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Posnanski on Paterno on 16/8/12 | Tipped by Quickish |
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No, I don't feel about Joe Paterno the same way I did when I started writing the book. But I don't feel about him the way his most blistering critics feel. He was a human being, filled with ideals and flaws, honesty and hypocrisy, charity and selfishness, modesty and the refusal to abdicate his throne. There was little simple about him. I chased the complicated story of a man and his long life. Joe Posnanski(via USA Today) , on his complicated relationship with the biography he wrote about Joe Paterno, which began before the Sandusky scandal started and was filed before the full scope of the punishments were meted.
Paterno on 15/8/12 | Tipped by Quickish |
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[The day after being fired], Paterno met with his coaches at his house. He sobbed uncontrollably. This was his bad day. Later, one of his former captains, Brandon Short, stopped by the house. When Brandon asked, "How are you doing, Coach?" Paterno answered, "I'm okay," but the last syllable was shaky, muffled by crying, and then he broke down and said, "I don't know what I'm going to do with myself." Nobody knew how to handle such emotion. Joe had always seemed invulnerable. On Thursday, though, he cried continually. "My name," he told Jay, "I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone." Joe Posnanski(via GQ)
Weekend Read: The Penn State-NCAA Negotiations on 3/8/12 | Tipped by Quickish |
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By late Thursday, back in his home office in Tuscaloosa, Marsh and his fellow lawyers began talking about Penn State's willingness to accept a package of severe sanctions that would not include the death penalty. He felt cautiously optimistic. Then at 6:30 p.m., Marsh's office phone rang, and he was told again that a majority of the university presidents on the board still favored a multiple-year death penalty. After all of Penn State's arguments, he was stunned by the board's continued stance. Don Van Natta(via ESPN.com) , with an incredibly detailed account of the tick-tock leading up to the NCAA's unprecedented sanctions against Penn State.
Crime, Punishment and Penn State on 25/7/12 | Tipped by Quickish |
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There is no way to make up for what has been lost. All we can do is start over again. If it takes Penn State fielding a team full of walk-ons and castaways in the years to come, if it takes losses to Temple and to the dregs of the Mid-American Conference to reinforce the horror of what took place, then I will accept that. Michael Weinreb(via Grantland) , adding: "What I want now is for my alma mater to become what we’d always imagined it to be, an agent of change in a sport that desperately seeks it. If failure equals success, the punishment will be justified."
NCAA vs. Penn State: "Trust But Verify" on 24/7/12 | Tipped by Quickish |
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For the next five years, and likely longer, Penn State's football-first culture will change because it must. Among the university's current leadership, the desire for change is certainly there, but the NCAA has established an elaborate and unprecedented system of checks and balances that trusts but will also verify. Don Van Natta(via ESPN.com)

REAX: "Changing scholarship numbers and changing a culture are two distinct things. I'd like to think Penn State -- and college athletics along with it -- will be forever transformed by this dark experience. But I doubt it." (Gene Wojciechowski)
This Week's SI Cover: "We Were Penn State" on 23/7/12 | Tipped by Quickish |
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This Sums It Up on 23/7/12 | Tipped by Quickish |
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NCAA 9am: We must change culture of college football!
NCAA noon: Welcome the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl! Yahoo Sports' Dan Wetzel(via Twitter) , and now zip down the page to read Spencer Hall and Drew Magary's columns on the NCAA's decision.
NCAA vs. Penn State: "Hammered" on 23/7/12 | Tipped by Quickish |
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Emmert was clear he wanted a culture change at Penn State and nothing changes the culture like 5-7 seasons. Football stops being so important. Penn State and its fans always said the program was about more than winning. The next decade will offer them a chance to prove it. Dan Wetzel(via Yahoo Sports) , adding: "Penn State is now a pile of rubble, facing an uncertain future. That reality is part of the legacy of Paterno, who built the program to stratospheric heights only to leave it an unmitigated disaster."
NCAA-Penn State Reax, Cont'd on 23/7/12 | Tipped by Quickish |
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Would like to see Penn St give 10 academic scholarships to schools it traditionally recruits players from. Then no loss of opportunity (Yahoo's Dan Wetzel) (via Twitter)
NCAA vs. Penn State: Reax, Cont'd on 23/7/12 | Tipped by Quickish |
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*The NCAA's unprecedented sanctions send an unmistakable message: Protecting 10 children is more important than 111 wins. (ESPN.com's Don Van Natta)

*I want a clause stating that Penn State's new squad of rag-tag walk-ons can't learn the true meaning of amateurism and grow as people.
(Grantland's Brian Phillips)

*With PennState down to 65 scholarships & no bowl hopes, NCAA has turned PSU into an FCS program playing in BigTen. (CBSSports.com's Bruce Feldman)

*One fact to bear in mind: The NCAA didn't punish a single person actually responsible for the Penn State cover-up today. (SI's Andy Staples)

*"I am committed for the long term to Penn State and our student athletes."
(Penn State coach Bill O'Brien) (via Twitter)

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