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Blake Griffin Injures Knee, Anthony Davis Joins Team USA Camp
According to Adrian Wojnarowski, Griffin twisted his knee during a scrimmage yesterday at Team USA training camp in Las Vegas. It's bad enough that he's heading back to Los Angeles to get an MRI. In his place, Anthony Davis will report to camp immediately. [Woj]...
Paterno Family Statement Blames Everyone But Joe Paterno, Who Is To Blame
The family of Joe Paterno has released a statement in response to the Freeh Report, declaring (preliminarily, pending a close reading) that the "underlying facts...are almost entirely consistent with what we understood them to be."...
Nike Strips Joe Paterno's Name From Its Child Care Center
Despite insisting in November Joe Paterno's name would remain on the Nike world headquarters child care center, the prominent apparel company reversed course in light of the news in today's Freeh Report, telling Darren Rovell the Joe Paterno Child Development Center will be renamed:...
In 1998, Jerry Sandusky Told State Officials And University Police That "He Had Done This With Other Children In The Past"
Allegations of Jerry Sandusky's abuse date back to 1994, but it was only in 1998 that one came to the attention of Penn State officials, and more importantly, the state child services department and University police. On May 3, Sandusky called up the home of the then-11-year-old (the one who would l...
ESPN Trots Out Matt Millen To Fumble His Way Through The Freeh Report
On a day like today, you can find any number of fine journalistic outlets that are covering the Freeh report in painstaking, intelligent detail. You can follow Sara Ganim, who has already won a Pulitzer Prize for her diligence on the Sandusky scandal. Or you can follow Yahoo's Dan Wetzel, who is p...
Freeh Report: Detective Alludes To Penn State Administrators' Habit Of Interfering With Investigations
Ronald Shreffler, a detective in the police department at Penn State, was first informed of the 1998 Jerry Sandusky shower incident on the morning of May 4, 1998, one day after it happened. Within 30 minutes, he had interviewed the boy now known to the world as Victim 6. And later that afternoon, Sh...
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Report: TVs At Penn State's Student Center Were Switched Away From Live Coverage Of The Freeh Report's Release [UPDATE]
The Philadelphia Inquirer has the details, including reaction from those who were there, but here's the gist:...
The Second Mile Took No Action After Being Informed Of Sandusky's 2001 Shower Incident
In a statement in November, the Second Mile attempted to address what they had known about Jerry Sandusky and when they had known it. Executive director Jack Raykovitz said he was informed only that an unidentified individual reported being "uncomfortable about seeing Jerry Sandusky in the locker ro...
Freeh Report: Joe Paterno Knew In 1998
In his testimony before the grand jury investigating Jerry Sandusky, Joe Paterno denied knowing anything about the 1998 incident in which Sandusky was investigated but never charged after police received a report from a woman who claimed Sandusky had showered with her son and touched the boy. And in...
In 1998, Buying $400 Worth Of Clothes For A Player Got You Banned From Penn State. Being Investigated For Child Sexual Assault Did Not.
One of the central themes of the Freeh Report is the hopelessly twisted moral compass of the former Penn State administration. The report concludes that university leaders were far more concerned with protecting the school from bad publicity than they were with protecting the victims of abuse:...
Janitors Didn't Report Jerry Sandusky's 2000 Rape Incident Because They Feared Joe Paterno Would Fire Them
Janitors who observed Jerry Sandusky performing a sexual act on a young boy in the Lasch Building showers in 2000 kept quiet out of a fear of Joe Paterno and the power he held at Penn State, according to this morning's Freeh Report....
Joe Paterno Gave Jerry Sandusky The Option To Keep Coaching "As Long As He Was The Coach"
In 1999, at which time Paterno, Schultz, Curley and Spanier were all aware of the incident with Victim 6 the year before, Jerry Sandusky was given the choice of retiring, or staying on indefinitely....
Here Is The Official Report Of Louis Freeh's Investigation Into Penn State
The findings of the former FBI director Louis Freeh's months-long inquiry into Penn State has just been made public on the Freeh Group's website. There's much to parse through, and obviously many questions to be asked. We've already shown you some preliminary documents we believe were preparation ma...
Rogers SportsNet Has Some Curious Suggestions About How To Spend A Day Without Sports
The day following the MLB All-Star Game is one of the worst for sports fans—and sportswriters—due to a lack of major sporting events. (Don't ask for help from MLS; they only had one match yesterday and none tonight.) Since baseball extended the break by a day, we're in the same sports vacuum today ...
The Freeh Report Will Conclude Paterno's Firing Was Warranted, According To These Preparation Documents
Joe Paterno did not "do all he should have" to report Jerry Sandusky's child abuse and evidence supports his termination, according to documents we believe to be preparation material for this morning's press conference at the release of the Freeh Report....
Joe Paterno’s Defenders Aren’t Crazy, Just Blind. Here’s How They Got That Way.
An interesting thing to do in the central Pennsylvania college town where I live and work is to walk around the town and campus and make a list of all the things that remind you of the recently deceased football coach. These include but are not limited to: Joegies, the sandwich shop in the student u...
WWE Reenacted Chael Sonnen's Failed Spinning Backfist
On Saturday at UFC 14, Chael Sonnen attempted a spinning backfist that was ducked by Anderson Silva. Sonnen tripped, took a knee to the grill, and the fat lady started singing. Two days later on WWE Raw, CM Punk paid a bit of tribute to one of the more theatrical MMA endings in recent memory: he mis...
Kansas City's Smoky Air Turned Bryce Harper Into A Zombie
The National League spanked the AL in last night's All-Star Game, which may actually be news to you given ratings almost certainly went down yet again for the Midsummer Classic....
The Moral Of This Fight Video, According To A Dead Milkman: "Rastas Can Be Pretty Badass When The Need Arises"
Welcome to Tuesday Night Fights, a weekly celebration and analysis of street-fight videos found on YouTube. Tonight's fisticuffs: "Rastafarian War (Real Hot Head Rasta)," brought to you by "Jamaican War heads." Tonight's commentator: Back for an unprecedented third video-review slot: Rodney Anonym...
Paterno Family: "Joe Paterno Did Not Know That Jerry Sandusky Was A Pedophile"
Lots of folks at Penn State are no doubt quaking at the thought of what might be in former FBI director Louis Freeh's investigative report that's scheduled to be released Thursday morning. No one, however, seems more concerned than the family of Joe Paterno....