Sara Ganim has decided to leave her post at the Patriot News and head south to Atlanta to start working as a correspondent for CNN this week.
This morning, dozens of people discovered that the NCAA has pulled all Penn State merchandise from its official store. If you search under "All Teams," you will find apparel for every single Division I institution except Penn State. It should be noted that recently athletically sanctioned schools such as North Carolina and Ohio State do have merchandise available on the site.
Almost a year after he led the on-field prayer in the first game without Joe Paterno, Nebraska’s assistant coach, Ron Brown says he’s praying for Jerry Sandusky. In an interview after Nebraska’s win over Penn State on Saturday, Brown who is known as being a devout Christian, made headlines when he said that he spent most of Saturday “praying for Jerry Sandusky” and hoping that “the Lord would reach down and touch Sandusky’s life.”
In "Framing Paterno," conservative documentary maker puts forth the case that the media misconstrued the facts in the opening days of the Jerry Sandusky Scandal. As a result, the public developed misinformed opinions regarding Joe Paterno and Penn State University.
As of today, Penn State will no longer be paying Graham Spanier's lucrative presidential salary. Yesterday, a Daily Collegian article titled "Spanier still making hundreds of thousands from Penn State," reported that the former Penn State president will be paid his $700,000 per year salary through the length of his one year sabbatical.
It is now exactly one year to the day that Jerry Sandusky was arrested and charged with 40 counts of child sexual abuse. The arrest kicked off the one year that we at Penn State would like to forget most of all. The scandal devastated us, as the school and its symbols we thought we knew seemed to unravel. But I think I've learned more in the past year than perhaps any other.