FacebookEmailUNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Lou Prato, a 1959 Penn State alumni, distinguished journalist, author and historian of Penn State University, passed away at the age of 87 on Tuesday, February 25. Prato had a lifelong passion for Penn State Athletics. He had a career in television while also working on many freelance opportunities. He taught classes at Penn State and was the founding director of the Penn State All-Sports Museum. Prato dedicated much of his life narrating the history of Penn State Football and Penn State Athletics. During his career, Prato authored a number of Penn State Books, including “The Penn State Football Encyclopedia,” “100 Things Penn State Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die” and “Game Changers: Penn State.” He is also known for exploring the origins of the iconic “We Are…Penn State” chant. Prato’s career began at The Daily Collegian, where he was sports editor in 1958. Following his studies at Penn State, Prato’s career included 40 years as a news director in the broadcast industry (Detroit and Dayton) as well as roles in higher education directing Northwestern University’s journalism program in Washington, D.C., and as an instructor and guest lecturer in several communications courses at Penn State. As the first director of the All-Sports Museum in 2002, Prato led the project from the ground up. He dedicated thousands of hours as a volunteer to his alma mater, serving as an original member of the Bellisario College Alumni Society Board, working on the All-Sports Museum Board, speaking to alumni groups from coast to coast, and mentoring numerous Penn Staters through the decades. He also dedicated more than 30 years to the Radio and Television Digital News Association (RTDNA), including 20 years as the treasurer for its Board of Directors. In 2001, RTDNA created the Lou and Carole Prato Sports Reporting Scholarship, which is awarded to a journalism student who brings Lou’s journalism values to cover sports. Prato won the Alumni Achievement Award from the Bellisario College Alumni Society Board in 2016. The Alumni Achievement Award is presented to a graduate or friend of the college whose significant contributions to the college and/or University, in terms of time and talent, have brought distinction to themselves, the college and the University. Lou is survived by his wife, Carole, a son, Scott, and daughters, Vicki Rearick and Lori Keating. Arrangements will be announced at a later date. Fernando PratoBirth date: Jan 31 Fernando will always be remembered for his smile his desire to make others happy by his jokes We couldn’t have asked for a better husband Fernando was preceded in death by Dusty Silva de Prato (mother) Carmen Prato (sister) as well as many other in-laws Share a story where Fernando's kindness touched your heart Describe a day with Fernando you’ll never forget This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Thousands in Centre County Lose Power After Severe Storms Man Dies by Electrocution in State College After Severe Storm Damaged Power Lines Road Closures Continue in Centre County After Severe Storm Photo courtesy Mark Brennan | Lions 247 with Fight on State If you had a question about Penn State sports history his columns in various publications or talking to the man himself for his encyclopedic knowledge of Nittany Lion athletics That’s one of the fond sentiments that was widely shared among community members and Penn State beat reporters this week after learning that Prato died on Tuesday in State College author and Penn State historian who was instrumental in the founding of the university’s All-Sports Museum was 87 “Lou Prato was the authority on all things Penn State Athletics history,” Penn State Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics Pat Kraft said in a statement I could tell how much sharing the stories of Penn State meant to him and how important it was to him to keep those stories alive His passion for this University was only matched by his love for his family There will never be another Lou Prato and we will miss seeing him around our Penn State Athletics events Our thoughts are with [his wife] Carole and Lou’s children during this difficult time.” A passionate but clear-eyed Penn State supporter Prato got his start in journalism as a reporter and editor at the Daily Collegian before graduating from the university in 1959 His lengthy journalism career included time as an Associated Press reporter in Pennsylvania and broadcast news director in Detroit and Dayton He was a contributor to Sport magazine during Dick Schaap’s tenure as editor and later a regular voice at Blue-White Illustrated He also had an academic career as director of Northwestern University’s journalism program in Washington as an instructor and guest lecturer for communications courses at Penn State “Lou loved being a teacher at Northwestern and Penn State who wore the times he got fired as a journalistic badge of courage,” said Mike Poorman a longtime Penn State football beat writer and a columnist for StateCollege.com “Lou was so proud of his work covering Penn State football — the books his relationships with scores of past players the director of alumni relations and senior lecturer in journalism for Penn State’s Bellisario College of Communications first met Prato in the late 1990s when when the latter and his wife moved in down the street in Stormstown took to Prato “as a kind grandfather figure,” he said over the next three decades Lou was a great friend an effective provocateur when debating sports and politics and a literal walking encyclopedia of Penn State football,” Poorman said With his deep interest in and knowledge of Penn State sports history Prato became the foremost curator of the Nittany Lion athletics story His books have included the “Penn State Football Encyclopedia,” an indispensable meticulously researched chronicle of the program’s history as well as “100 Things Penn State Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die,” “Game Changers: The Greatest Plays in Penn State Football History,” and “We Are Penn State: The Remarkable Journey of the 2012 Nittany Lions.” His curiosity and quest to tell the stories of the past led him to separate myths from facts — and delve into the complicated spaces in between — such as in his explorations of the origins of Penn State’s “We Are” cheer “I never thought I’d be what I’m doing today but that’s what happens when you’re a young kid You never know,” Prato told Bellisario College Student Media reporter Kaleb Boyer in 2024 “But in many ways I’m still a sportswriter He also played a critical role in the development of the Penn State All-Sports Museum and served as its inaugural director after it opened in 2002 “The Penn State All-Sports Museum was his fourth child and perhaps his greatest legacy,” Poorman said “With the support of (former Penn State athletic director) Tim Curley in dusty Rec Hall closets and forgotten trophy cases to create the museum from the ground up He literally worked himself to exhaustion in making that treasure a reality.” Prato’s support for Penn State went even further His volunteer work included serving as an original member of the Bellisario College of Communications Alumni Society Board speaking to alumni groups around the country and mentoring numerous Penn State students and alumni He was recognized by the Bellisario College Alumni Society in 2016 with the Alumni Achievement Award for significant contributions to the college and university. And his three decades of service to the Radio and Television Digital News Association were honored in 2001 when the organization established the Lou and Carole Prato Sports Reporting Scholarship which is awarded to students who bring Prato’s journalism values to their coverage of sports “One of Lou’s greatest gifts was his ability to connect with Penn State beat writers from three He was prodigious as both a writer and a reader A good part of his great writing was based on his tenacious and painstaking research personalized by his ear for interviewing and his heart for Penn State.” Some of Poorman’s fondest memories of Prato are intertwined with another legendary Penn State sports figure the late Nittany Lion football radio voice Fran Fisher the three men hosted monthly lunches with an invited guest someone connected to the university and usually in athletics who sang for their supper,” Poorman said “We hosted literally dozens of those lunches and the by-play between Lou and Fran was a treasure of my life and the fact that Lou would always help himself to Fran’s cole slaw “They were and will remain my heroes Lou dubbed them ‘Frick and Frack.’ To me they are the true Lions of Penn State.” and daughters Vicki Rearick and Lori Keating.  Arrangements will be announced at a later date 80% of consumers turn to directories with reviews to find a local business We offer the latest breaking news and videos straight from the Centre County region in Central PA Contact us: info@statecollege.com © Copyright 2000 –  2024 | StateCollege.com® | All Rights Reserved | State College PA – Centre County – Central Pennsylvania – Home of Penn State University This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. StateCollege.com Privacy Policy page The campus visit is one of the most important parts of your college selection process University News The Charger Blog Charger 360 video podcast Alumni Magazine Director of Communications & Public Relations Stay up to date with our weekly enewsletter highlighting stories from around the University and media clips featuring our faculty experts University of New Haven students explored topics ranging from wartime trauma to disinformation campaigns while building academic and professional connections in the field of Russian student blogger Beatrice Glaviano ’26 finds peace in a stressful time and reflects on how to grow from moments of failure Honors students and award recipients were recognized for their academic excellence and dedication to making a difference in public safety and law enforcement Penn State alumni and historian Lou Prato died at 87 on Tuesday, Penn State Athletics confirmed on Thursday He served as the founding director of the All-Sports Museum and taught communications courses at Penn State for some time Members of Penn State Athletics remember Prato for his dedication and passion for Penn State Athletics “Lou Prato was the authority on all things Penn State Athletics history,” Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics Pat Kraft said in a release and we will miss seeing him around our Penn State Athletics events Our thoughts are with Carole and Lou’s children during this difficult time.” Prato served as a sports editor for the Daily Collegian in 1958 later writing three books: “The Penn State Football Encyclopedia,” “100 Things Penn State Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die,” and “Game Changers: Penn State.” Prato became a news director in Detroit and Dayton for 40 years before directing Northwestern’s journalism program in Washington Prato dedicated more than three decades to the Radio and Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) serving as the treasurer for its board of directors One year before becoming the first director of the All-Sports Museum RTDNA began to grant one communications student the Lou and Carole Prato Sports Reporting Scholarship The annual award honors Prato’s work and dedication to sports journalism when Penn State’s first sports-dedicated museum opened its doors dedicating thousands of hours to his alma mater he was an original member of the Bellisario College Alumni Society Board Prato won the Alumni Achievement Award from the Bellisario College Alumni Society Board in 2016 for his contributions to the university The university will announce arrangements at a later date You can read more about Prato’s impact on the Penn State community here Evan Halfen is a senior broadcast journalism major from Newark, DE, and is Onward State's community manager and an associate editor. Evan loves all things Penn State, tomfoolery, tailgating, being loud, just about any beach, the Birds, and his puppy, Wentzy. You can direct all your tips, roasts, and jokes to his email: [email protected] or Instagram: @evan.halfen “What’s funny to me is that after spending so much time telling other people’s stories I conclude my time here by writing about my own.” and admission is free for students with valid identification Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" “Some part of me just hasn’t been able to let go of gymnastics yet it feels like it keeps coming back to me.” « Back Lou Prato always had a Penn State story to tell Prato was a fixture at Penn State home football games and was known for his prolific writing and his work with the sports museum, which opened in 2002 (He curated its content and served as its first director). His books included the all-encompassing Penn State Football Encyclopedia and "100 Things Penn State Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die." He was a humble and willing story-teller to whoever sought his expertise, which included research on subject matters such as the origin of Penn State's "We Are!" cheer “Lou Prato was the authority on all things Penn State Athletics history,” Penn State athletic director Pat Kraft said in a statement. "From the moment I met Lou "His passion for this University was only matched by his love for his family Our thoughts are with Carole and Lou’s children during this difficult time." Prato’s career began at The Daily Collegian Prato’s career included 40 years as a news director in the broadcast industry and roles in higher education with Northwestern University and Frank Bodani covers Penn State football for the York Daily Record and USA Today Network. Contact him at  fbodani@ydr.com and follow him on X To mark the Jubilee of the Missionaries of Mercy together with the city and the Prato textile district donated 1500 stoles for this group of priests who are sent throughout the world to bring forgiveness and hope with the faculty of absolving the sins reserved to the Apostolic See The stoles are made of warm purple jacquard fabric and are proper artisan products made by several companies in the Prato textile district The design on the liturgical vestments is by Monsignor Daniele Scaccini The logo takes up the symbols of the Jubilee and features a cross intertwined with the keys of St a reference to the mission of priests and their task of bringing the light of Christ to the world represented by gold filaments to represent radiance and light during the Jubilee of the Missionaries of Mercy Giovanni Nerbini and the Mayor of the city arrived at the Vatican to symbolically deliver a stole to Archbishop Rino Fisichella in the splendid setting of the Vatican Gardens The stoles were then distributed to the Missionaries of Mercy as a mandate to renew their commitment to the ministry before the main celebration on Sunday which recalls the donation of a cope to St John Paul II 25 years ago is a source of great pride for the city and the textile district of Prato SUPPORTERS AND OFFICIAL LOGO LICENSEES OF JUBILEE 2025 The iubilaeum2025 website uses technical or similar cookies to make navigation easier and guarantee the use of services and also technical and third-party analysis cookies. If you want to know more click here By closing this banner you consent to the use of cookies Lou Prato of State College passed away on February 26 He spent his professional life in the television and radio news business as a well as being a writer He fell in love