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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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To: surroundedbyblue
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posted on
01/21/2012 6:19:38 PM PST
by
dforest
To: dforest
Reports are conflicting right now. Family has tweeted he is not dead.
Guess we will know soon.
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posted on
01/21/2012 6:21:40 PM PST
by
gswilder
To: surroundedbyblue
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posted on
01/21/2012 6:24:42 PM PST
by
newheart
(When does policy become treason?)
To: surroundedbyblue
RIP.
So terrible that all of those events had to happen right before his death.
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posted on
01/21/2012 6:29:07 PM PST
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: KoRn
ummm, these crimes arent about him. Its too bad those kids got raped and the University ignored them.
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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.)
To: surroundedbyblue
RIP JoePa ...GOD has another coach in heaven.
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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!!)
To: ExCTCitizen
RIP JoePa ...GOD has another coach in heaven.Or if there's justice he's being sodomized in hell.
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posted on
01/21/2012 6:46:38 PM PST
by
03A3
To: surroundedbyblue
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posted on
01/21/2012 6:50:42 PM PST
by
lightman
(Adjutorium nostrum (+) in nomine Domini--nevertheless, Vote Santorum!)
To: 03A3
JoePa did not sodomized those kids. You are listening to the lies ogthe media.
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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!!)
To: surroundedbyblue
Wait for him to die, please.
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posted on
01/21/2012 7:41:55 PM PST
by
JustaDumbBlonde
(Don't wish doom on your enemies ... plan it.)
To: 03A3
That would be justice. He is now experiencing karma.
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posted on
01/21/2012 7:43:35 PM PST
by
JustaDumbBlonde
(Don't wish doom on your enemies ... plan it.)
To: ExCTCitizen
"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.
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posted on
01/21/2012 7:45:28 PM PST
by
JustaDumbBlonde
(Don't wish doom on your enemies ... plan it.)
To: JustaDumbBlonde
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?
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posted on
01/21/2012 7:46:52 PM PST
by
aruanan
To: aruanan
There are different doctrines of karma. Some of them do not carry to rebirth.
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posted on
01/21/2012 7:56:05 PM PST
by
JustaDumbBlonde
(Don't wish doom on your enemies ... plan it.)
To: surroundedbyblue
In the tradition of Dan Rather, just making stuff up on the fly.
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posted on
01/21/2012 10:03:10 PM PST
by
political1
(Love your neighbors)
To: ExCTCitizen
You are correct.
He covered it up to protect Penn State's football program. Screw the kids.
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posted on
01/21/2012 10:06:53 PM PST
by
starlifter
(Pullum sapit)
To: surroundedbyblue
The CBS source at the link says Mr Paterno has not died, despite reports.
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posted on
01/21/2012 10:14:41 PM PST
by
Darnright
("I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
To: gswilder
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posted on
01/21/2012 11:29:58 PM PST
by
BlueMondaySkipper
(Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
To: gswilder
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01/21/2012 11:30:38 PM PST
by
BlueMondaySkipper
(Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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