Mike McQueary, the assistant football coach at Penn State and a central character in the sexual assault scandal, will not attend Saturday's game against Nebraska because of multiple threats, the university's athletics Web site stated Thursday night.
A day after being fired, Penn State football coach Joe Paterno has contacted a top Washington criminal defense lawyer to represent him in the sex assault scandal.
As if things couldn't get any worse for Joe Paterno, senators Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.)have rescinded their nomination of Paterno for the Presidential Medal of Freedom less than 24 hours after Paterno was fired as head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions, according to the New York Daily News.
A grand jury report has revealed that Jerry Sandusky, a former Penn State assistant coach, not only had access to hundreds of underage boys through his charity, The Second Mile, but also detailed how Sandusky would allegedly sexually molest the boys and showered them with gifts.
The wide receivers coach told a grand jury he saw Sandusky rape a boy.
It's hard to imagine the allegations against Jerry Sandusky getting any worse than allegedly molesting multiple young boys, but a shocking new report has hit the mark.
Ashton Kutcher (or @aplusk), one of the first celebrities to use Twitter with a current follower count of 8.2 million, has given up his tweeting rights to his management team after his defense of Joe Paterno turned ugly.
The assistant remains with the program despite his involvement in Sandusky allegations
Following news that head football coach Joe Paterno was fired in the wake of a sex-abuse scandal at the school, more than 1,000 Penn State University students took to the streets on Wednesday to protest the decision, flipping a media van in the process, leaving authorities no choice but to bring in heavy equipment to right the vehicle.
Famed U.S. college football coach Joe Paterno and the president of Penn State University were fired on Wednesday in fallout from a child-abuse scandal and cover-up involving a former assistant coach and school officials.
Board of Trustees acts, firing Paterno; students react, gathering across campus.
Joe Paterno has been fired as Penn State's head football coach Wednesday by the University's board of trustees. While Paterno had hoped to finish the season with his team, the board of trustees made it clear Wednesday that they want the 84-year-old football coach out now. Paterno will be relieved of his coaching duties immediately.
Penn State will likely hire a young assistant.
Famed head coach Joe Paterno will retire at the end of the 2011 football season after 46 seasons.
Santos have confirmed that their highly-rated forward Neymar will remain at the Brazilian club until after the 2014 World Cup, after he agreed to a contract extension with a reported 50% increase in salary.
The shocking allegations against Jerry Sandusky and Penn State University amount to one of the worst scandals in college sports history.
While institutional support for Penn State football coach Joe Paterno has appeared to be wavering amid the Jerry Sandusky scandal, fans showed up outside his home Tuesday evening, prompting Paterno to walk outside to make a statement. Afterwards, the chant of Let Joe stay! rang high.
Long-time Penn State football coach Joe Paterno's time as the school's coach could be over in days, according to a report.
It's virtually not possible that Paterno had never before heard the allegations. So when Paterno was approached iin 2002 by an assistant coach in alleging that he saw Sandusky, the former Penn State coach who still had access to the athletic department including workout and locker Anrooms, engaged in a sex act with a child, he should have done more than simply pass a report to the school's athletic director, Tim Curley.
According to coach Bronco Mendenhall in his weekly news conference on Monday, the Big East has approached BYU about giving up its football independence and joining the conference's soon-to-be Western division along with Boise State and Air Force.
Both clubs are seeking their third-straight win.
Two Penn State officials -- Athletic Director Tim Curley and Senior Vice President for Finance and Business Gary Schultz -- turned themselves in on Monday on charges of failing to alert police of suspected child abuse by former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky and of perjury in their related grand jury testimony.