with Carole from the moment he saw her in her junior year of high school after she and her family moved from the Lewistown-Burnham They began dating in 1955 when she was a senior and Lou was a freshman at Penn State Lou’s ambition was to be sportswriter as three of his mother’s brothers had been Penn State’s Journalism School saw Lou’s potential from the articles he wrote for the high school newspaper He submitted those articles for the Biddle scholarship annually given to one incoming freshman for full tuition in his freshman year and was awarded the scholarship he spent most of his time outside the classroom covering various sports for the student newspaper As the paper’s Sport Editor in his senior year travelling with the team to the away games Lou was a proud member of the Theta Delta Chi Fraternity Lou was in the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) Following his graduation from Penn State in 1959 and with his commission as an Ensign,  and assigned to the communications division of the cruiser Helena (CA-75) Until the Navy transferred him to the aircraft carrier Yorktown in November of 1960 Lou was in charge of the top secret codes that changed monthly.  Teaching college students became a major part of Lou’s life He became a journalism professor at Wayne State University in Detroit This led to an associate professor position at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in charge of the graduate broadcast segment in Washington followed by two years of teaching at Penn State Two years after Carole and Lou moved to State College in 1996 Lou’s book The Penn State Football Encyclopedia was published Six books on Penn State football followed and when he died he was still writing his eighth book about the 1946 and 1947 teams that made a historic stand for civil rights He also was recognized by the athletics department as the unofficial Penn State sports historian.  Penn State’s Athletics Director Tim Curley hired Lou to help him start the Penn State All-Sports Museum He was chosen as the first director of the museum in 2001,retiring on December 31 In what Lou considered was his “spare time,” he served as the unpaid volunteer treasurer of the Radio-Television News Director’s Association (RTNDA) from 1980 through 2011 As treasurer and from his free-lance writing Lou could not believe the historic things he saw that included the first laptop computer.  daughters Vicki (Jeffrey) Rearick of Cabo San Lucas Mexico eight grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren his stepfather Mark Davis and his father Michael Prato The Prato family will hold a viewing from 1:00 – 5:00 pm on Sunday A funeral service will be held at 10:00 am on Monday 2025 at Koch Funeral Home with Jackie Naginey Hook officiating A private family burial will take place in Indiana Contributions in Lou’s honor can be made to the RTDNA Lou and Carole Sports Scholarship for students at RTDNA the Penn State football and sports historian who archived more than a century of Nittany Lions athletics history professor and historian who served in a variety of media roles Prato served as the first director of Penn State's All-Sports Museum at Beaver Stadium curating the history of Nittany Lions sports through its athletes He also chronicled the origin story of Penn State's "We Are!" cheer “Lou Prato was the authority on all things Penn State Athletics history,” Penn State Athletic Director Pat Kraft said in a statement Our thoughts are with Carole and Lou’s children during this difficult time." Prato's passion project was the Penn State All-Sports Museum Prato served as the museum's first director devising its mission and curating the content The museum has become a popular stop for Penn State football fans during the season and beyond Prato also was a prolific writer. He authored the essential Penn State Football Encyclopedia which traced the roots of Nittany Lions football through interviews and archival footage The book pays particular attention to the Joe Paterno years notably his two national-championship seasons and daughters Vicki Rearick and Lori Keating Penn State Athletics joins the friends and family of historian Lou Prato as we mourn his passing and remember his remarkable life. 🔗: https://t.co/EWCtMh0m8U#WeAre pic.twitter.com/S8tfxsRNrK The content on this site is for entertainment and educational purposes only Betting and gambling content is intended for individuals 21+ and is based on individual commentators' opinions and not that of Sports Illustrated or its affiliates All picks and predictions are suggestions only and not a guarantee of success or profit If you or someone you know has a gambling problem crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-GAMBLER The following description comes from the event organizer the only guide you need to things to do in Portland Use the calendar to select the date(s) you'd like to be reminded about or choose All Event Dates to be reminded every time this event happens the school’s foremost historian on athletics and the first director of the all-sports museum (2002-15) passed away rather unexpectedly last week at the age of 87 Athletic Director Pat Kraft called Prato “the authority on all things” about PSU sports history and added “there will never be another Lou Prato,” and he’s right Prato wrote the “Penn State Football Encyclopedia” in 1998 — 654 pages — and it turns out he was just getting warmed up The prolific author wrote another six books and was working on his eighth at the time of his death writing about and talking Penn State history He was a friend to all who covered the Nittany Lions Need a quote about anything that happened in the old days He had so much information and could easily veer in different directions but that made the interactions all the more enlightening and fun after Penn State drew SMU in the College Football Playoff Prato was tracing the only other matchup between the teams — in the 1948 Cotton Bowl when race relations in Dallas necessitated that the Lions stay on a Naval base outside the city Prato knew or knew those who knew all the coaches over the last 100 years — from Bob Higgins to Joe Bedenk when Franklin wasn’t sure he wanted to make the commitment of participating in the popular Wednesday Quarterback Club luncheon it was Prato who was part of a contingent to smartly convince him of its tradition He also passionately researched the origin of the “We Are Penn State” chant which was spearheaded by PSU cheerleaders in the 1970s his love affair with Penn State began after he saw his first game at Beaver Field in 1955 in a matchup that featured Jim Brown and Lenny Moore the two greatest players to ever step foot on Beaver Field (and most other fields) Prato attended Penn State and graduated in 1959 he participated in the annual “Blood Bowl,” between the staffs of the Collegian and the Pitt News on Saturday mornings before the real game (Please mention this to Franklin when the subject of the lost rivalry comes up) Prato spent 40 years as a news director in the TV industry (mainly Detroit and Dayton) and taught at Northwestern all the while maintaining his Penn State ties he was standing with Paterno at the Miami Airport afterward when Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell approached and said “I heard you (Paterno) are interviewing with the Steelers.” but because of his friendship with Paterno Tim Curley made the perfect choice by anointing Prato to direct the PSU museum as he was able to combine his knowledge and passion to connect with Nittany Lions’ fans while still practicing journalism I could tell how much sharing the stories of Penn State meant to him and how important it was to him to keep those stories alive,” Kraft said would have been married 66 years on Friday They had three children and multiple grandchildren He once said: “If someone had come to me when I was an undergraduate as much a fan covering the team as anything and said ‘You’re going to be the Penn State historian,’ I’d have said Prato would attend the weekly press conferences and sit in the back with Fran Fisher Fisher talked about witnessing the last three home runs of Babe Ruth’s career at Forbes Field on May 25 part of a long professional and personal friendship that I will miss — as will anyone who knew Lou Prato and admired his work Rudel can be reached at nrudel@altoonamirror.com PITTSBURGH — The 20-year-old man who fell from the top of a 21-foot-high wall onto the warning track at PNC Park .. 