Joe Paterno may be old, but he sure isn’t slowing down. (Just ask anyone driving around State College.) And once again, the 81-year-old Penn State coach proves how he can still pack a vocal punch.

EVERY DAY SHOULD BE SATURDAY screams out news from Jeff McLane of the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER about JoePa’s weekend fund-raising visit, and the ire that was raised along with some money. Read more…

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• But if he does return to Green Bay, will they still name a street after him?

• Speaking of retired QBs, Ryan Leaf is doing A-OK at West Texas A&M.

• So, Michael Vick really wasn’t playing pigskin in prison?

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Last week, we bounced along news of a Penn State basketball player being charged with masturbating in the library. But now the b-baller is trying to defend himself against the off-court personal foul call.

AOL FANHOUSE via THE DAILY COLLEGIAN follows up on Stanley Pringle’s reported lewdness in the library. He denied doing any raunchy reach-in, claiming he was just touching his private parts but not pulling:

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A Penn State basketball player allegedly committed a very personal foul during a recent visit to the university library.

(Stanley sure knows how to grip those balls.)

THE DAILY COLLEGIAN reports that Stanley Pringle has been charged with public lewdness and disorderly conduct for an incident last Thursday involving a female library patron:

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Joe Paterno stayed true to his political party, as he passed on the chance to pal around with Bill Clinton.

The ASSOCIATED PRESS reports that the Penn State coach and noted Republican decided not to meet with Clinton last Thursday, as the former President made a stop in State College in support of his wife Hillary’s presidential campaign.

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Joe Paterno is set to begin his 43rd season with Penn State this year, unfortunately without the services of touted recruit Terrelle Pryor. Now having lost out on the two-sport Pennsylvania product, the Penn State Board of Trustees are taking a long, hard look at Paterno’s immediate future, reports the PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE.

The Penn State Board of Trustees is expected to address Paterno’s future during meetings today and tomorrow at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel in Washington.

Leaving aside the jokes that go along with the fact that board is meeting at the same hotel where former New York governor Eliot Spitzer had his extra-legal rendezvous with prostitutes, Paterno is 81 and a bit given to taking a tumble. He also doesn’t have the needed working hip to cheat.

Granted, it’s difficult to force an icon out the door, what with coming off an Alamo Bowl victory and a number of off-the-field incidents that have been handled satisfactorily. That’s why you quickly slip a Medic Alert bracelet on the senior and glory at the angry incoherence.

On the heels of winning a state championship in basketball, Jeannette High School senior Terrelle Pryor said that he would finally make an announcement on which college he would attend next fall.

Pryor, arguably the nation’s No. 1 high school football recruit, made headlines when he declined to make that decision on National Signing Day last February, leaving his finalists, Ohio State, Michigan, Oregon, and Penn State, flapping in the proverbial breeze.

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Today is national signing day for college-bound recruits, and all eyes are on Terrelle Pryor. Who will the Pennsylvania QB phenom sign with? The Buckeyes? The Wolverines? His home state Nittany Lions?