Joe Paterno dies

Longtime Penn State football coach Joe Paterno died this morning. A sex scandal involving a longtime assistant, Jerry Sandusky, led to his dismally in November.

His last game was a 10-7 win--a real stinker of a game against my Fighting Illini in a snowy Happy Valley.

We'll probably never know now what Paterno knew about Sandusky. He was viewed as the likely successor to JoePa, but the younger assistant retired in 1999--but retained full use of the Penn State athletic facilities until his recent arrest for child molestation. The incident that triggered Paterno's downfall--Sandusky's alleged rape of a boy--occurred in 2002.

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