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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Joe Paterno's death

Im sure by now we all heard about the death of the longtime Penn State coach Joe Paterno, who died on Sunday at 9:25 am, at the age of 85.

Joe Paterno was the coach of Penn States football team for a very long time, he won more games then any other college football coach. He was recently fired(after he announced he would retire) for not reporting the chid sexual abuse scandal he knew about, This ruined his legend and made millions question his integrity. After being fired Paterno Told his team to finish the season with "dignity and determination".



"The 84-year-old Paterno has been engulfed by outrage that he did not take more action after a graduate assistant, Mike McQueary, came to him in 2002 and reported seeing Sandusky in the Penn State showers with a 10-year-old boy. Paterno notified the athletic director, Tim Curley, and a vice president, Gary Schultz."
Some think that because Paterno did notify some one he shouldn't have been fired but obviously the trustees(the ones who decided Paterno's fate) did not think so.

74 days after Joe Paterno was fired he died. It was really hard and shocking to believe, for many people because of how ironic the story is, first he gets fired(ironic), then right after he got fired we find out he has cancer(ironic), then he dies(ironic).Paterno has been Penn States coach for 46 years and 74 days after he gets fired he passes. Some think its depression, stress or anger that led him to have serious complications with his lung cancer.

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