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LOS ANGELES – “Failed to protect a child predator from harming children for over a decade.”This is Joe Paterno. This is Penn State. “A striking lack of empathy for child-abuse victims.” This is the one of the most revered leaders in the history of American sports. This is the school that blindly followed him.

The San Jose Sharks re-signed defenseman Marc-Edouard Vlasic to a five-year contract extension, the team's Executive Vice President and General Manager Doug Wilson announced Wednesday.

Shout Out #1 goes to Charles Weston and his volunteers for another great race on July 4th, the Freedom Fest 5k and 1 mile. There were over 760 runners this year, and the kids accounted for about half of that total.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – There's got to be a way to put a positive spin on this, right? Seeing Detroit ace Justin Verlander come into Kauffman Stadium and get his head kicked in like . . . well, like so many other guys who pitched in recent years for the home squad . . .  that's not an all-discouraging thing, is it?

You know how you read the stories in the paper of poor, tortured souls who board a plane for a one-hour flight and six hours later they are still sitting on the tarmac in a plane full of people who have not eaten anything but a piece of wood disguised as a granola bar and whose deodorant has failed thanks to the hot, Texas sun and the lack of A/C in the sweltering plane? And you know how you always think, “I hope that never happens to me?”