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Sunday Sports MailBag

Cable company disregards PSU

August 24, 2008

Why should Atlantic Broadband customers be held hostage when it comes to Big Ten football? We are the only customers in our surrounding area that won’t be seeing Penn State football for at least one third of this season. I am a current Atlantic Broadband subscriber, and I pay for a lot of channels that I would care less about. This I do care about. Comcast, Satellite and Verizon have all figured out how to give the Big Ten network to their customers. Atlantic Broadband is the only one who doesn’t care about their subscribers. The excuse is that not enough people care about it. I don’t care to see the cooking shows, or QVC, Outdoor Network, Game Show network, TV Land and many others.

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Don’t shortchange Coakley

August 17, 2008

As a longtime friend and co-worker of “Irish” Pat Coakley, I must say that I am greatly offended by the letter in last Sunday’s Mailbag. Anyone who knows Irish knows that he is an great employee and an even better person.

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Curve field conditions telling

August 10, 2008

I attend many Altoona Curve games each season and enjoy the beauty of Blair County Ballpark. A couple of weeks ago, I decided to sit in the grandstand for a change.

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Churchill an all-time favorite

August 3, 2008

The sudden passing of former St. Francis University basketball player Jeff Churchill came as a shock to yours truly.

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Writer clarifies her position

July 27, 2008

I would like to respond to those who wrote in regarding my previous article ‘‘reward all teams’’ (July 6).

For those of you wrote in, I agree with you about teaching the children life lessons and how to lose with grace and pride.

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Sports teaches life’s lessons

July 20, 2008

In response to the recent letter in the Sunday Mailbag, “Reward all teams [July 6],” the writer indicated she was upset with the Claysburg baseball program because they failed to give trophies or medals to every participant in her son’s league rather

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