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If the problem persists, please visit my.wpengine.com or check our status blog for updates You don't have permissions to access this page Arnie Brown walked so that Kirk Muller and Dan Boyle could run Mike and Dan travel back to the Islanders’ inaugural 1972 season to learn about Arnie Brown a former Ranger who did not enjoy his short stay on Long Island The original Islanders were worse than bad When he acquired the 31-year-old Brown in October of 1972 Bill Torrey was probably looking for a veteran leader and someone who knew how to play defense What he got was a combative malcontent who openly wanted to be traded and was ready to play the heel But Brown’s eventual trade months later led to the acquisition of not one but two Islanders legends - one four decades later Prato tells us about his indispensable book “Dynasty: The Oral History of the New York Islanders, 1972-84” as well as his latest, “Hapless Islanders: The Story Behind the New York Islanders’ Infamous 1972-73 Season” and some of the stories surrounding that season. Along the way we discuss names like Ernie Hicke, Brian “Spinner” Spencer, Denis DeJordy and...uh... Tony Orlando and Dawn? It’s a wild ride in the Wayback Machine We’re always open to suggestions about other Weird Islanders to discuss Candidates must fulfill one of the two of the following: Subscribe to our Patreon! 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Subs: Ansaldi, Ceravolo, Lori, Acampora, Fontana, De Simone, Peretti, Rota. Coach: Cammaroto. Prato (3-4-1-2): Fantoni; Giusti, Conson, Diana; Limberti, Mazza, Rossi Alessio, Girgi; Cozzari; Barbuti, Pereira. Subs: Gariti, Galliani, Sepe, Scarafoni, Danesi, Di Stefano, Remedi, Robi, Magaz. Coach: Mariotti. Referee: Mirko Palaia from Pavia, assisted by assistants Gerardo Graziano from Vicenza and Sara Silvestri from San Benedetto del Tronto. Goalscorers: Girgi in the 47th minute and Pereira in the 58th minute. All this, in fact, after firecrackers and smoke bombs had rained down on the pitch, which had already been thrown by the Wool ultras right at the start of the match, with the referee forced to suspend the match for 10 minutes and the teams forced to return to the changing rooms to stay there for about 10 minutes, and again during the first half. The behavior of their supporters, invited both by the head of the police station and by the white and blue footballers to stop throwing firecrackers and smoke bombs, will cost, in addition to the default defeat, also a fine to the club of president Stefano Commini. But not only that, because around the corner there could be other measures such as the disqualification of the pitch, to be served at this point in the next championship. The worst way, in short, to end the tournament and which ruins all the good done by Mariotti's team in the first 63 minutes of play. A truly bitter ending. Against Fiorenzuola, already relegated to Excellence, the Prato It takes him a while to get going, but when he does - that is, at the end of the first half - he forces Cabrini to work with Barbuti's header and then breaks the deadlock in injury time with Girgi's goal, well set up by Mazza. At the start of the second half, Barbuti once again calls the opposing goalkeeper into action and then Pereira scores, taking advantage of Lomolino's mistake and beating Cabrini. All before the sad epilogue. *The following column appeared in the August 21, 2015 edition of Blue White Illustrated’s magazine. It is written by BWI friend and colleague, Lou Prato, who passed away Wednesday When BWI editor Matt Herb asked me to write a column about my personal memories of Penn State’s 25 years in the Big Ten I thought instantly of how much my professional life has changed since 1990 Back then I was strictly a dedicated Penn State football fan one of the multiple thousands in the Nittany Nation who not only helped fill Beaver Stadium in the fall but also traveled to the away games near and far I had covered Penn State football as part of the media in the late 1950s and sporadically throughout the ’60s But after moving to Detroit in late November 1969 I rarely wrote about the Nittany Lions except for covering bowl games and only saw one game at Beaver Stadium – strictly as a fan – until 1983 That’s when I left the Midwest after 14 years and returned east to live and work in Washington going back to the first time I walked into Michigan Stadium as a teenager Detroit had been a second home since the late 1940s with close relatives from both sides of my family living there primarily as a news executive for a television and radio station Our radio station was one of several that broadcast Michigan games We also covered Michigan and Michigan State games for our television sports department and college football outside the Big Ten and Notre Dame was rarely mentioned on our radio talk shows starting with the Friday night media reception Our station’s play-by-play sportscaster and backup TV sports anchor Don brought me into his circle of close friends that included the sportscasters of the Detroit Tigers and Red Wings and a couple of sportswriters from the local newspapers would travel in an RV to the Michigan-Michigan State game in Ann Arbor or East Lansing and other Detroit sports people would drop by from time to time so dominated by Michigan and Ohio State that the media referred to it somewhat derisively as the “Big Two and the Little Eight.” I was still a Penn State fan at heart but it was difficult getting any information about the Nittany Lion football team even in the Sunday newspapers I wrote an article for a Penn State game day program about my experience with Big Ten football entitled “A Heathen Among Missionaries.” This excerpt from that piece summed up my frustration: “You really don’t know what loneliness is until you’ve sat among 101,000 Midwest blue noses in Ann Arbor and listened to the silence that greets Penn State football scores … Three years ago this provincial auto capital placed Penn State football somewhere between an Italian boccia game and Polish soccer exhibition Yes, a little hyperbole by your author, but not far from the truth. And keep in mind that this was the early ’70s. Joe Paterno’s team had twice finished No won two Orange Bowls and a Cotton Bowl and was on its way to a Sugar Bowl game against then No Shortly after Penn State entered the Big Ten I sent an updated edited version of that article unsolicited to Blue White Illustrated’s Phil Grosz He must have tossed it immediately into the trash And that truly is one of my first personal memories on this 25th anniversary of Penn State in the Big Ten Phil began using me as a contributing writer not long after the publication of my first book the book eventually led athletic director Tim Curley to hire me to help start the Penn State All-Sports Museum and become its first director in 2001 I have a column in BWI and my seventh Penn State football book will be out this fall That’s how much my professional life has changed When Penn State began competing in the Big Ten I was an assistant professor of journalism for Northwestern in charge of a graduate broadcast