Hour 2 March 18, 1997 began like any normal day in the working class suburb of Warminster in southeastern Pennsylvania. But JIMMY MILEY didn’t take his older brother Buddy to the scheduled eye doctor appointment. Instead, Jimmy and Buddy, who had been paralyzed since a 1973 football game for William Tennent High School, drove to [...]

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Hour 2 What do you do for exercise? Go for a run or a walk with the dog?  How about a game of tennis or golf?  Maybe you garden, do yoga or a Zumba class?  Most of us know that exercise is good for us and that we should do some each day but our [...]

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As a full-time professional piano tech for over 25 years, our guest THOMAS M. STERNER sat down and repeated a task at least 88 times on a grand piano, and each piano has a potential 34 different adjustments per note. Using this knowledge and other experience from learning musical instruments at an early age, and [...]

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Hour 2 Roller derby, specifically women’s flat-track roller derby, is a fun and serious sport growing in popularity, especially in U.S. cities and definitely here in Philadelphia, where the Philly Roller Girls is the local league affiliated with the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association. Three local home teams compete against each other in Philadelphia: the [...]

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Hour 1 Following two days of public viewings attended by students, alumni, sports icons, government officials, dignitaries and fans, former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno was buried on Wednesday. His death on January 22 came just two months after the University's trustees dismissed him as head coach amid criticism that he failed to respond [...]

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Hour 1 This fall in an article in the Atlantic, civil rights historian Taylor Branch made a compelling case for paying college athletes, calling the current system "the shame of college sports." The National College Athletic Association responded: "Student-athletes are students first and athletes second. They are not university employees who are paid for their [...]

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Hour 2 A number of hazing-related deaths have made headlines in recent months. Florida A&M University drum major Robert Champion died within an hour of a hazing ritual, according to the state medical examiner, that involved “multiple blunt trauma blows to the body.” And eight soldiers in Afghanistan have been charged with involvement in the [...]

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Hour 2 Over the years , in what he called the Grand Experiment, Penn State football coach Joe Paterno set out to prove that it was possible to build and field a championship caliber football team without sacrificing the academic integrity of its program.  Paterno, though oftentimes cantankerous, was one of the most respected college [...]

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Hour 1 In a disturbing and graphic grand jury report (pdf), the Pennsylvania Attorney General's office has provided details of the child sex abuse case against former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky. The report alleges that while he was a defensive coach at Penn State and after his retirement in 1999,  Sandusky used the [...]

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Hour 1 Philadelphia boxing legend Smokin' Joe Frazier died yesterday.  We'll get reaction from Philadelphia boxing promoter RUSSELL PELTZ.  Then… Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter ELLEN SCHULTZ analyzed internal corporate documents and confidential memos, and conducted interviews with retirees and government filings to reveal how employers have misrepresented the status of their employees’ pensions and company [...]

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