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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Major college football postseason bowls spurned Penn State on Sunday because of the recent sex abuse scandal, and the Nittany Lions instead will play in a far less prominent game than its record suggests. Jerry Sandusky, 67, a former assistant football coach at Penn State, was charged in November with multiple counts of sexually abusing eight young boys over a 15-year period …

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# pennstatescandal Like many of you, we’ve been wondering how in the world Bob Costas managed to snag an exclusive phone interview with accused child rapist Jerry Sandusky for NBC’s Rock Center last night . It seemed to be a safe enough presumption that NBC might have paid for the rights to the 15-20 minute talk— more clips will air on Versus’s SportsTalk tonight—but it turns out there were “no …

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What happens now for Penn State, after the Board of Trustees fired legendary coach Joe Paterno and university President Graham Spanier in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal? For the first time in 46 seasons Paterno, 84, will not be involved with the Nittany Lions on Saturday, when they play their final home game of the season against Nebraska. The downfall of the reverered …

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Controversy sparks outrage about duty from Island’s football and social services communities

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Other college football coaching greats have departed the game amid unfavorable circumstances. But no coach admired as universally as Joe Paterno has ever confronted an issue like this. Decades of greatness will never be forgotten, but neither will the moment nine years ago when, unlike any other time in his career, Paterno and others chose not to stop a crime.

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Now that the Penn State football culture has been exposed as a haven for an alleged child molester, Paterno needs to do the honorable thing, writes L.A. Times columnist Bill Plaschke.

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Penn State scandal: Charges that Jerry Sandusky, former assistant football coach at Penn State, abused eight boys has shocked the community. Will Penn State head coach Joe Paterno be forced to retire?

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