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Sharks Do Their Job, Get Some Help, And Eliminate The Avalanche In Game 7
It would have been very on-brand for the perennial choke-artist San Jose Sharks to blow it against the 8th seed in the second-round of what might be the most wide-open NHL playoffs of all-time. But to their credit, San Jose recovered from Gabriel Landeskog’s Game 6 overtime winner and got the win th...
The Golden Knights Are Furious Over How Their Season Was "Stolen"
Let’s get this out of the way right at the outset: Yes, the Vegas Golden Knights could have avoided all of this controversy—and their elimination—by simply not allowing allowing four goals in 4:01. One of the weirdest and wildest comebacks in recent memory, a Game 7 eventually won by the Sharks 5-4 ...
Sharks Avenge Joe Pavelski's Bleeding Head, Pull Off Wild Game 7 Comeback To Eliminate Vegas
The Vegas Golden Knights were cruising through the first 50 minutes of their Game 7 against the Sharks on Tuesday night, and then Joe Pavelski started bleeding on the ice. The Knights were up 3-0 and had completely sucked the life out of San Jose’s crowd, but with 10:47 remaining, a major cross-chec...
Sharks' Joe Pavelski Takes One On The Chin For His Team To Score Opening Goal
Once the Stanley Cup playoffs start, the debate over whether the structural integrity of your face is more important than a goal no longer becomes a debate. There are only two options that players have: give up your face, or let your team down. Less than 15 minutes into Game 1 of the Sharks-Golden K...
Remember When Donald Trump Asked If Pittsburgh Was Going To Bring Back Joe Paterno, Who Was Dead?
When Donald Trump is dropping remarkable word-turds every single day, some of them will inevitably be lost with the passage of time. In the last two weeks alone the Big Wet President has renamed a simpering fatberg “Beautiful Ted,” and he’s asked every man in an audience of 6,000 to raise his hand ...
Sue Paterno Endorses Candidate Who Got Penn State Its Wins Back
Before someone tries convincing you that America’s relationship with college football is healthy, normal, and totally fine, remember this campaign video. Pennsylvania State Sen. Jake Corman is up for re-election this year; the Republican has been in the Commonwealth’s Senate since 1999, when he ran ...
This Was The Most Batshit Part Of <i>Paterno</i>
HBO’s Paterno, an excuse for Al Pacino to put on makeup and shuffle around in what were essentially pajamas, premiered Saturday. The movie covered when the Jerry Sandusky scandal broke, and the leadup to Penn State firing football coach Joe Paterno. The Paterno family called the movie “a fictionali...
Report: Joe Paterno May Have Admitted To Knowing Of Jerry Sandusky's Earlier Abuses
CNN has obtained a Pennsylvania state police report that suggests that Joe Paterno had knowledge of at least one prior act of sexual abuse committed by Jerry Sandusky when Paterno met with whistleblower Mike McQueary in 2002. This version of events would seriously undermine a long-held belief among ...
Here's Al Pacino As Joe Paterno
HBO’s long-awaited movie about the Penn State scandal still doesn’t have a release date, but the network has put out a photo of Al Pacino in character as former Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno....
The Paterno Family Drops Its Lawsuit Against The NCAA
Ever since the legacy of Penn State football patriarch Joe Paterno came crashing down amid revelations that his longtime defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was a serial child abuser, and Paterno himself did just the bare minimum when he found out about it, the Paterno family has stuck to a familia...
Gus Johnson Calls Penn State Win "A Milestone In The Healing Process"
As time expired on Penn State’s win over Wisconsin in tonight’s Big Ten championship game, Fox announcer Gus Johnson tried to capture the gravity of the moment—and the Nittany Lions’ first conference title since 2008—but managed to utter some regrettable words about it being a “milestone in the heal...
Judge Awards Mike McQueary Additional $5 Million In Whistleblower Lawsuit
Penn State chose not to stand by whistleblower Mike McQueary when he brought forward allegations of child sex abuse and later served as a witness in the case against Jerry Sandusky and the university. Now, the school is paying the price. ...
DeAndre Levy's Proudest Moment In College: Breaking "Dirtbag" Joe Paterno's Leg
DeAndre Levy is one interesting dude....
Here's The List of Defense Lawyers Penn State Handed Out To Its Football Players
College football fans know that when a player gets in trouble, it won’t be too long before that player retains legal counsel—and usually very good counsel. At Florida, it’s Huntley Johnson. At Florida State, it’s Tim Jansen. At Tennessee, players got a list of six defense lawyers with ties to the at...
Department Of Education Fines Penn State $2.4 Million For Child Sex Abuse Scandal
The U.S. Department of Education announced Thursday the conclusion of its investigation into the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. Upon review, the department found 11 instances in which the university violated the Clery Act. ...
Ex-Penn State Assistant Mike McQueary Awarded $7.3 Million In Whistleblower Lawsuit Against School
Former Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary was one of the key witnesses in the prosecution of Jerry Sandusky. He claims that he saw Sandusky raping a boy in the Penn State locker room in 2001, and that he reported it quickly to Joe Paterno and other university officials. After he was not retain...
Joe Paterno Honored By Tone-Deaf Penn State Officials And Football Fans
Penn State honored Joe Paterno, the former football coach who knowingly harbored serial child rapist Jerry Sandusky on his coaching staff for 33 years, multiple times throughout the first half of today’s football game between the Nittany Lions and Temple. A bevy of tributes and monuments constructed...
Penn State Crisis Communication Professor Has Crisis While Communicating His Adoration For Joe Paterno
Penn State public relations & crisis communication professor Steve Manuel has deleted his Twitter account after a meltdown during which the character from a confused retelling of a Marine Todd story declared that Joe Paterno did nothing wrong and that the longtime Nittany Lions coach is deserving of...
Penn State Not Done Honoring Joe Paterno
The Penn State Nittany Lions plan to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the debut of late head coach Joe Paterno, who knew about sexual abuse allegations against former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky since 1976, according to unsealed court documents....