Former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky will likely spend the rest of his life in prison, after a judge handed down a prison sentence Tuesday for his convictions on child sexual abuse charges. Judge John Cleland said Sandusky will face no less than 30 years and no more than 60 years, with credit for […]
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 […]
After learning Penn State’s 46-season head coach Joe Paterno was fired Wednesday, students reacted in riot, which left Christian rapper Lecrae surprised by their reaction to the news. “So there’s a riot because a coach is fired and not over a 10 yr [sic] old being molested? God save us” the rapper shared via social […]
A Penn State assistant football coach who reportedly told Joe Paterno in 2002 he witnessed a young boy being sexually assaulted in a shower won’t be at Saturday’s Nebraska game because of “multiple threats,” the university athletics website said Thursday night. A graduate assistant at the time, Mike McQueary told a grand jury he had […]
Hundreds spilled into the streets at Penn State early Thursday morning following news that football head coach Joe Paterno and the school’s president were ousted over a child sex abuse scandal at the university. What started as an apparent celebration of Paterno turned raucous, as the crowd tipped over a news van and decried the […]
Penn State football coach Joe Paterno has decided to retire at the end of the season, his long career brought down by his failure to do more about an allegation of child sex abuse against a former assistant. Paterno said in a statement Wednesday he is “absolutely devastated” by the developments in the case of […]
