Penn St's AD Tim Curley charge with perjury: sex abuse

[CNS]

Joe Posnanski‘s biography on longtime Penn State coach Joe Paterno, titled “Paterno”, will be available in book stores Tuesday, Aug. 21.

Posnanski, a former senior writer for Sports Illustrated, was asked by Paterno last summer to spend the 2011 season writing the book. Then, the Jerry Sandusky scandal happened, and everything changed. Paterno later died in January after a battle with lung cancer.

The current issue of GQ has the a few excerpts from the book — the full preview will be posted on the publication’s website Monday — which you can read below.

Here they are without further comment, courtesy of GQ.com:

    Paterno’s son, Scott, reads the grand jury case against Sandusky for the first time:

    Scott Paterno was the first in the family to understand that the Pennsylvania grand jury presentment that indicted Jerry Sandusky could end his father’s career. This wasn’t surprising; Scott tended to be the most realistic—or cynical, depending on who you asked—in the family. He had run for Congress and lost and along the way tasted the allure and nastiness of public life. He had worked as a lawyer and as a lobbyist. He would sometimes tell people, “Hey, don’t kid yourself, I’m the bad person of the family.” When Scott read the presentment, he called his father and said, “Dad, you have to face the possibility that you will never coach another game.”

    As the Sandusky scandal explodes, the Paterno family hires a high-powered PR specialist, Dan McGinn, to help navigate the storm:

    This is when McGinn learned just how far Paterno’s influence and reputation had fallen. He asked [family adviser Guido] D’Elia for the name of one person on the Penn State board of trustees, just one, whom they could reach out to, to negotiate a gracious ending. D’Elia shook his head.

    “One person on the board, that’s all we need,” McGinn said.

    D’Elia shook his head again. “It began in 2004,” he whispered, referring to an old clash Paterno had with [university president Graham] Spanier. “The board started to turn. We don’t have anybody on the board now.”

    That’s when McGinn realized that this was going to be the worst day of Joe Paterno’s professional life.

    At Paterno’s house the day after he is fired via late-night telephone call from the Penn State board of trustees:

    On Thursday, Paterno met with his coaches at his house. He sobbed uncontrollably. This was his bad day. Later, one of his former captains, Brandon Short, stopped by the house. When Brandon asked, “How are you doing, Coach?” Paterno answered, “I’m okay,” but the last syllable was shaky, muffled by crying, and then he broke down and said, “I don’t know what I’m going to do with myself.” Nobody knew how to handle such emotion. Joe had always seemed invulnerable. On Thursday, though, he cried continually.

    “My name,” he told Jay, “I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it’s gone.”

What a fuckhead.  Cried for his job and his name rather than the shame of what he allowed to happen and those hurt due to his drive to make his name as big as possible. 

[Dugout DickStone]

"worst day of professional life" is not the day his assist coach told him he witnessed his long time coach and friend raping a little boy in the PSU football shower?

Hmm.  Those priorities are kind of off kilter.  But I am sure it's the BOT's fault.

BTW, the JoPO book is going to sell just a crap ton.  May have been a bad deal for him initially but this thing will be a NYT#1BS

[SkinnyBenny]

I will read the crap out of it. Although I think it will need an update of some kind or another within the next year or so.

[Dugout DickStone]

I will read the crap out of it. Although I think it will need an update of some kind or another within the next year or so.

ditto.  May be my first purchase ever for iBooks.

I think he has been updating it for the last 6 months.

[SkinnyBenny]

Lots of new stuff. We've been slacking, guys. 

Gary Sinderson of WJACTV is reporting that Jerry Sandusky, currently incarcerated at the Centre County Correctional Facility while awaiting sentencing, is writing his second book from behind bars.

According to the report, Sandusky was initially writing a statement to read before his sentencing (which should occur in the next couple months), but with the help of his wife Dottie, he’s penning his second book.

WJACTV also reports that Sandusky has been taken off suicide watch and is a “model inmate, spending hours quietly in his cell.”

Let’s hope this book has a less ironic title than his first memoir, infamously named “Touched: The Jerry Sandusky Story.”

Sandusky’s book, should it materialize, would surpass Joe Posnanski’s Paterno biography as the most anticipated book release from the scandal, at least for me. And, as WJACTV reports, convicted felons can’t profit from writing about their crimes, so I won’t feel too bad about myself when I shell out the money to buy it.

http://onwardstate.com/2012/08/14/r...book-in-prison/

[SkinnyBenny]

Haven't seen this posted but sorry if Luke'd. Also don't know how credible RadarOnline.com is, but apparently this one might have legz.

