For years, Penn State University game days meant long lines of cars and RVs bearing fans making pilgrimages from all corners of Pennsylvania to a school right in the middle of the state, and by extension, to coach Joe Paterno, the man long regarded as its center ... STATE COLLEGE, PA. (AP) - Anguished by an unthinkable scandal that shook a university and tarnished the proud football program, many in the Penn State community rallied around a common cause.
They mourned coach Joe Paterno's dismissal and questioned the motives and tactics of school leaders who pushed out the Hall ... STATE COLLEGE, PA. (AP) - Other than family, football was everything to Joe Paterno. It was his lifeblood. It kept him pumped.
Life could not be the same without it.
"Right now, I'm not the coach. And I've got to get used to that," Paterno said after the Penn State Board of ... STATE COLLEGE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Mourners of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno adjusted to life without the man who was the face of the university for half a century on Monday while coming to terms with a legacy tainted by his inactive role in a child sexual abuse scandal ... STATE COLLEGE, PA. (AP) - Former Penn State coach Joe Paterno will be buried Wednesday, and his family has scheduled three days of public memorial events this week.
Paterno died Sunday at age 85, less than three months after being diagnosed with lung cancer.
In a schedule released by a family spokesman ... STATE COLLEGE, PA. (AP) - Bill O'Brien calls it an honor to follow the late Joe Paterno as Penn State's next head coach.
In an interview Monday in the same corner office that once belonged to the man known in State College as JoePa, O'Brien said he will forge his own ... STATE COLLEGE, PA. (AP) - Joe Paterno's family said Monday the legendary football coach will get a two-day viewing and a public memorial this week on the Penn State campus, two months after the university summarily fired him over the phone.
The family gave no details on who might be invited ... Legendary Penn State football coach Joe Paterno has died ... | 
