The Paterno family released their big response to the Freeh report Sunday morning, alleging it condemned Paterno based on (at best) circumstantial evidence and was for the mort part "factually wrong."
Now that a Pennsylvania judge has rejected Jerry Sandusky's request for a new trial, the convicted child sex abuser and former Penn State football coach is running out of ways to avoid spending the rest of his life behind bars.
In one of the more disturbing reads this morning, The New York Daily News has an exclusive with a Pennsylvania man who alleges that Sandusky was a member of a tri-state child-prostitution ring involving a football coach at a top-tier Brooklyn private school.
There was shock! and outrage! after an Onward State editor tweeted a photo from a bookstore at Penn State that showed a T-shirt with the C in NCAA logo replaced with a hammer and sickle, but the truth behind the T-shirt is a lot less scandalous than you'd imagine.
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Penn State officials finally bent to public pressure on Sunday and removed the Joe Paterno statue from outside their football stadium. While that was happening, the NCAA announced a press conference for Monday morning where they're expected to level the school with "unprecedented" penalties.
Apparently when the Freeh Group unveils their long-awaited investigation into Penn State's handling of Jerry Sandusky next week, it won't be good for the legacy of Joe Paterno.
Joe Paterno's family is setting itself up for a tough job, downplaying the importance of emails that appear to show the former Pennsylvania State University football coach helped cover up allegations that Jerry Sandusky was sexually abusing a child.
Sometime around 10 p.m. Friday night, Jerry Sandusky was found guilty of 45 out of the potential 48 charges being brought against him. The length of Sandusky's jail term hasn't been decided yet, but he's facing potentially hundreds of years behind bars.
Jerry Sandusky's adopted son Matt has told authorities that his father abused him, the Associated Press reports.
Cartoonist Tony Auth on Sandusky and the jury of his peers.
Oddsmakers list the Wildcats as the team most likely to win the NCAA tournament, the crop of March Madness contenders again fails to impress, and Penn State trustees have finally explained the Joe Paterno firing.
Today in sports: Penn State's new football coach Bill O'Brien's contract is online in its entirety, why the return of gloomy Gus Carmelo Anthony might not spell the end of Linsanity, and hockey players have discovered yet another wildly dangerous tactic.
Penn State is struggling to recruit with new head coach Bill O'Brien still working for the New England Patriots, multiple sources say Peyton Manning's rehab from surgery isn't progressing fast enough, and a genuine piece of news emerges from Super Bowl media day.
Reports that Joe Paterno has died at age 85 are false, says a family spokesperson.
Today in sports: New England Patriots offensive coordinator will be named the new football coach in Happy Valley on Saturday, Floyd Mayweather is starting his jail sentence, and Charles Barkley may have lost his Weight Watchers endorsement last night.
Today in sports: In a new ad in Iowa, the GOP White House longshot hitches her wagon to the star of the worst quarterback in the NFL playoffs, Penn State is still trying to settle on a replacement for Joe Paterno, and ad time during the Super Bowl is all sold out.
Today in sports: the NFL revises its concussion policy, the "fight of the century" faces another setback, and Paul Quinn College meets America on ESPN.
NBC correspondent Jay Gray was trying to be a good journalist, going over to the home of dirtbag lawyer Joe Amendola to score an exclusive interview with other dirtbag Jerry Sandusky, the ex-Penn State coach accused of raping boys, but ended up with a DUI arrest instead.
Mike McQueary, eye-witness to one of Jerry Sandusky's alleged rapes, took the stand today in a hearing for two other Penn State officials to give his first public account of exactly he says he did (and did not) see happened in the team's locker room one 2002 night.
A Pennsylvania judge just overturned a prior ruling that prohibited reporters from tweeting or emailing during alleged sex offender and former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky's preliminary hearing on Tuesday.
The criminal case against Jerry Sandusky is progressing, but one of his alleged victims has filed a civil suit against him and Pennsylvania State University, alleging more than 100 instances of abuse by the former football coach.
The NBA eyes a Christmas start date as labor talks continue, college football's post-season has the potential to be historically messy this year, and American Samoa's soccer team snaps a 17-year streak of futility.
Children and Youth Services in Pennsylvania have opened two new cases of alleged child abuse against former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky that could be the first involving children who are currently minors.
