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Former Penn State Coach Joe Paterno Dies From Lung Cancer
CBS Cleveland ^ | 1/21/12

Posted on 01/21/2012 6:17:03 PM PST by surroundedbyblue

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (CBS Cleveland/AP) — Former Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno died Saturday night from lung cancer at the age of 85, Onward State, the student-run university website, reports.

The winningest major college football coach of all time, Paterno was diagnosed shortly after Penn State’s Board of Trustees ousted him Nov. 9 in the aftermath of the child sex abuse charges against former assistant Jerry Sandusky. Paterno was getting treatment since, and his health problems worsened when he broke his pelvis — an injury that first cropped up when he was accidentally hit in preseason practice last year.

“Over the last few days Joe Paterno has experienced further health complications,” family spokesman Dan McGinn said in a brief statement Saturday to The Associated Press. “His doctors have now characterized his status as serious.

(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: joepaterno; pedostate; pennstate; pennsylvania; sanducky
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1 posted on 01/21/2012 6:17:09 PM PST by surroundedbyblue
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To: surroundedbyblue

RIP, Mr Paterno.


2 posted on 01/21/2012 6:19:38 PM PST by dforest
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Reports are conflicting right now. Family has tweeted he is not dead.

Guess we will know soon.


3 posted on 01/21/2012 6:21:40 PM PST by gswilder
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To: surroundedbyblue

Prayers for his family.


4 posted on 01/21/2012 6:24:42 PM PST by newheart (When does policy become treason?)
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To: surroundedbyblue

RIP.

So terrible that all of those events had to happen right before his death.


5 posted on 01/21/2012 6:29:07 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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ummm, these crimes arent about him. Its too bad those kids got raped and the University ignored them.


6 posted on 01/21/2012 6:35:52 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: surroundedbyblue

RIP JoePa ...GOD has another coach in heaven.


7 posted on 01/21/2012 6:38:12 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (If we stay home in November '12, don't blame 0 for tearing up the CONSTITUTION!!)
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RIP JoePa ...GOD has another coach in heaven.

Or if there's justice he's being sodomized in hell.

8 posted on 01/21/2012 6:46:38 PM PST by 03A3
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To: surroundedbyblue
Then again, maybe not: Centre Daily Times posted 9:24PM EST:

http://www.centredaily.com/2012/01/21/3061322/paterno-family-spokesman-denies.html

9 posted on 01/21/2012 6:50:42 PM PST by lightman (Adjutorium nostrum (+) in nomine Domini--nevertheless, Vote Santorum!)
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JoePa did not sodomized those kids. You are listening to the lies ogthe media.


10 posted on 01/21/2012 7:38:40 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (If we stay home in November '12, don't blame 0 for tearing up the CONSTITUTION!!)
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To: surroundedbyblue

Wait for him to die, please.


11 posted on 01/21/2012 7:41:55 PM PST by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies ... plan it.)
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To: 03A3

That would be justice. He is now experiencing karma.


12 posted on 01/21/2012 7:43:35 PM PST by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies ... plan it.)
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"JoePa did not sodomized those kids."

He might as well had. He kept the sodomizer in his inner circle right up until the day he was arrested. I'm sure they've shared a pity-filled goodbye conversation.

13 posted on 01/21/2012 7:45:28 PM PST by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies ... plan it.)
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That would be justice. He is now experiencing karma.

So his lung cancer in this life is from something he did in a previous life?
14 posted on 01/21/2012 7:46:52 PM PST by aruanan
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To: aruanan

There are different doctrines of karma. Some of them do not carry to rebirth.


15 posted on 01/21/2012 7:56:05 PM PST by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies ... plan it.)
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To: surroundedbyblue

In the tradition of Dan Rather, just making stuff up on the fly.


16 posted on 01/21/2012 10:03:10 PM PST by political1 (Love your neighbors)
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You are correct.

He covered it up to protect Penn State's football program. Screw the kids.

17 posted on 01/21/2012 10:06:53 PM PST by starlifter (Pullum sapit)
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To: surroundedbyblue

The CBS source at the link says Mr Paterno has not died, despite reports.


18 posted on 01/21/2012 10:14:41 PM PST by Darnright ("I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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To: gswilder
Reports are conflicting right now. Family has tweeted he is not dead.

He's not dead yet!

19 posted on 01/21/2012 11:29:58 PM PST by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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To: gswilder
Reports are conflicting right now. Family has tweeted he is not dead.

He's not dead yet!

20 posted on 01/21/2012 11:30:38 PM PST by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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