Penn State didn’t receive the “death penalty”, but this could be a death blow to the football program. NCAA president Mark Emmert announced sanctions against Penn State University this morning in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child-molestation conviction. All in all the school will be fined $60 million ($12 million over 5 years, monies [...]
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