Paterno

• BC-FBC--Paterno-State College, 10th Ld-Writethru,1004Paternos death met with grief in State CollegeAP Photo PAGP109, PAGP113, PAGP111, PAGP201Eds: Adds AP Video. With AP Photos.By MARK SCOLFOROAssociated Press STATE COLLEGE, Pa.
(msnbc.com)
• In the span of 12 weeks, Joe Paterno transformed from beloved Penn State icon to Rorschach test on child abuse to ailing victim. His fate, the one that awaits us all, arrived with charitable swiftness.
(ESPN)
• For nearly all of the 61 years he spent in coaching, the closest Joe Paterno had ever come to public reproach was when people quietly questioned whether the Penn State football coach might be dying his hair black to hide the gray.
(NJ.com)
• The fallout in 2011 from the child sex-abuse scandal involving Jerry Sandusky, who was an assistant on Paternos Penn State staff until 1999, prompted the universitys Board of Trustees to fire Paterno, then 84, with three games left in the regular season.
(USA Today)
• Media organizations and an interested public sat on edge Saturday afternoon, knowing grim news could come at any moment. Just before 6 p.m. PST, it did. The news was jarring but not unexpected.
(Los Angeles Times)
• Former Penn State coach Joe Paterno died earlier Sunday at 85 in State College, Pa., after battling lung cancer diagnosed in November. Paterno spent 46 seasons as Penn States coach before being fired Nov. 9 in the wake of the sex-abuse scandal.
(ESPN)
• Bill O'Brien, the man who will replace Joe Paterno as coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions, has another job today. He will work as the New England Patriots' offensive coordinator in the AFC Championship game against the Baltimore Ravens.
(Washington Post)
• STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Thousands of Penn State students and others have held a solemn candlelight vigil outside the universitys administration building to honor former football coach Joe Paterno.
(Chicago Tribune)