Joe Paterno dies at 85...

[Gator Hokie]

I wish I could figure out how to go back to the cache and screen print the MC and CBS Sports Front page. Because it was there....

Well, I've been had. Closing the thread.

[JoesterVT]

the whole dying thing renders glory/shame completely irrelevant...dumb post, IMO. I dont think anyone is sitting around the death bed thinking about any "shame"...

[VPI_1998]

I saw it too on the CBS Cleveland sports site.

[HokieJamie]

they, like everyone else are saying he is in "serious" condition...but I suppose being dead is pretty serious. Is gonna happen...maybe it already has...just waiting for a major outlet or ESPN to crawl it...

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[fitngoblr]

CBS and CNN both ran with an un-substantiated story from a PSU blog that has now recanted their story.

I have less faith in the US news media than the US government.

http://www.examiner.com/social-media...no-death-tweet

http://onwardstate.com/

[hokiebeach421]

I don't know about that. I mean, I see what your point is, but at the same time.... well, i don't know because if you told me I was dying in an hour, I at least wouldn't have some unresolved child molestation cluster hanging over me, and I wasn't unceremoniously dumped from my job 2 months ago, and haven't spent the last 2 months wondering why the hell the world suddenly turned against me. So I think its contextual. I don't accept the notion that nobody goes to their grave without regret. Or shame, especially if the event is recent. PLUS... everyone is different. No accounting for what some people would think about or focus on in their time of dying. Many describe it as freeing, but.... I don't know how many of those people had the hideous scourge of pedophilia attached to them -- albeit in Paterno's case indirectly. I mean, that is a HELL of a thing to have even REMOTELY associated with you, agree? IT's pretty much the worst thing there is. People design chemical weapons, get paid to kill (snipers, assassins, etc.) and frankly, pedophiles outweight even THOSE horrible occupations. I don't think his post is dumb at all. Seems to me a person could be mightily bothered about how they'll be remembered, while on their deathbed, since into death all you take with you is the knowledge of how you'll be thought of, not your money, wins or anything else. It's the words == what people will say, how they will think, that carries on. All his money and all his power can't protect his name now. And that could well be a heavy subject on his mind.

[VPI63]

http://eye-on-collegefootball.blogs....56338/34497800

I felt that when Paterno got fired, he would go very soon.

Hell, coaching PSU was all he knew, and his life.

The way he went out and the circuimstances would have destroyed almost anyone 20 years younger.

[cwtcr hokie]

bad news for the folks that want to wipe out penn state, hard to testify if you are no longer living

[FriedTurkey]

http://eye-on-collegefootball.blogs....56338/34497800

His death was misreported last night on the Internet.

[FriedTurkey]

CBS just took it down. I swear it was there.

It was reported by CBS Sports but retracted as incorrect.