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LeGarrette Blount Steamrolls The Green Bay Packers Defense
There's really not much to add to this. He even gave us the obligatory faux Lambeau Leap....
Lingerie Football Star Chloe Butler May Break Hearts, Definitely Breaks Arms
Meet Chloe Butler. She is an Australian lingerie football star, currently playing for the Los Angeles Temptation. As any degenerate will tell you, lingerie football is no joke. The stakes are high, and the fans higher. It should come as no surprise, then, that Chloe here takes great joy in inflicti...
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Urban Meyer Reportedly Will Take Ohio State Job, Hire Kirk Herbstreit As Assistant [UPDATE]
Sports Illustrated, via Eleven Warriors and Sports by Brooks, is reporting that Urban Meyer is set to take over as Ohio State head football coach. ...
Penn State Paid $28 Million To Another Company With Close Ties To Sandusky's Charity
Yes, Penn State and The Second Mile overlapped in many ways. Penn State grad students wrote essays for the charity's annual reports. Second Mile kids participated in programs on the university campus. And companies controlled by Second Mile board members scored juicy contracts from Penn State. Earli...
Second Mile Is ... Penn State: School Paid $25 Million To Company Run By Chairman Of Sandusky's Charity
Bob Poole is the chairman of The Second Mile board of directors (or, perhaps, former chairman—nobody really knows who's running things now). He's held that position for 17 years. He was chairman, then, in 1998, when an attorney for both Second Mile and Penn State learned about an investigation into ...
Oklahoma State's Head Women's Basketball Coach And Assistant Die In Plane Crash
Well, this is very sad: Oklahoma State's women's basketball coach Kurt Budke and assistant Miranda Serna died in a plane crash in Perry County, Ark., on Thursday night. There were no survivors in the crash, which also killed the pilot of the plane and another individual not directly affiliated with ...
<em>South Park</em> Is Already Doing Penn State Jokes
Too soon? [WWTDD]...
<i>NCAA Football 12</i> On Penn State-Ohio State Match-Up: "HIDE THE CHILDREN"
From Joseph, a tipster: "Did NCAA 12 know something about Penn State we didn't?"...
For The 2013 Season, The Astros Will Go To The AL West And Basically Everyone Will Go To The Playoffs
MLB's owners unanimously approved the sale of the Houston Astros from Drayton McLane to Jim Crane today, and included a $65 million price cut in the deal. The Astros will leave the NL Central and join the AL West for the 2013 season, and, to the relief of symmetricists everywhere, each league will h...
New PSU Revelations: Message Board Rumors Led To McQueary; Victims Were Reluctant To Come Forward; Documents Are Missing From Second Mile
Today's New York Times has a long story about how the investigation into sex-abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky developed. Four key plot points jump out: ...
Franco Harris Arrives In State College, Enjoys A Pastry, Never Gets To Meet With Penn State's President
Franco Harris's tireless quest to win Joe Paterno his job back pretty much went the way everyone not named Franco Harris knew it would. As reported earlier today, Harris's dedication to Penn State's morally complicit former coach is so great he made a show of sacrificing his own noble calling as a ...
Today In Mike McQueary's Snow Globe: Police Have No Records He Talked To Them In 2002
Both the university police and the State College PD deny having any record that Mike McQueary filed a report with them after stumbling upon Jerry Sandusky allegedly raping an as-yet-unidentified boy in a Penn State campus shower in 2002. With that in mind, let's review what we know about McQueary's ...
Motivated By Costas Interview, Alleged Sandusky Victim Will Testify He Was "Severely Sexually Assaulted"
On Monday night, Jerry Sandusky and his lawyer, Joe Amendola, granted a phone interview to Bob Costas on Rock Center. During the taped segment, Amendola suggested that some of the alleged victims referenced in the grand jury report—particularly the one who, according to the report, Mike McQueary wit...
Past And Present Board Members Of Sandusky's Charity And Their Businesses Or Families Gave $641,481.21 To Gov. Tom Corbett
Earlier today, we reported that some two dozen current and former board members at The Second Mile had given money to Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett’s 2010 campaign. The board members donated a combined $201,783.64, to be exact. But direct contributions are hardly the end of it. Big donors can also e...
Now It's Penn State Interim Coach Tom Bradley's Turn To Get Tossed Into The Meat Grinder
Tom Bradley's name is never mentioned in the 23-page Penn State grand jury summary. But that's undoubtedly true for a lot of witnesses whose appearance was not worth noting, since the summary is merely a report of the findings and the actual transcripts remain under seal. But the Patriot-News of Ha...
Judge Who Freed Sandusky On Unsecured Bail Raised Campaign Funds From Board Members Of Sandusky's Charity
Wow. Leslie Dutchtot, the judge who let Jerry Sandusky out of jail on $100,000 bail, took money from several people involved with The Second Mile when she was running for district judge a few years ago....
I'm Pretty Sure David Brooks Just Blamed The Penn State Riots On Woodstock
We missed it over the weekend, but our man Pierce found this little turd of cultural intellection dropped by the Upmarket Jeff Foxworthy. Here's David Brooks responding to host David Gregory on Sunday's Meet the Press (if you're unfamiliar, Meet the Press used to be the Buffalo Bills pregame show). ...
Corbett Approved $3 Million Grant For Sandusky's Charity, Despite Ongoing Sandusky Investigation
We should probably chalk this up to bad bureaucracy as one administration exited and another entered, but it's still kind of hinky. From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:...
Franco Harris Fired By Pittsburgh-Area Casino For His Support Of Joe Paterno
Franco Harris has arguably been the most outspoken of Joe Paterno's former players in light of the Penn State scandal. And now it has cost him his job as a spokesman for The Meadows Racetrack & Casino....
Past And Present Board Members Of Sandusky's Charity Gave $201,783.64 To Gov. Corbett's 2010 Campaign
Last week, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett called for an investigation into The Second Mile, the charity that gave accused child rapist Jerry Sandusky access to thousands of young boys around the state....