Joe Posnanski writes the best piece on the Penn State scandal yet
Joe Posnanski’s job got a lot harder this week. The former Kansas City Starr sportswriter and current Sports Illustrated scribe of Odyssey-length blog posts, is living in State College, Pennsylvania, writing a book on Penn State football coach Joe Paterno. If you’ve avoided all media since last weekend, former Nittany Lions defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was charged with sexually abusing eight boys, sometimes in university buildings. Two Penn State officials have also been charged for not taking appropriate steps to stop the abuse, and last night, Paterno, who has coached the team since 1966, was fired.
Posnanski wrote an absolute dagger of a column about his feelings and how this alters his Paterno project. While some Penn State students expressed themselves by rioting and flipping a TV news van in the wake of Paterno’s firing, and others are kicking up a storm of speculation about criminal charges he could face, Posnanski says what most people are feeling: The whole thing is just plain sad.
