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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. ...
There's More Action In 3:53 Of Tuscaloosa Tailgate Brawling Than In The Alabama/LSU Game It Preceded
A little late to the game with this week's Fights and/or Boobs inbrawlment, but hell, Alabama/LSU was the Game of the Century, and it's worth taking our collective minds off Jerry Sandusky for a spell, right?...
Here's Chad McGhee With Your Weekly Knox City Greyhounds Update
Part of Chad McGhee feels bad for the kids on a Paint Creek Pirates football team that got 45-ruled by the mighty Knox City Greyhounds on the first play of the third quarter Friday night. This is likely because Chad is riding the joylightning of a 46-0 victory which clinched a playoff berth for th...
This Week In Unintentional Dong Submissions
You people see dongs everywhere, don't you?...
"Giggly Giggly Girl" Celebrates Weight Loss With "Jiggly Jiggly" Video
Congratulations on reaching your goal, lady in the rainbow wig who made this video. You are to be commended....
Presenting The Call From When A Lingerie Football League Player Got Pantsed
"She got her pants pulled down and still kept going. She's down at the four-yard-line. Wow."...
Bernard Hopkins Has The Same Respect For Smokin' Joe Frazier That Catholics Do For The Pope
Yesterday, I spoke with Bernard Hopkins a few hours before it was announced that legendary Philadelphia boxer Joe Frazier had died of liver cancer. The entire interview is contained in that video link above. To hear excerpts of it, you can get them via this link....
Here's Something Nice: Woman Pranks Boyfriend With Fake Tarantula
We've had a weird, rather preoccupied start to the week around here, so we're going to lighten things up a little bit for you all before we call it a night: This is a video of a woman getting back at her becouched boyfriend by dropping a fake tarantula on his head. Consider it a simple reminder th...
Bill Clinton Cameoed At Today's Fruitless Lockout Negotiations
Let's take a brief respite from Penn State-related news to check in on the second-most miserable topic in today's sports coverage: the NBA lockout! If you've been following even from afar lately, you probably know that Bobcats owner Michael Jordan ruffled some feathers last week when he emerged as...
Number Of Sandusky Victims To Come Forward At "Almost 20"
As of Monday's press conference, the grand jury presentment identified eight separate victims, six of whom were known to prosecutors. Since the Attorney General asked further victims to come forward and publicized a phone number to call, the number of reported victims has "more than doubled in the p...
Ravens Radio Guy Gerry Sandusky Would Like To Remind You (And Dick Ebersol) He's Not <em>Jerry</em> Sandusky
Gerry Sandusky has been hearing from a lot of people in the last few days, mostly through Twitter and email. Some, he said in a phone conversation a few minutes ago, want to know if he's him, if he's that Jerry Sandusky. Others have expressed "super support and understanding" for the fact that his ...
Youth Organization Learned Of Jerry Sandusky Investigation in 1998, Let Jerry Sandusky Fraternize With Youth Until 2008
The possible ambit of abetment in the Jerry Sandusky case widens by the day. How so many people looked the other way for so long is incomprehensible. Then again, it's human nature to look the other way, to pretend that whatever version of Kitty Genovese lives in your neighborhood isn't being stabbed...
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]...
2003 Profile On Sandusky's Work With Second Mile: "It's Like He Was Put On This Earth To Work With Kids."
On November 14, 2003, Penn State's Collegian published an article about Jerry Sandusky's dedication to The Second Mile. In retrospect, the piece reveals just how tragically oblivious some of the volunteers and directors of the organization were about their founder at that time. We've compiled some o...
Meet Tennessee's Emergency Kicker, Who Was Sitting On A Frat Couch, Possibly Drunk, An Hour Before Kicking In The Game
SEC football's a big thing, but the Tennessee Volunteers really aren't. (Opportunity is nowhere, and all of that.) And the Vols especially aren't a big thing when they're playing out-of-conference, like they were last Saturday, against the Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders. Tennessee won, but only...
Does The NFL Want To Be Ali-Frazier?
We're doing a season-long NFL roundtable with our friends at Slate. Check back here each week as a rotating cast of football watchers discusses the weekend's key plays, coaching decisions, and traumatic brain injuries....
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...
The East Carolina University Student Paper Is Not Afraid To Show Cock-And-Balls On The Front Page (NSFW)
At halftime of the East Carolina University-Southern Miss football game on Saturday, John Sieglinger of Raleigh bravely stormed the field wearing nothing but his manhood. Nothing unusual about a streaker down Carolina way. Sieglinger was charged with misdemeanor trespassing and misdemeanor indecent ...