In the spirit of both Throwback Thursday and THON, we fished out this classic video of Joe Paterno from way back in 2007.
What we have now are two different versions of the same story. Both are based on the same facts, yet both draw very different conclusions about Paterno’s role in the scandal. It’s quite possible that the truth is somewhere between the Paterno and Freeh reports, but we’ll never actually find out because we have yet to read a report that doesn’t make broad assertions based on circumstantial evidence. It’s not exactly fair for the Penn State faithful to completely dismiss the Freeh report for editorializing on facts while embracing the Paterno report that used the same facts to show that Paterno didn’t participate in a cover up.
The highly anticipated interview with Sue Paterno and Katie Couric aired this afternoon with Paterno defending her late husband. During one segment about Jerry Sandusky, she asked Couric "If the experts don't know, how can we know?"
Nike co-founder Phil Knight -- who had a close relationship with Joe Paterno as a result of Nike's coach retreats -- has reversed course today on his opinion following yesterday's release of a Paterno family critique of the Freeh Report, admitting that he had not read the report in full before releasing a statement condemning Paterno this past summer.
This morning, a critique of the Freeh report made landfall. Commissioned by the Paterno family and conducted by a Washington law firm, King & Spalding, the report offered a harsh rebuttal to the claims made in the Freeh report.
The full text of the report commissioned by the Paterno family containing the results of an investigation carried out by Wick Sollers, an attorney of the King & Spalding law firm based in Washington D.C.