The first meeting of the Alabama Chapter of the Penn State Alumni Association will be held on September 26, 2009 at 4:00 pm Central time, prior to the Iowa game. The location has not been determined yet, but I will keep everyone posted. The main purpose of this meeting will be to elect a Board and Officers.

In the meantime, we will be gathering for the first three football games at the new On Tap Sports Cafe location in Hoover at the Galleria. Our membership drive will be held during the Syracuse game on September 12 (same location); we're pushing everyone to at least come to that game at On Tap.

The chapter is open to any alumni, former students, family, friends, fans, etc living in Alabama. All you need to join is a love of all things Penn State!


I hope this reaches other Penn Staters liviing in Alabama who want to join us but haven't heard about the chapter yet.

For the Glory,

Paige

I hope that it's ok to post this. If not, then y'all can take it off. Birmingham is getting a new/revamped alumni chapter/Penn State club. Evidently there was a chapter here ages ago that went defunct. We've finally found someone to reorganize the chapter. Former Penn State football player, Buck Paolone (class of 58 or 59, I think) has stepped up and gotten things moving. His email announcement to those who were surveyed in Alabama and responded with interest is posted below.

What the heck is going on? Who cares what the candidates would want to change about sports? Can they just write an executive order to change the BCS to a playoff system or improve detection of and prevent the use of performance enhancing drugs? Is it just me, or does this not have ANY applicability to college/professional sports? Am I the only one sitting here, going, "huh?"

I'm not posting this in favor of or against either candidate, because this is a sports blog and not a political blog. I just wanted to comment on it and see if anyone else had the same thoughts.

When people learn that I went to Penn State, they keep asking me about the place that has the huge hamburger (can't remember exactly how big, but it takes two hands to show me). Maybe I've been gone too long, but I don't remember this as being a thing for which State College was known. Grilled stickies, yes; Chicken Cosmos, yes; Iced Teas at the Cafe, yes; Baby's, yes. But can anyone tell me where this big hamburger can be found and how the whole world seems to know about it?