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The Big Ten stripped legendary former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno’s name from championship trophy
The Big Ten stripped legendary former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno's name from championship trophy
Big Ten strips Paterno name off league champion trophy
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Nov 14, 2011 14:49 EST
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The Big Ten stripped legendary former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno’s name on Monday from the conference championship trophy in fallout from a scandal over alleged child sex abuse involving an assistant coach.
“We believe that it would be inappropriate to keep Joe Paterno’s name on the trophy at this time,” Commissioner Jim Delany said in a statement. “The trophy and its namesake are intended to be celebratory and aspirational, not controversial.”
The conference said the decision was made “in light of the series of events” including the grand jury indictments and ongoing investigations by the grand jury and U.S. Education Department as well as Paterno’s firing.
Former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was charged with sexually abusing eight young boys over a 15-year period, including several incidents on campus. Paterno and the Penn State president were fired on Wednesday.
Paterno, 84, said he was informed of an incident involving Sandusky in 2002 and passed the information up the chain of command to the university’s athletic director. But he did not call the police.
The trophy to be awarded at the conference’s first football championship game on December 3 had been named for Paterno and Amos Alonzo Stagg, who built the University of Chicago into a football powerhouse from the 1890s to the 1930s.
The trophy now will be named the Stagg Championship Trophy, the Big Ten said. The University of Chicago was a founding member of the Big Ten.
(Writing by David Bailey; Editing by Cynthia Johnston)
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NY charity sent disadvantaged children for vacations at the home of accused child sex abuser Jerry Sandusky?
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NY charity studies possible Penn State scandal link
Edith Honan
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Nov 14, 2011 12:53 EST
STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – A New York-based charity was investigating on Monday whether it sent disadvantaged children for vacations at the home of accused child sex abuser and former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.
News reports from about a decade ago — related to the promotion of Sandusky’s memoir “Touched” — mentioned that Sandusky and his wife Dottie served as volunteer hosts for children from The Fresh Air Fund for several years.
The Fresh Air Fund, founded in 1877, sends disadvantaged New York City children to camps and volunteer host families in 13 U.S. states and Canada for “free summer experiences,” according to its website.
“We have contacted the Pennsylvania authorities to report any Fresh Air involvement,” Andrea Kotuk, spokeswoman for The Fresh Air Fund, told Reuters. “We’re going through records.”
Sandusky was charged on November 5 with sexually abusing eight young boys over more than a decade and prosecutors said he met all his alleged victims through the nonprofit Second Mile program for disadvantaged youth, which he founded in 1977.
The Second Mile program said it cut ties with Sandusky in 2008. The longtime head of the charity resigned on Monday and hired a new legal team as it prepared for what experts say is an inevitable flurry of civil litigation.
The scandal had thrown Penn State University into turmoil after some university officials were accused of covering-up the alleged child sex abuse.
Former Penn State athletic director Tim Curley and former finance official Gary Schultz, have also been charged with failing to report an incident after revered football coach Joe Paterno told them in 2002 that an assistant saw Sandusky being sexually inappropriate with a boy in a campus locker room.
Sandusky, Curley and Schultz have all denied the charges.
Paterno, 84, was fired by the university last week after it was revealed that while he had fulfilled his legal obligation by telling Curley about the alleged incident, he did not call police. The scandal also claimed Penn State President Graham Spanier, who was dismissed after 16 years in the job.
The then-graduate assistant, Mike McQueary, who is now an assistant football coach, has been placed on administrative leave. He told a grand jury that he had seen Sandusky raping a boy aged about 10 in the locker room showers in 2002. He also did not call police.
Sandusky coached for more than two decades at Penn State before retiring in 1999 and was once considered a likely successor to Paterno. After his retirement he still had access to Penn State facilities.
A spokesman for the Pennsylvania attorney general declined to comment on possible links between Sandusky and The Fresh Air Fund and a spokesman for the New York attorney general was not immediately available.
Prosecutors in Texas have opened an investigation into Sandusky after grand jury testimony in Pennsylvania indicated that he may have abused a young boy when Penn State was in San Antonio for the 1999 Alamo Bowl.
(Writing by Michelle Nichols)
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Fall-Out: Advertisers pull ads from Penn State games
Advertisers pull ads from Penn State games
Daniel Frankel
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Nov 13, 2011 17:04 EST
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Beyond the profound embarrassment and ethical questions surrounding the sexual abuse scandal at Penn State, the controversy is also hurting the University’s bottom line.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that no less than six advertisers have pulled their commercials from upcoming Penn State football broadcasts on ESPN.
“I have multiple advertisers pulling ads from the ESPN broadcast,” one media buyer told the Journal. “I am advising my clients to move out of games for the short term,” another buyer added.
The Journal’s report followed an announcement on Friday that Cars.com would pull its commercials from the school’s upcoming games.
Penn State operated the third most profitable football program in the U.S. last season, pulling in income of $50 million off revenue of $70 million.
That’s all in peril because of a long-brewing sex scandal in which Jerry Sandusky, a former assistant football coach at the school, is accused of molesting eight boys.
The school’s legendary head coach, Joe Paterno, was fired last week after a 46-year-career in which he amassed the most wins in college football history. Paterno passed along a reported incident of Sandusky’s misconduct to the school’s athletic director nine years ago, but is under fire for not reporting the crime to the authorities and for not taking more decisive action to stop the abuse.
After the most traumatic week in the school’s history, the Nittany Lions returned to their home field on Saturday, where they lost to Nebraska, 17-12.
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