program in Washington including a monthly column in the prestigious American Journalism Review titled “The Business of Broadcasting.” and I were dedicated Penn State football fans We became season-ticket holders in the fall of 1984 and by 1988 we had a Blue and White van and flew a white flag with the word “Prato” in blue above our tailgates Madison and Minneapolis added to the excursions to Philadelphia College Park and the bowl games in Florida Sometimes we had to fly to see our Nittany Lions play such teams as USC and BYU but it was worth it to passionate fans like us And we hardly knew anyone connected with the team My Northwestern students could not believe my office was decorated with Penn State football photos and memorabilia some of the students joined us at our tailgates at home and away One of the most memorable times was in 1994 on the Saturday of the now historic game with Michigan at Ann Arbor the “tailgate” was in a 15th-floor hotel suite in downtown Los Angeles This was the nationally televised showdown game against Michigan in mid-October Carole and I could not be in Ann Arbor because I was attending a broadcasting news convention A convention conflict forced me to miss most of the first half when Penn State jumped out to a 16-0 second-quarter lead my suite began filling up with many Penn State fans attending the convention One of my recent Northwestern grad students who had his undergraduate degree from Michigan had been watching the game with my wife from the beginning and he was ecstatic He was en route to a TV station in northern California for his first job interview and was one of the few Michigan fans in my room When Bobby Engram caught that 16-yard touchdown pass from Kerry Collins and won the game, 31-24, in the last two minutes, I thought my student was going to jump out the window. Well, Rich Eisen got that job in Redding, and he wasn’t there long before ESPN hired him and turned him into a star. He’s now the lead anchor for the NFL Network. And how could any of us who were there forget the “Snow Bowl” in mid-November of 1995 when an unexpected 18-inch snowfall limited parking and forced spectators to sit in shivering temperatures with snow all around them? At least the “good guys” won that one, with holder Joe Nastasi scoring on a fake field goal.  Top 101Shane BeamerPuts NCAA on blast Hot3Trump By clicking "Subscribe to Newsletter", I agree to On3's Privacy Notice, Terms and use of my personal information described therein When Penn State’s football team began competing in the conference later that fall Michigan and Northwestern were among the four Big Ten teams Penn State had never played before I remembered several Penn State games prior to 1993 against Ohio State What I didn’t realize until writing my first book was that the school’s first game with a future Big Ten opponent was at Ohio State in 1912 That game ended in a controversial forfeit when the heavily favored Buckeyes walked off the field in the fourth quarter because they were getting physically beaten up and were losing Additional major upsets over Ohio State followed in 1956 and ’64 and by the time they met in their first Big Ten game in 1993 Penn State had won six of eight games with the Buckeyes That 1993 game in the dreary late-October swirling snow and mud at Columbus was a portent of things to come in the Ohio State series and we fans who were there were harassed continually by the Ohio State fans another revelation of how the atmosphere on the road would be far different in the Big Ten than it had been as an Eastern Independent Nothing was more gratifying to fans like me than the rematch the following year on a sunny Homecoming afternoon at Beaver Stadium What I remember most was not the game itself but being introduced to the family of the Buckeyes’ losing quarterback Carole and I entertained two close friends from Dayton that weekend I could fill a column just with my memories of Ohio State games some much more unpleasant than the Hoying encounter including clashes with other Prato family members who are big-time Buckeye fans even though my dislike for the arrogant Michigan followers is just behind the Buckeye horde and some Iowa yahoos We had our first taste of unpleasantness in Kinnick Stadium in the second game of the 1993 season but it was worse in 2008 when Iowa upset the Lions with a field goal on the last play of the game That was the longest ride home for Carole and me We hurried out of the stadium seconds after the field goal and didn’t stop except for fuel until we checked into a hotel in Elkhart The frustrating loss to Iowa that night almost equaled Minnesota’s Hail Marys and winning field goal in the last two minutes that knocked then-No 2 Penn State out of national championship contention in mid-November 1999 at Beaver Stadium That shocking defeat still remains my worst Big Ten memory although seeing Adam Taliaferro lying motionless on the Ohio Stadium field in 2000 and then being strapped down and wheeled away was more emotional seeing Adam walk through the Beaver Stadium tunnel a year later in the opening game of the 2001 season would have been one of my best memories But I had to watch “the miracle” on a hospital room TV after becoming dizzy and fainting during the pregame tailgating (and no I can’t end this column without mentioning the two Rose Bowl games and the 4 hour 39 minute triple-overtime marathon that was the 2006 Orange Bowl my best memories of those games are not of what happened on the field During that 1994 broadcasting convention in Los Angeles that I noted earlier Carole and I drove to Pasadena to see the Rose Bowl stadium for the first time we made reservations with longtime Pennsylvania friends to stay at the same hotel and spend several days together We also were going to tailgate with Ira Miller another Penn State Daily Collegian alum who at the time was covering the 49ers for the San Francisco Chronicle Ira also had the contacts to get us the tickets for the game and the Rose Parade This was to be another dream come true for a couple of dedicated college football fans my wife wound up in a Virginia hospital and could not make the trip Ira threw a great tailgate with a lot of his friends stopping by including Penn Staters like Tim Curley and Richie Lucas I had Carole’s unused game ticket framed and gave it to her as a Christmas present I ducked when she suddenly gave it back to me Carole was excited when we returned to Los Angeles in late December 2008 she was thrilled when we had a special backstage media tour of the Rose Bowl parade floats Ira Miller had obtained seats to the parade and this time we knew they were prime seats in the first grandstand where the parade begins with the TV cameras beaming it all across the world Carole also was with me for the various news conferences for both teams at the media hotel in downtown L.A She took an instant dislike to USC coach Pete Carroll but that was natural for such a passionate Nittany Lion fan After the last news conference on New Year’s Day the Penn State group gathered in the media room to watch a Nittany Lion basketball game on television we both woke up vomiting with our heads thumping That was the beginning of our 24-hour nightmare We did make it to the parade but were too sick to enjoy the great seats we slept in our car before and after the game and didn’t have much to eat until a bowl of soup later that night we learned that several Penn State media members had also become sick and it was traced to tainted ice cubes in the media hotel Let me end on perhaps the best of all memories In my last month as director of the All-Sports Museum Carole and I were part of the official Penn State party at the 2006 Orange Bowl It was an experience most fans can only dream about The highlight was the postgame celebration at 2 a.m jam-packed Penn State hotel suite with Joe Paterno Michael Robinson and dozens of other players families and invited fans among the throng Never in the past 25 years were these words more meaningful: “We are… Penn State!”  