Video: PSU Campus Reacts To NCAA Sanctions
Check out this video from the Hetzel Union Building in State College, Pa., as the student body reacts to the news.
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Check out this video from the Hetzel Union Building in State College, Pa., as the student body reacts to the news.
Beaver Stadium will roar this year, and soon. 106,000 Penn State football fans will chant "We are!!" as their white-helmeted heroes charge from the tunnel, united against all their perceived enemies.
The following is a release from the Big Ten, detailing their sanctions against Penn State.
Joe Paterno's last win was a 35-10 victory over Wisconsin in State College Nov. 22, 1997. Who was Penn State's quarterback in that game?
The NCAA handed out unprecedented sanctions against Penn State Monday morning. Here are the penalties as outlined by the NCAA in their own words.
It's with some, solemn pride that I say that I've been a de facto voice of the Joe Paterno opposition.
The NCAA will announce "unprecedented" penalties against both the Penn State football team and the university.
With reports circling that Penn State may remove the statue of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, fans have lined up outside of Beaver Stadium to take pictures with the statue.
Check out this cartoonist's depiction of Paterno's journey to heaven.
As the NCAA considers whether Penn State should face penalties following the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal — including a possible shutdown of its celebrated football program — the university says it will respond within days to the governing body's demand for information.
While most of the conversation right now is about how the NCAA should punish Penn State, there's a different organization that has been laying low and has the power to take action: the Big Ten.
You ask, I answer. Questions arrive via every avenue imaginable, now, so it's the least I can do to take the time to address a few of them. Many are utterly incomprehensible – as I'm sure you can imagine - so I picked a few that I understood.
One day after a plane circled State College, Pa., with a banner reading "take down the statue or we will," a group of Penn State students is camping out near the statue adorning Joe Paterno to protect it.
Former Nittany Lions safety Drew Astorino joined the Boers & Bernstein Show Tuesday to give his perspective on the Penn State scandal from a player's perspective.
Penn State officials have the opportunity to speak for the victims of the Jerry Sandusky child-sex scandal. PSU must make the changes.
The president of the NCAA says he isn't ruling out the possibility of shutting down the Penn State football program in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
What would you do?
An artist has removed a halo from a mural of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno amid the school's child sex-abuse scandal.
According to a report, three men have come forward saying they were sexually abused by former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky.
The good guy in this story couldn't prevent the human tragedy, only arriving on the scene after terrible things had already happened.
A newspaper says Penn State football coach Joe Paterno testified before a grand jury in a sex-abuse investigation of a longtime assistant coach the same month he began negotiating an amendment to his contact.
If he were alive today, Joe Paterno — the coach who stood for so long for character and integrity both on and off the football field — could be looking at charges such as child endangerment, perjury and conspiracy.
A day after not covering the findings of the Freeh Report, BTN announced they will air a Penn State Special Report at 8 p.m. CT Friday.
If you turned on the Big Ten Network Thursday morning to watch the Freeh Report press conference then you were probably surprised when a replay of the Ohio State-Purdue football game popped up on your television.
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Police in the northwest Chicago suburb of Palatine were investigating after someone grabbed a child and took the youngster's cellphone Monday morning.
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Some 2026 Winter Olympics athletes say their winning medals are falling apart, coming detached from their ribbons.
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Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital announced this week that it is planning to open a new pediatric hospital in the west Chicago suburb of Downers Grove.
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Leaders from Cook County, the Illinois Department of Human Services, and the Greater Chicago Food Depository denounced changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Wednesday.
The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center has received a grant from The Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation for a new cancer center.
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A Near West Side diner known for drawing in Blackhawks fans and players is up for sale.
January may be the coldest time of the year, but Chicago is already looking forward to summer farmers' markets.
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United Airlines flight attendants picketed outside Chicago's Willis Tower Thursday morning as they fought for a new contract.
WSCR-AM, 670 The Score, will begin a simulcast on 104.3 FM next month.
The 31-year-old Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny took the stage on Sunday dressed in all white, donning a jersey with his last name, Ocasio, and the number 64.
Brad Arnold, the founder and lead singer of the 3 Doors Down has died following "his courageous battle with cancer," the rock band announced Saturday on social media.
Bad Bunny took the stage at halftime for the 2026 Super Bowl. Here's who else performed at Super Bowl 60.
Gamers across the world can now recreate drone strikes in Ukraine from the comfort of their own home, with this newly released game.
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Elon Musk says he wants to help create a city on the moon. He says on social media he's prioritizing that over his plan for settlement on Mars.
Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime associate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and refused to answer questions during a virtual appearance before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Monday.
State Sen. Graciela Guzmán (D-Chicago) and Rep. Will Davis (D-East Hazel Crest) on Monday announced the introduction of a new bill to address the financial disparity across the state.
A man was shot and killed Monday morning in the Austin neighborhood.
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Chicago aldermen this week will consider $29.2 million in settlements in wrongful convictions linked to disgraced former CPD Det. Reynaldo Guevara.
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Some 2026 Winter Olympics athletes say their winning medals are falling apart, coming detached from their ribbons.
The 31-year-old Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny took the stage on Sunday dressed in all white, donning a jersey with his last name, Ocasio, and the number 64.
Team USA defended its Olympic figure skating team event gold medal on Sunday after Ilia "Quad God" ushered the team to victory at the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics.
The Seattle Seahawks defeated the New England Patriots Sunday to win the 2026 Super Bowl.
President Trump criticized Team USA freestyle skier Hunter Hess after he and other American athletes at the 2026 Winter Olympics shared their thoughts on U.S. politics.
Police in the northwest Chicago suburb of Palatine were investigating after someone grabbed a child and took the youngster's cellphone Monday morning.
A man was shot and killed Monday morning in the Austin neighborhood.
A Lake County judge on Monday ordered a man and woman held in jail until they face trial for murder in the death of the woman's 8-year-old son.
Police in Joliet, Illinois, were searching Sunday for a man who held up a cellphone store this weekend.
A woman was in custody after another woman was slashed in Chicago's Roseland neighborhood this weekend.
