UNIVERSITY PARK - Prior to the start of Joe Paterno's memorial service Thursday at the Bryce Jordan Center, several Penn State football greats greeted each other and chatted. There stood Franco Harris, Bruce Clark, Brandon Short and Michael Robinson, generations of athletes representing Joe Paterno's 61-year career at Penn State and the embodiment of his legacy, The Grand Experiment. They spotted Jay Paterno, Joe's son and his quarterback coach, and called him into the group. Then they asked...
Joe Paterno Gene Puskar/AP Joe Paterno, the legendary Penn State football coach who won more Division I NCAA football games than any other coach, died Saturday night, reports CBS Sports. He was 85.Paterno, a.k.a Joe Pa and known for his "success with honor" motto, thick glasses, rolled-up pants and black cleats, had been diagnosed with lung cancer, it was announced on Nov. 18. On Saturday, as friends and family were being summoned to State College Hospital, a family spokesman said the...
Travis Ford the Oklahoma State cowboys coach was caught on Saturday by the pitch side microphone hurling insults on guard Obi Muonelo during their game with Kansas. The game which Oklahoma States Cowboys lost to Kansas 78- 67. This prompted Ford to publicly apologize on the radio of his behavior. Ford's profanity was audibly heard on the ABC national radio newscast after, when Muonelo was taking a jog up court. Ford's profane insults were able to get Muonelo's attention has Ford's yelling...
Michigan head coach Rich Rodriguez points out a clock discrepancy in the closing minute of an NCAA college football game against the Purdue in West Lafayette, Ind., Saturday, Nov. 13, 2010. Michigan defeated Purdue 27-16.(AP Photo/Michael Conroy) Arizona has hired former Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez to take over a program that has never played in the Rose Bowl, and has been mired in mediocrity for most of the past decade. Athletic Director Greg Byrne posted on his Twitter account a...
Leslie Frazier has prepared for close to a quarter-century for this chance, interviewed unsuccessfully (but remarkably) 7 times, and this is how his big opportunity comes. The scenario Frazier's inheriting now in Minnesota is not exactly one a coach would dream about walking into. A veteran team full of win-now type of participants is 3-7, its qb is a 41-year-old whose mind is constantly prone to roam back to the great life on that compound in Mississippi, its once stout lines have...