Talk about it with our premium members in the Lions Den, here! 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(WCBS/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - A man found himself in a scary situation when he sunk up to his waist in quicksand-like mud while walking his dog 24-year-old Kyle Prato was walking with his 7-year-old dog Stryker through a park when his dog suddenly darted away in pursuit of a duck but quickly realized he stepped in something strange As soon as he stepped in a muddy bed that used to be a lake and over 30 minutes it was up to my waist," Prato said "I felt stuck and I thought I was going to keep sinking further so it was a little terrifying and quickly called a nearby friend for help I think I'm slipping into quicksand,'" he said Although Prato's friend was jogging in the same park while the pair were on the phone Prato's friend lost service "I was just screaming his name as loud as I could," Prato's friend told reporters I was stopping bystanders and they were all like 'There's no quicksand here.'" Authorities were able to ping Prato's cell phone to locate him and used a police chopper to reach him but Prato warned first responders not to get too close and risk falling in the mud themselves Although one officer lost his footing and nearly slipped into the mud "I'm very grateful that he didn't listen to me "He risked his life to help me." Dan Dongvort with the Smithtown Fire Department explained that the mud is similar to quicksand "It's similar to quicksand that we all saw in cartoons as a kid," Dongvort said "It's going to hold you in and you have no recourse of being able to get yourself out because its all around you." Thanks for visiting The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here was a Penn Stater through and through and was renowned for being Penn State’s unofficial historian The longtime Penn State sports fan and historian passed away at the age of 87 on Tuesday “Lou radiated this sort of understated knowledgeability,” said Lewis Lazarow “He knew so much and had devoted so much of his life to the history of Penn State Athletics Prato graduated from Penn State in 1959 after serving as the Daily Collegian’s sports editor he went on to have a lengthy journalism career including time as an Associated Press reporter in Pennsylvania and a broadcast news director in Detroit and Dayton he served as director of Northwestern’s journalism program in Washington Prato finally returned to Happy Valley in the late 1990s as an instructor and guest lecturer for several communications courses at Penn State A love of sports in general and a desire to talk about the history of sports which mattered a great deal to him,” Lazarow shared it was a love of Penn State and of Penn State Athletics but one of his most significant and impactful was the founding of the Penn State All-Sports Museum in 2002 “There was an unrelenting sense of pride associated with this place and what it is that he had been able to accomplish in bringing this place to life,” Lazarow said “There was an article that he wrote back in 2002 just a few months after we had opened for the Penn State football annual… He wrote it as a way to give people an introduction to the museum He goes through in that article in his typical self-effacing fashion he gives credit to everybody else who was a part of bringing it into a reality But he also talks about opening up closets and digging through old storerooms to find stuff Nobody writes about everything they went through to open a museum if they didn’t really care.” Although he retired soon after opening the museum in 2005 “I was excited to pick up a phone call from [Lou] he was working on a project or something he was writing and he needed this piece of information… We’d go on talk for a while about whatever it is he was working on or writing or laugh about the whole ‘We Are Penn State’ story because we know the truth Almost anyone who knew Prato explains him in the same way “He was just the most fun to talk to,” said Lazarow “There was this self-effacing humility he had I’m just doing what I can.’ He would talk your ear off about places he had been and events that had transpired that he’d had the privilege of writing about or commenting on as a journalist and you’d spend hours talking to him.” Ella is a first-year Telecommunications major from Miami, Florida (though will forever be a Jersey girl). You can probably find her scrolling through TikTok, drinking too much coffee, staying away from the HUB, or attempting to like the gym. If needed, you can contact her through email at [email protected] or on Twitter @ellawehm Penn State Libraries will be offering de-stressing tools as well as free snacks throughout the week for students in need 2025 at 3:49 pm ET.css-79elbk{position:relative;}Kyle Prato and his dog reunite on Wednesday with the Suffolk County Police Department sergeant and officer who rescued them at a former lake at Blydenburgh County Park in Smithtown on Jan (Suffolk County Police Department)HAUPPAUGE NY — The Suffolk County police sergeant and officer who rescued a jogger who had been stuck in chest-high mud at a former lake in Smithtown were honored on Wednesday Katherine Kuzminski and officer Richard Esposito rescued the jogger Kuzminski and Esposito were honored by Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine and Suffolk County Police Commissioner Kevin Catalina Prato, 24, of Medford, called 911 at 12:10 p.m. Jan. 30 report he was stuck in mud up to his chest at a former lake and as Prato was attempting to retrieve Stryker Aviation officers located Prato and hovered over the area until the officers on the ground reached him and rescued him and his dog Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts. Liberal ArtsStudents travel to Italy to develop multicultural and linguistic skillsPenn State students traveled to Prato in May as part of an embedded programPenn State students gathered on the Ponte Vecchio in Florence UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — This past May, Penn State students traveled to Prato, Italy, in the Multilingual and Intercultural Communication in Italy embedded program in the College of the Liberal Arts The two-week trip abroad was open to students enrolled in SPAN 210N IT 210N or PORT 210N and explored the fundamental components of the intersection of language and culture through humanities and social science The course, taught by Lauren Halberstadt, associate teaching professor of Spanish, focuses on linguistic strategies for succeeding in multilingual situations, as well as intercultural communication practices for navigating new environments. This is the second year in a row that Halberstadt has taken her class to Italy “I designed the program to intentionally target diverse experiences in multiple language and cultures in a very intercultural city,” Halberstadt said the students learn how multiple cultures intersect They are prepared by the in-residence course in the spring semester for travel in May that is curated to push their expectations and expand their knowledge This group really leaned into each and every opportunity in a genuine way!” Throughout the trip, students learned about Italian language and culture, as well as how to develop their skills in multilingualism. The students shared photos from their trip on the @mictravelpsu Instagram account a third-year student majoring in Spanish and public relations discussed some of the educational opportunities they had to help expand this knowledge “We took a class at the Monash University Prato Centre where my classmates and I learned more about