teams and we were beaten with great regularity when he was at Pitt. Good luck to The Horns and the Nittany Lions...and don't get any season-ending injuries!

I just checked our UHHilo Baseball schedule, and we play Rice here and then travel there for another shellacking, then we do the same for TCU, amongst many other killers of the first division. Anyone want to see a really lop-sided game, pop up to Ft Worth and watch the, beat the bejeepers out of the local boys from Hilo.

Oh, and for the Hilo series, John will be doing the play-by-play over local radio. I never go to a game without my little radio in hand.

Rice would be the "Owls," Marcia. With any luck, it is possible that I might be travelling with the team to do statewide TV (I would take unpaid leave to do it). But I fear they will hire a better-looking, youthful upstart with the proper surname, such as Kanoa Leahey, who just quit as HPU's play-by-play man. For a laugh, check out poetic caricatures, but don't take it too seriously!

But, John, you would be so far superior to any Leahey...How could they even contemplate Kanoa?! So much for what I want...it has been that way for a while. Meanwhile, a score I am not proud of in a game which I could hardly stand to watch: Penn State 20 Pitt 17

The decision will be made in Honolulu, bu Oceanic Cable. UHH has input, but not control. Mr. Leahey is 21, ambitious, talented, much better-looking than I am, thin (unlike his father), and is named Leahey (like both his father and his grandfather). Have you seen or heard him? He's good. When I was his age, I was nine years away from calling my first game (I didn't take up the play-by-play mic until age 30). I fear it will be a no-brainer for them. And yes, today's Penn State victory over arch-rival itt was ugly, but to paraphrase Gertrude Stein: a win is a win is a win. BTW, the latest issue of The Sporting News rated PSU as the nation's #1 university for athletics. Their scorecard: Winning (football and men's basketball only sports considered): A- Graduation rate (again, football and men's basketball: A Do We Rock? (Attendance): A Do We Play Fair? (including gender equity): A GPA: 3.92 Terry's beloved Texas Longhorns were rated #35. Scorecard: Winning: B+ Graduation rate: C- Do We Rock?: A- Do We Play Fair: C GPA: 2.67 Our beloved Hawaii (Manoa) Rainbows were rated #65. Winning: F (0-12 football last year, 6-20 men's basketball) Graduation Rate: B+ Do we rock?: C+ Do we play fair: C+ GPA: 2.00 Unfortunately for the Bows, neither men's nor women's volleyball were considered in the winning or graduation categories.

Hawaii 31 E. Illinois 27 No doubt about it, a big win for my beloved Rainbow Warriors, but it does come against a Division I-AA school. When they finally win one against Div. I-A competition, then maybe I will stop saying that my beloved Bows stinketh like goatherds. Their next game is against Boise State, not a great team, but a decent one, who beat Southern Idaho today. Overall, it was a big day for sports. 17-year-old Venus Williams won the U.S. Open, becoming the first African-American woman to win a Grand Slam tennis event since Althea Gibson in 1958. Eric Milton pitched a no-hitter for the Minnesota Twins, only the fourth no-no in Twins history, as the Twinkies shut out the Anaheim Angels, 7-0. I wonder if Milton is a descendant John Milton--who, if he had been an American athlete instead of an apolgist for Cromwell--would have played for the Whittier College Fighting Poets.

Oops...that was Venus Williams' sister, Serena, who won the U.S. open. Wrong head of beaded braids!

John, thanks for putting the stats up on Athletics and Academics. Paterno has always said you cannot have a great university without a great library, and to that end his donation-funded (plus those donations from friends of his and fans) is due to open next year. All 8 Million of it. For all of the static Penn State has had to take for being "farmer's highschool" (its original name) it has turned out some pretty good scholars. It is too bad about their not counting Volleyball. Penn State ladies and Ma oa Wahine have always battled it out for first and second place standings. Curious!

UT didn't quite make the spread, but they won. This does not look like a predictable season.

I think Penn State is in the same position. One game at a time is the only way to deal with this season. Acute anxiety attacks are the name of the game. We are into the Big Ten now, and the rest of the games will be a battle.

Texas is a huge favorite over Rice.

