I must admit I am sick of hearing about this saga, but I think it reflects something about "people" in that we have let "sports" become so necessary in our lives and our learning institutions. Sports have stepped over academics in importance. A statue was erected in honor of a coach, rather than someone in academics, or other endeavors. That says something right there. All sports have their "Hall of Fame." There have been many achievements in science, medicine and other fields of greater importance, but they are not recognized. How and why, has athletics become so huge?
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — The famed statue of Joe Paterno was taken down from outside the Penn State football stadium Sunday as the NCAA announced it would be issuing sanctions against the university whose top officials were accused in a scathing report of burying child sex abuse allegations against a now-convicted retired assistant.
Workers lifted the 7-foot-tall statue off its base and used a forklift to move it into Beaver Stadium as the 100 to 150 students watching chanted, "We are Penn State."
The university announced earlier Sunday that it was taking down the monument in the wake of an investigative report that found the late coach and three other top Penn State administrators concealed sex abuse claims against retired assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.
Meanwhile, the NCAA said that that it would levy "corrective and punitive measures" against Penn State in the wake of the child sex-abuse scandal involving former football assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. The organization announced Sunday that it would spell out the sanctions on Monday but disclosed no details.
