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Penn State Receives $60M Fine, Four-Year Bowl Ban, Loss Of Scholarships And Wins Dating Back To 1998

Penn State Receives $60M Fine, Four-Year Bowl Ban, Loss Of Scholarships And Wins Dating Back To 1998

Source: ESPN The NCAA has hit Penn State with a $60 million sanction, a four-year football postseason ban and a vacation of all wins dating to 1998, the organization said Monday morning. “These funds must be paid into an endowment for external programs preventing child sexual abuse or assisting victims and may not be used [...]

SportsGrid: The Joe Paterno Statue Has Been Taken Down (VIDEO)

SportsGrid: The Joe Paterno Statue Has Been Taken Down (VIDEO)

Source: Dylan Murphy / SportsGrid The debate is over, friends. The Joe Paterno statue has been taken down and will be moved to an unamed “secure location.” After the release of the Freeh report, intense debate surrounding the statue and its removal began, with many on either side of the issue. Ultimately, however, Penn State [...]

NBC Sports: Penn State Removes Joe Paterno Statue

NBC Sports: Penn State Removes Joe Paterno Statue

Source: AP / NBCSports STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – The famed statue of Joe Paterno was taken down from outside the Penn State football stadium Sunday as the NCAA announced it would be issuing sanctions against the university whose top officials were accused in a scathing report of burying child sex abuse allegations against a now-convicted [...]

Reports: Penn State Will Remove Paterno Statue

Reports: Penn State Will Remove Paterno Statue

Source: The Detroit News Amid the fallout of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal, Penn State University will remove the statue of legendary coach Joe Paterno near Beaver Stadium this weekend. Kimberly Jones of the NFL Network posted via Twitter that she was told that the statue would be removed. CBS Sports’ Bonnie Bernstein [...]

LISTEN: Roland Martin, Bomani Jones Discuss The Sandusky Cover Up, Freeh Report, Should Paterno's Statue Be Taken Down

LISTEN: Roland Martin, Bomani Jones Discuss The Sandusky Cover Up,  Freeh Report, Should Paterno's Statue Be Taken Down

Roland Martin talks to Bomani Jones about the Joe Paterno statue and the Freeh report detailing the shameful conduct of top officials at Penn State. Subscribe to the Roland S. Martin Daily Podcast via iTunes. 

ROLAND S. MARTIN: Joe Paterno Is Nothing More Than A Coward

ROLAND S. MARTIN: Joe Paterno Is Nothing More Than A Coward

By Roland S. Martin Editor-in-Chief RolandMartinReports.com After years and years of over-the-top stories attesting to the character, honor, integrity and moral fiber of the late Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno, we now know, after reading the 267-page Penn State internal report on child predator Jerry Sandusky, that the legendary coach was nothing more [...]

Report Finds Penn State President, Paterno Concealed Facts About Sandusky Sex Abuse (VIDEO)

Report Finds Penn State President, Paterno Concealed Facts About Sandusky Sex Abuse (VIDEO)

Penn State football coach Joe Paterno and other university leaders “repeatedly concealed critical facts” relating to assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky’s child sex abuse from authorities, according to Louis Freeh, the former FBI director who conducted an investigation for the university in the Sandusky scandal.

LIVE VIDEO: Public Memorial Held For Joe Paterno

LIVE VIDEO: Public Memorial Held For Joe Paterno

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Washington Watch Roundtable: Newt’s Rise In The Polls, $1.6 Million Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae Paycheck & The Penn State Sex Abuse Scandal

Washington Watch Roundtable: Newt’s Rise In The Polls, $1.6 Million Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae Paycheck & The Penn State Sex Abuse Scandal

Roland Martin and the Washington Watch roundtable discuss Newt Gingrich’s sudden rise in the polls and his $1.6 million paycheck from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Plus the Penn State Child Sexual Abuse Scandal. MR. MARTIN: New Hampshire poll out.  Newt Gingrich basically tied with Mitt Romney.  In the last debate, Newt talked about Freddie Mac [...]

NCAA Says It Will Examine How Penn State Has Handled Scandal

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NCAA Says It Will Examine How Penn State Has Handled Scandal

Source: Phil Gast and David Ariosto / CNN The NCAA says it will examine Penn State’s “institutional control” of its athletics department and how it has handled the child sex abuse scandal that has tainted top university officials. “The recount of these tragic events in the grand jury report is deeply troubling,” the group’s president, [...]

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