Penn State Sex-Abuse Scandal One Week Later
As Georgia welcomes longtime rival Auburn for a key SEC showdown, the college football world remains aghast at the heinous allegations surrounding the Penn State football program.
It was one week ago today that the Penn State sex-abuse scandal broke. Friday night, President Barack Obama chimed in on it, saying that it should lead to “soul-searching" by all Americans, not just Penn State. As another college football Saturday has arrived, the dark cloud continues to loom over the sport. Parenting.com opined here why kids are more important than football. How do you feel about the scandal? Let us know your thoughts on these alleged child sex assaults. Back on the field, there’s a full slate of games this Saturday and the TV schedule for such can be found here. Georgia Tech already has gone down, falling 37-26 at home to Virginia Tech on Thursday night. But what about Georgia? Who would have thought, after the Bulldogs…
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5:35 pm on Monday, November 14, 2011
To put it in perspective, if he was an archbishop in the catholic church and the abuser was a priest under his control, Paterno's name probably never would have made the news, and the story itself wouold have been relegated to a back page in one issue of the local paper, and likely gotten zero attention by any other press. Just to put it in perspective... more ›