By: Roger I. Abrams
author of Sports Justice
The scandal that continues to unfold at Penn State University has transfixed the nation. The horrific allegations of sexual abuse by football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky have sickened an American public used to glorifying both its athletes and their coaches. The seeming indifference of Coach Paterno and university administrators to these repellent facts has already taken its toll, and there is more to come.
The involvement of Joe Paterno, the
nation’s greatest college football coach, in this catastrophic series of events
has made the story one that involves sports, but is it really a sports story?
Or is it rather just an issue involving a horrendous crime on campus?
