It's Your Friday Noon News!

I don't do much on this site to cover other sports, mostly because I don't have much access to them, but let's go a head and check in on the Penn State athletes that aren't getting pulled over drunk or stomping on people's faces, allegedly.

-Penn State Icers End Streak The Icers, who play at the club level despite drawing more fan fare than the basketball team, ended an era last weekend. The team went into the national tournament ranked #3 and carried in a streak of 11 straight championship game appearances. All that ended against Liberty with 4-1 upset.

-Wrestlers Ready For Big Ten Championship The #6 ranked wrestling team will be bringing an entire roster of ranked wrestlers into the Big Ten Tournament. Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois are doing the same. The Big Ten is totally loaded this year (well, every year) and the Nittany Lions have never won the thing. Make sure to check in with Nick Galen over at the Nittany Line who does a great job of covering the squad all year long.

-Worst Season Evvvaaa The Lady Lions basketball team ended the worst season in their history with a 64-54 loss to Michigan. The game caped a 12 game skid. Fittingly, they still managed to finish ahead of Northwestern in the standings.

It's Your Friday Noon News

I know, I know, it's not actually Friday...hell it's not even noon yet. But you know what, it's the holidays and I'm traveling tomorrow. Besides, if I changed the title to "Thursday Ten Thirty News" today, I would just have to change it back next time I run one of these, which is annoying. While I still plan on posting for those of you who are still forced to tuck your shirts in tomorrow, I figure I'll get the heavy posting out of the way today. On to the hot stories.


-Justice has been served. The clever bastard who dressed up like a VT shooting victim and posted pictures on the Internet has been fired from his job at Bank of America. He then played the martyr card:

“Things are going to be hard now, especially since I have no outside support. … However, even though I will be starving over the holidays and my credit cards will all default, I still will not apologize,”

Keep up the good work, my friend, the longer you act like an idiot the more gratifying this whole thing is for me.

-First and Fired

In "News You Already Knew", Big Ten refs are corrupt. Other people have posted better humor on this than I can, including the Nittany Line, but, just so you know the facts. The guy has a gambling problem, not exactly a desirable quality in a big time ref:

He allegedly has gambled at casinos as far back as the 1980s, and a sister-in-law said gambling losses incurred by Pamon and Pamon's wife led to the couple filing for bankruptcy.

Oh, speaking of undesirable qualities for big time refs human beings:

In 1997, he was charged with repeatedly beating three of his girlfriend's four sons with an electrical cord. He told authorities he beat the boys three times.

Um, moving on, the Big Ten has decided they will increase their background checks, performing them every year. In typical fashion, they will not specify how they plan to make their background checks more effective, which mean, when you get down to it, the Big Ten isn't going to do anything at all.

-FSU players change the meaning of 'teamwork'. Either 20, 23, or 25 players, depending on who you ask, cheated on an online test. While this is not good, FSU has a bigger problem: why are you hiring professors that think it's ok to give open book, take it anywhere exams? You have 25 Florida State football players in your class. Comeon.

And from the fellow Bowden haters over at EDSBS:

It’s also a clear sign Bobby Bowden just shows up to wear a hat before returning to soft blankets, Civil War histories, and applesauce, and has no real power left to speak of in the day-to-day running of the program. Because this never would have happened in his prime. The reporting, that is.