- Minor League baseball season came to an end early in the month. None of the Phillies affiliates made the playoffs.
- The Phillies no-hit the Braves on Labor Day in Atlanta. Cole Hamels pitched, followed by Diekmann, Giles, and Papelbon, in a weird no-hitter.
- Football season arrived, and the Eagles got off to a fast start. It didn't hold up.
- Moravian College started off 2-0 as well. It sort of held up, for them.
- Easton got off to a fast start and won their first 12 games... before losing the last two.
- Penn State was freed of the Sandusky Sanctions.
- The NFL suspended Ray Rice for making them look bad.
- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo won by double digits, but didn't impress in his primary win over Zephyr Teachout.
- We had my second state committee meeting in Philadelphia, and didn't vote on much.
- The Clintons arrived back in Iowa for the final Harkin Steak Fry.
- Eric Frein shot two state troopers in the Poconos, then took us all on a manhunt that lasted weeks before being captured.
- Penn State beat Rutgers.
- The Palin family got into a fist-fight.
- Scotland held an independence vote, and the referendum failed by a larger than expected margin.
- Derek Jeter played his final baseball game, and his final game in New York. In his last home game, he had a walk-off single. In Boston, he left after two at-bats.
- Elvis, Pat Burrell's iconic bulldog from the 2008 Phillies parade, died :(.
- I attended my first ever San Gennaro Festival in New York City. I'll be attending my second next year.
- Paul Konerko retired after a great career in Chicago.
- Bobby Abreu, my favorite Phillies player, retired.
- Attorney General Eric Holder announced he's retiring.
- We finished our 24th year on our 17 game plan with the Phillies.
- Notre Dame started off red-hot in a season that eventually fell apart.
- I could basically write the same thing for Penn State as Notre Dame.
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