Scandal, labor woes make 2011 one of sports’ worst
Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary, left, and former head coach Joe Paterno were linked to the school’s sex abuse scandal. McQueary reportedly saw former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky sexually assault a boy in a locker room shower, and Paterno was fired in the aftermath for not doing more to report Sandusky.
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ought to sports, what with the NBA and NFL players and owners huddling with lawyers and accountants, more unsettling reports of brains ravaged by hard hits, and college players being given cash, tattoos, access to strip clubs and pretty much anything else you can imagine, the games still mattered.
Until November.
In less than two weeks, allegations of child sex abuse at Penn State and then at Syracuse shook both schools to the core, cost Joe Paterno his job and left us all with the searing question of whether our love for sports has helped corrupt what were once such simple games.
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