Better late than never?

This is a good start to me blogging again. I'm three days late on this blog. My bad.

For starters, I want to say my thoughts and prayers are with those affected by the terrible shooting in Aurora, Colo. It reminds us that there are things far more important in this world than sports. Luckily, we still have sports to escape from terrible events like that.

After watching the video where media members try to ask questions to the shooter's dad, I remember one of the big reasons why I chose to be a sports journalists rather than another kind of journalist. Sports journalists (almost) never have to ask the tough questions in the terrible situations

Anyway, this week I'm taking it a little lighter due to my tardiness and Internet problems, so here are my thoughts on the Penn State sanctions.

Penn State Sanctions Levied 

So it appears the Freeh Report was not the last bit of news to come out of Penn State. The NCAA levied its penalties against Penn State today, and the university finally made a decision about Joe Paterno's statue ... before changing its mind a couple days later.

"About damn time"

It's been about 2 years since I posted here. In that time, all my sportswriting went to the Baylor Lariat, both as a reporter and the sports editor. Now I'm graduated and I feel like I need to get back to it. (And yes, I quoted LeBron James in the title. Don't judge me, I think it makes sense).

So here's what I hope to do from now on: I want to pick out five topics (insert catchy, clever name including "five" that I haven't though of yet) in the sports world each week and then make a post each Saturday, just putting down my thoughts on this page.

As I've said before on this page, I love getting feedback, either about which topics I should discuss, the presentation/layout of this blog, or my writing style.

Anyway, to get things rolling, this week I'm talking about everything Penn State, Queen Howard, the unnecessary and overblown Dream Team debate, Drew Breeeeeeess, and a former Baylor player jumping into the NFL.

Penn State Investigation

The Freeh Report was released Thursday, and while I don't have the complete details of the dozens and dozens of pages within the report, I think we all caught the gist of it. Penn State did far more than just ignore the crimes of former defensive coordinator turned convicted pedophile Jerry Sandusky; it appears they actually went to great lengths to cover it up. The late Joe Paterno, legendary head coach of Penn State, as well as the former president, vice president and athletic director were all involved in the coverup since 1998. They knew what Sandusky had done, and instead of doing the obvious and humane thing of turning the man in, they let him have access to the Penn State locker rooms and the youth charity where he found several of his victims.