Penn State Sports Magazine
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THE YEAR IN REVIEW CONTENTS 20|COACH OF THE YEAR Cael Sanderson leads Penn State to a sec- ond consecutive na- tional wrestling cham- pionship. And this time, there was no doubt about it. 22|ATHLETES OF THE YEAR David Taylor com- pletes a perfect sopho- more season by claim- ing his first national championship; Maya Hayes finds the net – repeatedly – for the Penn State women's soccer team. 28|FRESHMEN OF THE YEAR Nico Megaludis makes life difficult for oppos- ing wrestlers during his rookie season at Penn State; Micha Hancock delivers for the women's volleyball team. 30|PREDICTIONS BWI staffers look ahead to the events and people we'll be talking about during the upcoming athletic year. C W W W . B L U E W H I T E O N L I N E . C O M MOVING FORWARD alled before a congressional committee investigating steroid use in baseball, St. Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire joined 10 other players and executives on the panel in March 2005 and proceeded to explain that he was "not here to talk about the past." Had he played the game with hon- esty and integrity? "I'm not going to go into the past or talk about my past. I'm here to make a positive influence on this." Had he taken any drugs other than the then-legal ones he had already ad- mitted using? OPINION MAT T H E R B MATT@BLUEWHITEONLINE.COM "I'm not here to talk about the past." I was living in St. Louis at the time and I remember even Cardinals fans, easily the most forgiving, least cynical fans in sports, shaking their heads at how absurd McGwire's "testimony" sounded. He didn't appear concerned about making the world better for young ballplayers; he just looked des- SEE FORWARD PAGE 24 A U G U S T 2 1 , 2 0 1 2 19 Patrick Mansell perate to protect himself. And it worked… sort of. He wasn't later ex- posed as a phony like the guy seated to his immediate left, Rafael Palmeiro, nor was he indicted on federal perjury charges like the recently acquitted Roger Clemens. But he's not in the Hall of Fame, and if you were to ask casual baseball fans what they re- member best about his career, many would point to that afternoon on Capi- tol Hill, not the 70 home runs he hit in 1998. Because of guys like McGwire, we've