Joe Paterno
Penn State: On Opening Day, a Show of Unity
As Penn State’s Nittany Lions open their first football season since in the aftermath of the Jerry Sandusky pedophelia scandal, TIME takes a look at how the team and fans are showing support as they kick off a new age of football.
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Bad Timing: Sizing Up the Joe Paterno Book
A new Joe Paterno bio, written by one of America’s best sportswriters, Joe Posnanski, is intriguing. But it just doesn’t fit the times.
NCAA Lowers Boom on Penn State: $60 Million Fine and Four-Year Bowl-Game Ban
Penn State’s football program faces the daunting task of rebuilding itself while accepting punishment for enabling a culture that covered up child sexual abuse and led to the downfall of a storied college coach
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‘Death Penalty’ Would Be an Act of Mercy for Penn State Football
In a PBS interview broadcast Monday night, NCAA president Mark Emmert refused to take “anything off the table” regarding its possible punishment of Penn State University in the wake of the damning Freeh Report. The results of …
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‘Every Day Was a Mistake’: How Should Penn State Deal with Joe Paterno?
The Freeh Report accused the legendary coach, and other Penn State leaders, of concealing Jerry Sandusky’s misdeeds. Will JoePa’s legacy ever recover?
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Penn State’s New Coach: What the Backlash Says About The Program
In major college athletics, coaching staffs regularly get purged when a team does something relatively harmless, like finish a few games below .500. So it was only natural that a school like Penn State, plagued by one of the …
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Life Inside the College Bubble at Penn State
In this week’s issue of TIME, we explore the insular nature of college campuses — and how “Happy Valley” stays happy amid scandal.
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What Do the Penn State and Syracuse Sex Abuse Cases Have In Common? Not Much.
The child molestation case against longtime Syracuse University assistant coach Bernie Fine recently took a shocking turn.
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Penn State and Paterno: A Declaration of Independence
By some measures, Penn State’s home football game Saturday against the University of Nebraska was your typical Big Ten tilt. Beer chugging at the tailgates started bright and early. A group of diminutive Penn State students …
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Penn State’s Pre-Game Vigil: Focusing on the Victims — And Worrying About the Fallout
In spite of the sordid events roiling Penn State University, it almost felt like a familiar fall Friday afternoon on the State College campus. Penn State students, alums, and locals snapped up Nittany Lion gear at the campus …
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Penn State’s Mike McQueary Won’t Coach Due to “Multiple Threats”
Viewpoint: Removing Penn State’s wide receivers coach from the game on Saturday was the sensible move.
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The Firing of Joe Paterno: Why the Penn State Unrest Was Senseless
Viewpoint: The student reaction to Paterno’s dismissal did Penn State no favors
