Joe Paterno News
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Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett said the state is reviewing its options after a judge threw out a lawsuit challenging National Collegiate Athletic Association sanctions against Pennsylvania State University for its role in the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse scandal.
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Joe Paterno died of lung cancer surrounded by family members yesterday, just over two months after he was fired as Pennsylvania State University’s football coach, ending a record-setting 46-year run in which he collected 409 wins and two national championships. He was 85.
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The first man on the moon, the first U.S. woman in space and the first black Federal Reserve member were among the notable deaths in 2012.
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The family of former Pennsylvania State University football coach Joe Paterno released a report yesterday that said Louis Freeh’s investigation into a child sex abuse case was “fundamentally flawed.”
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Joe Paterno was told to shut up by the school he’s helped make a college football power. A day later, Paterno said he’s leaving as the record-setting coach at Penn State University and wished he had done more to stop a child-sex scandal involving one of his former assistants.
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A report commissioned by the family of former Pennsylvania State University football coach Joe Paterno faulted the report by Louis Freeh released last year as “fundamentally flawed.”
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Bobby Bowden became the coach with the most victories at college football’s highest level when former Pennsylvania State University coach Joe Paterno was stripped of 111 wins.
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Penn State fired football coach Joe Paterno and university President Graham B. Spanier four days after former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was charged with sexually assaulting boys in the school’s athletic complex.
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Joe Paterno’s alma mater, Brown University, has permanently stripped his name from an annual athletics award after an investigation found Paterno and other Penn State University officials concealed a child sexual abuse scandal involving a former assistant football coach.
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Joe Paterno sat in his kitchen one morning in March 2002 as a graduate assistant described a locker-room shower encounter he saw between a boy and a longtime friend and colleague of Penn State University’s football coach. Paterno slumped in his chair, “shocked and saddened,” according to court testimony.
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