For the first time since the 1998-99 season, the NC State men’s basketball team payed a regular-season games outside the continental United States. It worked out well as the Wolfpack beat the Big Ten’s Penn State Nitany Lions by 17 points in a game that was only close for the first 8 minutes. The Las […]
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Mandel: “Shouldn’t Emmert Step-in [at UN*], too?”
With the unprecedented punishment levied against Penn State yesterday, Stewart Mandel says that NCAA “displinary czar” Mark Emmert “overstepped” and then touches on a question many of us are asking about the ever-inconsistent NCAA (SI.com): “While there’s been much speculation about whether this fits this specific bylaw or that specific bylaw,” said Emmert, “it certainly […]
Does Penn State deserve the death penalty for its abominable cover-up?
The full report into Penn State’s response to allegations of sexual abuse by longtime defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, following an eight-month investigation overseen by former FBI director Louis Freeh, fills 267 excruciating pages. But to put the finishing touches on the obliteration of a half-century of goodwill, it only took 163 words: The evidence shows […]