I would imagine considering how Rice has fared this season up till now. On the other hand, it depends who wants the Miami game more, Penn State or them.

Penn State 27 Miami 21 They had to come from behind to do it, but they got that 79-yard touchdown pass from Kevin Thompson, who came off the bench to throw a strike. I've never seen Paterno sweat like that, but he came out smelling like a rose.

Thanks john! You beat me to it. I inhaled a big bag of popcorn and never even tasted it. That was the game we needed to win, and we kept shooting ourselves in the foot. But, we did win, and that is what will be remembered. Hail to the Lions! (I thought the score was 27-23)

PENN STATE 27 MIAMI 23 9/18/99 - In the blink of an eye, No. 3 Penn State found a way to stay in the national championship race. Kevin Thompson threw a 79-yard touchdown pass to Chafie Fields with 1:41 left and the Nittany Lions held off No. 8 Miami 27-23 in the rain-drenched Orange Bowl. http://www.ncaafootball.net/

other scores of interest: TEXAS A&M 27 TULSA 7 (5:24 left in the 2nd) TEXAS 15 RICE 6 (10:09 left in 4th) Texas A&M is ranked 7th, Penn State is 3rd, and Texas (don't know)

Sammy Sosa hit no 60

You were right on the score. It was rain, huh? I came in during the 3rd quarter after work and never heard it mentioned once, but that explains why Paterno looked so disheveled. Couldn't tell from the field or the players since it was artificial turf. Penn State showed a lot of character pulling this one out on the road in a place as loud and raucous as the Orange Bowl. It may have only been a four point victory, but unlike the "disappointing" edge over Pitt, there should be some happiness in Happy V lley with this.

Longsuffering Cubs Fan that I am, Lucille, I'd like to see Sammy hit 71 this year. I wish the andro-chugging McGwire no ill will, except that he plays for the Cardinals, but I'd love to see a little more glory for Sammy, an effervescent and gregarious young man who apparently pops nothing into his system more questionable than Flintstones vitamins.

Hi Lucie! Welcome to outer Spring...*smile* Yup! Joe sweats through a lot of games, but I never saw him get THAT wet!!! Too funny! Texas A&M is winning big time over Tulsa TEXAS 18 RICE 13 final

It's final now: TEXAS A&M 62 TULSA 13

A.P. TOP 25 SCOREBOARD SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 18 FINAL Central Mich 16 #14 Purdue 58 FINAL Southern Miss 13 #6 Nebraska 20 FINAL #8 Wisconsin 12 Cincinnati 17 FINAL #3 Penn St 27 #9 Miami (Fla) 23 FINAL Ohio 16 #12 Ohio St 40 FINAL San Diego St 21 #19 USC (19) 24 FINAL #20 North Carolina St 11 #1 Florida St 42 FINAL Louisiana Tech 29 #18 Alabama 28 FINAL Ul Monroe 6 (no idea who these guys are, that's how it came down #15 Arkansas 44 FINAL Central Florida 10 #13 Georgia Tech 41 FINAL Rice 13 #22 Texas 18 FINAL Bowling Green 16 #25 Marshall 35 FINAL Texas El Paso 7 #16 Kansas St 40 FINAL #5 Michigan 18 Syracuse 13 FINAL #2 Tennessee 21 #4 Florida 23 FINAL Tulsa 13 #17 Texas A&M 62 FINAL New Mexico St 35 #23 Arizona St 7 FINAL Fresno St 21 #21 UCLA 35 00:24 left in 4th quarter (guess there'll be no doubt here, Tomey blasted again) Stanford 50 #17 Arizona 22

Thanks John. I see Texas is #18. but Texas A&M is #7 not 17!!!

Texas is #22. You are right about A&M. There are typos in this. I got it fom msn.com. #15 Arkansas's opponent was overmatched Louisiana-Monroe (never heard of them). I had three distant cousins (all brothers) who were All-Americans at Arkansas in the late 60s: Bobby Burnett (tailback, ran a 9.4 second 100-yard dash: was AFL rookie of the year in 1966 for the Buffalo Bills, broke a leg and was never the same, was traded to the Broncos and sat out the rest of his career behind Floyd Little), Tom Burnet (wide receiver: was drafted by the Jets, but never made it past the taxi squad, just a little too slow), and Bill Burnett (tailback--1st team All-American his junior season with the Razorbacks, suffered a career-ending knee injury his senior year). Texas A&M is the largest university in the U.S. Largest enrollment despite all the Aggie jokes!

