It's been a wild year for Jerry Sandusky's main attorney, Joe Amendola, but one national magazine doesn't believe he was all that shrewd. Amendola was named to GQ's recently released 'Least Influential People of 2012' list. He made the cut along with 24 others, including Michelle Obama, Mitt Romney, and Hulk Hogan.
In what is likely just a procedural move, attorneys for former Penn State President Graham Spanier asked a judge to throw out all charges against him yesterday.
Franco Harris recently spoke at length to Bob Costas about the Sandusky scandal, Joe Paterno, and more. Here's the 15 minute interview with the former fullback who believes that when it is all said and done, Paterno's legacy will be "greater than ever."
Several months ago, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education announced that Penn State was being issued an accreditation warning as a result of the Sandusky scandal fallout. What was seemingly an act of grandstanding, the action riled up the alumni base who believed that Middle States was unnecessarily piling on Penn State. It came as no surprise when student body President Courtney Lennartz announced on Twitter Thursday afternoon that the accreditation warning had been lifted
The Boston College Women's Soccer team is already in town for tomorrow's 7:30 p.m. match against Penn State at Jeffrey Field, and one of their players is -- to put it lightly -- "talking some trash." Hailing from Winchester, Massachusetts, sophomore forward Stephanie McCaffrey (daughter of Daughter of Jim and Gina McCaffrey) took to Twitter earlier this afternoon to voice her displeasure with having to play at Penn State in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
Will the Sandusky Scandal enter the national pop culture the night before Thanksgiving? Next week's episode of Law & Order: SVU is about a child predator and an academic institution's cover-up. Some of the show's fans have speculated that the Peacock ripped this episode from the headlines.