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According to FIFA President Sepp Blatter, there is no racism in soccer. But there is, Sepp, and it's a serious problem.

IBTimes interview with Paul Kramer.

The comment by Sepp Blatter, FIFA president that that there is no problem with racism in football has provoked intense furious backlash from anti-racism campaigners and players

Auburn offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn is the front runner to become North Carolina's next football coach, according to a report.

Mike McQueary, the graduate assistant football coach who allegedly saw Jerry Sandusky sexually abusing a young boy in 2002 and is the one of the key witnesses in the Penn State scandal case, reportedly told a friend in an e-mail that he stopped the act and then went to the police.

Assistant coach Mike McQueary spoke publicly for the first time since the Penn State child abuse scandal broke. CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian briefly interviewed McQueary outside his home.

Former Penn State football grad assistant Matt Paknis, who was sexually assaulted over a three-year period in his childhood, told WFAN New York host Mike Francesa on Tuesday that he believes recently ousted PSU head coach Joe Paterno knew about Jerry Sandusky's alleged sexual abuse against children years ago.

A friend of Mike McQueary at Penn State released an email Tuesday that describes McQueary's reaction and actions taken after he witnesses the alleged sexual assault of a 10-year-old boy by former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky in the university's locker room showers. The email sent by McQueary to his friend in 2002 makes it clear that the graduate assistant stopped the assault and also contacted police. He says, however, he was hammered for the way he handled the situation.

Jerry Sandusky's lawyer Joe Amendola has claimed that one of his client's victims has denied that he was sexually assaulted. Sandusky, 67, has been accused of sexually abusing eight young boys. He has been charged with 40 counts of child sex abuse, which a grand jury has said occurred over a period of nearly 15 years.

Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State football coach whose molestation scandal has shocked the nation, admitted in an interview Monday that he had showered with pre-teen boys, but he insisted he was not a pedophile.

CBS' CSI: Miami rebounded from last week's series low on Sunday, while ABC's Desperate Housewives and Pan Am showed modest gains and NFL took a predictable win with Sunday Night Football, according to preliminary numbers.

In the aftermath of a sex abuse scandal involving former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky and its fallout - including the firing of legendary head coach Joe Paterno - ticket prices for the team's football game Saturday vs. Nebraska fluctuated drastically.

Saturday Night Live cast member Jason Sudeikis once again played The Devil and appeared on Weekend Update to find out the truth behind the Penn State scandal and Joe Paterno's role in it.

Alleged victims of former PSU defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky are working on civil suits against the university over the administration's failure to take action, and may feature individual suits against head coach Joe Paterno and officials Tim Curley and Gary Schultz. As more victims come forward, criticism of Paterno and Penn State following the grand jury report findings are growing.

GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann on Sunday told NBC's Meet the Press that if any of her children had been abused by former Penn State Assistant Football Coach Jerry Sandusky, she would beat him to a pulp.

In the wake of the Pennsylvania State University child sex-abuse scandal, The Citadel military college in South Carolina revealed on Saturday that it had investigated accusations against a camp counselor, but took no action.

Former Penn State running back Franco Harris -- who went on to play for the NFL's Pittsburgh Steelers -- defended fired head coach Joe Paterno and embattled wide-receivers coach Mike McQueary on Friday for their roles in the Jerry Sandusky scandal.

Penn State fell to Nebraska on Saturday in State College, Pa., completing perhaps the most trying week in school history with a loss on the field that was overshadowed by the events around campus for the past couple days.

Jerry Sandusky's wife, Dorothy 'Dottie' Gross Sandusky, has been largely absent in light of the developing Penn State child abuse scandal, in which her husband, the former defensive coordinator, is the primary focus. Very little is known about Dottie, though onlookers have questioned, if the allegations against Sandusky are true, how could she have been unaware of her husband's involvement with young boys? If she knew, many ask, how could she allow it to go on, and for so long?

It was a solemn time as Penn State University's football team, the Nittany Lions, readied themselves to play their first game since the Sandusky child-sex abuse allegations, and their first game without coach Joe Paterno, against the Nebraska Cornhuskers.

The gulf in class between the teams placed first and seventh, in International football, will be all too apparent when world champions Spain travel to Wembley to take on England in a friendly on Saturday.