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Joe Paterno

Sandusky renews effort to have charges thrown out (Yahoo! Sports)

Posted on May 16, 2012, in BCS Football, with 0 Comments

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Jerry Sandusky again asked a judge to throw out the child sexual abuse charges against him on Wednesday, arguing that some counts are too vague to defend and others involve alleged victims whose identities have not been.

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O’Brien brings optimism, reassurance to nervous Penn State Nation

Posted on May 10, 2012, in BCS Football, with 0 Comments

NEW YORK — They spoke about Joe Paterno rarely in a room filled with his spirit, his followers and his replacement. Maybe that’s the way it was supposed to be at Bill O’Brien’s grand coming out in the nation’s media.

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Key Penn State witness seeks whistle-blower suit (Yahoo! Sports)

Posted on May 8, 2012, in BCS Football, with 0 Comments

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) The Penn State football assistant whose report of Jerry Sandusky attacking a child in the showers led to Joe Paterno‘s firing says he’s suing the school. Mike McQueary filed a notice of a lawsuit based on.

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Key Penn State witness seeks whistleblower lawsuit (Yahoo! Sports)

Posted on May 8, 2012, in BCS Football, with 0 Comments

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) The Penn State football assistant whose report of Jerry Sandusky attacking a child in the showers led to Joe Paterno‘s firing says he’s suing the school. Mike McQueary filed a notice of a lawsuit based on.

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Ohio State No. 1 in spring game attendance

Posted on May 8, 2012, in Big Ten, with 0 Comments

We always say around here that spring games are overrated from an information-gathering standpoint. Still, you can’t blame fans for wanting to see their team in action, and those whose schools have new coaches were especially curious to see what.

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Taliaferro among PSU’s newest trustees

Posted on May 4, 2012, in Big Ten, with 0 Comments

Former Penn State football player Adam Taliaferro, who recovered from a devastating spinal cord injury in a 2000 game and later became an attorney, is one of three new members elected to the school’s board of trustees. Election results were.

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Links: Penn State moving forward

Posted on May 1, 2012, in Big Ten, with 0 Comments

Ivan Maisel: Bill O’Brien, a longtime Patriots assistant, is getting used to college players again. He’s also trying to strike a balance between respecting the past and moving forward at Penn State. | Video Adam Rittenberg: Penn State has experienced.

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Coach O’Brien kicks off Penn State caravan tour (Yahoo! Sports)

Posted on April 30, 2012, in BCS Football, with 0 Comments

PHILADELPHIA (AP) Dressed in a navy blue suit with a dark tie and a Penn State button pinned near his heart, new Nittany Lions football coach Bill O’Brien kicked off the first leg of a nine-day, 18-stop bus tour in.

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Joe Paterno, His Biographer, and the Last Chapter

Posted on April 29, 2012, in BCS Football, with 0 Comments

“This won’t be another book about Xs and Os, will it?” Joe Paterno’s daughter Mary Kay asked. Joe Posnanski, then a senior writer for Sports Illustrated who had done a flattering profile of Paterno for the magazine, was trying to.

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Informal talk on PSU stadium naming goes nowhere (Yahoo! Sports)

Posted on April 23, 2012, in BCS Football, with 0 Comments

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) A person familiar with the discussion says Penn State informally offered to rename Beaver Stadium after Joe Paterno, and the coach’s family replied through back channels that it wasn’t interested because it was never important to.

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