Today in sports: ESPN is getting a new president, Chicago White Sox general manager Kenny Williams had an unexpected house guest, and MLB is officially banning discrimination based on sexual orientation
On Monday, Penn State named former FBI director Louis Freeh to head an internal investigation into the child-sex scandal that rocked the university, and Freeh has already promised to go deeper than the grand jury, taking his investigation all the way back to the 1970s -- before Jerry Sandusky.
Joe Paterno's son, Scott Paterno, has announced that his father has a treatable form of lung cancer, reports the AP. "His doctors are optimistic he will make a full recovery," said the son.
Cartoonist Tony Auth isn't filing away the Penn State scandal just yet.
Today in sports: FIFA president Sepp Blatter is again being called on to resign after saying racism in soccer is "no big deal," two more baseball teams will make the playoffs next year, and Franco Harris no longer speaks for the Meadows Race Track and Casino.
A post on a Penn State fan forum was the key break in the Jerry Sandusky case, because it led investigators to coach Mike McQueary who finally "unburdened himself" about what he knew about the coach's sexual abuse of children.
State College Police Chief Tom King says that Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary's "discussions with police" about witnessing and stopping Jerry Sandusky's locker room child rape never happened.
Mike McQueary, the coaching assistant who witnessed Jerry Sandusky raping a child in the Penn State locker room in 2002, told CBS's Armen Keteyian that the case has left him, "all over the place -- just kind of shaken ... like a snow globe."
Jon Stewart addressed that disturbing, disastrous phone interview that accused child abuser Jerry Sandusky had with Bob Costas, and the host said he could spot lying when he saw it, saying of the former defense cordinator: "It's like in that phone conversation you're actually fighting the urge to come clean."
While Jerry Sandusky, the former assistant Penn State football coach arrested for sexually abusing young boys, did his public image no favors with his interview on NBC's Rock Center with Brian Williams, his admissions to Bob Costas could end up hurting him the most in court.
NBC's Bob Costas landed the first interview with accused former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky and it was not a pleasant experience for the subject or the viewers.
Penn State's wounds are still fresh--a loss to Nebraska this weekend, the threats against and the administrative leave of coach Mike McQueary, and the embarrassing riots--but that hasn't stopped more news from Sandusky's Second Mile charity from unraveling or a new embarrassment for long-time coach Joe Paterno to shoulder.
Penn State's interim president Rodney Ericson has placed Mike McQueary, the assistant coach who first told Joe Paterno about witnessing Jerry Sandusky sexually abusing a 10-year-old boy, on "indefinite" administrative leave
Assistant coach Mike McQueary will not be at the Penn State's next football game, not because of his role in the school's sexual abuse scandal, but because of concerns for his safety
Though Joe Paterno is the natural target of ire in the Penn State sex scandal, much of the harshest criticism is being reserved for the man who reported one of the alleged rapes in the first place.
Tense press conferences, rowdy students, and a suggestion from Joe Paterno that everyone turn in early highlighted a raucous evening in Happy Valley.
Thousands of Penn State students poured into the streets of State College, overturning cars and tussling with police after the university decided to fire coach Joe Paterno late last night.
An end-of-the-season retirement wasn't soon enough. Penn State's board of trustees has fired both football coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier, reports the Associated Press.
Penn State football coach Joe Paterno released a statement saying he will retire at the end of the season, ending his 46 year tenure with the Nittany Lions, but to fully understand what he lost in the Jerry Sandusky abuse scandal, you need to understand the kingdom he built.
This morning New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd made a mistake that has Ivy Leaguers in a tizzy: she referred to Penn State as Penn.
As the Penn State scandal continues to tear apart the school and its football program, reports are that head coach Joe Paterno's days are numbered.
The big story from the sports world is the potential ouster of Joe Paterno as head coach of Penn State -- which, strangely enough, leads us to a question: Is it ever OK for someone to destroy his or her college diploma?
According to The New York Times, the departure of the veteran football coach is likely.
Today in sports: Joe Paterno's culpability in the Penn State sexual assault scandal, looking back at Magic Johnson's HIV announcement 20 years later, and a Wednesday deadline in the NBA labor talks.
The former defense coordinator for Penn State's football team is charged with sexually abusing eight boys through a charity he ran — and university officials are charged with covering it up.
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