Category: Jerry Sandusky
Tuesday, February 12th, 2013
The family of Joe Paterno issued a report this weekend essentially critiquing the Freeh report which came down in the aftermath of the situation revolving Jerry Sandusky. The Paterno family continues to argue that the Freeh report was a rush to judgment, and says their study was not about defending ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2013
One year later, the Penn State scandal continues to be a polarizing topic. Oddly enough, former Penn State and NFL great Franco Harris is doing his best to keep the story in the news. Harris continues to hold town hall meetings where he and his group lead efforts to get ...
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012
Late in 2010 Joe Posnanski finally got the approval of Joe Paterno to write a biography of the legendary head coach. The former senior writer at Sports Illustrated had no idea that he would be walking into one of the biggest sports scandals of our time when the news of ...
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Wednesday, July 25th, 2012
Bill O'Brien doesn't have much of a choice but to look forward. And if you thought he was going to look back and reflect on everything that has gone down at Penn State, you are kidding yourselves.
And so it's not a surprise that in the following interview, he mostly shies ...
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Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
The fallout continues from Monday's big news regarding the unprecedented sanctions handed down by Mark Emmert and the NCAA to the Penn State football program. You know the details by now -- scholarship losses, vacated wins, no postseason play for the next four years, and one massive fine. After the ...
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Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
The NCAA has handed down its punishment to Penn State. The penalties include a four-year postseason ban, an annual reduction of 10 scholarships over a four-year period, five years of probation, a $60 million fine and the vacating of all wins dating back to 1998. The vacation of all wins ...
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Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
The scandal at Penn State was already one of the most polarizing topics in sports that I've seen in my lifetime. The punishments handed out by the NCAA on Monday created even more buzz around water coolers nationwide, as discussions of whether Penn State was hit too hard or not ...
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Wednesday, July 18th, 2012
The fallout continues at State College, Pennsylvania. Given the uproar since the Jerry Sandusky verdict and the recent findings in the Freeh Report, the Penn State student organization that oversees the tent village set up outside Gate A at Beaver Stadium before every home game has decided to make a tough ...
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2012
One of Pennsylvania's former governors does not believe the NCAA should give Penn State the death penalty, but he's not encouraging a slap on the wrist, either. Ed Rendell weighed in on the ongoing saga surrounding Jerry Sandusky, and said that the program shouldn't get the death penalty because the ...
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Monday, July 16th, 2012
Sally Jenkins will forever be remembered as the last writer to interview Joe Paterno before his death last January. She was the first writer to get an exclusive sit down interview with the man who was being accused of failing to protect against a child sexual predator in Jerry Sandusky. ...
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