REPORT: Penn State Quietly Seeking to Name Field After Joe Paterno
Penn State has reportedly been quietly to name the field at Beaver Stadium after the late head coach Joe Paterno.
Penn State has reportedly been quietly to name the field at Beaver Stadium after the late head coach Joe Paterno.
The education department said it is holding Penn State accountable for failing to protect students from sexual abuse in the Sandusky scandal.
A former Penn State football player has filed a lawsuit against the college claiming that star players violently hazed other players and made sexual threats in the name of convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky.
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky entered court Friday in a yellow jumpsuit, hands cuffed in front of him, to be resentenced for sexually abusing children.
Recently named White House Director of Communications Anthony Scaramucci still makes time for little side projects like producing films featuring award winning actors.
With the dropping of its lawsuit against the NCAA on Friday, the family of the late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno essentially put an end to the most sordid and reputation damaging episode in the University’s long and storied history.
Al Pacino has been cast as former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno in an upcoming Barry Levinson-directed HBO film about the Jerry Sandusky sex scandal.
After former Penn State player DeAndre Levy said that accidently breaking Joe Paterno’s leg during a 2006 game was the “proudest moment” of his college career, 21 former Nittany Lions have come forward to call Levy’s comments “appalling.”
Five years have passed since Joe Paterno’s ugly and scandalous firing from Penn State amid child sexual abuse allegations against former assistant Jerry Sandusky. In that time something of a reputation reclamation project has occurred, and just this past September the school formally honored and commemorated the 50th anniversary of Paterno’s first game as head coach of the Nittany Lions.
Contrary to prior claims, newly unsealed documents say that Penn State head coach Joe Paterno fully knew of the child sex abuse allegations lodged against assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. And he knew of not just one allegation, but many different cases.
“Now is the appropriate time. Enough is enough,” said former tight end for the Nittany Lions, Brian Masella, who spoke on behalf of over 200 former Penn State football players calling for a large bronze statue of Joe Paterno to be returned to the campus.
In the wake of new protestations by Pennsylvania State University President Eric Barron that accusations of sexual misconduct in its football program were not known until recently, another report finds the school has paid Jerry Sandusky’s accusers for incidents stretching all the way back to 1971.
Pennsylvania State University President Eric Barron released an open letter to counteract reports that the school’s late football coach Joe Paterno first heard of sexual abuse allegations against his defensive coordinator in 1976.
A court order in an insurance case involving Penn State University claims that the late Nittany Lions head coach Joe Paterno heard allegations of his assistant Jerry Sandusky’s molestation of children in 1976.
Despite being fired as the coach of Penn State’s football program after revelations that a former defensive coordinator had abused minors, coach Joe Paterno is being honored with a new beer being branded with his name and image.
Pennsylvania State University succeeded in restoring the 111 wins vacated from its record as punishment for Jerry Sandusky’s sexual abuse despite claims earlier this week that no deal was in the works. The reversal once again makes head coach Joe Paterno the winningest coach in college football history.
Penn State allegedly seeks the restoration of the 111 wins stripped from Joe Paterno’s record as a result of the Jerry Sandusky child-abuse scandal.