Last day to vote! Every year we crown our annual ‘Jerk of the Year,’ honoring those in sports who were, well, jerks. Last year’s ‘Jerk of the Year’ was the Belmont University administration, who fired soccer coach Lisa Howe after she came out of the closet. This year we have many worthy candidates from football, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Penn State’
Jerry Sandusky showered with boys, insists he’s not a pedophile
Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky proclaimed his innocence in an interview with Bob Costas of NBC (complete transcript). Sandusky said he regrets showering with boys, but says it was just “horse play” and that he is not a pedophile and did not rape a boy in the shower. Sandusky is free on [...]
Director: Joe Paterno had his hands in the Rene Portland scandal, too
Editor’s note: Fawn Yacker is director of the award-winning film ‘Training Rules,’ about homophobia in Penn State’s women’s basketball program. She is currently working on a project about homophobia in men’s pro sports. Joe Paterno describes the current “tragedy” at Penn State as “…one of the great sorrows of my life.” He should add to [...]
Joe Paterno fired from Penn State, idiot students riot in response
It is fitting and appropriate that Joe Paterno was fired tonight by Penn State. The winning head football coach at one of the nation’s proudest programs simply could not take the field with the Nittany Lions against Nebraska on Saturday. Earlier in the day Paterno tried to cut off the school’s move by agreeing to [...]
Same-sex pedophilia scandal rocks Penn State football, involving Jerry Sandusky
Penn State athletic director Tim Curley has been charged with perjury in connection with allegations that former football team defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky (right) sexually abused eight young men. According to the Associated Press: The attorney general’s office said Sandusky, 67, of State College, was arrested Saturday. Curley, 57, and Penn State vice president for [...]
Penn State volleyball coach is gay-positive
Penn State women’s volleyball coach Russ Rose was recently profiled by ESPN.com. And out of the blue he talked about his welcoming position on gay players. I’m different than a lot of other people. I’m not judgmental in any way on anything. People might avoid kids that don’t look like they play well with others [...]
Brian Sims story still resonating
Our story a couple weeks ago about former openly gay college football captain Brian Sims received a lot of attention, and Sims himself got tons of reaction. He said he received hundreds of emails and they are still coming in. Brian has spent hours and hours responding to all of the messages, taking the opportunity [...]
CNN tackles Rene Portland and new doc film
Tomorrow (Tuesday, April 7, 3pm-4pm ET) on Rick Sanchez’s hour of CNN Newsrooom, the cable network will promote the fantastic new documentary “Training Rules” and talk about the damage that anti-lesbian policies and negative recruiting have on its victims. I was interviewed this morning for the segment; We’ll see if I said anything semi-intelligent. You [...]
Dirty Dozen: Three new teams move in
It was another of those “college football four nights in a row” type of weekends, with games Wednesday through Saturday. Things got off to a rousing start Thursday night as unbeaten Colorado shocked West Virginia, 17-14, thanks to a 25-yard field goal from Aric Goodman (pictured at right) in overtime. Things got even better for Goodman after [...]