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1. July 25, 2012 02:35 PM

   Sacred cows

   The Penn State story offers a glimpse of the problems with league- and team-owned broadcast operations

   By Robert Weintraub

   Full-Court Press is a periodic column about the coverage of sports. On July 12, a report prepared by former FBI Director Louis Freeh at the behest of Penn State University slammed the school for covering up former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky’s sexual predation of children, and demolished Joe Paterno’s reputation in the process. Freeh delivered the crux of his findings...

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2. September 18, 2012 10:58 AM

   Take one for the team

   Football season is upon us, and so are its tried and true clichés

   By Robert Weintraub

   There is so much to love about football’s 24/7 ubiquity on television, but there is one (and only one) downside: the toxic exposure to clichés from the litany of former players and puny communications majors who analyze the game. I’m not talking about “taking it one game at a time” or “it is what it is,” the crimes against language...

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