joe-paterno Page 10 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights

Former Penn State Police Chief Testifies That PSU Administrator Never Told Him About 2002 Sandusky Shower Incident
One of the big questions in the Jerry Sandusky case is what the cops knew and when. The "cops" would be the Penn State University police. Those are the cops who investigated Sandusky in 1998 for alleged sexual misconduct. Nothing happened with that case because the district attorney at the time decl...

Key Witness Says He Told Joe Paterno Jerry Sandusky Did Something "Extremely Sexual In Nature" In Shower With Boy
Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary was the first witness called this morning at the preliminary hearing for Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, which is taking place right now in Harrisburg, Pa. Curley, Penn State's on-leave athletic director, and Schultz, the school's former senior vice president f...

Now There's Yet Another Story About What Mike McQueary Said He Saw Jerry Sandusky Doing In The Penn State Showers
The story from Mike McQueary, the Penn State football assistant who allegedly witnessed Jerry Sandusky anally raping a young boy in 2002, came under scrutiny once again over the weekend when a man present for his first account disputed his testimony. The Harrisburg Patriot-News points out that there...

A New Study Ranks The Penn State Football Team No. 1 In Academic Performance
The New America Foundation unveiled its annual Academic Bowl Championship Series results today, and the great program in Happy Valley topped the list, followed by Boise State, TCU, and Stanford....

Paterno, Chairman Of Jerry Sandusky's Charity Were Pursuing $125M Real Estate Deal When Sandusky Was Caught Allegedly Sodomizing Boy
One might be tempted to say this thickens the plot, but let's resist temptation and merely state the facts: When Mike McQueary told Joe Paterno in 2002 that he'd seen Jerry Sandusky raping a 10-year-old boy in the shower, Paterno was in business with longtime Second Mile board chairman Robert Poole ...

Penn State Makes Joe Paterno's Firing Official In Appropriately Undignified Setting
The Penn State Board of Trustees needed only four minutes this morning to formally toss Joe Paterno out the window, and this was the scene. That's right: JoePa got shitcanned via teleconference in what looks like Meeting Room 3 of the nicest Best Western in Happy Valley. God, that's sad. You half-ex...

Former PSU Administrator: Joe Paterno Demanded His Own Code Of Justice—And Code Of Silence—For Infractions By Players
In September of 2007, Vicky Triponey resigned as Penn State's vice president for student affairs, a job that included overseeing the school's Office of Judicial Affairs. In an interview two weeks later, she attributed her departure to what the Centre County Daily Times described as "philosophical d...

Joe Paterno Has "A Treatable Form Of Lung Cancer"
This is according to the AP, per Paterno's son, Scott. There had also been a report that Paterno visited a local hospital on Wednesday night. [Twitter]...

<em>South Park</em> Is Already Doing Penn State Jokes
Too soon? [WWTDD]...

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 ...

A Former Penn State Assistant And Survivor Of Childhood Sexual Abuse Blasts Joe Paterno: "Joe Knows Everything That Goes On In That Program"
Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Matt Paknis also says Jerry Sandusky was "like the Pied Piper, there were always kids around...

Undaunted, Franco Harris Is Driving To State College To Convince Penn State To Re-Hire Joe Paterno
Former Steelers running back Franco Harris, now out of work for defending Joe Paterno, has found a way to make use of his newfound free time. According to WTAE-TV, Harris said he agreed to put his job at Meadows Racetrack & Casino "on hold" so he can fight the good fight on behalf of his old colleg...

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....

A Comprehensive Timeline Of The Penn State Child Sex Abuse Scandal
On Nov. 5, a Pennsylvania grand jury indicted former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky on 40 criminal counts for allegedly sexually abusing eight boys between the mid-1990s and the late 2000s. Tim Curley, Penn State's athletic director, and Gary Schultz, the school's former vice presid...

Mike McQueary Tells CBS His Emotions Are "Like A Snow Globe," Returns To Al Capone's Vault
CBS hyped up a televised interview with Penn State assistant coach and alleged child rape witness Mike McQueary this afternoon, and then aired a 22-second clip of Armen Keteyian confronting the subject on his front porch. Early in the day, Keteyian had tweeted out that on CBS's evening edition, "M...

Great Man Mike Krzyzewski Defends Great Man Joe Paterno
Great men must stick together. Their greatness unites them—especially if, like Mike Krzyzewski and Joe Paterno, they've recorded a 90-minute nationally broadcast television special celebrating their mutual greatness. ...

"I Enjoy Young People": Sandusky Thinks It Over, Tells Bob Costas He's Not Sexually Attracted To Young Boys
Bob Costas somehow managed to secure a phone interview with Jerry Sandusky on NBC's new newsmagazine show, Rock Center this evening, and he did as good a job one could have done under such bizarre circumstances. He also, it should be noted, managed to include the phrase "slap-slap-slapping" on nat...

Joe Paterno's Name Has Been Removed From The Big Ten Trophy That Has Not Yet Been Awarded
Retired life is not going any better for toppled morally complicit geezer Joe Paterno. Now his name has been removed from an essentially hypothetical trophy....

Here's The Law That Lets McQueary And Paterno Off The Hook
On Sunday, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett appeared on NBC's Meet the Press to talk about the "mandated reporter" child abuse law that did not mandate any reporting to state agencies by Mike McQueary and Joe Paterno. The two men merely told their superiors, thereby satisfying the minimum requirements ...