Joe Paterno

Keidel: No Jolt from Joe; ‘Paterno’ Biographer Whiffs On Scandal

If you care to look at his book as strict reportage, an objective, obdurate desire to report Joe Paterno’s view on life, liberty, and Sandusky, then he did his job. We can’t kill Joe Posnanski for playing it safe. And yet we can.

2012/08/23

Keidel: Are We Witnessing Football’s Freefall?

For NFL players with careers longer than five years, their life expectancy is less than 60. Maybe an incredible 40 beats an indifferent 80. That’s an important choice for us to make. But it is our choice, and it always will be.

2012/08/07

Penn State President: Nittany Lions Faced 4-Year ‘Death Penalty’

Penn State’s trustees may not like the NCAA’s unprecedented sanctions against the university’s football program, but they say the alternative — the so-called “death penalty” — would have been worse.

2012/07/26

Keidel: Nittany Liars

Even with all that has been unearthed regarding the Penn State scandal, it is alarming to think that there are still many people throughout the country who are saddened and perplexed by the sanctions handed down by the NCAA

2012/07/25

Palladino: First Paterno’s Statue Goes, Then His Program

Joe Paterno’s statue went Sunday morning.

On Monday, the NCAA took the rest of Penn State’s tainted football program.

2012/07/23

Silverman: Harsh Penn State Penalties Simply Not Enough

Many won’t understand the nuances of scholarship reductions, bowl bans and removing victories. The only thing they’ll see is that Penn State will be playing football this upcoming season.

2012/07/23

NCAA Hits Penn State With 4-Year Bowl Ban, Vacates Wins From 1998-2011

With his statue no longer outside Beaver Stadium, late Penn State coach Joe Paterno has been dropped from his perch atop the Division I record books.

2012/07/23

Keidel: Statues, Sanctions And Statutes; NCAA Must Level Penn State Football

If the NCAA is sincere – and that can always be questioned – then the hammer must double as a guillotine, gutting Penn State football forever, or at least the contemporary equivalent.

2012/07/23

Paterno Family Responds To Statue Removal

The family of Joe Paterno released a statement Sunday morning in response to the removal of the Paterno statue outside Beaver Stadium.

2012/07/22

Famed Joe Paterno Statue Taken Down From Outside Penn State Football Stadium

The famed statue of Joe Paterno was taken down from outside the Penn State football stadium on Sunday, eliminating a key piece of the iconography surrounding the once-sainted football coach.

2012/07/22

NCAA To Hand Down ‘Unprecedented’ Penalties To Penn State

The NCAA are set to hand down ‘unprecedented’ penalties to Penn State and their football program.

2012/07/22

Keidel: Penn State Saves Face, Not Grace

Removing the statue of Joe Paterno is the right call. But like every lens that exposed some sickening dysfunction over the last ten months, this one had to be forced upon the warped sensibilities of Penn State.

2012/07/21