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Sandusky's Lawyer Says Client Is "Distraught" Over Paterno's Retirement
Sandusky's attorney, Joe Amendola, said today that his client learned of Joe Paterno's plans to retire and "is 'distraught' over the latest developments at Penn State. While Sandusky maintains he is innocent, 'he is saddened by what is happening to the reputation of Penn State,' Amendola said. 'He f...
Nike Has No Comment On Penn State, Does Have A Child Care Center In Oregon Named For Joe Paterno (UPDATE: Nike Has No Comment On That, Either)
In case you haven't noticed yet, the corporate brand on Penn State's uniforms is a swoosh. We though it'd make sense to reach out to the folks at Nike and ask what they thought of the Sandusky affair. Did they plan on altering their business relationship with the school? Would the swoosh continue to...
Whatever They Want To Say: How Media Outlets Handled Joe Paterno's Weird Quote Last Night
Late last night, Joe Paterno emerged from his ranch house on McKee Street in State College and spoke to a crowd of students and supporters who'd staked out on his front lawn for hours. He seemed very happy to see them all there and told them as much: "It's hard for me to tell you how much this means...
How PSU Administrators Could Escape Prosecution For Failing To Report An Allegation That Jerry Sandusky Raped A Boy
In a story today, the Legal Intelligencer points out the loophole through which Tim Curley and Gary Schultz—Penn State's athletic director and former vice president of business and finance, respectively—will likely try and escape prosecution on charges they failed to report allegations that Jerry S...
Jerry Sandusky Painted Out Of Memory On Downtown Mural; Paterno And Spanier Remain
The heroes of State College are treasured, but not tenured. Earlier today an image of Jerry Sandusky on a massive mural in downtown State College was painted over. It's as if the school would like to pretend that Jerry Sandusky and everything he did never existed—a hard thing to reconcile with the t...
Report: PSU President Graham Spanier Will Quit Or Be Voted Out By End Of Day
Lehigh Valley's Express-Times reports that Penn State president Graham Spanier will either leave his post or be voted out by the university's trustees by the end of the day. Spanier allegedly learned that former football assistant Jerry Sandusky had been seen "horsing around in the shower" with a yo...
ShortCenter: Comprehensive Coverage Of The Penn State Scandal
What is ESPN prattling on about right now? We condense your morning SportsCenter to its essence....
Joe Paterno's Statement: "With The Benefit Of Hindsight, I Wish I Had Done More"
Paterno makes it official. Via @MicheleSteele: ...
Joe Paterno To Retire After The Season
The AP is reporting that Paterno will step down at the end of this season, which would mean three more games and a bowl. Joe (or someone close to him) has finally decided that his position is untenable, and there's no possible universe in which he would be allowed to coach next season. But remember:...
Penn State Students Rally In Support Of Incompetent, Morally Complicit Old Relic
Your morning roundup for Nov. 9, the day we learned GIVE ME TACOS. Photo of Penn State rally via Kyle C. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors. ...
Joe Paterno's 2009 Compensation Was $200,000 Higher Than The PSU President's, And Other Grotesqueries
A few years ago, Joe Paterno and Penn State, facing an open-records lawsuit from reporter Jan Murphy and the Patriot-News, fought like crazy to prevent salary information about university employees from becoming public. Murphy and the paper won a court ruling only to see Paterno et al. appeal the de...
A Weeping Joe Paterno Just Spoke To Students Gathered Outside His Living Room Window (UPDATED)
Follow @Ben_Jones88, @OnwardState, and @jimbaumbach for live updates from the scene. [Photo via]...
Follow These People On Twitter To Keep Up With The Penn State Scandal Throughout The Week
There's a lot of clutter on Twitter surrounding Penn State right now, so we've condensed the Twitterverse for you. Follow the people below for up-to-date information on the scandal: @Ben_Jones88 — Ben Jones, Reporter, StateCollege.com and BlackShoeDiaries.com...
Alleged Victim's Mother: Jerry Sandusky Admitted It "To My Face" 13 Years Ago
The Patriot-News of Harrisburg (PennLive.com) has done yeoman's work covering the Penn State scandal. Sara Ganim, a reporter for the paper, has been the most dogged in ferreting out details, and her story today managed to get comments from the mothers of two of Jerry Sandusky's alleged sexual assau...
Paterno's Son Tells YES Network They Are Working On A Press Conference To Address Scandal, Unaware Of Ouster Rumors
YES Network's Kim Jones scored an interview with Paterno's son Scott, who told her that the press conference was canceled by Penn State University president Graham Spanier and that his father wanted to address the media over the Sandusky scandal. He also told Jones they are working on putting toge...
Matt Millen Breaks Down And Cries On <em>SportsCenter</em>: "If We Can't Protect Our Kids, We, As A Society, Are Pathetic"
Millen was an All-American defensive tackle at Penn State in the late 1970s. Joe Paterno and Jerry Sandusky were his coaches. He got pretty emotional talking to Chris McKendry a little more than 30 minutes ago. The video is above, and the full transcript is below, courtesy ESPN captioning. H/T to ...
<em>New York Times</em> Reports Penn State Ready To Oust Paterno
The Times's Happy Valley duo just dropped this report: "Joe Paterno's tenure as coach of the Penn State football team will soon be over, perhaps within days or weeks, in the wake of a sex-abuse scandal that has implicated university officials, according to two people briefed on conversations among t...
Penn State's President Has Canceled Joe Paterno's Weekly Press Conference
The word came from upstairs. You'll recall that Penn State previously instructed reporters not to ask about anything other than football, and it didn't seem like the press would follow that diktat, so Penn State went ahead and cancelled the whole thing. To think, Tom Rinaldi ironed his best pocket s...
Penn State To Reporters: Do Not Ask About Jerry Sandusky At Today's Conference Call
As he does every Tuesday during the season, Joe Paterno will take questions from the media in a conference call scheduled for today at 12:20 p.m. EST. Can't imagine what anyone would want to ask him about. But in case any of those reporters planning to participate have doubts, Jeff Nelson, Penn Sta...
"I Want To Believe It's Not True": An Interview With The Co-Author Of Jerry Sandusky's Book, <em>Touched</em>
In 1991, Jerry Sandusky approached Kip Richeal, a former equipment manager with the Nittany Lions, and asked him to co-write a biographical book about the coach's life. Richeal, who'd known Sandusky since he was an 18-year-old freshman and who'd studied journalism at Penn State, agreed to the job. F...