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*(Via Chicago Tribune) – The NCAA on Monday hit Penn State with a $60 million fine, banned the football team from bowl games for four years and vacated all of its wins from 1998 to 2011 in the wake of the university’s child sex abuse scandal. At a morning news conference, NCAA president Mark Emmert [...]
*(Via Boston Globe) – The famed statue of Joe Paterno was taken down from outside the Penn State football stadium Sunday as the NCAA announced it would be issuing sanctions against the university whose top officials were accused in a scathing report of burying child sex abuse allegations against a now-convicted retired assistant. Workers lifted [...]
*(Via Media Bistro) – News spread quickly Saturday evening that former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno had died. Except, he hadn’t. Here is an account of how it happened. TheWrap.com: CBS Sports apologized for reporting Saturday that Paterno had died, saying it had fallen “well short” of its own journalistic standards. Paterno’s family had [...]
*Legendary Penn State football coach Joe Paterno has died after a long fight with lung cancer, according to the Washington Post . Paterno, who is college football’s all-time winningest coach, saw his reputation take a major hit after a child sex abuse scandal rocked the university last year. Many believe that Paterno kept his mouth [...]
UPDATE: Joe Paterno HAS died. He passed away Sunday morning, January 22, 2012 according to a statement from his family. Get the details HERE. Earlier we reported … *It appears our story of Joe Paterno’s death, as reported by the Huffington Post, was incorrect. However, we can confirm that he is in serious condition [...]
*On the heels of being fired over the Penn State sex scandal, media reports are surfacing that former Penn State Coach Joe Paterno is suffering from lung cancer. Wednesday’s report from SportsbyBrooks said a source close to the situation revealed that Paterno is in poor health. “Joe is a lot closer to dying soon than [...]
*GOP presidential candidates have been loose lipped on any and every public policy issue imaginable. But suddenly they have all have lost their speech on the Penn State scandal. They have uttered barely a peep about the scandal. The closest that any name GOP figure has come to speaking out on the scandal is fast [...]
*Could the Jerry Sandusky – Joe Paterno – Penn State child sex abuse scandal be the ugliest moment in American sporting history? It’s hard to recall anything worse. There’s something so basely foul, so inherently ugly about the entire situation that it makes skin crawl to just think about – let alone fathom its depths [...]
*Enough of the ghoulish, sordid facts are known about the Penn State University child sex scandal to say this. The alleged child rapes were known by some athletic department members, up to and including the football program boss, JoePa, Joe Paterno. The rumors, or worse, knowledge of the rapes may have been known by or [...]
*(Via ajc.com) – Penn State football coach Joe Paterno has decided to retire at the end of the season, according to a person familiar with the decision. The person spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because the decision has yet to be announced. Paterno has been besieged by criticism since former [...]
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