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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....

Former Players Sue NFL Over Painkiller Use
A group of 12 former players brought the latest concussion-related lawsuit against the NFL this week, this one concerning the league's administration of the painkiller Toradol. As with the other half-dozen or so suits that former players have filed against the league in recent months, the players al...

Report: All Eight Accusers Will Testify Against Jerry Sandusky At Next Week's Hearing
The preliminary hearings for Jerry Sandusky's child abuse case begin at the Centre County Court in Bellefonte, Pa., a week from today, and an ABC News report indicates that all eight alleged victims will testify against him....

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 ...

Stuff Jerry Sandusky's Lawyer Says Just Keeps Backfiring
Yesterday, we learned that lawyerin' boob Joe Amendola had bragged to Sara Ganim of the Patriot-News of Harrisburg that four of the eight victims cited in the grand jury report recently had "friendly encounters" (Ganim's phrase) with Amendola's client, Jerry Sandusky. Amendola even went so far as t...

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...

Jerry Sandusky's Lawyer Is Just Throwing Shit Against The Wall Now
That creepy interview Jerry Sandusky did with Bob Costas a couple of weeks back was pretty much viewed as a disaster by everyone except Joe Amendola, the attorney representing Sandusky who permitted it to happen. And now, amid news that additional victims continue to come forward to allege Sandusky...

Watch Ex-Canadian Football Greats Joe Kapp and Angelo Mosca Brawl As Only Old Guys Can: With Canes
As you can see, ex-CFL stars Kapp and Mosca came to blows during an alumni luncheon during Grey Cup Weekend. The scuffle occurred when, for some reason, highlights were shown from a championship game where Kapp Mosca made a controversial hit on Mosca's Kapp's teammate, Willie Fleming, forcing him ...

Jerry Sandusky's Attorney On Hotel Sex And Why Tom Corbett's Investigation Took So Long
Teenage impregnator and Jerry Sandusky attorney Joe Amendola appeared today on ABC news to say a few things in front of a fake fire and a bad painting. First, he stated the obvious: He expects more charges to be filed against Sandusky....

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 ...

Motivated By Costas Interview, Alleged Sandusky Victim Will Testify He Was "Severely Sexually Assaulted"
On Monday night, Jerry Sandusky and his lawyer, Joe Amendola, granted a phone interview to Bob Costas on Rock Center. During the taped segment, Amendola suggested that some of the alleged victims referenced in the grand jury report—particularly the one who, according to the report, Mike McQueary wit...

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...

Jon Stewart On The Costas-Sandusky Interview: "The Only Time You Repeat A Question Is When You're Guilty!"
The train wreck of an interview gets the Daily Show treatment: "By the way, in case you're wondering, 'Where the hell is Sandusky's lawyer while he's saying all this?' He's sitting right next to Bob Costas!" [Watch on Quickish]...

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...