Monday, July 23, 2012
Sports above all else leads to huge Penn State penalties – USATODAY.com - Christine Brennan -NCAA President Mark Emmert essentially decimated Penn State's football program for the better part of the next decade _ despite no "death penalty" _ in the wake of the reprehensible Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal.
NCAA hands out severe punishment for Penn State – USATODAY.com - Eric Prisbell -- Chastising Penn State's athletic culture, NCAA President Mark Emmert issued a landmark ruling this morning, crippling Penn State's ability to compete on the field for years to come by banning the football team from a postseason bowl for four years, eliminating a total of 40 scholarships over four years and fining the school $60 million. - Emmert also stripped Penn State of its wins between 1998 and 2011, meaning that former coach Joe Paterno is no longer major college football's all-time winningest coach. A total of 111 have been erased from Paterno's previous win total of 409.
Penn State's wins since 1998 vacated, hit with $60M fine – CNN.com Blogs - Editor's note: The National Collegiate Athletic Association announced a $60 million fine against Penn State University on Monday and banned its football team from the postseason for four years. The school will also forfeit all football wins from 1998, NCAA President Mark Emmert said. That decision strips the late Joe Paterno of the title of winningest coach in major football college history.
Paterno Sacked Off His Pedestal - NYTimes.com - Maureen Dowd - Paterno is the tragic figure in the case, the man who went to church and taught his players “success with honor,” but succumbed to supporting depravity. His name was derived from the Latin word for father, and JoePa was the beloved paterfamilias of Happy Valley. So how did he crack his moral compass?
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