Sep. 26—His story sounds fictional, but he's not Barney Miller or Barney Rubble. He's Barney Amor, punter extraordinaire for the Penn State football team. He's packed more life experiences into his 23 ...

My column this week has been prompted by two events. First was the recent 20th anniversary of the passing of my beagle, Barney, who accompanied me on more than 2,500 TV segments between 1991 and 2002.