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    NCAA hammers Penn State with bowl ban, $60 million fine

    NCAA president Mark Emmert this morning penalized the Penn State football program in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal with a four-year bowl ban, the stripping of 40 scholarships over four years and a mammoth $60 million fine. He also announced that all Penn State wins from 1998-2011 have been vacated. That means the [...]

    Penn State ends trying season with tough test

    DALLAS – Penn State interim coach Tom Bradley was asked Sunday how he would describe the Nittany Lions’ tumultuous season. “Different,” Bradley said with a wry smile. After starting with Joe Paterno getting run over by wide receiver Devon Smith during a preseason practice, the 2011 season became a nightmare in November when former assistant [...]

    Anger mixed with sadness

    STATE COLLEGE – Quinn Barham couldn’t control his emotions Wednesday after Joe Paterno spoke to Penn State’s players and told them he was planning to retire. When Barham, a team captain, and everybody else learned late Wednesday night that Paterno had been fired, he became incensed. “I had to calm down,” Barham said Thursday. “It [...]