Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
Today, when German shooters don their old green sport jackets, they’re not just competitors. They’re descendants of the city guard. And when the Schützenkönig or Ritter (Knight) is crowned at the festival, it’s not merely a marksmanship title—it’s a symbolic knighting. It says, you have upheld the standard, you belong…
Penn State’s decision to fire head coach James Franklin came the day after a disappointing 22–21 home loss to Northwestern, which extended their losing streak to three games that included defeats to winless UCLA and No. 5 Oregon.
The NCAA has taken a bold step to rein in what many have called “unrestricted free agency” throughout college football. The Division I Administrative Committee has voted to eliminate the spring transfer portal window,
The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) has become college football’s latest exercise in gridiron gerrymandering. The ACC’s footprint now sprawls from Boston and Miami all the way to Salt Lake City and the San Francisco Bay, defying both geography and its own name.
Over 32 years, I covered the collegiate gridiron gospel from State College to Bloomsburg to Bucknell. Not once did I find myself in Selinsgrove taking in a Susquehanna University football game. That changed this past Saturday and let’s just say the differences weren’t subtle.
Sports films, and particularly those about football, have a strong inspirational bend. You can add the upcoming “The Senior” to that list.
There is one key statistic missing from Penn State’s flip-card that the sports’ information office provides the media for every home football game. It is the one most are talking about, but few correctly understand: Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) and the amounts the players are paid.
It was quite the off season for Penn State athletics. In July, Penn State in conjunction with the Nittany Lion Club announced a record-breaking fundraising year of $164.9 million.
In a sport driven by ambition and legacy, Penn State finds itself at a crossroads as this wave of players have chosen to stay on campus and continue to compete at the collegiate level.
Another example of a normal America. A cease fire in the war on firearms and ammunition. Thank You Donald Trump!
A Season Long Competition-To Get To The Gravy Train-But That Performance Doesn’t Matter For the Finale
A former Hollywood big name thinks America is “Abby-Normal” right now. I beg to disagree.
You don’t expect to feel history crunching under your boots when you’re dragging a tree stand into the woods. But at places like Fort Knox and Fort A.P. Hill, that’s exactly what you get—world-class hunting grounds layered over old farmsteads, lost churches, and more than a few hard truths about eminent domain.
What I could use is in this 5th Generation War is 12 psychological gifts from the king of resilience, COL James N. “Nick” Rowe, U.S. Army Green Beret and survivor of five years as a Viet Cong prisoner of war in the swampy U Minh Forest of southernmost Vietnam.
She never fired a shot at Camp Perry, but her fingerprints are on a thousand targets. She never wore a medal, but she helped hang hundreds around the necks of others. In every generation of American rifle shooting, there are traces of Mary Kay Wigger—the quiet force who kept the team on time, in line, and always believing they could win.
In 1999, I had the extraordinary honor of becoming the first American ever to win the title of Pfingstritter (Pentecost Knight) in the historic Büdinger Schützengesellschaft—a marksmanship society with roots dating back over 670 years.
For decades, the Critchfield 6400 has stood as the ultimate test of precision, endurance, and marksmanship in U.S. smallbore prone shooting. First fired in 1966 at Camp Perry, this grueling format made national champions out of legends—and left only a select few with a place in smallbore history.
The first day of the 2025 CMP Smallbore, Prone, Nationals felt less like a rifle match and more like we’d stumbled through a time portal.
We, the competitors, spectators, and lifelong fans of marksmanship, have already voted—with our feet, our wallets, and our participation. We want a future with meaningful national championships, access to historic national trophies, and a legitimate path to international teams like the Palma, Dewar, Pershing, and Roberts.
