Received this morning...

I've read over your criteria several times and you are correct in saying that it is not scientific but is it even intellectual? I have done my research as any seasoned educator would do and I would suspect that a seasoned reporter would do as well. You would think in your so called two years of research/interviews you would have contacted West York's athletic director and surveyed each and every one of its coaches. You did not do this. So what roundtable were you at, a local VFW over pizza and beer! You wanted to cause controversy and you have and you have disappointed and angered many parents and athletes who, after being named the best in their respective sports in the State of Pennsylvania,and going on to success at a college, "OTHER THAN PENN STATE or being named to "YOUR" All star teams for their respective sports were IGNORED by your "list". I am also a bit concerned over your sexually biased reporting. You mean to tell me in all these years of WY sports there were only 3 female "top" athletes and all those males...wow, now we have a need for concern. So to all the parents that know for a fact their sons and daughters should have been chosen, take comfort in the fact that the grossly under-researched and biased reporting of this newspaper and its reporters was done without fact and without even contacting the school district, it's present or past coaching staff and present and past athletic directors. Sincerely, Mrs. TM Laucks

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Do you have a great photo that you've taken of Penn State coaching legend Joe Paterno?

Or perhaps a great story about an encounter you had with JoePa.

Or perhaps you just want to compose a tribute to the Nittany Lions' legend.

We want to collect your Paterno photos and stories, for use in future publications.

E-mail your submissions to cotto@ydr.com or mail them to: Chris Otto, York Daily Record/Sunday News, 1891 Loucks Road, York 17408.

E-mailed photos should be scanned at the highest resolution possible.

Include your full name and hometown, and a phone number where you can be contacted.

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NOTE: Richard Sanders in San Antonio sent us this letter after reading reporter Jeff Frantz’s 2006 article, “Pecs, pink pills and powers: How York played a role in the steroid controversy,” recently on our Web site (www.inyork.com/ydr). Louis Riecke was a New Orleans native who, at age 35, developed into a champion lifter after Dr. John Ziegler convinced him to take Dianabol. Riecke served as the Pittsburgh Steelers’ strength coach from 1970-1980.)

I traveled down from New York City in 1958 with Larry Mintz, Morris Weisbrott and a couple of other Elechester lifters to the Teenage Nationals. I placed in the Junior and Senior Southern AAU contests in 1961 and met Louis Riecke. He was impressive and soft-spoken with a personable humility.

I knew he used isometrics, so in 1963 while at Selfridge AFB in Michigan, I made a two-pipe-and-chain gadget and did early morning squat, pull and press isometrics to enhance my afternoon training.

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Vincent Powell of West Manchester Township writes: “Wow. First the New England and now Big Brown. It just makes you wonder what the 2008 World Series holds in store for us.”

Ron Sisto II of Dover Township writes: “Spread the bases further apart and move the pitcher back in high school softball. Defense and hitting are lost as a team relies too much on one player.”

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A couple of truly old blog posts here on The Lineup Card are still generating commenting traffic. It's kind of fascinating, really. They just created lives of their own and kept on ticking.

In case you're curious, one is the infamous entry from Nov. 20, 2007, about the harvesting of an albino bear cub. That one has 78 comments and counting. And the other is the "Irked about the York Young Revolution" reader letter from Nov. 19, 2007, which has 60 comments thus far.

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Kevin Hartnett of York writes: Who was the moronic relief pitcher that started the trend to pitch from the stretch with the bases empty? There is nothing more agonizing than watching salad-tosser Jamie Walker pitch from the stretch with the bases empty. Remote control, please.

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Susan Wolf of Wrightsville called us moments ago to say: “I stumbled on the race results on CNN and learned that the second-place winner of the Kentucky Derby (Eight Belles) broke both front ankles and had to be euthanized on the track. And what CNN was playing was the winners’ owners jumping around in their big hats, happy they won all this money. This is not the way we treat animals. Gambling should be done at a table or slot machine, not in cockfights, dog fights or horse races with whips.”

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"Independent league ballplayers may not be on the same level as MLB players, but to say they suck is just stupid. My guess is that 90 percent of the population couldn't hit a Wayne Franklin fastball."

- J. SNYDER,
SPRY

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Fred Lucas of West York writes:

Three West York High School soccer players — freshman Fred Lucas, junior Drew Shaffer and sophomore Matt Tanner — were recently invited to play in the 2008 World Youth Games.

The team will be coached by Brandon Ramsey of Central Dauphin East and John Piraino of Camp Hill. It also includes players from the Camp Hill area, Harrisburg, the Pittsburgh area and a player from Dallas, Texas.

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Two of the responses we've received to Sunday's article about the 2007-08 Pennsylvania deer harvest:

Alex Kohl of Red Lion says that simple math explains the situation: I just finished reading the deer management article in the Sunday paper and feel that I had to respond to the ongoing theories about why the deer harvest numbers are down in Pennsylvania.

Let's make this simple. The hunters in this state harvested way too many antlerless deer! If we look back through time over the past 40 years, there is simple arithmetic involved. From 2001 to 2007, we had 84 days of doe hunting. From 1970 to 2000, we had 90 days of doe hunting. This is not rocket science.

With the encouragement of the Game Commission, the hunters in this state shot most of our deer. The allocation of all the bonus antlerless licenses over the past 20 years, combined with all the available days of antlerless hunting and the lack of control from the majority of the hunters created the demise of the white-tailed deer herd in Pennsylvania.

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