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Paterno honored with Pa. flags at half-staff
Pennsylvania gov orders lowering of flags after legendary college coach dies amid child sex abuse scandal

Joe Paterno last of a hardy breed; Flags shouldn't be lowered for a football coach - Jan. 26 letters to the editor
J oe Paterno is gone. With the loss of this great man, a great era of college football coaches passes with him.

Penn State mourns longtime coach Joe Paterno
STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Penn State students and supporters laid flowers and lit candles on Monday as they mourned the death of Joe Paterno, who won more games than any other U.S. major college football coach but saw his legacy tarnished by a child sexual abuse scandal at the school. Paterno, 85, died of lung cancer on Sunday, two months after being fired after a former assistant ...

Signing day becomes a commitment to craziness
LOS ANGELES -- The biggest winner coming out of college football's national signing day Wednesday had to be Thursday, the day it would finally be over.

Viewpoint: Sports coexist with education
The spate of recent criticisms regarding college sports — meaning the big-time revenue makers of football and men’s basketball, with few worries allotted to swimming or gymnastics — center on two arguments: that their behemoth existence is detrimental to the University’s mission of education and scholarship, and their prominence in University life is new. Neither claim is true. read more

Pennsylvania Governor Orders Flags At Half-Staff For Joe Paterno
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett has ordered the state’s flags be lowered to half-staff in honor of longtime Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno, according to the Associated Press. The flags will remain at half-staff until Paterno’s burial.

Teacher stabbed to death in Naperville bar
An elementary school teacher was stabbed to death in a suburban bar. Shaun Wild was 24.

Inside the chase for top recruit DGB
How the nation's No. 1 recruit landed at Mizzou.