Hawaii 34 Boise State 19 The Rainbow Warriors are now 2-1 on the season. It may not sound like much, but for longsuffering Hawaii fans, whose team started the season with the nation's longest losing streak (18 games), then lost the opening game to Southern Cal 66-7, WE'LL TAKE IT, thank you very much! Maybe they stinketh a little less like goatherds this season.

I thought you might have put that in Green letters for the occasion. Good game! The goats have been bathed and perfumed for the time being. When do we have the honor of playing dormat for Wyoming (our nemesis) and other teams of that ilk?

I feel great empathy for Texas A&M fans. They, like Penn State, are a land grant college, and whereas they are called the Aggies, we are called - but not within hitting distance - Farmer's HighSchool...and worse. Any of those Burnetts related to you? The Little is not related to me or David.

As I mentioned in the post, they are distant cousins (I believe 3rd cousins). Floyd Little was an African-American running back from Syracuse U., so I didn't expect that he might be related to your ex, although it would not be out of the realm of possibility.

...true...and interesting! When David was just out of college, a pro football player named David Little was big news. You would be amazed at how many people asked if he was my David's brother. This guy was African-American, also. Dave said "Yes, but we call him Bubba so we don't confuse the relatives."

That's funny.

Here is Rainbow schedule. No Wyoming, BYU, Utah. Remember, they left the WAC. September 4 USC 6:30 P.M. L 7-62 September 11 EASTERN ILLINOIS 6:05 P.M. W 31-27 September 18 BOISE STATE 6:05 P.M. W 34-19 September 25 at SMU * 2:05 P.M. -- -- October 2 UTEP * 6:05 P.M. -- -- October 9 RICE * 6:05 P.M. -- -- October 23 at Tulsa * 2:05 P.M. -- -- October 30 TCU * 6:05 P.M. -- -- November 6 at San Jose State * 12:35 P.M. -- -- November 13 FRESNO STATE * 6:05 P.M. -- -- November 20 NAVY 6:05 P.M. -- -- November 27 WASHINGTON STATE 6:05 P.M. -- --

They are playing Big 12 teams and coutd at some point play Texas and TGexas A&M. Fascinating! Out next outing is to SMU??!! That is gonna be some ugly game! Thanks for the schedule.

Many apologies, Aggies, that is Texas A&M, of course!

Wow , Texas is up at 22. But they didn't look like a number 22 team against the hapless owls in the game they just played. Victor Ike needs to learn to hang on to the ball. And they had 2 blocked punts again. But they won. Next week Is Nebraska I believe.

Nebraska did not look all that good this week, either. Just hope whatever is bothering them now is still annoying them this weekend, as well. Tennessee should have won, Penn State should have won by a bigger margain...perhaps we were all holding off our big stuff until we all play really dangerous teams. We play Indiana at home next week.

Actually, Baylor next week.

Sorry...! I mistyped. Actually, Texas does not play NewBraska this year in regularly scheduled games...Texas A&M does, though - later on. So the 'horns are at Baylor...and they have lost all of their games so far against some pretty good teams. Hmmm...what is the prognostigation for the outcome of this game? Don't know anything about Southern Mississippi...they are are Texas A&M this week. Indiana is at Penn State, and someone mean will clobber Hawaii this weekend, huh!

Oh yeah...SMU is gonna Kill the Rainbows at their home game. Aloha Oe! Auwe!

The SMU of Eric Dickerson and Craig James (the Pony Express) days would have. I'd still call them favorites, but I think we have an outside chance (I'd like our chances better at home). As for Southern Mississippi, the Golden Eagles always have a decent program. It is Brett Favre's alma mater.

oh dear...and whew...in reverse order...! What do you know about Indiana this year?!

Big Ten. Always a decent team...should pose no real threat to your beloved Nittany Lions, though.

