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Penn State Trustees Recount the Week Before Firing Joe Paterno
Since Jerry Sandusky was arrested in early November and charged with sexually molesting young boys, Penn State University has been the center of a national […]
Penn State Icon, Former Coach, Joe Paterno Dead at 85
Joe Paterno has passed away, today, after false reports of his death spurred a vigil at his statue on Penn State’s campus last night. Paterno […]
Franco Harris Wants PSU to Re-Hire Joe Paterno
Franco Harris—the Pittsburgh Steelers Hall of Fame running back and Penn State alum—has ventured to ground zero of the Jerry Sandusky scandal. Harris is in […]
Pennsylvania Voters Want to Re-Name Stadium for Joe Paterno
A Quinnipiac University poll released today indicates that voters in Pennsylvania are in favor of re-naming Penn State’s Beaver Stadium for Joe Paterno. JoePa passed […]
All Penn Staters Should Still Be Disappointed in Joe Paterno
While it may appear that people get away with a hell of a lot, they don’t—not cardinals, or priests, or football coaches, or self-canonized institutions. […]
Joe Paterno Story Causes Laughter Inside Sandusky Courtroom
A few of Jerry Sandusky’s jurors cracked a smile as Joe Paterno’s former player and graduate assistant coach Mike McQueary testified during the second day […]
What Andy Reid Can Learn From Joe Paterno
There was a time, and it wasn’t always just on a warm summer’s eve on a train bound for nowhere, when people knew when best […]
Comedian Dresses Up Like Joe Paterno for Roast of Roseanne
Jeffrey Ross isn’t exactly a household name. The man’s a comedian who gets most of his facetime for hurling inappropriate humor on marginal celebrities for […]
Where Were You When You Heard Joe Paterno Died (For Real)?
Hard to believe, but it’s been exactly one year since Joe Paterno died from lung cancer—a day after overzealous student journalists pre-reported his death—just months […]
CBS Senior College Football Blogger Let Go Over Premature Report of Joe Paterno’s Death
Onward State—a website run by Penn State students—prematurely reported that Joe Paterno had passed away. The organization tweeted that the football team had received a […]
Nike Removes Joe Paterno’s Name From the Child Care Center at Its Headquarters
Following Thursday’s release of the Freeh report and the subsequent press conference held in Philadelphia, Nike has announced that it will remove Joe Paterno’s name […]
Suit: Sandusky Used Joe Paterno’s Famous White Socks to Buy Victim’s Silence
The newest lawsuit emerging from the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal at Penn State contains a fresh allegation that seems designed to renew all the […]
Court Docs: Joe Paterno Knew About Sandusky’s Child Sex Abuse in 1976
Did Penn State University football coach Joe Paterno know about Jerry Sandusky’s horrific pedophiliac ways 40 years ago? That disturbing possibility was raised in a court filing […]
Poll: Nearly Half of Americans Don’t Know That Joe Paterno Was Never Accused of Molesting Children
A new poll—commissioned by the website FramingPaterno.com and conducted by Wilson Perkins Allen Opinion Research—indicates that only 55 percent of Americans are correctly aware that […]
Did Joe Paterno Know More About Jerry Sandusky Than He Let On?
What did Joe Paterno know about Jerry Sandusky’s alleged behavior around little boys, and when did he know it? That’s the question everyone has been […]