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NCAA Should Have Done Its Own Investigation Before Punishing Penn State, Says Member Of Group That Investigated Penn State
We told you yesterday how Penn State could have fought the NCAA in court over the sanctions it received earlier this week. Our own Drew Magary has also explained that the NCAA levied the punishment it did to pretty much show the world it's doing something because what happened was just so horrible a...

Here Are Your All-Time Vacated Standings For Division I College Football
The NCAA swung its shithammer on Monday, and Penn State had to vacate a staggering 112 victories. Joe Paterno was no longer the winningest coach in college football history. But he became the winningest coach in another college football universe. Here, for the first time, are the NCAA's all-time va...

Penn State Ex-President Graham Spanier Has A TOP SECRET Government Job That He Won't Tell Anyone About
Former Penn State president Graham Spanier has a job. But no one knows what the the hell it is....

Barry Switzer: The NCAA Is "Punishing The Wrong People" At Penn State
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: The former coach says the NCAA rushed to judgment....

How Penn State Could Have Fought The NCAA And Won
The NCAA dropped those "unprecedented" punishments on Penn State on Monday, and they're mighty. There's the usual—scholarship cuts, probation, bowl bans, vacated wins, a fine—but amplified to heretofore unseen levels....

Jerry Sandusky's Alleged Penn State Shower Victim Has Been Identified, Lawyers Say
One the great mysteries surrounding the Jerry Sandusky case involved the boy known as Victim 2, the one former Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary says he witnessed Sandusky abusing in a Penn State football building shower on Feb. 9, 2001. It was, of course, McQueary's eyewitness account that e...

The Freeh Group Acknowledges Some Mistakes In Its Report On Penn State
It's not anything that will cause Franco Harris to race through the streets to declare vindication, nor will this bit of news lead the NCAA to reexamine the sanctions it handed down and say, "Oops!" But the Freeh Group, which had issued the devastating investigative report on Penn State's handling o...

Nostradamus On Paterno (The Town In Sicily): "Flee Oh, Flee ... The Dreaded Pestilence!"
There is a new translation of Nostradamus's The Prophecies, the text that when read just so manages to predict everything from 9/11 to the rise of the Kennedys (and whose contents were the subject of roughly 98 percent of all emails forwarded from AOL accounts between 1998 and 2004). In a review on ...

Lane Kiffin Just Can't Wait To Steal Penn State's Star Running Back
It's practically open season on Penn State's football roster, as far as other Division I coaches are concerned. As part of Monday's sanctions handed down by the NCAA, any current Penn State player can transfer without penalty, and so long as another team has a scholarship opening, then all that's ne...

Penn State Fan To TV Reporter About NCAA Sanctions: "It Was Our 9/11 Today. I Just Saw Planes Crashing Into Towers."
The NCAA's decision to essentially gut Penn State football yesterday meant TV stations and newspapers throughout Pennsylvania felt they had to swing into action. Their mission? Find someone, anyone, with some tie to Penn State to get a reaction. Local papers and TV stations love taking this shitty...

Joe Paterno Said Some Supremely Ironic Things To The <em>L.A. Times</em> In 1987
In 1987, the L.A. Times ran a lengthy, largely laudatory feature on Joe Paterno. Considering certain recent revelations, there are a couple quotes that are awfully intriguing....

"I HOPE U ALL FUCKIN DIE" And Other Reasoned, Measured Responses To The NCAA's Penn State Punishment
The NCAA's announcement of penalties against Penn State football brought forth strong reactions—including our own—but none more, say, fervent than from those on social media. Here, then, are the most angry, sometimes regrettable, and generally depressing reactions from those on Twitter and Facebook...

Penn State's Former President Says He Was Abused As A Child, Too
The Paternos aren't the only ones furiously pleading someone's innocence in the Jerry Sandusky matter. Former PSU president Graham Spanier has now sent a letter to the school's board of trustees that accuses the Freeh report of being biased. The Patriot-News of Harrisburg obtained the letter, which ...

Here's Today's Spam From The Paterno Family
The NCAA has spoken, and the Paterno family was ready. This is the latest finger-wagging mass email they fired off this afternoon:...

In Penn State's Last Official Win, Quarterback Mike McQueary Had The Game Of His Life
This morning, the NCAA announced sanctions for Penn State's football program that included vacated wins from 1998 through 2011. That means that the last man to quarterback Penn State to an on-the-books win was none other than Mike McQueary, the man who would bring the phrase "rhythmic slapping sound...

The Big Ten Has Piled On Some Punishment Of Its Own For Penn State
The sanctions handed down this morning by the NCAA are not all there is for Penn State. The Big Ten has now tacked on its own penalties: Penn State will not be getting any of the conference's bowl revenue for the next four years, an amount estimated to total $13 million. That money will instead go t...

Joe Posnanski Won't Be Doing Very Many Interviews Or Readings For <em>Paterno</em>
Joe Posnanski is having a hard time coming by any good news these days. The latest? The book tour and media interviews for his woefully timed biography, Paterno, due out Aug. 21, will now be severely cut back....

The NCAA Is Using Penn State To Justify Its Own Horrid Existence
OK, first of all, you people at the NCAA are gutless shitbags. I know you're probably spending this morning in an Indianapolis conference room patting each other on the back and tugging each other's cocks and ordering EXTRA Einstein bagels for everyone for a job well done (why not, you've got $60 mi...

Penn State NCAA Sanctions: Four-Year Bowl Ban, Vacated Wins, $60 Million Fine, Significant Scholarship Reductions
The NCAA has announced its punishment of Penn State at a press conference in Indianapolis: ...

NCAA May Fine Penn State Up To $60 Million
CBS, who initially reported that Penn State's punishment would be "unprecedented," is now reporting that the NCAA will fine Penn State at least $30 million and could fine the school as much as $60 million and create an endowment for "children's causes" with the money....