PENN STATE 45 INDIANA 24

HAWAII 20 SMU 0

The SMU game was an important hurdle for my beloved Rainbow Warriors. It is their first road victory since 1995 and their first WAC road victory since 1992. It is also their first shutout victory since 1994, when they blanked my dad's alma mater S.E. Missouti St. (from Rush Limbaugh's hometown, Cape Girardeua). It could have been 27-0, but Coach June Jones wisely told QB Dan Robinson to take a knee on the final play of the game (at the SMU 2-yard-line) rather than to rub it in. The Bows are now -1 with their only loss coming at the hands of the nationally ranked USC Trojans.

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Hawaii is 3-1.

I think we did it well enough to get national recognition. Do you think we will break into the top 25 this week? O'O and I were wondering how JJones accomplished this turn around so quickly...any idea?

TEXAS 62 BAYLOR 0

TEXAS A&M 23 SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI 6 New rankings according to AP are Penn State 2nd Texas A&M 5th Texas 22nd

Texas moved up to 15th in today's poll.

Alright, Texas! I thought that 62-0 win should do something positive for them. Of couse, there are as many polls as there are interest groups out there...Not sure where Penn State might be any given week...!

We (Hawaii) certainly aren't going to get ranked anytime this season (losing 62-7 to USC pretty much puts that out of the realm of possibility). But there is a new attitude on campus. Jones brings a positive "can do" spin to the place, while Von Appen just bitched about everything and it rubbed off on his players, who performed accordingly. Wait until most of the recruits are Jones' and then see what Hawaii can do!

There will be no stopping Hawaii then. JJ must have a pretty good recruiting pipeline set up, and only good things can come from that. I am excited about that...most impressed!

The best recruiting pipeline is winning, and word will get out that he is turning the program around. It also won't hurt that he is a former NFL QB and head coach.

...and it also does not hurt that the address of the University is Honolulu...!

That can actually be a downside. Not with the student-athletes, but with mothers, especially of black players, who want their boys as close to home as possible, so they can go to their games. In many families, making mom happy is a big priority in recruiting.

...and my son was into hiking volcanoes for which they did not care about Mom except they let me go on their field trips - that was truly memorable!

cool

...so cool that if one did not keep moving, one's Vibram soles would start smoking on the just recently congealed lava...! Ever spent the evening hot-footing it for real?! Cool, indeed!

The take on Texas recruiting tis that they got the best recruits in the nation, look at Chris Simms, their backup quarterback, he comes the game late on mop up duty and engineers a 70+ yard drive. If Texas has another recruiting year like this one, watch out!

They look pretty impressive now...it would be interesting to see Texas play Penn State for the national championship at the end of the year...or Texas A&M, if we (Penn State) get that far...!

If either team can make it to the national championship, it would be a great thing for their fans. As good as Penn State looks, and as often as they've been there, it is early and is not an easy thing. Not even for Mr. Paterno, who for my money, is arguably the greatest college football coach ever.

Penn State has the uncanny ability to lend their jerseys to some visiting boy scout troup and putting them on the field for a "big" game. I have no doubt that we will shoot ourselves in the foot at least once this year. It is w a y too early to think about the championship, but I was just wool-gathering for a moment...*sigh*

PSU always has a legitimate shot (and not the one to the foot).

Yeah...yeah...but we are the ones others love to hate and delight in seeing humiliated by our own lapses in judgement. I do not breathe easy until the end of the season, and I put on my class ring and all my other Penn State stuff plus the stuff I have from my Dad...just for luck (in which I do not believe)...! I leave nothing to chance!

Penn State is off this week so I offer the following from the latest Football Letter: Penn State was graded as having the #1 athletic program in the country by The Sporting News in the cover story of its Sept 13th issue. The publication based its ratings on standards that ranged from on-field success to academic performance and from fair play to fan support. State received a ccmposit grade of 3.92 out of 4.0 for its compehensive program which encompasses 15 men's ands 14 women's varsity sports and approximately 800 student-athletes. In the 10 years that NCAA has been conducting studies, 92% of the Penn State student-athletes who had exhausted their elegibility have graduated.

Ok, Joh, who's gonna win today? Hawaii vs UTEP? Texas vs Kansas State? Texas A&M vs Texas Tech? Hawaii, I think, should have this one easily, TAMU should win, also. Texas might be in for a real battle...! Penn State has a bye week.

