Football

The Penn State football cult
Washington Post (blog)
I spent yesterday immersed in the Freeh report and the associated news
conferences, and as horrible and dismaying as it all is, it's also
enlightening, and illustrative of how a powerful institution can become
corrupted at the core, believing in its ...
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Penn State football likely to sidestep 'death penalty'
Chicago Tribune
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Penn State's powerhouse football program could face a
range of sanctions from the NCAA in the wake of a damning report about the
cover-up of child sex abuse, but will likely.
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Abolish College Football
Bloomberg
Yesterday's release of the Freeh Report, assigning responsibility for Penn
State's failure to act on reports that Jerry Sandusky was sexually abusing
boys, has people talking about whether the NCAA should shutter Penn State's
football program. That ...
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No time for games
FOXSports.com
You can read the Freeh Report cover to cover, spend hours soaking in every
damning detail of how Penn State let a serial sexual predator operate
within the cocoon of its football program. But what needs to happen now,
what must start immediately, ...
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Vile Penn State case a lesson for naïve fans, power programs
SI.com
All around the country, schools are building football fortresses that make
Penn State's now-infamous Lasch Building seem like a studio apartment. They
are shifting more athletic administrators out of their traditional campus
offices and into these ...
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Big Ten, Pac-12 pact dissolves; fans lose
ESPN (blog)
The two leagues announced Friday that their pact, which initially called
for 12 football games per season, has been called off. The reason: At least
four Pac-12 schools were unwilling to agree to mandatory scheduling,
ESPN.com has learned. A key ...
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What they're saying about PSU, Paterno
ESPN (blog)
The Chicago Tribune's David Haugh: "The NCAA should cancel football at Penn
State until 2014 but allow every scholarship player to transfer without
losing eligibility. Unfair and unjust? Ask the kid Sandusky abused in the
shower in 1998 who Paterno ...
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Good riddance, Joe Paterno
Fox News
The Freeh report concludes he did this, along with other administrators,
"in order to avoid the consequences of bad publicity" to the school
and, particularly, its football team. Last month, Sandusky was convicted of
sexually assaulting ten boys ...
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Pac-12/Big Ten model falls apart
ESPN
The scheduling partnership between the Pac-12 and Big Ten won't happen.
Their agreement, announced in December and set to begin in 2017, has been
called off because of football scheduling issues involving several Pac-12
schools.
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FISCHER: Penn State needs the death penalty to move on
CBSSports.com (blog)
The reason the death penalty was given to SMU was because the penalties
were intended to permit a new beginning for football and it's time for one
at Penn State after the revelations in the Freeh Report.
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