A witness interviewed by federal authorities in the widening Penn State investigation claims he saw Jerry Sandusky and one of the school's prominent boosters sexually abusing boys on a private plane, RadarOnline.com is reporting exclusively.
The witness was interviewed by the U.S. Postal Inspectors with the FBI present.RadarOnline.com broke the news that a new investigation into a pedophile ring is now being conducted by federal authorities.
And while Postal Inspectors are also trying to determine if Sandusky shared pornography through the mail and sent seductive letters to his victims, the biggest bombshell is the allegation leveled by the witness who was interviewed within the past few weeks.

[8manpick]

Just praying that someday he gets released into general population. 

[SkinnyBenny]

Also apparently JoePo's JoePa book was written before the Freeh report was even released and before the NCAA laid the hammer down? I guess that's probably true since it was all so relatively recent, right?

[Cire]

It was originally a fathers day book

[EMAWesome]

http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/16/13315914-penn-state-pays-legal-bills-for-accused-ex-officials-but-not-mcqueary?lite

good grief...they simply have no idea how to run a PR department do they?

[Dugout DickStone]

http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/16/13315914-penn-state-pays-legal-bills-for-accused-ex-officials-but-not-mcqueary?lite

good grief...they simply have no idea how to run a PR department do they?

You do realize that most of their fans blame McQueary more than Sandusky for their current trouble?

[EMAWesome]

http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/16/13315914-penn-state-pays-legal-bills-for-accused-ex-officials-but-not-mcqueary?lite

good grief...they simply have no idea how to run a PR department do they?

You do realize that most of their fans blame McQueary more than Sandusky for their current trouble?

Yes. Do you realize the school is promoting that ignorance by making decisions like the one in the above article.

[Rage Against the McKee]

McQueary is a dirt bag who let kids continue to get raped because he was afraid he would be done coaching if he actually did something about it. That said, I still think he is the best human being out of those implicated in this coverup.

[CNS]

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/22/13417876-penn-state-ex-president-graham-spanier-freeh-report-on-sex-scandal-is-wrong?lite

Graham Spanier, 65, said he "is in a mode of substantial grief about what happened to those kids," referring to children sexually assaulted by former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. But Spanier told The New Yorker that he rejected the damning assessment in the Freeh report laying out how university officials failed to stop Sandusky from sexually abusing boys on school property.

"The Freeh report is wrong, it’s unfair, it is deeply flawed, it has many errors and omissions," said Spanier, speaking to New Yorker reporter Jeffrey Toobin. "They interviewed, they say, over four hundred and thirty people; many of those folks have spoken to me about their interviews. Many of them describe those interviews to me as a witch-hunt."

Spanier acts like there weren't actual emails copied for the public to read and that specifically showed that Spanier and others decided to ignore it all.

[Dugout DickStone]

Karma looked a lot like Frank Solich today

[sys]

turns out god doesn't like child molesters.  and pennsylvania is a state full of them.

[Mr Bread]

Karma looked a lot like Frank Solich today

Also like mat Bobcat helmets.   

[Dugout DickStone]

Mr. Bread and I are a great team.  Cagney and Lacey style.   

[steve dave]

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/02/us/pennsylvania-penn-state-lawsuit/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

Go get yours, hero 

[Mr Bread]

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/02/us/pennsylvania-penn-state-lawsuit/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

Go get yours, hero 

You're really expecting a lot more out of a ginger than you should. 

[bubbles4ksu]

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/02/us/pennsylvania-penn-state-lawsuit/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

Go get yours, hero 

My god he is handsome.

[OK_Cat]

 

[ChiComCat]

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/02/us/pennsylvania-penn-state-lawsuit/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

Go get yours, hero 

Sounds like the victim is finally going to get a payout

[Rage Against the McKee]

I mean, it's a fair lawsuit, provided everything in it is true.  His name is disgraced, who would hire him?

His name is disgraced because of his lack of action, not because of his whistle blowing.

[Mr Bread]

I mean, it's a fair lawsuit, provided everything in it is true.  His name is disgraced, who would hire him?

People who like gingers.  Can you imagine the train wreck that guy's pubic area is what with all the auburn pubes everywhere and the near-translucently white, smallish wiener?  On second thought, don't imagine it.  It's awful.  Like some sort of deep sea worm thrown in a bird's nest of orange hair.