That is John, of course, and Terry and whoever else might have an opinion on this and other college football matchups...

Man, Texas was in there till the Fourth Quarter, then the K State defense blew them out. Major took a major beating.

Sad, No?! I was hoping - they were leading, then KC pulled one point ahead of Texas...then more then more...*sigh* My sympathies, Terry!

Half time (can't believe this!) TEXAS A&M 10 TEXAS TECH 21

Might as well put this down for posterity: Final TEXAS 17 KANSAS STATE 35

Marica per your (understandable) self-congratulatory Nittany Lions post (#77), I had already posted that basic info in post #16--I guess when it comes to your beloved Lions, you are just not quite secure enough that other people respect them. As I said, the only time I dared put money against them, they won the national championship and broke me of my wagering habit. The Rainbows should win tonight at home against UTEP, but the Miners are dangerous because they're struggling, hungry, and have the fastest receivers in the WAC (track guys and UTEP is one of the 3 or 4 top track programs in the country).

Marcia per your (understandable) self-congratulatory Nittany Lions post (#77), I had already posted that basic info in post #16--I guess when it comes to your beloved Lions, you are just not quite secure enough that other people respect them. As I said, the only time I dared put money against them, they won the national championship and broke me of my wagering habit. The Rainbows should win tonight at home against UTEP, but the Miners are dangerous because they're struggling, hungry, and have the fastest receivers in the WAC (track guys and UTEP is one of the 3 or 4 top track programs in the country).

Sorry, John...it comes with the diploma when we graduate - after Richard Nixon gave away one national championship...we trust no one. I had forgotten (and I save these posts to file!)...and I note you compared them with Texas! I was just expanding and reiterating for new readers...or for my own edification...who knows?! Texas A&M is just 2 points behind Texas Tech now...perhaps they will win and So will Hawaii...the game starts at 6pm I note on the broadcast.com schedule.

Don't know who is doing the TAMU game for Texas A&M, but the play-by-play guy sounds exactly like Las Keiter!!!

It's over...so close yet so far... Texas A&M 19 Kansas State 21

I think that's TEXAS TECH 21, TEXAS A&M 19, is it not? K-STATE beat TEXAS 35-17 per your earlier post.

Les Keiter is a beautiful man, but he stayed on the air ten years too long. He was great when he was 40 and doing NYC and Philly sports, but when he was 70, he was a rambling, cliche spouting, parody of himself. He's 80 this year and of course, has a cushy political job, courtesy of old friends Joe Moore and Ben Cayetano.

The guy I was referring to was the intonation and inflexion and sound of his voice - a little nasal and gravelly...not the verbage. Les was magnificent in his prime! I placed my fav teams first when I put the scores down - not who won...! My peculiar way of doing things, I guess.

Les was magnificent in his prime. I hope I have high powered friends who will prop me up in a high paying cushy job when I can no longer perform. Hell, that will never happen. It is actually a testament to how much people love Les. It's also an indictment of the old boy network here.

It is lamentable that the old boy network exists at all...I thought it would have died years and years ago of natural causes. It is not A GOOD thing! I will he here for a long time...and I will help prop you one way or another!

I hope to have another 25 good years of work left in me. I can't afford to retire (apparently any more than Les can). His grandson, Kimo Keiter-Charles, is a star player on Hilo High's basketball team.

Really?! How neat...does he come and watch Kimo play? I trust I shall die happy with your golden tones in my ears...in the far future!

Great Game... HAWAII ve UTEP...huh, John?!

Les sometimes comes to Hilo High games, but I don't know if he can see Kimo or not. He's legally blind and close to completely blind now, which was the main thing which caused his career as a play-by-play man to go South.

HAWAII 33 TEXAS-EL PASO 3 final

Isn't that the prettiest score?! At least one of the teams I was rooting for yesterday won. You're getting good at this HTML stuff, John!

Thank you. How about them Bows? Lennie Klompus, executive director of the Aloha Bowl, said that Hawaii would be offered a berth if they could go 7-5 or better for the season. 50,000 people in Aloha Stadium on Christmas Day... wouldn't THAT be something?