the Italian language and the cultural and historical aspects of Italy,” Laing said Isabella Salcedo a fourth-year student in the integrated undergraduate-graduate degree program in Spanish and human resources and employment relations explained another unique educational opportunity had by the class “We also did many cultural activities through Monash University including cultural exchanges with Australian and Italian students,” Salcedo said On top of the various educational experiences students had the opportunity to explore and embrace Italian culture throughout their trip students additionally traveled to Florence Whether it was an event the class had planned or exploring the town during their free time students were able to experience a lot of what Italy has to offer “We did a variety of activities including tours of major art museums such as the Uffizi Galleries toured local textile factories and toured a biscotti factory,” Salcedo said “We also visited a female-owned winery to learn about the process in which the wine is made.” While students reminisced on several of their favorite memories including the various trips and cultural experiences they had they explained that the connections they made stood out above all a fourth-year student majoring in marketing and minoring in Spanish elaborated on the friendships she made through the trip “My favorite memory from the trip was spending time with all of the amazing people I met through the class,” Howard said I wouldn’t have met some of my lifelong friends and it truly wouldn’t have been the same without them.” Students also said that this trip gave them numerous skills that they will utilize for the rest of their lives she gained both practical and professional skills “This trip allowed me to travel to another continent navigate Italian public transportation and create new cultural and educational experiences in another country,” Laing said “I hope to use my majors to pursue a career in international affairs their experience abroad allowed them to explore their studies deeper and develop skills they can use both in the classroom and in their future careers “Since part of my Spanish degree is about cultural immersion this helped me learn to adapt quickly to a new environment,” Salcedo said I knew little to nothing about Italian culture aside from the stereotypes you hear growing up so learning to navigate a new setting with little language and cultural awareness was a skill I’m glad I acquired.” students were incredibly grateful they had the opportunity to study abroad and encouraging other Penn State students to take the chance if the opportunity presents itself “The advice I would give to students interested in traveling would be to do it!” Howard said “Study abroad and take the embedded program — you will not regret it and I am incredibly thankful for the opportunity.” “Make room in your undergraduate plans for study abroad,” Laing added personal growth and professional development that makes you a much better person and future young professional There are all kinds of programs for every area of study.” Students interested in the spring 2025 Prato, Italy, embedded program should email Halberstadt at lyp5028@psu.edu The Career Enrichment Network empowers Liberal Arts students to explore engage and define their career journey through diverse career development opportunities Students can meet with a career coach to explore careers the Liberal Arts Alumni Mentor Program and more the Career Enrichment Network provides Liberal Arts students the opportunity to apply for funding to help support participation in many of these experiences Luxury 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European Space Agency’s (ESA) Sentinel-1 constellation has enabled the scientific community to identify and monitor several geohazards highlights the effectiveness of interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) in detecting abrupt increases in ground deformation rates in an industrial area of Montemurlo municipality InSAR data enabled prompt identification of the phenomenon supporting the authorities in charge of environmental management to thoroughly investigate the situation an on-site validation was performed via field surveys confirming the presence of cracks and fissures on some edifices settlement gauge and topographic levelling corroborated the InSAR data's findings regarding vertical deformation Integration of collected data allowed for spatial identification and assessment of the subsidence bowl and its source depth recognized by the remote sensing data The Montemurlo case offers a procedural guideline for managing abrupt accelerations identified by InSAR data in subsidence-prone areas due to fluid overexploitation these data proved useful in helping local authorities responsible for hydrogeomorphological risk management With the exacerbation of deformation issues in subsidence-prone regions due to climate change early detection and monitoring of such phenomena are increasingly crucial with InSAR data playing a central role in achieving this goal and they are still evolving ongoing evolution MT-InSAR enables the identification and monitoring of subsidence ground deformation taking advantage of both displacement velocity and time series (TS) data over time were reported to local authorities in charge of hydrogeomorphological risk management to inform them about the worsening of existing situations or the appearance of newly activated ground deformation scenarios the screening of the entire regional territory and the highlighting of critical deformations were useful for better addressing the available funds for restoration or prevention Localization of the area of interest and of the ground deformation Ground deformation maps of the period 2015–2022 of continuous monitoring in the Tuscany region and characteristics of the Sentinel-1 data the industrial district in the southwestern Montemurlo municipality has experienced an increase in manufacturing activities predominantly in textile production and industrial warehouses requiring a large amount of water to be pumped from the subsoil No critical events were recorded before mid-2017 Flowchart for monitoring detected deformation areas by InSAR continuous monitoring The sample case of the industrial area of Montemurlo was adopted to validate the presented approach starting from the spatial and temporal characterization of the phenomena taking into consideration the velocity of deformation and the InSAR time series it was possible to well-identify the area involved in the deformation The delimitation can be supported by the decomposition of the velocity in vertical and East–West component facilitating also the characterization of the phenomena With consideration of the time-series of deformation and utilizing the mining data analysis for the identification of anomalous points it was possible to identify the starting moment of the deformation and the temporal evolution and thus InSAR data with abrupt positive or negative trend variations were obtained Once the phenomenon was spatial and temporal characterized by remote sensed data a validation campaign was conducted to cross-correlate the InSAR data with recorded damage by a field survey followed by a levelling campaign one of the most common techniques of topographic measurement that can be adopted for settlement assessment to more thoroughly investigate the critical situation and expensive system should be installed: a vertical borehole settlement gauge This system was useful for (i) collecting geological information of the area of interest even if strong lateral and vertical variations in short distance are known in this area and (ii) helping to clarify the vertical deformation in different portions along the column Spatial analysis of the ground deformation of