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Penn State football slammed with NCAA sanctions
Boston.com
INDIANAPOLIS—Penn State football was all but dismantled Monday by an NCAA
ruling that wiped away 14 years of coach Joe Paterno's victories and
imposed a mountain of fines and penalties, crippling a program whose
pedophile assistant coach spent ...
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Penn State football punished by NCAA over Sandusky scandal
Washington Post
The NCAA on Monday announced a series of unprecedented sanctions against
the Penn State football program for its involvement in the sexual abuse
scandal that centered on former coach Jerry Sandusky. The penalties include
a $60 million fine, ...
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Penn State Faces a Grim Football Future
New York Times (blog)
The N.C.A.A. delivered two distinct and potent blows to the Nittany Lions
football program. The first involved scholarship losses so severe that it
will likely take until 2020 before Penn State can have a full complement of
85 scholarship players again.
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Penn State penalties to have lasting impact
ESPN (blog)
AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar Andrew Hanselman, left, of Bucks County, Pa., and
Maddy Pryor, from Neptune, N.J., react in the HUB on the Penn State campus
as NCAA sanctions against the football program are announced. The last Penn
State quarterback to ...
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NCAA Gives Penn State $60 Million Fine and Bowl Ban
New York Times
INDIANAPOLIS — The N.C.A.A. announced significant penalties against Penn
State and its football program Monday, including a $60 million fine and a
four-year postseason ban, in the wake of the child sexual abuse scandal
involving the former assistant ...
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NCAA statement on sanctions of Penn State football
Yahoo! Sports
By perpetuating a ''football first'' culture that ultimately enabled serial
child sexual abuse to occur, The Pennsylvania State University leadership
failed to value and uphold institutional integrity, resulting in a breach
of the NCAA constitution and rules.
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Sports above all else leads to huge Penn State penalties
USA TODAY
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. Emmert's actions were ...
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Penn State Fined $60M, Avoids Football Ban
Businessweek
It may take Penn State's football program as long as eighth years to
recover from the sanctions, according to one college football analyst. The
discipline avoided the so-called death penalty shutting down the program
where Joe Paterno, the coach who won a ...
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Stewart Mandel: Sanctions against Penn State show backwards priorities of
NCAA
SI.com
Thanks to a brazen power play and a carefully orchestrated p.r.
extravaganza, this human tragedy will take a backseat over the next four
years (or longer) to a more trivial narrative: Whether Penn State football
can recover from crippling NCAA sanctions.
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NCAA hits Penn State football with $60 million fine, vacates Paterno's wins
from ...
Yahoo! Sports
Oh, Emmert was very gracious in allowing any football player under
scholarship to transfer without waiting a year to play. But think of it,
spring practice is over, offensive and defensive plays and players are
already established. What program on Penn States ...
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