This morning, Penn State took down the Joe Paterno statue. Some people think it's the wrong thing to do. I think it's the right thing to do. His football program became too big and that led to a horrible cover up of what Jerry Sandusky did. Paterno also got too [...]
Here is the opening to my Monday column advocating the death penalty for Penn State football: This is about that two-faced, fallen idol Joe Paterno and his monstrosity of a football program and how he and others disgraced a good university. It’s also about the so-called death penalty for Nittany [...]
I was watching ESPN this morning after the Freeh Report came out, blasting Penn State officials, including Joe Paterno. Matt Millen came on to discuss Paterno, whom he played for in college and clearly admired and maybe even loved. Millen said all the bad things people say about Paterno do [...]
Boo on Penn State students. Thousands of them took to the streets to demonstrate against the firing of Joe Paterno, who deserved to get fired and should have been sacked years ago. Paterno gave an example of being a moral void. Yet these students demonstrated against the firing. How vacant [...]
They should cancel the remainder of the Penn State football schedule this season. It's not enough that they fired Joe Paterno and the school president and some other guys are under indictment. This whole thing happened because Penn State football thought of itself as more important than the university, young [...]
I read on ESPN.com that Joe Paterno says he will retire after this season because of the scandal under his watch at Penn State. Well, that' all well and good except it's not Paterno's decision. The board of trustees of the school is meeting Friday and they will decide Paterno's [...]
This is a difficult blog to write -- about Joe Paterno. I don't know Paterno or particularly care about him. It is alleged one of his coaches, Jerry Sandusky, sexually abused children while he worked for Paterno and even after he retired but had privileges on the Penn State campus. [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.