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SoftScope

Staff Sergeant
A rather new update to the news world is the serious condition of Joe Paterno. Recent news said that family members were visiting him in the hospital, as he was in his final days. Now tonight many internet sorces claim that, at 85, Joe is dead. The family of Paterno quickly countered this rumor, by assuring the world that while he is in serious conditions, Paterno is still alive.
Whether he is now dead or alive now, most sources say he is on his death bed. While his mistake was grave and did hurt many people, I think this is a sad way to go for anyone.

-kevin-
 
Ethan

Ethan

Captain
Former Krew Member
Just in the past few months, Paterno, and his family have had their lives turned upside down. No matter what happened at Penn St., Joe was a wonderful coach, and it will be sad to see him die...but he is getting on up there.
 
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SoftScope

Staff Sergeant
Below is an article that gives anyone who doesn't know the story a little background.

84-year-old football coach Joe Paterno, who is arguably one of the 10 most important men in the state of Pennsylvania, was an icon. While so many other football programs were mired in financial or education scandals, Paterno was the face of everything that was right in the game.

At least that’s what we thought.

Paterno was fired, along with the university's president Graham B. Spanier, by Penn State's Board of Trustees after being mired in the worst sex scandal in the history of sports. On the weekend after he became the most successful coach in Division I history, news broke that his former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, who has now been charged with abusing eight boys over 15 years, raped a 10-year-old on campus.

Graduate assistant Mike McQueary walked in on the incident but never reported it to police. He told Paterno, but he also never reported it to authorities. Paterno passed the message on to the higher-ups at the school, but they also never reported it to authorities.

Nine years later, the news has come to light while Sandusky, who is the founder of the Second Mile charity that helps needy children, still had access to the campus as early as last week.
 
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