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Showing Original Post only (View all)When Rick Reilly went to PSU to write about JoePa, he got a call from a professor who warned him. [View all]
The sins of the fatherWhat a fool I was.
In 1986, I spent a week in State College, Pa., researching a 10-page Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year piece on Joe Paterno.
It was supposed to be a secret, but one night the phone in my hotel room rang. It was a Penn State professor, calling out of the blue.
"Are you here to take part in hagiography?" he said.
"What's hagiography?" I asked.
"The study of saints," he said. "You're going to be just like the rest, aren't you? You're going to make Paterno out to be a saint. You don't know him. He'll do anything to win. What you media are doing is dangerous."
Jealous egghead, I figured.
<snip>
The rest is worth reading:
http://m.espn.go.com/wireless/story?storyId=8162972
I'll bet there are other professors who think the same thing.
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When Rick Reilly went to PSU to write about JoePa, he got a call from a professor who warned him. [View all]
Are_grits_groceries
Jul 2012
OP
Possibly Sandusky's wife was aware of what was happening. She could be implicated.
rhett o rick
Jul 2012
#43
She totally knew. Even walked in on Mr. S and one of his victims, claims they were "just talking."
Stardust
Jul 2012
#65
I think they should have at least charged her with something. Even if they dropped the
rhett o rick
Jul 2012
#80
A severance package and get out? Like the Catholic Church does with their pedophiles?
progressoid
Jul 2012
#31
What a righteous post. I feel the same, unfortunately. I weep for our children and their
Stardust
Jul 2012
#82
I've been reading up on Michael Jackson all week: Same story: People knew. Double standard for stars
lindysalsagal
Jul 2012
#57
But performing for Rush Limbaugh's wedding? C'mon, Elton. You had to know how uncool
Stardust
Jul 2012
#83