This is the grave of Joe Paterno. Born in Brooklyn in 1926, Paterno grew up in a strong Italian Catholic family. He graduated from high school in 1944 and was drafted upon graduation. He served in the Army for a year, was discharged in 1946,...
Joe Paterno
In January 2011, Joe Paterno learned prosecutors were investigating his longtime assistant coach Jerry Sandusky for sexually assaulting young boys. Soon, Mr. Paterno had testified before a grand jury, and.
33 years ago Joe Paterno had the poor judgment to remark in front of a reporter at a social gathering that he couldn’t retire from college football, because doing so.
This is six weeks old, and might have been previously discussed here, but Forbes reports that the Obama Administration has had the slowest rate of increase in Federal spending since . . . Eisenhower. This leads to two questions. First, do conservatives still trust that...
It is becoming apparent that Joe Paterno not only knew that Jerry Sandusky was a child rapist, but that he was probably the person most responsible for covering up Sandusky's.
Let's just say that I'm not optimistic that Posnanski's Paterno book will be what it should be.
The (now award-winning) journalist Sara Ganim, who has been doing fantastic work on the Penn State sex ed scandal, has an interesting story about the reliability of Mike McQueary's grand jury testimony. There is plausible evidence that the account he claims to have given his...
The answer is, in fact, perfectly obvious: But none of the principals involved here are corporate lawyers. None of them has any ethical duty of confidentiality toward Penn State and.
Upwards of 10 new alleged Sandusky victims have emerged. The judge who inexplicably let an alleged violent criminal facing more than 200 years go on $100,000 in unsecured bail worked.
While the behavior of some Penn State students has been appalling, as I discussed the other day for the most part the media has been OK. But our commenters have IDed some exceptions. One glaring exception is Sally Jenkins, who asserts that Paterno should not...
Shorter Verbatim Graham Spanier: "I have always acted honorably and in the best interests of the University." I...Jesus. What I said applies to his latest exercise in self-congratulation and self-exoneration..
I spoke too soon. Both football coach Joe Paterno and president Graham Spanier are out at Penn State in the wake of a disturbing child sex abuse scandal involving former.