This is probably my last post on Penn State and Joe Paterno for a while as he was fired last night by the Penn State Board of Trustees. Joe Paterno, a man who until last week could make a claim to being the greatest coaching institution in the history of college athletics, was terminated Wednesday [...]
Joe Paterno
Joe Paterno about to ousted at Penn State
The writing is on the wall for Penn State’s Joe Paterno. Joe Paterno’s tenure as coach of the Penn State football team will soon be over, perhaps within days or weeks, in the wake of a sex-abuse scandal that has implicated university officials, according to two people briefed on conversations among the university’s top officials. [...]
The legacy of Joe Paterno
I am a big Joe Paterno fan. I always have been but as Dan Wetzel writes, the allegations against the coaching legend are serious enough to forever taint his legacy. Pennsylvania law asks employees to pass the information up their chain of command, where it fell on Curley to tell authorities. However, Paterno is no [...]
