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Joe Paterno

Penn State University's Joe Paterno has announced that he will retire at the end of the season after 45 years as head football coach.

The resignation comes after a child sex abuse scandal in which one of Paterno's former top assistants, Jerry Sandusky, has been charged with seven counts of "involuntary deviant s-xual intercourse." Sandusky is accused of forcibly sodomizing young boys. One of those cases allegedly occurred in the shower of the Penn State locker room. A graduate assistant reported that incident to Paterno, who alerted the school's athletic director but did not talk to criminal authorities. Paterno has not been charged in the case, but he faced widespread calls to resign for not fulfilling his moral responsibility.

Paterno has the most career victories of any coach in major college football history with 409 wins. His contract was set to expire at the end of the year.

Paterno Joe

He should have taken care of this a long time ago and not allowed it to fester. Still if all he could of done was report what happened then Paterno should not be made to pay the price unless he could have done something more.

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Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno has a treatable form of lung cancer, a source close to Paterno says.

Paterno was fired last week amid a child sex abuse scandal allegedly involving his former defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky. Ref. CNN

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Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno has died, his family confirmed Sunday. He was 85.

Paterno became entangled in controversy after allegations emerged of long-term s-xual abuse by an assistant coach. He was fired on Nov. 9.

He became the winningest coach in major college football history in 2011 with 409 wins.

Under the man affectionately known as "Joe Pa," the Nittany Lions won two national championships, went undefeated five times and finished in the top 25 national rankings 35 times, according to his official Penn State biography. Ref. CNN

Paterno Joe

Its a total shame that Joe Paterno's family has to go all through this now. No matter how illustrious a career you had if all the time you were doing bad things then what you did good just can't shine through.

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Vai's View: Penn State can keep records, but Joe Paterno statue must go

Keep the records, remove the statue. That's what Penn State should do with Joe Paterno's legacy. Ref. Source 1

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Stripped

The NCAA also vacated all of Penn State's football wins from 1998 to 2011, stripping the late Joe Paterno of the title of winningest coach in major college football history. Ref. CNN