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ESPN suspends Olbermann over Penn State meltdown

by Phantom Ace ( 124 Comments › )
Filed under Progressives, Sports at February 25th, 2015 - 7:00 am

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We interrupt the normally scheduled Obama sucks thread on a breaking matter. Far left Progressive sports caster and failed pundit, Keith Olbermann once again has meltdown. Although he makes valid points in criticism the acts of Penn State students turning a charity event into festival. Olbermann goes overboard and gets personal.

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – ESPN has suspended Keith Olbermann for his controversial remarks about Penn State on Twitter.

On Twitter, Olbermann got into it with students and fans over the school’s annual pediatric cancer fundraiser called “Thon.”

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A student sent Olbermann a tweet saying “We Are!” with a link to the news on the Thon.

That’s when Olbermann responded “pitiful.”

That led to multiple tweet to several people including these:

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ESPN suspended Olbermann over his actions on Twitter and put out a statement.

We are aware of the exchange Keith Olbermann had on Twitter last night regarding Penn State. It was completely inappropriate and does not reflect the views of ESPN. We have discussed it with Keith, who recognizes he was wrong. ESPN and Keith have agreed that he will not host his show for the remainder of this week and will return on Monday. The annual tradition of THON and the efforts of the students of Penn State to fight pediatric cancer should be applauded.

Even when Olbermann has a point, he acts like a jerk.

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Penn State President Graham Spanier to resign UPDATED!!!!

by Phantom Ace ( 31 Comments › )
Filed under College Football, Special Report, Sports at November 9th, 2011 - 3:18 pm

The Penn State Child molestation case is now having casualties. Joe Paterno has said he will step down at the end of the season. Now The President of Penn State is rumored to be resigning. The board of trustees are forcing him out since he knew about the allegations involving assistant head coach Jerry Sandusky.

Penn State University President Graham Spanier will either resign or be voted out by the end of today, a source close to the board of trustees told The Express-Times.

An interim president, most likely Executive Vice President and Provost Rodney A. Erickson, will be appointed and a nationwide search for a permanent replacement will begin, according to the source who requested anonymity.

Spanier was made aware in 2002 that a graduate assistant coach had seen former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky allegedly sexually assault a young boy in a shower in the Penn State locker room, according to grand jury testimony.

This scandal shows the corruption at Penn State. These resignations will never make up for the blind eye towards Child molestation at Penn State. This is a disgrace.

 

**COLDWARRIOR UPDATE****

Paterno and Spanier are gone, this from ESPN:

Both football coach Joe Paterno and president Graham Spanier are out at Penn State in the wake of a disturbing child sex abuse scandal involving a former assistant coach.

Paterno said in a statement Wednesday he would retire after the season, but the university’s board of trustees met Wednesday night and decided Paterno would not be allowed to continue as coach effective immediately. Defensive coordinator Tom Bradley has been named interim coach.

Spanier chose to resign Wednesday and will be replaced temporarily by provost Rodney Erickson.

Paterno has been besieged by criticism since Jerry Sandusky, his former defensive coordinator, was charged over the weekend with 40 criminal counts of molesting eight young boys between 1994 and 2009 through his charitable foundation for at-risk youths, The Second Mile. Sandusky is free on bail and has a Dec. 7 court hearing.

One key question has been why Paterno and other top school officials didn’t go to police in 2002 after being told a graduate assistant saw Sandusky assaulting a boy in a school shower.

Paterno says he should have done more. Spanier has said he was not told the details of the attack.

Athletic director Tim Curley and vice president Gary Schultz were charged Monday with failing to notify authorities after an eyewitness reported a 2002 assault. The two will seek to have the charges dismissed, their lawyers said. Curley requested to be placed on administrative leave so he could devote time to his defense, and Schultz will be going back into retirement, the school announced.

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Penn State Scandal expands!

by Phantom Ace ( 55 Comments › )
Filed under College Football, Crime, Open thread, Sports at November 8th, 2011 - 8:04 pm

Legendary Penn State Coach Joe Paterno is in trouble.  When it was brought to his attention that his assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky, committed a sexual assault on a young boy he didn’t go to the police. He reported it to Tim Curley, the athletic director. Well this was not the only instance. There were a total of 20 during a 15 year period. This makes one wonder what Joe Paterno knew and covered up.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Fox 29 has learned the number of child-abuse in the Penn State sex-abuse scandal involving ex-coach Jerry Sandusky has more than doubled in the past day, and is closer to 20 victims

There were eight victims named in the grand jury presentment and 40 charges leveled against Sandusky, a long-time assistant to Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno. Paterno was not named in the grand jury finding as violating any laws.

Sources tell Fox 29 since a press conference on Monday, the number of potential victims has more than doubled in the case.

Sandusky was arrested in the case and made bail, while two Penn State administrators face charges related to how an alleged crime was reported in the case to police and investigators.

Read the rest: Victims Double In Penn State Case

Clarely Joe Paterno had to have known something. This case threatens to bring him down and destroy his legacy.

Discuss this or any other topic.

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Meltdown Mann finds Lump of Coal in Stocking

by snork ( 133 Comments › )
Filed under Climate, Crime, Media, Open thread, Science at January 5th, 2010 - 10:30 am

Ouch. Sucks to be him. From the good British newspaper, the Telegraph (why don’t the American papers ever break these stories?), we have this:

Climategate: Michael Mann’s very unhappy New Year

Seems that the new year was kicked off at Penn state with an email to the 27 people at his Earth System Science Center:

…Whistleblower Rewards Program
The federal government has established vigorous programs to identify and prosecute fraudulent grant applications and administration.  The US Department of Justice (DOJ) administers the False Claims Act.  It allows rewards for those who come forward with details of grant fraud to share in the recovery of federal funds.  This reward can be as much as 30% of the total amount reclaimed. The program is almost completely reliant on insiders to report their knowledge of the fraud in their institutions…

That’s a bunch of change. Can we say “ratwhistle”?

Happy New Year, Mike. You’re going to need that coal to stay warm this winter.

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