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Even <em>Sports Illustrated</em> Doesn't Want Anything To Do With Joe Posnanski's Paterno Biography
The first review of Joe Posnanksi's Joe Paterno biography is in and it isn't good: Offered first serial rights to a book written by a former Sports Illustrated senior writer, the magazine said no. Assistant managing editor Chris Hunt confirmed to Deadspin that SI passed on running an excerpt. Posnan...
Joe Paterno's Alma Mater Is Beginning To Whitewash His Name
The purging of Joe Paterno's name in the wake of the Freeh Report is now going beyond Penn State. Brown University, where Paterno played quarterback and cornerback from 1946-49 before graduating in 1950, has removed his name from the title of its head football coaching position and from the name of ...
Report: Three More Men Say Jerry Sandusky Abused Them In The 1970s Or '80s
It won't end, will it? Sara Ganim has the details, and she has two sources who told her police have been informed of the new allegations, which would be the first from before the 1990s. Basically, this still isn't close to being finished:...
Bill James: Showering With Boys Was "Quite Common In America 40 Years Ago."
We talked about Bill James being a crazy person earlier this week. Well, Bill James was on Doug Gottlieb's radio show on ESPN yesterday and hopped right on the last train to Nutsville....
Statue Of Joe Paterno Will Stand, For Now
Don Van Natta, Jr. is reporting that sources with firsthand knowledge of the Penn State Board of Trustees recent meetings have said the statue will not be torn down, at least for now. The merits of tearing down the statue versus leaving it up can be debated until we're all blue in the face, and the...
Halo Above Joe Paterno's Head Removed From Famous Penn State Mural
The folks over at Onward State have the news on this one, as earlier today the artist responsible for the famed mural on Heister Street removed the halo above Joe Paterno's head. ...
Joe Paterno Negotiated A $3 Million Ejector Seat After He Was Subpoenaed For Sandusky Grand Jury
Remember when the heroic, did-what-he-was-supposed-to-do coach Joe Paterno valiantly fell on his sword in November, and told the Penn State board of trustees that there was no need to fire him, he would resign at the end of the year? A bold move by a proud man, right? Like much of what we once knew ...
![Everything You Need To Know About Louis Freeh's Damning Report On Penn State [Updating]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/17slp2cvqsp2hjpg.jpg)
Everything You Need To Know About Louis Freeh's Damning Report On Penn State [Updating]
After a lengthy investigation into years of sexual abuse within the Penn State football program, former FBI director Louis Freeh released a report of his findings today. We're still thumbing through it. It's withering. Here's what we've learned so far: ...
Columnist Who Did Joe Paterno's Full-Of-Shit Last Interview Now Agrees Paterno Was Full Of Shit
The Washington Post's Sally Jenkins scored the last interview of Joe Paterno's life. In it, Paterno said—among other things—that he "had never heard of rape and a man." Our Drew Magary said, after reading that interview, that Joe Paterno was full of shit. Jenkins avoided such condemnations....
Jay Paterno: The Freeh Report Contains "No New Facts," Just "Some New Interpretations Of Things"
In all seriousness, I can't imagine how difficult today must be for the Paterno family. That said, at this point, it's probably best for all of them to decline to comment further. Paterno's son, Jay, went on SportsCenter about an hour ago and dismissed the findings of the Freeh Group as "really an...
Penn State Failed To Comply With Federal Law For Two Decades
Aside from being morally repugnant, Penn State officials' failure to report the incident concerning Jerry Sandusky sexually assaulting Victim 2 to the university police department in 2001 was a violation of federal law....
When Current PSU President Rodney Erickson Bent The Rules For Jerry Sandusky
On November 9, the same day Joe Paterno was fired and students rioted in the streets of State College, the Penn State Board of Trustees removed school president Graham Spanier. In his place they appointed Provost Rodney Erickson as interim president. A week later, they removed the "interim" tag. Jus...
Penn State's Board Of Trustees Hired The Freeh Group, But They Did Not Escape Its Scrutiny
Back in January, just two months after the grand jury issued its findings about Jerry Sandusky, 13 of the 32 members of Penn State's board of trustees gave a group interview to the New York Times. In it, they essentially said they were blindsided when the grand jury report became public: "We found o...
The 10 Most Appalling Revelations About Graham Spanier, And Why He Could Be The Next One Charged
The majority of attention given to today's Freeh Report has centered on figuring out Joe Paterno's role in allowing Jerry Sandusky to go unstopped. But the most actively nefarious character—other than Sandusky himself—in the commission's story is former university president Graham Spanier. Even bef...
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."...
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...
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...
![Report: TVs At Penn State's Student Center Were Switched Away From Live Coverage Of The Freeh Report's Release [UPDATE]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/17slp0rnrb1ekjpg.jpg)
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...