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That day the Freeh Report was released, Jay Paterno says, was in some ways an even harder one than the day six months before when Joe Paterno died. “They killed him again,” he says. That day in July, he wrote a short note to his mother, Sue, that reflects the depths of his despair:

“Even in the darkest moments when doubt tears at the threads of my sanity, I cling to the truth that at the bottom of Pandora’s box was that one word: HOPE.”

Mel Mudkiper posted:

lol

Chichevache posted:

gently caress. I done hosed up. I'm on the same side of an argument as Retail Slave.

Detroit_Dogg posted:

Well you see he was old and a fatherly figure so

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Q: Without getting into any graphic detail, what did Mr. McQueary tell you he had seen and where?

Mr. Paterno: Well, he had seen a person, an older — not an older, but a mature person who was fondling, whatever you might call it — I’m not sure what the term would be — a young boy.

Q: Did he identify who that older person was?

Mr. Paterno: Yes, a man by the name of Jerry Sandusky who had been one of our coaches, was not at the time.

Q: You’re saying that at the time this incident was reported to you, Sandusky was no longer a coach?
Mr. Paterno: No, he had retired voluntarily. I’m not sure exactly the year, but I think it was either ‘98 or ‘99.

Q: I think you used the term fondling. Is that the term that you used?

Mr. Paterno: Well, I don’t know what you would call it. Obviously, he was doing something with the youngster. It was a sexual nature. I’m not sure exactly what it was.

MonsterWalk posted:

Joe Paterno was bad.

The pretty ESPN lady should be fired because she seems like a reprehensible person and Iike when bad people suffer.

And Dan Sauhnggessey made Cleveland mad because sometimes Cleveland fans are dumb babies.

Skeesix posted:

To be fair, Shaughnassey is kind of a chode.

Skeesix posted:

To be fair, Shaughnassey is kind of a chode.

Alouicious posted:

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Sash! posted:

*consults clipboard*

Hrm, yes, according to these findings, we have a textbook chode.

A Man and his dog posted:

That guy is ugly and a piece of poo poo....

sean10mm posted:

Can a Boston sports media homer be such a douche about Boston sports that even Boston sports homers pretty much all hate him?

Yes, it's that guy. He's like a failed Skip Bayless prototype with a chowder - based circulatory system.

midwat posted:

I don't think Shaughnessy is a homer (if I recall, he's quite often a dick to local athletes/teams), I just think he's an rear end in a top hat.

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So I ran the 6.2-mile Central Park loop Saturday morning (58:33—hey, anyone ever notice it’s different running on a windy 47-degree morning, with real hills, than it is on a flat treadmill in the basement of a health club?), and for nearly a mile I found myself trailing a woman having a great time running and chatting away on her cell phone. She had one of those earpieces, the kind with two earbuds and then the mike somehow affixed between her lower lip and chin. We were both running about the same pace, about 9.5-minute miles, up and down the slight grades of the beautiful park, and I was interested in her conversation with—I believe—a girlfriend on the other end of the conversation.

(When I run, I have nothing in my ears. I struggle, and think, and watch the surroundings, and then struggle some more. But I certainly do not converse more than is absolutely necessary. I can’t.)

I did find out, though, that this 30ish woman was going to a baby shower later that afternoon, hadn’t bought a gift yet but was thinking about a gift card from Bloomingdales, wondered how much would be appropriate, settled on $50, then asked if the person on the other end wanted to meet for a margarita beforehand, and then she drifted behind me on a bit of a decline.

It’s a free country and cool if you can use all this technology wherever, and I know I’m a 57-year-old dinosaur, and I get that just running and thinking and pondering life is probably passé, and I understand no one gets hurt when someone is on the phone while jogging in one of the great parks in the world.

But I do not want to be on the phone when I am running through Central Park. I’m just not going to understand that.

Real Name Grover posted:

http://mmqb.si.com/2015/04/27/philip-rivers-trade-titans-chargers-nfl-draft/4/

swickles posted:

Jason Whitlock is a crazy man.

http://deadspin.com/how-jason-whitlock-is-poisoning-espns-black-grantland-1698683962

ought ten posted:

drat you know your pet project is doomed when your underlings are ratting you out before it even gets going. Hopefully someone at ESPN has the sense to smother it in its crib.

Actually I don't hope that, we'd be deprived of so much material for this thread.