NCAA President Mark Emmert held a press conferences minutes ago to announce severe sanctions for Penn State including...
Since the release of Former FBI director Louis Freeh's report last Thursday, one of the most discussed phrases has been "death penalty." If anything has been more disappointing than the extent to which this topic has been exhausted, it is the way it has been discussed with national columnists and broadcasters attempting to play moral police and make up non-existent rules that are convenient for their arguments.
Tom Corbett spoke in Harrisburg this morning, and offered his preliminary two cents on the findings of the Freeh report, released last Thursday.
The Board of Trustees has a regularly scheduled meeting in Scranton today and Friday, but they had a great deal more to talk about than at an ordinary meeting. With the Freeh report released this morning, having met and read through the details of the report, the Board addressed the media at 3:30 p.m. today.
Graham Spanier's attorneys have released a statement about the findings of the Freeh report released this morning. The report revealed particularly damning evidence of Spanier's actions regarding the child abuse allegations related to Jerry Sandusky. Read the full text of the statement after the jump.
The key figures in the report are Graham Spanier, Joe Paterno, Gary Schultz, and Tim Curley. And it appears that they had a tremendous amount of confidence in themselves to effectively contain the situation. But what is clear is that their final motivations were not that something deeply wrong had occurred, but instead that they must save the image of Penn State football and preserve it as it was known before 2011.