Montemurlo Ground horizontal (a) and vertical (b) velocity components of deformation in the industrial area of Montemurlo Vertical ground deformation maps (× 10 exaggerated) by year (c) and time series of measurement points cross-correlated with nearby levelling points (d) The evolution of vertical deformation (exaggerated 10 times for easier visualisation) affecting the ground over the year from 2016 to 2021 (Fig. 3c) confirms that in 2016 and it became significant in 2017 after an abrupt acceleration the stability of the system was compromised The MPs identified according to the abovementioned procedure are defined as anomalous points (APs) continuous monitoring was limited to a 3 month update (systematic) while maintaining the same alerting procedure Spatial (a) and temporal distribution of anomalies in the area of interest Spatial localization of the MPs showing acceleration or deceleration in the ascending or descending (APs) orbits and temporal distribution compared with a time series per orbit In 2018 and 2019, during approximately the same period of the year, a similar situation was recorded, mainly in the ascending geometry, even if the acceleration was lower than that in 2017 (Fig. 4c) there has been a decrease in the number of updates showing anomalies in ground lowering and rebound in both ascending and descending geometries This decrease is a direct consequence of the reduced number of updates Vertical distortion close to the Wa measured by the vertical gauge in the borehole (a) and GBIS assessed results of depth and volume changes (b) the entity of water withdrawn and the depth of the water level were also collected According to the combination of the recorded pumping rate and the ground deformation maps obtained from MTInSAR and levelling data the water withdrawal from the Laundry α could be the cause of the subsidence bowl The complex geological setting of the area composed of alluvial sediments with several intercalations and small lenses with higher permeability can lead to strong and rapid deformation in a well-defined area due to the rapid depletion of the lenses and consequent drainage of water into the surrounding less permeable portions no pumping or water table depth information from previous years was available for comparison with the recorded MTInSAR data reporting abrupt acceleration It is worth noting that from September 2019 to October 2021 pumping was only conducted in Laundry α (approximately 25 km3 per year) but the changes in the groundwater level depth were strongly recorded in both wells with decreases of approximately 27.2 m and 6.7 m for Laundry α and β The nonproportional responses of the water level changes in the two closed wells can be attributed to the different depths of the wells and the distinct aquifers tapped and to the strong complexity of the geological setting of the area Section A-A’ (Fig. 3a) including all the involved subsidence analysis data and the GBIS-assessed source depth of the area of interest The section shows the piezometric levels at different times on the geological background and the vertical and horizontal components recorded by the MPs the present work provides good operability for subsidence phenomena the abrupt acceleration of the Montemurlo area has been identified owing to the continuous update of the MTInSAR data for the area consisting of both ground deformation maps and data mining for highlighting the MPs with changes in their trends Continuous monitoring allows the early identification of phenomena with the possibility of alerting personnel in charge of hydrogeological and territory management with the final aim of preventing hydrogeological compromise or damage to structures and infrastructure In the subsidence of the Montemurlo industrial area the operative chain was activated in a very short time where an abrupt acceleration in both ascending and descending data was recognized within an industrial area In recognition of the potential consequences of the recorded displacement a field survey was promptly conducted within a few days to validate and clarify the entities and their impact on structures and infrastructures in the case of abrupt acceleration in subsidence-prone areas where several wells pump groundwater are active a rapid mobilization to elucidate and characterize the phenomenon is fundamental to avoid operative consequences during nearby activities demonstrating the high impact and interest regarding these phenomena worldwide The subsiding trends followed by an uplift phase may be due to poroelastic rebound mechanism in the multi-layered aquifer system This pattern is triggered by piezometric level rise due to pumping interruption The heterogeneity of geological layers and their complex geotechnical properties (e.g and poroelastic effect) are not accounted in the simple eleastic model this may lead to discrepancies between the modelled and actual deformation in situ information were incorporated for obtaining more accurate and reliable results and such an inductive approach can support the authorities in charge of hydrogeological risk and management to be systematically updated over possible critical situations and to foresee further studies geological insights or additional or more frequent MTInSAR analyses and actions the installations of cutting-edge instruments The data presented in this study for the investigation of this exemplary case of groundwater pumping-induced subsidence are derived from different monitoring and processing approaches The use of the same spatialization approach allows comparison of the resulting surface extraction of relevant information about the temporal changes a piezometric level dataset from 2010 was used to compare the situation before the critical events of 2017 Sixteen measurement points were collected within a restricted area to monitor the area of interest and cross-correlate the displacement recorded by the remote sensing data the MPs data derived from the Sentinel-1 radar images a deep borehole was drilled at the location of the maximum displacement recorded by the MTInSAR data in which a magnetic vertical settlement gauge was installed This instrument consists of a double guide tube an external tube formed by a flexible corrugated tube and an internal tube in polyvinyl chloride (PVC) around which magnetic rings are connected to the surrounding ground The magnetic properties of these rings allow for the monitoring of vertical settlement between pairs of rings; data are collected by inserting a sensor into the tube for measuring the position of each ring with respect to the borehole’s bottom the first one is useful for calibrating the “zero” to which all the future measurements will be referred All the available data were combined and compared to determine the cause of the identified ground subsidence The vertical component of the MPs was combined with the pumping data and the reconstructed water table and this combination allowed us to investigate the possible causes of ground subsidence All the data were plotted on a graph to highlight the influence of pumping on the ground and the water table The volume change limits were determined by calculating the cubic metres of soil affected by subsidence A conical volume was calculated using a height equal to the total deformation observed in the well area and a radius evaluated at a minimum deformation rate of 20 mm/year resulting in volumes of 8373 m3 and 88,443 m3 respectively corresponding to the limit depth in the strata exploited by the well In order to ensure the most accurate and reliable results the limits of the modelling intervals were carefully chosen based on in-situ measurements specifically incorporating settlement data was adopted to achieve robust quality control The data that support the 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