Thursday, January 3, 2013
The state of Pennsylvania is suing after the NCAA sanctioned Penn State.
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Thursday, January 3
Gov. Tom Corbett announced Wednesday that he is suing the National Collegiate Athletic Association for its sanctions against Penn State University. Corbett called the sanctions arbitrary and illegal, saying they would hurt the university, the state and Pennsylvanians. What do you think of this lawsuit? Tell us in the comments section below. (Scroll to below the complete text of Gov. Corbett’s statement.) Press Release: Governor Tom Corbett today announced that he is suing the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), calling its sanctions against Penn State University arbitrary and illegal, saying they would result in irreparable economic damage to the university, the commonwealth and its citizens. “Penn State football has played …
Thursday, December 13, 2012
What was Maureen O'Hara thinking when she let Kris Kringle tuck her daughter in?
There was the most amazing thing on television the other night. No, Survivors weren’t eating live snakes and the gang of “Jersey Shore” didn’t join a 12-step program. Rather, Old Kris Kringle -- in civilian clothes – was sitting on the edge of the bed of a young Natalie Wood in the 1947 Christmas classic film “Miracle on 34thStreet” talking to the little girl who was tucked under the covers, ready for sleep. Why was that amazing? Because what mother in her right mind would allow a near-stranger alone with her child in a bedroom? Scenes like that oh-so-innocent one have gone the way of the dodo bird, as nearly extinct as heroes who casually smoke in TV dramas and sitcoms. But while we cheerfully say goodbye to glamorizing smoking on TV, …
Saturday, August 4, 2012
If the PA legislature follows Auditor General Jack Wagner's wishes, the embattled university will have to make public most of its internal documents.
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Saturday, August 4, 2012
By Jared Sichel | PA Independent HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s top auditor has a message for Penn State — things must change. Auditor General Jack Wagner has called on the Legislature to order the troubled university to comply with the state’s Right-to-Know law. “I would hope that this would be a priority in September, and the General Assembly could deal with it prior to the end of the legislative session in November,” Wagner said. The transparency law, which makes public most internal documents at government agencies, now applies to Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities. But Penn State is an independently managed, “state-related” school, and thus exempt from giving the public access to internal documents, such as emails between top …
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Vote in our poll and add your comments on the NCAA sanctions announced against Penn State's legendary football program
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012
What do you think of the NCAA sanctions? Vote in our poll and add your comments below. NCAA President Mark Emmert came down hard on Penn State’s football program today, handing down some of the most severe sanctions in college sports history. While the Nittany Lions did not get the death penalty, The Sporting Newsreports that it may take decades for the college and its football program to recover. The sanctions: Penn State has agreed not to appeal the sanctions, which were handed down less than two weeks after former FBI Director Louis Freeh submitted a 267-page report condemning the role of university officials in concealing the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal. Sandusky was convicted of 45 counts of child abuse last month. The $…
Ben
4:10 pm on Monday, January 7, 2013
They should sue the NCAA. I always questioned why a organization based on academics is punishing for something that it really has no jurisdictions on? It was a federal crime that happened and how does NCAA get involved? It is amazing when a academic fault happens and in this case look at North Carolina. Not a word heard on it about them passing athletes without taking the class. The NCAA is a … more ›