PSU Faculty: Tough To Come To Terms With Paterno's Passing
One day after the passing of Joe Paterno, many in the Penn State community are struggling to make sense of the events of the last three months.
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One day after the passing of Joe Paterno, many in the Penn State community are struggling to make sense of the events of the last three months.
A member of Penn State's alumni board of directors living in Chicago said the sex abuse scandal that cost Joe Paterno his job as coach shouldn't obliterate his otherwise exceptional career.
No number of victories stacks up against what these boys and their families lost. Not even 409.
Read the transcript from the Paterno family statement regarding the death of Joe Paterno:
Joe Paterno, the longtime Penn State coach who won more games than anyone in major college football but was fired amid a child sex abuse scandal that scarred his reputation for winning with integrity, died Sunday. He was 85.
Paterno's sons Scott and Jay both took to Twitter Saturday night to refute reports that their father had died.
Joe Paterno was ousted as Penn State's football coach in part because he didn't meet a moral obligation to do more to alert authorities about a child sex abuse allegation against a retired assistant coach.
For the first time since the firing of Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno, the Penn State Board of Trustees spoke.
Some of Paterno's greatest critics have complained that he didn't do enough when former graduate assistant Mike McQueary told him he had seen Sandusky doing something "of sexual nature" with a boy in the Penn State showers.
It's been a nice few days for the Rationalists -- the few of us that seem to exist at times -- as veneers of myth were stripped away from polarizing storylines, and the truth exposed.
Former Penn State coach Joe Paterno says he "didn't know which way to go" after an assistant coach came to him in 2002 saying he had seen retired defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky sexually abusing a boy.
Paterno is still getting paid. Penn State is still honoring his contract. And yes, they plan on sending him off into the sunset just like they would any other employee who retired after years of service to the university.
Former Penn State coach Joe Paterno is back in the hospital. His family says he was admitted Friday for observation due to minor complications from cancer treatments.
Former Penn State running back Franco Harris has taken a strong stance in supporting Joe Paterno since his ouster amid the Penn State child sex abuse scandal.
After one questioner called the treatment of Paterno "unconscionable" on Wednesday, Erickson responded by saying that "We will certainly want to honor Joe as the future unfolds."
Jay Paterno is leaving Penn State's coaching staff after spending 17 years as an assistant under his father, Hall of Fame coach Joe Paterno.
New England Patriots offensive coordinator Bill O'Brien has agreed to become Penn State's first new head football coach in nearly a half-century.
But all of those positive local stories were overwhelmed by the national story of the year that leaped from the sports page and became the lead story on every front page and newscast. The Penn State child rape scandal is beyond horrible.
A letter from 382 former Penn State football players was released Wednesday showing support for Joe Paterno. Below is that letter in its entirety, with my comments in italics:
Below is a letter signed by 382 former Penn State players showing support for former head coach Joe Paterno who turned 85 years old Wednesday:
Joe Paterno has been released from the hospital and has shown improvement after being treated for lung cancer, a person close to the former Penn State coach's family said Monday.
A Penn State assistant football coach testified Friday that he believes he saw former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky sexually molesting a boy but said he wasn't 100 percent sure it was intercourse.
In the midst of a day-long media blitz Tuesday, Jerry Sandusky's lawyer gave his client's skeptics some advice he probably wishes he could take back.
A lawyer says no plea talks are under way on the eve of Tuesday's preliminary hearing in the Penn State child sex-abuse case.
According to reports, former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno had close business ties with board members from The Second Mile, a charity set up by former PSU assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, who is now charged with more than 40 counts of child sexual abuse.
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Hundreds of people are suing the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, where they say they were sexually abused by staff. For the first time, survivors detailed their experience exclusively to CBS News Chicago.
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